Passover, that is. I love this time of year. Its Spring, its Isabelle’s birthday, its Easter, and its Passover. No, I am not Jewish, but my one true love is. Yeshua celebrated Passover every year for 33 years, and it brings me so much happiness to do the same.

                              I always get funny looks from people when I mention doing passover, but I would encourage you, if you have never heard of, or participated in a messianic  passover….do it ! Read about it, you will be amazed at how every single thing at a traditional Passover points to Christ. I can’t wait. Shalom.

     This weekend Thomas and I looked at 2 old farmhouses. This seems strange, only because we live in a beautiful, new, craftsman style home. The problem…we do not own it. And, at this stage in the game, we cannot own it, therefore, it is a lovely, but temporary home for us. We have had a few words given to us over the last week. The first word was roots. We have dear friends who say they are ready to put down roots where they are. We were happy for them, and Thomas did not think too much about it, until later when he became convinced that this was a word of truth for him as well. He said something very specific to the Lord about our needs, basically”we need someone with an old house and a yard, who is willing to owner finance” . Within a day, we found 2 farmhouses, each with their own set of issues.

                     On sunday, the Lord gave me a couple of words, and I think they MIGHT apply to the houses, but DEFINITELY apply to our family. The words are haunting me, so I looked up the definitions (thats what I do when the Lord speaks).

This is what I heard “restoration begins with the foundation”.

Restoration had a couple of meanings, but as I read, I knew exactly which one belonged to me.

restoration- the restitution of something taken away, or lost.

foundation-the groundwork of anything, the act of founding, setting up, establishing.

                 And then for Thomas, the word root-the part that grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutrients and water. I LOVE THIS WORD. Everyone needs roots, whatever that might be in your case. We HAVE to have that thing, that part that anchors us and makes it possible for us to receive the nourishment and the water we need. THE LIVING WATER ! HA ! Not the dirty water from the stagnant place that the world offers. These words are blowing my mind and I need to pray into them, dive into them, cover up in them and wrap them around me. I will let you know how it goes.

Is it too late , now that I am 35….to write a list of things  I want to accomplish before I kick the bucket ? Surely, I could get some things done in the next 50 years, right ? well, here goes…..(some of these are silly, but still important to me).

• Lead someone to Christ…directly
• play guitar
• own a jeep
• see ireland
• see alaska
• live near the ocean
• inspire someone or something
• drive up the east coat

thats all for now. Nothing is impossible.

       I did not set out to be one. When I was little and  people would ask what I wanted to be when I grew up, I did not answer “dream squasher”. But somehow, I’ve grown into it. My husband has at least 2 new ideas/ inventions a week, and more times than not, I roll my eyes. I know what you are thinking, and trust me, I feel bad about it.

           Its science fair time at school. Yipee. Adam had a HUGE plan. One that I just could not see coming to fruition. What is wrong with my vision ??? I think I need glasses for my spirit. A new perspective, maybe.

        Not only did Adam (with daddy’s help ) make his project happen….its great ! Sometimes I let the fear of the people around me getting hurt and dissappointed stop me from encouraging their dreams and passions. I don’t want to do that anymore. I am confessing with my mouth, and turning my heart.  signed…..

  a FORMER dream squasher turned dream WARRIOR.

Hello ! I am often asked what makeup or skincare I am using, as well as the brand of my jeans and shoes. So, here goes a list of my favorite things….hope you find it helpful.

• Joe’s Jeans fit me really well.(I try to get them from e-bay) thanks joanna
• I like comfort on my feet, so I spend a little more on my shoes and then wear them forever. Indigo by clarks are cute and comfortable. Converse in denim blue, and black…could not live without.
• I am addicted to scarves with EVERYTHING. I get them at tj maxx, the ones that are big enough to wrap around you like a blankie if you are at a cold movie theatre, or a windy soccer game.
• I use Mario Badescu skincare…I don’t remember how I found it, but I love it. I have tried other things, more expensive things, bigger names, but I keep coming back to this.
• I may have been the first person to wear Bare Minerals in this town….I still use it, its been 8 years. Sometimes, I will wear Lancome in the colder months, but I always go back to the minerals.

My fragrance of choice is Amazing Grace by philosophy. People always ask me what I am wearing. It doesn’t give Thomas a headache, its light and feminine.

       This blog seems self-indulgent, but it was fun.  Have a great day !

Isaiah is doing great ! He was back at school yesterday, eager to tell all about his surgery. The dr. did not have to take out his adnoids, therefore, it was a ten minute procedure. It went smooth. The Lord always gives me beyond my expectations.

                       On sunday, Rich preached about the dreams for our lives. It was good, a new perspective on an old subject. Here is what I am wondering……How many of us are in the midst of having our dreams re-ordered RIGHT NOW and don’t know it ? If I am too busy holding on to the dream that I have, the one that I have ordered….will I miss the one that God has for me ? I don’t want to. I want my dream and God’s dream for me to be one in the same. I am anticipating great things, and as I said before, HE always delivers more than I expect…..I am really excited. I know that this is the time where my Abba is working on my character, and thats okay with me, I want to be able to hold this dream , to stand up straight underneath the weight of it.

                            So, I am asking the Lord to relieve me of myself and MY dreams, and re-order the dream. The prophetic journal that I got at the women’s retreat said “make a statement from the inside out”.  I know that is a clue….I will keep you posted.

For a while now, almost 2 years, we have had a lot of real estate for sale. At times it is extremely discouraging, and at other times, we feel the love of the LORD so strong that everything else fades away.

       We have been praying that one of our houses would sell, its been a daily prayer for a long time now. The thing is, we have been so focused on that , that we almost missed the other ways the LORD was blessing us. It started at Christmas, we were struggling and out of the blue, dear friends gave us 500.00 !WHOA….we knew it was the Lord and we were grateful. The other day, my atm card was expired , but I went to chick-fil-a anyway to get myself a soup. The nice man at the window informed me that he could not take my card in its expired state, so I said “oh, sorry, I don’t have any cash”. He looked at me and smiled and said, ” thats okay, here take your food, and have a great day”. I was shocked . And grateful. Once again, I felt the familiar warmth of the Lord’s hand in this. It wasn’t long after that, we were invited to an expensive dinner out with friends because they had received gift cards for Christmas. Didn’t they realize that they could have gone out again if they had not invited us ?

                      Last week, we had friends invite us to dinner and a movie ,for one of their birthdays. Upon further examination of the invitation, we realized that it said “everything is on us” . Meaning , they were paying our way….we felt blessed that we are that loved. At Bloom, a lady offered me her savings card, so that my chips would be buy one, get one free. A small thing, but a gentle reminder tht we are loved, protected, and blessed.

               Sunday was the kicker. Those of you who know me, know that Isaiah has ear surgery tomorrow.Surgery that our insurance does NOT cover. Sunday morning, a friend concerned with offending me, opened her mouth and let the love of the Lord flow out…..she said “we have prayed about it and the Lord said for us to pay for Isaiah’s surgery”. I was not offended. I was loved.

            It has not come in exactly the way we asked for it, but have no doubt, the LORD has supplied ALL of our needs, and most of our wants, too. So tonight as I sit and prepare myself for tomorrow, I know , I am not alone. Not only is my  Yeshua here, he has surrounded me on every side with friends. Friends, that are family. 

 Let me start out by saying, if you are on face book…great, I enjoyed it too, this blog is not meant to offend you.

                  That being said, the Lord clearly told me to deactivate my account. I was kind of bummed, and he simply said “its a time filler for you”. I knew this already . Facebook made me FEEL connected , without really connecting me to anyone. He said something else too, and you are really not going to like this. (then again, I’m sure it was just for me) The Lord impressed upon me that facebook, for me, was voyerism in its most innocent form. Wanting to know what everyone else is doing every minute of every day…..its like watching life, feels kind of creepy now that I think about it. Like being a peeping tom.

        So…I will try to fill my time LIVING life, rather than watching it for a while.

p.s   its just an account of a conversation I had with the Lord…anytime he speaks, I think its blog worthy.

One year at Valentines day we were broke, really broke, but Thomas used his creativity to come up with something great for me ! So, if you haven’t done anything for your lover yet(shame shame), maybe you could do this.

                  Thomas wrote 15 reasons why he loved me on tiny slips of paper, rolled them up and took them to bi-lo. He asked the ladies doing balloons to place these little slips of paper inside the balloons before blowing them up.

                          Well, first of all the bi-lo ladies fell in love with him! He brought me that bouquet of balloons, and I thought “ok….great”, but then he gave me a pin and said, “you have to pop each one”. I could not believe that he had taken the time to do that. Its one of my favorite memories.

 Other inexpensive ideas….roper mtn(planetarium)

make dinner together(without the kids)

        write a song(and perform it, no matter how bad you might be)

For those of you (men) who do not acknowledge valentines day….don’t think of it as a commercial, corny hallmark kind of holiday. Look at it as a chance to show the person you share your life with how much you love them. ok….I am done. My love language is gifts, can you tell ?