God's promises

I promised a post on God's Promises couple months now.
And it still hasn't happened. This post is to apologize and explain why.

I took notes and looked up verses in my Concordance, and had this post all done on paper. Getting the time to write it here on my blog was another story though. My time was filled with new bay, schooling, and packing. So i decided to wait and write it after arriving back here.

Well wouldn't you know it, we were down the road a day or two, when I realized my big, long notes were back at our house in Canada. So I phoned my mom and told her. She said she could go by my house and pick it up and mail it to me.
Well weeks were going by and I began to wonder if it was lost in the mail or something. So the other day when i was talking to her I mentioned it . As it turns out she forgot and left it in her house in Alberta, and now she is in B.C for the winter!!
So no notes, which means no post on God's Promises.

I am so sorry i have not kept my promise on this yet.

Aren't you glad we serve a GOD that always keeps HIS promises!!!

God has made many promises to those who love and obey Him, and we can rest assured He will keep every last one of them!!
How awesome is that!!
All we have to do is love and obey Him, and embrace and claim them as ours!!
Satan want's to plant in our heads that God can't keep his promises, but that's a lie.

I still have very good intentions of looking up all those verses again and writing this post. I just can't say when i will get it done though.

Well until next time,
In Him,
Mae

drawing closer to God

Want to make the devil run for his life?

" Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil , and he will flee from you."
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners ; and purify your heart, ye double minded."
James 4: 7-8

Isn't that awesome!!
The closer we come to God, the farther we get from the devil and the power that he has on us.

That why I love our Bible reading time each day so much for-- because not only are we taking in God's word, but we are also leaving less time for the negative things.
Some times the end of a day will come, and I feel bad that we did not end up reading the Bible that day. And it makes me feel really bad. Then I console my self that it is not really important to read everyday-- It is the life we live, not our daily Bible reading that counts.
True of course.
But the Bible reading time is more valuable than just learning God's word, it is taking time up that may other wise be used negativity.
So it is a totally win win thing!!

And here we come back to that verse again! "When we draw near to God, the devil will flee from us".
When we fill our lives with Bible reading and prayer time, quality family time, pure thoughts, good books, and other good and wholesome things : we leave no space for Satan! He will just have to go knocking on someones eles's door, cause we have no time or space for him!!!

May you have a very close and fullfilling walk with our Lord!!
In Him,
Mae

it's the little things

~~ It's the sound of my baby cooing.

~~ It's the words, " I love you mom", printed on my son's school page.

~~ It's Sarah telling me, " your cute mom!"

~~ It's listening to my 6 year old son reading.

~~ It's my sweet Anna's blond wavy hair.

~~ It's seeing Nathan so lovingly help his little sister Anna.

~~ It's seeing the children happily playing or working together.

~~ It's my baby's adorable smiles!

~~ It's hearing each of my children pray at our family prayer time.

~~ It's the heart shaped cut out with the words, "I love you mom," neatly printed on it.

~~ It's the hugs from Sarah.

~~ It's snuggles with my little ones.

~~ It's having all my children sitting around me on the sofa as i read to them.

~~ It's the reaction i get when someone sees all my children for the first time!! ( You know what it's like, " Are they all yours?", with their eyes bulging and thier mouth hanging open!!)

~~ It's my big boys help!

~~It's the cute things Sarah says.

~~ It's Anna's cute little faces she makes!!

It's all these many precious little things that keep me doing what I do, and loving it too!

It's all these little things that make the hard work of being a mom all worth while!!

These are the things that get me up in the mornings and keep me going strong all day long!

It's because of all these and much more: that at the end of a long tiring day ; I can say with a smile, "I love being a MOM!"

In Him,
Mae

His Love

I absolutely love the chapter of Psalm 139.
It is so comforting. It reassures us that God is always with us, no matter what. Doesn't matter where we are, and where we go, or what happens in our lives; He is always there for us, protecting us, loving us, guiding us, and careing for us.
I encourage you to take a moment and read it now. It will give you acouragement and the a boost for the day!!

I will share a couple of the verses here that we have as our memory verses for the week.

"How, precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them they are more in number than the sand: When i awake , I am still with thee. " Psalm 139: 17-18

How precious is that!!
"Thank you God for your great love and protection over me. I know I have nothing to worry about. You have me covered!!!"

In Him,
Mae

home is where the heart is

Here is another one my face book like posts. I like them because they are easy to write, and should be easy to read as well.

Mae:

~ is thankful to God for a good and safe trip back to our home in Texas.

~had fun visiting Yellow Stone National Park, as well as Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse monuments on our way back down from Canada.

~ was glad that we had the opportunity to go by those places for the kids. They really enjoyed that , and we got lots of pictures.

~ thought is was neat to return to Yellow Stone with our 6 kids: one of the places my hubby and I went on our honeymoon trip over 12 years ago!! ( we didn't get a speeding warning this tme ! :)

~ is missing her home in Alberta already!! And missing my friends to be sure!!

~ is thinking of some great things to share here on my blog. ( hopefully soon )

~ is trying to get back in a good routine again with school and everything else.

~ wishes she had high speed Internet to post pictures here. ( just may have to use my brother's high speed )

~ is so very thankful for a blessed summer in Alberta, and hoping for another one this coming year!!

~ will always refer to our place here in Texas as , "one of our homes" ( you can take the girl out of Canada, but you can't take the Canada out of the girl!)

~ is looking toward our future home in Heaven. We have to remember where our "home" really is. Were only passing through here. Our " home" is Above.


Well until next time,
In Him,
Mae

fall and me

It is FALL time!! My most favorite season!
It is so pretty with the fall colors: wish you could see what I see. Also wished i could post pictures, but my internet is too slow for that.

Here is some fall happenings here where I am in northern Alberta.

Grain farmers are harvesting their fields. Right by us the wheat fields are done, and now canola is next. It has been a bit rainy here, so has set back farmers for a couple days. I love seeing the swathers and combines in action, and the trucks taking the grain away. I have took pictures and even use my video camera some!!

The leaves are turning colors and falling. I love seeing leaves all over the yard. I don't know, it just looks so pretty to me!! The color around here is just yellow though, no reds like on maple trees.

The weather is cooler, but not cold. Not to me anyway. I am loving it!! Most mornings have been in the 40s F and day time is around 50s and 60s F. Right now it is 52F. This weather makes me want to be out side and run around like a child!! In fact I have been playing games out side with the kids in the evenings. We have the best place for hid-n-seek. Lots of out buildings and bushes and so on.

The gardens are all finished. I just canned the last of the tomatoes i had yesterday. They were picked green and as they ripened here in the house, i canned them. The root vegetables are all dug. Carrots and potatoes go in the root cellar. We have butter cup squash and zucchini squash in our basement. Lots of frozen vegys in the freezer.

Schooling is going full swing. I have Nathan in grade 6, Clayton in grade 3, and Sam in grade 1.
Keeps me very busy with them, and tending the other little ones. But everyone is doing good.

Baby Benjamin is really growing and doing wonderfully!! He wakes only once or twice during the night. I would say my best yet!


I so love this time of year and i have so loved all our time here!! So grateful for that!
At this point we have plans of heading back to Texas for the winter, and then returning again in the spring. I will miss it much.
But will be nice to see everyone in Texas again too.

Until next time,
In Him,
Mae

Right now my e-mail is down, so i have been unable to e-mail anyone.

A poem for moms

I just wanted to share this cute poem that is on a hall hanging of mine.

Fingerprints

I know you get discouraged,
Because I am so small
And Always leave my fingerprints
On furniture

But everyday I'm growing,
I'll be all grown up someday,
And all the smudges that I did
Will surely fade away.

So here's another bunch of them
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small.

By Wendy Lyn