Wednesday, March 30, 2011

random pics

Here are a ton of pictures from the last couple of months....I got so behind on posting and can't catch up....so just going to throw these pictures in a post for our scrapbook!  
Is she not  a perfect mix of her bro and sis!!!










friends over for pizza a while back and we made a poster for Lucy while we were together

Rob's 34th birthday!

sugarbear making us all shakes at her "shake shack"



we ran into Future Tiger basketball player (next year), Adonis Thomas. at the mall....since he hasn't reached stardom yet, I think he liked taking a picture with a 5 year old and his family that new him!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Upwards basketball

Theres not much to add to these pictures....he LOVES this!!  He could hardly go to sleep the night before his first game.  He loves to refer to the team as "my teammates"...its so precious! And hats off to Oak Grove for doing such a great job with the program. Now I guess we are on to baseball!!















Thursday, March 17, 2011

I think I am bipolar...

I said that to a friend today...and I don't think it's true...but then again...maybe I am!!I feel so damn (I mean darn) up and down...I understand, then I don't!  I feel good, then I feel sad....I feel content, then I need more....I love on my kids, then I yell at them...I want to go running, then I want to sit on the couch....  Really, I am ok...but with all of the different things going on around me lately, it's just how I feel. My mom has been sick, clearly Lucy's situation, I miss a couple of my friends that are far away, I have too much to do (but I do that to myself).  Anybody feel my pain??

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Team Lucy flyers!

Please use these images (compliments of EPC photography) to advertise on your blog/facebook...or save these to your computer (right click) and print these and hang them in your business, church, school...!  
If you want to help with the bakesale email me...I will be sending out sign up sheet for work times later!

The "Go Lucy Go" 5K planning will start this weekend and we will be getting more preliminary information on that next week!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Soul searching (with my soul mate)...

I have spent the last week I guess trying to make "christian" sense of all that is going on with Lucy.  Many of you are likely dealing with it better than I am ....I want to say those words of "it's in God's hands" and I do say them, and I believe them...because I am a long time christian, right?  Well, honestly, I have talking to God a lot about some of this mess this week (in between my prayers coveting healing for her).  He has used a couple of things to reveal some things to me this week that have helped. I have researched "why do bad things happen to good people" online; listened to inspiring K Love music, and prayed a lot.

 First, Rob and I have had a couple of talks and God bless that man, he is so darn good.  (and can I add that yesterday 3/2/11...was the 17th anniversary of the first night he called me...one very important day in our lives, thanks to Kendra and Chad:) He always helps me see things from the right perspective (and sometimes I help him); I guess that's why we are made for each other.  We talked about suffering (as I said in my last post, I have had it with watching suffering...even before Lucy, I was struggling...and now more devastating news today of the MTSU basketball players tragic death). Rob's exact words to me were "This isn't heaven, Laura."  I cry as I type that.  He's right, it's not.  Why have heaven if we would have it here on earth.  I am coming to grips with the purpose (unforseen often) in suffering. As believers, we are to do something about it.  Whether it's the babies in Ethiopia (like Conner) or the sick babies in St. Jude or the kids who live in poverty.  It's our job...it's part of our discipling...sitting around and whining about others or feeling pity isn't being disciples.  The other part of "this isn't heaven" that I have learned this week is that life IS good.  Why do we want to live so long and prolong death if it's not.  We like life for the most part, right.  Right now, it seem pretty darn rotten.  But it's not, God made our lives for us to enjoy and he made us good and perfect in his image.

Also, reading Kate's blog has certainly inspired me.  Particularly the words about her kids being God's.  Rob and I have talked about that for years...we always say that and try to live it.  But it is darn hard.  We want what we want for them...and then we throw in some prayers about God's will.  But we must stop. We must let our kids be God's.  If they don't go to college or they don't get married and have 2.5 kids or the live typical American dream...if they are God's, then we should let him direct their paths.  Our old preacher, John Fullerton, used to say, "if they grow up to pump gas, let them do it to the glory of God."

Then, last night at my bible study group, the lesson was on peace (Beth Moore's Living beyond Yourself; Fruit of the Spirit".  Kate is not the biggest Beth Moore fan, but I couldn't, of course, stop thinking of her.  I commented on Kate's blog this morning that one line she said stuck with me.  "Peace doesn't come from answers; peace comes from the authority of Christ in you."  Crap.  I really want an answer.  Will the treatments Lucy goes through get it all the first time, or will she need more?  Will she need another surgery?  Apparently, even if I had the exact answers and knew that Lucy would be healed completely on exact date, I still couldn't have true peace without a true relationship with Jesus.

Okay, my sermon to myself is over.  I have spent the week crying with friends and myself and processing it all.  I felt like I needed to write about it to get it organized in my brain. It's not over, but I think I am on the road to peace.  I am going to work on living out these 3 things...1) this is not heaven, but life is good (and I will see heaven one day)   2) my kids are God's and I need to raise them like that for as long as I have them   3)  Peace is only through knowing Jesus

Go Lucy Go!