When Life Throws You Lemons

You make lemonade right?

Lately things have not gone the way I'd like for them to go. We've had issues with our teenage boys, which, by the way, seems to have gotten better. We've had issues with co-workers, and now I am having issues with my mother. But I am praising God because I know that somewhere there is a lesson for me to learn.

Please continue to pray for us! Have a great, glorious, and blessed day!

Pondering

As I was driving my kids to summer school this morning, I started thinking about everything that is going on in our home. Satan has definitely figured out how to get to us, and I know it's him because my oldest son hasn't been sitting through a church service in a long time, he ends up leaving a service for high blood sugar, or stomach hurting, or something. We seem to NEVER have any time to get in our Bible's everyday. That is Satan! Satan DOES NOT want us to hear the word of God. He does not want us to get closer to God. Satan will try his best to break up a family, and believe me when I say he is well on his way in my family.

I have handed it over to God. I have asked for help from our church like I always hear we should, and now I just have to trust that God does not want Satan to be doing this to us, and if we turn to God, and put HIM back in first position in our lives, HE will handle this for us.

I pray for healing for my family, I pray that my boys will seek God and put HIM first so that they can have a close relationship with HIM. I pray that God will show us all the error of our ways and help us to change the things that are ungodly in our lives. I pray that Stanley and I will recognize that this is Satan, and we WILL NOT let him steal our joy and our peace. I pray that we lead by example, and stop being busy for God and start being close to God. Please pray for these things as well. We need all the prayer we can get!

Have a great, glorious, and blessed day!

Facing Crisis

We are facing a crisis in the Stevenson home. Satan has found a way to steal our peace and I was thinking about how I need to turn to God more for guidance, I was led to a website that was sent to me in email by a friend. God's YellowPages is a great place to find scriptures relating to your problems.

Please pray for God to guide all of our actions during this time, and to bind Satan from further attacks.

Thankful Thursday - God's Word

I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's Holy Word, I will make it a lamp
unto my feet and a light unto my path and will hide its words in my heart that I
might not sin against God.

As I was at VBS last night saying this pledge, I realized how thankful I am for God's word. Without God's word we would not know how to handle everyday life situations. We would not know how to act, and we would not know the sacrifice Jesus made for us.

I am so very thankful to God for HIS word and I am going to remind myself of this pledge so that I will get in HIS word more and hide HIS word in my heart so that I can have a better walk with HIM.

What Do You Think?

I had a disagreement with someone over how to take care of a child who is diabetic/not responsible. I told the person we would just have to agree to disagree because I will not ever believe the way they do, and it's doubtful they will believe the way I do.

It was about my son who is diabetic, and does not think he has to keep his blood sugar under control. He does not show responsibility in taking care of his blood sugar, and therefore eats sugary foods without getting shots for them.

The disagreement came from the fact that this person keeps sweets, junk food, regular sodas, and that kind of stuff around my son when he is in his care, but then expects him not to eat it. He also says he is not responsible for my son while I am in the same building. To me that is backing out of his responsibility, and so how does he expect my son to be responsible if he can't even take the responsibility of taking care of my son while in his care?

His feeling is that since my son can go to the gas station nearby and buy junk food while away from me, that I should not worry about keeping it in his face, and around the house, that I should expect him to be responsible not to eat it. I feel like then maybe I need to buy alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and while I am at it. a loaded gun, and I will keep that in the house and expect all of my children not to get in any of it, drink it, smoke it, or use it. Come on, we are talking about a teenager, not an adult. Everyone knows that teenagers lose their brains and can't make good decisions over 60% of the time.

Adults are called adults, and kids are called kids for a reason. If I keep a loaded gun around my house and my child accidentally shoots someone, guess what? I go to jail ...WHY? Because I am supposed to be the responsible one. So the same can be said about keeping concentrated sweets, drugs, alcohol, and other dangerous things in the house. If I keep it, and my son goes into a coma, who do you think the doctor is going to blame?

Would you leave an unresponsible child home alone over and over to make them more responsible? You really can't do that. So you don't keep the concentrated sweets in front of an unresponsible diabetic and expect he will eventually become responsible. The adult has to step up and be responsible in this situation. And to me, the responsible thing to do would be to keep concentrated sweets away from a child who does not need it. It is the same with children with allergies. No responsible adult keeps foods their children are allergic to in their face. It is too dangerous.

That's my opinion, what's yours?

Today's Thought

A CLEAR CONSCIOUS makes a SOFT PILLOW.

Today's Thought

It is IMPOSSIBLE to have NOTHING TO DO with JESUS CHRIST!

Thankful Thursday

• I'm thankful to God above for equipping me with the ability to be a mom, a wife, and a student. Going to nursing school is not easy by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm thankful that God has led me, guided me, and stayed with me through this journey.
• I'm thankful that I am a member of a great church that loves the Lord and each other.
• I'm thankful for my health, and the health of the ones I love.
• I'm thankful that JL and BL are our friends, and have tried so very hard to make their marriage work!
• I'm thankful that another couple have decided to work things out and not let Satan split them up.
• I'm thankful for a loving husband whom I absolutely adore.
• And finally, I'm thankful for for every single day that God gives me on this earth with the people I love.

GREAT NEWS

For those of you who want to take GOD out of EVERYTHING, He won't be in HELL either!

Great Times

This past weekend we had a big get-together with some of our closest friends. There were two couples plus my sister and her husband and kids, and then my best friend for over 20 years came with her girls. We invited JL & BL but BL was sick so they were not able to come :( We had a big time! We cooked lots of food, and had a bon-fire in the backyard. It was a great day! Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, and Stanley and I enjoyed everyone being here!

It was originally supposed to be my best friend and her girls staying the night with us, but then Stanley started inviting everyone over to celebrate me being out of school, and my birthday is the 14th, so I think he was wanting to do something he knew I would enjoy. I love having friends over!

I am hoping soon to be able to host a Sunday School get-together. I would love that as well because I really like all of the people in our Sunday School class. they are good friends too. I would have invited all of them last weekend, but my house is half painted inside and half not painted, so I would rather wait until we finish things up. My closest friends know how I am so I don't worry if my house isn't clean when they come over, but I wouldn't want my Sunday School class to see that.

Oh and my favorite things with the weekend? My sister brought her baby, and my best friend brought me a birthday gift that she said she only paid a dollar for, but it is priceless to me!

I pray that you are as blessed as I am with good friends!

Praise The Lord

I am finished with school for this semester, and I passed all of my classes! I am totally amazed at how God gets you through when HE puts you in places you never thought you'd be! I feel so blessed to be where he has put me, but it is very hard, so I know I can't do it without HIM!

I hope your feeling blessed today and are praising the Lord with me!

Did We Fail Them?

I have two great friends whom I adore. They have been going through a rough time the past couple of months. Satan has tried very hard to drive them apart. Stanley and I have prayed for them and supported them 100%, trying to help them in any way we know how.

They told me yesterday that are switching churches, and this really broke my heart. I can't help but wonder if maybe as a church we failed them. Maybe we didn't show enough love and support to them. Maybe too many people were whispering and taking sides, and they felt like they needed to be somewhere where people wouldn't judge them??? I don't know, but I know that as Christians, we should NEVER advocate for, encourage, or push for anyone to get a divorce. God created marriage, Satan created divorce.

I just pray that they both do whatever it takes to keep their marriage together. They must put their marriage under God, and before anyone else in their family. And I pray that God heals everything, and that their marriage will be stronger for all that they are enduring now. Please pray for this couple. You don't have to know their names because God knows who they are. pray that God will bind Satan and keep him from tearing them apart, and that they won't worry about what other people think, that they will fight for their marriage with everything they've got! Thank you, and God bless you!

Looking Around

Since this is technically the last week of school for me (a test and meeting next week), I thought I would relieve some stress and look at nursing shirts. I found some that I absolutely love and will buy before nursing school is over.

I definately want this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_10/id_17279531/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
Then I really like this one too ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_2/id_17980817/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_2/id_21361861/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_18543601/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_3/id_13801099/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_4/id_18860484/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_7/id_3528341/opt_/fpt_/c_666/
And my husband needs this one ... http://www.cafepress.com/buy/nursing/-/pv_design_details/pg_7/id_16517175/opt_/fpt_/c_666/

I Can See The Light ...

... At the end of the tunnel, for this semester anyway! My last day of actual classes is May 2nd. That is also when my nursing 101 final is. My A & P 2 final is May 5th, and May 6th I have to go back to nursing class for a mandatory meeting, I am assuming it is to get us ready for nursing 202.

These next two and a half weeks are going to be hectic. Tomorrow I have an Acid/Base Balance quiz, Monday is a nursing test, Tuesday is my last lab exam for A & P 2, then we have the last bit of content for this semester in nursing. The 24th is a physical assessment competency, then the 25th is catheterization check-off, then the 29th is the catheterization competency, then the 30th is our last exam in nursing before the final. YES I'M STRESSED!

I am vowing to do nothing on the weekends from now until this semester is over, (except work-out). I am looking forward to summer vacation, do you blame me?

By the way, I've lost 8 pounds working out at the gym for the past three weeks. I am feeling better and stronger!

Some Questions I Have

I have had a bad week. Things have not gone right for me and things have happened that have left me so confused.

I have never understood why it is that when your kids act bad, no one tells you until they don't know what else to do. They just talk about it with other people and then quite some time later you find out about it. Wouldn't it make more sense to tell the parents about the kids in the beginning so that they can help get them under control?

We have been having problems with our boys for quite some time now, but apparently so have other people, but they didn't tell us about it until recently. We found out that people were complaining about our kids who see us a lot, and never said a word to us. I just feel like that is wrong. That is like talking about someone behind their back.

I know my kids are acting bad, I deal with it too. We have tried everything, and nothing seems to really work. I have even thought about sending them some where that can do something with them, but I don't want them to feel unloved. Praying is all I know to do right now.

I'm just going to keep looking to God for answers.

Another Slap In The Face

I feel like crying, I really do. I've spent over a year being friends with a couple that I truly care about, and trying my hardest (without pushing them away) to win them to Christ. Another Christian couple came along and may have undone everything I worked so hard to accomplish, by partying with them. I'm sorry but that really ticked me off! Satan is working double time lately! Back to drawing board I suppose.

A Heavy Heart

I am in mourning yet no one died, but I am because the soul of someone I love is destined to go hell because she does not believe in the same God I believe in, and she doesn't believe in Heaven or Hell, or that Satan can make us do bad things.

Please pray for this person. Pray that she will seek truth, find it, and make a decision for Christ before it is too late.

Have a great, glorious, and blessed day!

A Lot On My Heart

I have been super busy with my studies, and haven't had much time for anything. I have also been dealing with some serious issues and personal problems, so I've been a bit depressed and out of sorts lately.

I'm blessed that I have a loving and forgiving savior! After years of dealing with some things that were not pleasant, after years of praying that God would do something about it, I believe he is working on it now. I praise him for that! It is really hard to be a Christian when someone is constantly doing you wrong, and especially when they are hypocritical about it.

I am starting to feel like I can breathe now, just knowing that God is dealing with this situation. Maybe that was my biggest lesson, instead of trying to find someone to help me deal with it, and give me answers on what I could do, I should have just trusted that God would deal with it in his time.

There is one more thing that is bothering me that I am praying he will fix. I am going to do my best to trust that he will and not talk to anyone about it, and see what God does with it. It too is painful, but I am trusting God.

Satan is on a surge, and he is attacking the best people. I have been so emotional these past two weeks because I feel so heartbroken about a particular couple that Satan, has for now, torn apart. I would have never thought that this could happen to this couple, but I am praying daily that God will intervene and heal this family. I love them so much!

Another great couple that God has put in our path, have been a true blessing! I think they are going to join our church tomorrow! I praise God for great Christian people! And the neat thing about it, is that a lost couple is good friends with the four of us (Stanley & I, and this new couple), so hopefully God will use all of us to reach them, and we can be good influences on them and encourage them and show them love.

So even though in some ways I'm suffering with some issues, I am also praising God for what he is allowing me to go through (to teach me), and for working on some things I have been praying about.

I pray that God is working in your life!

Confused & Not Feeling Well

Well the situation below has calmed down a bit - I don't feel like screaming as loudly anymore, but I do think we should talk to him and tell him that what he is doing is sin and he needs to stop causing us so much grief and harrassment. Stanley feels like if we say anything it can cause more problems, so I don't know what to do.

Last night I started feeling bad. I am praying it isn't the flu, because it has been going around like crazy! I have to go to school at 2PM today and then everyday for the rest of the week, I will have to go sick because I cannot miss one day of nursing.

Have a great day!

Ready-Aim-Fire

I am about to explode, no really! One person is constantly causing my husband or my family trouble and I am tired of it, and am about to make a total complete fool of myself telling him exactly what I think! I need prayers, and lots of them.