10.13.2006

FREEDOM from bondage


For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[c] But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

c - Lev 19:18

Galatians 5: 13-15, 19-23
(New Living Translation)

TIME!!!



Where did these CUTE
litttle kids go???
Oh,
you know what
I think happened?
TIME!!!
They're BIG kids now...
and just as precious as ever!
:0)
I MISS YOU!!!



...or did
Grandma
swoop down
in her UFO
and scoop them
up up and away
to another galaxy
far far away???
Hmmmm...
Too much T.V.
me thinks!
;0)

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10.12.2006

BOO!!!!


I'm ready for Halloween...with a little help from Dr. chemo.!!! :0) I'll be half-way through my 8 treatments tomorrow...YAY!!!
God is Oh!, so sufficient in meeting my every need! Here's a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have been praying and being here with me. I am learning to know God's Peace because of His Love and faithfulness exemplified in you! May He bless you with His kindness and grace in Jesus Christ, Who's walking alongside me every step along this path.

Peace to you in Christ!
John 3:16-21

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  • 1.27.2006

    January 25th, 2006...the saddest day of the year.


    myBabies
    Originally uploaded by memyself&i.
    Max died this morning. It was a tough night from about 1:30 a.m. 'til 5:30. I am just so thankful that God let me have him all this time and relieved his suffering while I was with him to hold and comfort him. He's been such a good comfort and companion to me. I think he's probably running and jumping and giving Xela, my afghan hound in heaven, someone to keep up with now! :0)

    I miss him so much!

    p.s. it was his daddy's, Mark's, 50th birthday today.

    2.16.2005

    Party hunting...


    the Hunter
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    I'm going to a birthday party for a friend who's turning 40 today... I'm not much a party girl, but, God knows, I need to be with friends more. I remember turning fourty, and it was a wonderful party with a house-full of friends. So that's what it's all about, friends who you love and who love you. What better gift than that?

    Happy Birthday, Mandy!!!!

    Serenity


    Serenity
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference...

    tiny Rose...

    tiny Rose
    Look closer...expect a miracle...
    our Creator loves us.

    Ambrosia


    Ambrosia
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    Oranges, grated coconut, and cherries; ambrosia was a dessert salad my mom made that I loved as a child. Ambrosia is the name I gave my pet Indian ringneck parakeet. I enjoyed having her for 9 years before she flew away because I hadn't kept her wings clipped and had her outside with me. That was the summer I let my husband fly away as well. He came back, tho'.
    ...He flew away forever last year.


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    2.15.2005

    the Laughing Jaguar


    the Laughing Jaguar
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    "the Laughing Jaguar" is a montage of elements captured in a photo: an acrylic painting of a Quetzal bird flying over Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, a kid skateboarding off a bag of Funyuns onion chips I designed, sitting on the easle in front of another canvas with the word "fun" spelled out in string and a Funyuns onion chip floating just under the grinning painted wooden mask of a jaguar, hanging from the top of the easle. It was composed in 1994.

    Windsurfer Girl, am I?


    WindsurferGirl
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    The wind's starting to blow again...gonna have to get out on the water again...on it...in it...under it....SOON!!!! FREEDOM! SUNSHINE! WATER! WIND! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Thing is, I'm 11 years older than when I last windsurfed!??
    :0)

    2.14.2005

    Maxy


    Maxy
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    and Maxy's at home snoozin'... HAPPY VALENTINE's Day!!!!

    God Loves you!!!

    working woman...


    San Luis.J
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    It's a beautiful day...sunshine...working...I am so thankful to be able to work in a peaceful environment, in a free country, where I can make use of my talents and abilities and have enough food, clothing, shelter and enjoy relatively good health. Thank you, God, for this day and for your Love.

    2.09.2005

    And so...

    I've paid the plumber to fix a water leak and treat mold under my house, and now I'm broke!!!
    But it's a sunny afternoon, and I have food, clothing, shelter, fairly good health, groovy pets, some wonderful friends, loving family...it's a beautiful day...
    Thank You, God, for all this. It's all Yours and for You...as am I. I love you, because You Love me.
    -Psalm 139

    I'll go now...


    bluelake
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    C U later!

    2.08.2005

    out back


    out back
    Originally uploaded by couldBbetter.
    and when Spring gets here, we'll be out back, poolside...somewhere.