He IS Enough

I am an idolater. Idolater: a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship. An idol is a man-made object that is worshipped in some way. I have two idols, money and food. These are the things that I go to for comfort before I go to the one true comforter and healer. These are the things that I want to make me feel better before I open my Bible. These are the things that I believe will make me happier before I go to my God in prayer. Seriously. I believe in food and the things money will buy more than I believe in the One True God. I do not believe He Is Enough. So when I feel down or stressed or doubtful or hurt or angry, I eat or I spend. I do not open my Bible or pray. The truth is that I believe that lie. The reality is I know it is a lie and yet I open the pantry and my pocketbook when I should open my Bible. The absolute truth is HE IS ENOUGH. He is. He can give me hope and peace and truth and healing and the ability to love with my heart and my words and my actions. HE CAN.

Psalm 73: 25-26 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.



So, my challenge today is to trust Him. Trust that HE IS ENOUGH by not eating for comfort or buying things that I do not need. To glorify God in my ability to trust Him. Completely.

What are your idols? What do you go to for comfort before you go to the One True God? Join me in my challenge and open your Bible or sit and pray when you want that hole in your heart filled up. Join a Bible study, call an encouraging Christian friend, call me! Fill it up with God's love. We all have holes and we try and fill them up with material, worldly things that won't actually fill holes. The only thing that will fill them up completely and forever is our Savior. Today I am challenging me and I am challenging you. Will you accept the challenge?

Multitude Monday

One Thousand Gifts

25. true friends that God has given me - they are true gifts

26. Broncos vs. Chiefs tickets for next Sunday given to us

27. my Mama who invests a great deal of her time and energy into me

28. that things have slowed down for Josh at work

29. 9 days together as a little family during Thanksgiving week

30. my new amazing friend Sondra Sabourin
31. flowers for my dining room table from my sweet husband

32. real fall weather into November

Check back next week for another installment of Multitude Monday. God IS Good.

I am loved

I feel so blessed. I am blessed.

I feel so grateful. I am grateful.

I feel so loved. I am loved.

I wanted to share a slideshow that my husband made for me about a year ago. This is on our family website that he does. This is what he says:

I heard a Matthew West song while doing some data processing at work yesterday. The song made me think of the past 11 years with Anne-Marie. Since pulling the data involves a lot of downtime I used the opportunity to make a picture slideshow with it. Since I found too many great pictures I had to add another song that reminds me of her. Anyway, check out the video:

Daily, I am amazed at how my husband loves me. He has an entire playlist of songs on his Zune that make him think of me. I borrowed it the weekend that I went to Wichita to see my Grandma. I found that playlist. I had not heard them before in reference to me. It was a huge blessing to me. Today I think - wow - if that is how much my human bridegroom loves me, how much must my heavenly bridegroom love me? I cannot fathom. True, unconditional, amazing, perfect, love. Delight.

Thank you God for an amazing, loving husband and sweet, fun children and a great life! And thank you for loving me completely and perfectly for who I am, just as I am.

Twenty Years From Now



Josh and I one week after we met.

Twenty years from now when you look back at your life what will you regret?

What will you feel guilty about?

Twenty years from now Ellie will be 27 and Isaac and Kenny will be 24 and who knows what my life with Josh will look like. But when I look back 20 years at the time when my kids were little, what will I regret about that time in my life?

Twenty years from now I will look back at when my kids were little and remember sitting in this stupid chair on this stupid laptop telling them I could not play Dominos or Memory with them right now. I will remember stress eating and not having the drive to get in shape so I could hike and climb with my husband. I will remember yelling at my kids when I am annoyed at them for taking away my time. What else will I regret? What else will I feel guilty about?

Twenty years from now I want to look back on my life and see myself playing Memory with Isaac and hiking with Josh and riding bikes with Kenny and playing doll house with Ellie. So change. Life is short. Really. Twenty years is going to go by fast. If that is what I'm going to regret then those are the important things that I need to change. I need to set aside computer time when the kids are sleeping, I need to make it a priority to get in shape and get outside with my family. I need to realize that twenty years from now I can have all the time that I want to sit on the computer and do the dishes and read and sit around.

Twenty years from now when you look back at your life when your kids were little or when your grandkids were young or when your kids were teens and still at home, what will you regret? What will you feel guilty about?...Then change it.

I am right there with you. Getting off my butt and loving my kids better...Leave a comment and let me know how doing life well is going for you!

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Flashback Friday

That just makes you smile.  



Kenny, November 2008



Focusing In On Our Family

We may only have an hour or two here and there lately to focus in on us but when we do we are more aware of how it needs to be good quality time.

Don't you just love legos?

Multitude Monday

One Thousand Gifts

11. Woodland Park Community Church - I love my church family

12. the way God orchestrates the same lesson throughout all areas of my life
13. cousins









14. cute superheros that got to run through the street to get candy from kind people in our amazing small town.

15. a handy husband
16. electric blankets
17. a sweet sweet grandmother who has blessed my life in so many ways

18. a visit from my big girl
19. how Isaac says guel instead of girl and how i cannot bear to correct him
20. a daddy doctor who I can call anytime and is always willing to help
21. warm weather for trick-or-treating
22. that Halloween is a family day for the Friesemas
23. decorating frosted sugar cookies with our little family
24. wood stove and lots of wood - thanks hubby

Check back next Monday for the next installment of Multitude Monday.
God IS Good.