Now that you are listening

As I have written many times before and will write many times again....a song has touched my heart.  One of those songs that I can't hear enough.  One of those that every time I do hear it I tear up and feel the loving arms of God wrap around me.  It is by an artist call JJ Heller  The song~ What Love Really Means

Her music always tells a story and takes you some where.  Here is the music video so you can love it too :-)



My favorite lines in the song are towards the end when she sings:

Now that you are listening I'll tell you that
I will love you for you.  Not for what you have done or what you will become.
I will love you for you , I will give you the love, the love that you never new.

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I love that.  Now that I have allowed you to go through all your crap and NOW that you are listening, I'll tell you that I will love you for you.
What a sweet picture of our hardships and why God would ever let us experience anything bad.  So that maybe just maybe it is then that we can finally listen to hear the voice of God.

~LL

Trying to find rest

It is such a busy time of the year. With meetings to plan the parties, parties that we planned by meetings and follow up meetings to evaluate the meetings that planned the parties and meetings to follow up the parties that were planned by too many meetings.  Oh and cookie swaps, and birthdays, and shopping for both.  Oh and then there's Christmas.  What about meetings for Christmas and shopping for Christmas and cookies for Christmas.  Oh wait what about Christmas Eve we forgot shopping for that and meetings about the shopping and cookies for the meetings and cookies for Christmas Eve.

My oh my I am tired from even typing it all.  But the truth is......that is how our lives seem to feel this time of year.  I find myself just wishing for January.  Wishing for a time of the year that is hopefully filled with lots of snow to make the city STOP MOVING.  One of my favorite things ever....is when you step outside after a big snow.  You step out of your warm house into complete silence.  Nothing can be heard except the occasional tree branch falling.  It is as if God has hit the pause button on the Earth. Peace on Earth.  I love it!

Over a week away from Christmas and today my prayer is that God would hit the pause button.  Maybe not in the form of snow, but in someway cause rest and peace to fall upon our lives.  Busyness makes you miss the little things and causes you to wake up 20 years from now and wonder where the time went.  So take a moment and take a deep breath.  Breathe in the sites of your children admiring a twinkling tree, an advent candle that reminds us of the love of Christ, a bell ringer who loves giving their time, cookies that are just right, hot cocoa in a Christmas mug, a fire that you get to snuggle up by.  Don't miss the little things that seem to fly by in busy times.

I pray that during this season of Hope you will find rest in the loving arms of God who gave so much for us to know Him.

Merry Christmas!

~LL

Family night- Christmas Round 2

Tonight we got to share our family night with another dear family that God has placed in our lives.  Our next door neighbor :-)  After a great dinner and some fun adult chat we settled in with all the kiddos to make Ginger bread houses.  Or shacks (whatever you want to call them :-)

Here are some pictures....

~LL

Reviews are moving

In efforts to keep the different reviews that I do off of this page I have moved them to another blog. e doing them but I am sure many people hate reading them. If you are interested then please...pop on over there and read away :-)

http://twinsx2thoughts.blogspot.com/

~LLI lov

Family night- Christmas Round 1

Christmas theme night round 1 :-)

I love Christmas, so I eat up the opportunity to celebrate in any way possible.They say a pictures worth a 1000 words.....so....I will let these speak.  See how we enjoyed our first Christmas night painting ornaments, making goodies to eat, and watching a good ole Christmas movie together.

 

 

 

  

Merry Christmas!!!!

~LL