Is America A Godly Nation?

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ~2 Chronicles 7:14

Is America a Godly Nation?

Of course, MOST of us would say "yes", but do we know why? In our Sunday School Class this has been the subject for 10 weeks now. I have to be honest and say, at first I was all but thrilled to do this study. However, I have learned so much! And to beable to teach the kids what I am learning is such a blessing! I love being able to tell them that it is OK to carry their Bible to school or that they CAN pray over thier food or for eachother while at school. But now, not only am I able to tell them that, but I can also tell them why it is OK & that their teachers, principal or even the government CAN NOT tell them otherwise! If our soldiers can pray while at war, why can't we pray while we are in a school building?

Who had to learn the preamble in school?

'We the people, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the General Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.'

Did you know that our Nation's Founding Father's were God Fearing Men? Thomas Jefferson even took the Bible and wrote what people now call the Jefferson Bible or by it's orignial name, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Many people believe that Jefferson was a diest and that he "re-wrote" the Bible to fit his needs. However, this is WRONG! Jefferson actually took the time to study God's Holy Word & put the 4 gospels in chronological order. THAT'S ALL! Benjamin Frankin is the one who introduced the practice of DAILY prayer at the Constituational Convention in June of 1787. And we even get our 3 branches of government from scriptures. "For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us." Isaiah 33:22

There is so much more that I want to share and discuss with you all, however, it is time to call it a night. I will pick up on this matter next week sometime. Have a wonderful weekend.

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Bright & Early....

Bright & early came WAY earlier than expected this morning, as once again I was woke up by my cell phone ringing! Huummm.... Maybe I need to quit sleeping with it under my pillow or better yet TURN IT OFF! Yeah RIGHT, like that is gonna happen. Anyway, we again had a non-stop day....

1. Call dog groomer's
2. Call bank
3. Drop dog's off at the groomer's
4. Go to Wal-Mart
5. Bomb House (spiders & fleas) ~takes 4 hours~
6. Eat lunch ~ Who has time for lunch? Not I
7. Clean Sunday School Classroom
8. Home School Hunter ~ WHAT? WHEN? ~~NEXT~~
9. Pick dog's up from groomer's
10. Call bank back
11. Call Dad
12. Buy a replacement tag for the car (we think Danny through it away)
13. Go walking/Have P.E.
    
14. 2:30pm Finally, we can head home now
15. Treat the yard for spiders & fleas
16. Go weigh in @ Weight Watchers
17. Dinner

Now that we are all caught up....

WOW!!! Why didn't we know we have been doing wrong? Couldn't someone have told us? :-)

Seriously tho, weigh-in went AWESOME. I lost 3.4lbs this week. That's too cool!!!! I am so proud of myself for sticking with it. Sometimes, I just don't feel like counting points, driving to Gun Barrel JUST to weigh-in, eating healthy ALL the time.... I mean, ggggeeeesssshhhhhhh, can't a girl get a break? But, you know what, IT'S ALL WORTH IT!!!!! 2 months ago I couldn't even fit into my jeans... Today, they are too big for me! :-) I have lost over 20lbs total! Woo the Hoo.... I am so excited! I'm gonna get skinny again!

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I know, I know.... you all wanna know what's going on with the van. Well, after several calls between myself, the bank & my Dad; we are kinda on "hold" for the moment. It is still a go! There are just a couple of hurdle's we still gotta jump over before she is in our possession. The bank will not loan any amount of money out on a vehicle before they have the title in hand & of course, the seller will not allow the bank to have the title until he gets his money. OK, so now what? IDK!!! Just gotta ride it out & see who budges 1st I guess. My Dad is working on it & he even said he might just pay for it in cash & then have the bank pay him back after we get it. Again, IDK.... we just gotta pray & let God work it out!

I promise to keep you updated on this process & you will be the 1st to know when it is all said & done & she is sitting in our driveway! :-)

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I would like to end with a few more pics of baby Aydin Grace Bostic. Her Uncle Logan & Great Nawna got to meet her today.

& MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE..... GET THE TISSUE!

I'm Out!

Happy Birthday!

I would like to start of tonight by saying Happy Birthday to my little girl, Chedelene. I can not wait to see you again! Miss ya & love ya so much! Mwah....

Next I would like to introduce you to Aydin Grace Bostic... I can not wait to meet you & watch you grow into a beautiful princess for the Lord!

Congrats Randy, Risa, Todd, Stacy & Logan!

What an adventure today was.... I woke up to my phone ringing this morning. It was my Dad informing me of a 2005 Kia Sedona that was listed for $4,100 on ebay with 8 hours left. I looked it up and soon came to terms with the fact that this might be the one I have been waiting on. I quickly called the bank and discussed loan value & payments. Now, I am really excited!!!! Loan value is $5,200 & on a 36 mth note our payments will be less than $200 a month. Woo the Hoo! I am so tickled pink..... Now, I just gotta wait 8 hours to see what the total price will be & IF WE ARE GONNA HAVE THE HIGHEST BID or not. Very anxious day.... the last hour I was getting really excited & in constant prayer.... When I realized there were only 15mins left & we had the current high bid @ $4,700 I began to get really nervous. I prayed so hard for it to be God's Will for us to "win" this vehicle. Is this really the one I have been waiting on? Is it really gonna happen? Might I actually buy a car today? So MANY question going through my mind. 5:34 was the time that the auction ended. It's 5:32 & start to shake. Now, I know this is just a van, but its a van that (by this time) I really had my heart sat on getting. WE WON!!!!!!!!!! She is ours. Seriously? For Real? Honestly? Did I really buy the van I have been waiting on for so long? YES!!!! :-D She is all ours....

Tomorrow I will be on the phone with the banker bright & early.... Then there is just one more step before she is ours. We gotta go pick her up. Remember, I mentioned we bought her on ebay. She is in Ohio. I know, right.... but when God answers a prayer, He answers. Looks like a Road Trip in my near future? Maybe???? We will see how all this pans out in the next day or so.

Good Night!

P.S. Did I mention Hunter is dog sitting for the neighbors til Friday? She is a cutie!

Toothache City.....

What a way to start the day off.... with a toothache! Ugghhh....& it hasn't let up at all! It hurts so bad that I have been in the bed since 6:30pm. I was not able to eat anything today til supper time. So for dinner I made soup. It turned out really good & my belly got full! However, it didn't not help my pain.... I wanna just have Danny get the tools & yank it out! aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

That would take care of the pain.... RIGHT??????

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Well, on this day off from school, what did I do? Funny you should ask.... The ONLY thing that I got done was the grocery shopping. It took me 4 tries to actually get to the store.

1. The dogs followed us & we had to return them to the house.


2. I fogot my cash & credit card sitting on my dresser.


3. My ads & coupons were left on the kitchen table.


4. Successful trip to town! Yeah!

I feel like I ran an obstacle course today only to end up right back where I started with not much accomplished....

that's me ^ right now

Good Night!

No School Tomorrow

This blog will be a short one tonight as it is already 12:45am. Not alot happened today.... Hunter did DO 2 DAYS worth of school today :-) Waa Hoo!!!! No school tomorrow! I get to sleep in & then NOT worry about getting everything else done cause I WILL HAVE the time to do it! :-)

Can you tell that I am excited????

We also got the Rosetta Stone program this evening so Hunter can learn foreign languages. Therefore, tomorrow while I am doing all my household chores & grocery shopping, he will be watching the introduction videos to learn Spanish. (Which, btw, he has been asking for since we started.)

I also learned something new today! There is a website called http://www.picnik.com/ that is the coolest for editing your photos. (Thank you Misty.) Quick & easy way to edit.... I could spend ALL day messing around with pictures. Just some of the one's I did today.

On that note, have a good night, or good morning, or good day..... which ever it may be for you at this moment. I'm out!

You Can Sleep When You're Dead!

Where do you start? What do you say? How do you choose what happened to you today that you wanna share with the world?

I really don't know where I am supposed to start on this 30 day journey. I know that I am SO not too busy to commit to this, however, when we pulled up into the driveway this evening, I started to cry cause I am so OVERWHELMED!!!! I don't really have a whole lot going on right now, but what I do have.... takes up ALOT of my time. I tell ya, last week, we worked til 4 everyday on Hunter's homeschooling. & that's another thing.... How do you find time to grocery shop, wash clothes, vacuum, clean toilets, dust, fold clothes, prepared dinner & RELAX?????? I haven't figured that one out yet! I do LOVE the homeschooling & I wouldn't NOT trade it for any amount of time, however, sometimes, I do miss my days of doing nothing!

Hummm...... A day of doing NOTHING!!!! What is that?????

I sure sometimes wish my to-do-list looked like that! Wouldn't that be nice?


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Today was a BUSY day! How many of you woke up EARLY this morning? Not just early, but and hour earlier than normal????? Well, of course, I did. I tried SO HARD to stay in bed.... NOPE, wasn't gonna happen. Needless to say, I ended up waking everyone else up early too & we arrived 30mins earlier to church than normal. It was kinda nice tho, not having to be in a hurry. After church we had lunch with my Mom & some friends. It was really nice getting to spend some time with Mom again. We haven't been able to sit down together in months! Good visit! :-) Shopping & more church, then a wedding....!

Today was a really good day too tho. God gave me a peace. The message this evening was in 2 Peter 1:1-11. You can read it all for yourself but I do want to focus on a few of the scriptures.

5. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

Diligence - constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.

Faith - confidence or trust in something.

Virtue - moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation.

Temperance - self-control.

Patience - the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, WITHOUT complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.

Godliness - Having great reverence for God.

Brotherly Kindness - the quality or state of being kind.

Charity - benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity.

WOW, that sure puts those words into perspective for me!

I am ALWAYS supposed to give my whole self! Don't we become EXHAUSTED??? (Like I am right now.) Seriously, Jesus EXPECTS 100% of/from us at all times? Seriously???? But you know..... Jesus was human too. I am sure He knows what it is like to be exhausted.... therefore, it may be HARD, BUT NOT TO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!


& not only does He expect us to give 100%, 100% of the time, he also expects us to have virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love & charity. ssseeeeeeessssshhhhhhhh what a mouth full.... but you know what He was! & even tho I am not perfect nor will I ever be, I am to STRIVE to be like HIM!!!!



So, tomorrow, I will diligently wake up & start my day the way Jesus would have me to. I know I will fail but I also know that He will forgive me & He will be there to pick me back up, bandage up my wounds & tell me it will be OK. He still loves me & NOTHING I ever do will change that! Praise God!

Inspirations.....

I am inspired by MANY things in my life.... At this moment tho there are 2 things that inspire me the most.




#1 The Bible: Of course the Bible is VERY inspiring... IF you read it! I love the daily devotionals that I have. Alpha & Omega Productions (the company I get Hunter's Homeschooling from) sends me a devotional every morning. I so look forward to reading it! What a way to start the day off.... in God's word! Hunter & I also have a devotional we read together every morning before we go to "school". Not only am I excited about the devotional God chose to give me each day, to pertain to the things I am going through in my life, I am just as excited to read the devotionals that Hunter & I get together to help us as a Mom & Son! What a way to learn and grow together....




#2 My very dear friend, Stacy: Now, as she reads this, she will probably say "Whatever". However, in the last several months we have really gotten close & to see what she goes through on a daily basis, and the determination that she has every day.... well, that's enough to be inspiring. I won't go into details on her story... you can follow her blog at
http://www.journeytobecomingarockstar.blogspot.com/
but I will say that she is on the commitment kick of blogging for 90 days. WOW!!!!! The BUSY life she lives already as a Wife, Mom, Boss, Sunday School Teacher & Child of God..... on top of it all she is now a BLOGGER! :-)

I look at her & think about ALL she has on her plate.... I am SO NOT NEAR as busy as she is. Yet, she still finds time in her busy schedule to be a Wife, a Mom, a Child of God, a Sunday School Teacher, a Boss, a Friend, a Sister, a Shoulder to Cry on, an INSPIRATION!!!!!!

I say to Stacy.... WELL DONE! I am so proud of you & what you are allowing God to mold you into. I want what you have.... I want to get motivated.... I want to be an Inspiration.

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I am committing to 30 days.... Yes, JUST 30. We will see where the Good Lord leads me after that. I will start my 30 day blogging on Nov.1. I am looking forward to the road Jesus is gonna take me down. So excited but scary at the same time. However.... "For God hath NOT given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." ~ 2Timothy 1:17

My prayer is this, that God gives me that POWER, that LOVE, and that SOUND MIND. He knows I am gonna need it....

Jesus is MY ROCK & MY SALVATION, whom shall I fear?

Here are a few quotes that I have heard/learned over the past few days. I hope they inspire you they way that they have inspired me.......

"Impossible is not a word, it's just a reason for someone not to try" ~Kutless

"Take the word Impossible of your life" ~Dr. Robert Shuller

"To many of us are addicted to negativity. We need to speak and think positive thoughts each day so that we become addicted to loving life" ~Michael Wittig, Stars Go Dim

"Have the COURAGE to CHANGE" ~Rick Belluzzo, LP of Microsoft

"The single most important thing we can put on each morning is a SMILE" ~Terry Bradshaw

"Your yesterday does NOT determine your tomorrow."; "Get PAST your PAST."; & "There are only 2 options that matter; Yours & Gods." ~Tamara Lowe, Get Motivated Seminar Hostess

~May I be an Inspiration to someone today! Thank you Jesus, for loving me & taking time for me. I will try my hardest to SHINE for YOU!!!!!!~