Day 2 of Prayer and Fasting!!

It's day two of prayer and fasting and I have been praying for Margaret like the crazy Pentecostal woman I am. I bet I woke up at least 10 times last night with prayer on my lips for Margaret!!

I had no accidental chocolate today and haven't been on Scrapfreak! I really hit the jackpot with fasting these two items. I knew I was addicted to Scrapfreak - that's a given but who knew that I thought about chocolate every 10 seconds??? (inside joke for some of my scrappin girls). Fasting could only have been worse if I had given up real food and soda! I had a friend once who fasted over three weeks (I am not sure of when it ended) with no food. She drank milk and juices only!! Ginger was just awesome in her commitment to fasting and she fasted frequently.

I already believe that Margaret was healed the first time I asked for her to be healed. My prayers are just thanks to the Great God that we serve for the grace and mercy that we SWIM in everyday!! Thanks be to God that our words can call forth healing and blessings! Thanks be to God that Jesus left the authority behind with each one of us to lay hands on each other for healing. Thanks be to God that our hands don't have to touch someone physically and they can still recieve their healing if we only believe when we pray!

Thanks be to God that fasting really allows you to bring your body under authority!

Thanks be to God!

Rowdy

Snow in the Mountains!!

I love looking at the Webcam in my Aunt Ella's hometown. Looks like today it snowed in the higher elevations. I so want to go when it looks like this!! I think the temp was in the low 50's!!

Enjoy!!

Rowdy

Day 1 of Prayer and Fasting

My former Pastor's wife Margaret is battling multiple myeloma and the church has called for prayer and fasting so here I am. I decided to give up Scrapfreak and chocolate for a week. When I told my DD what I was giving up, she understood how hard it would be for me! She decided that she would fast on the chocolate too but changed her mind to ice cream today!!

So, while I am sitting here typing this, my youngest DD hands me a cookie right out of the oven and I just ate it...it had chocolate in it!! Grrrr!!! How does that happen?

So, before I had the outlaw chocolate cookie, the need for Scrapfreak was way ahead of the chocolate. It still is. It's nice to go online and chat with friends and look at cards or layouts and just have a good time. But Margaret is so worth every second for a week of not getting online or eating chocolate.

I checked on Margaret through my former church's secretary and she said that despite some horrible things going wrong during a gel infusion on her spine, she is doing well. In fact, Margaret's daughter Tammy had surgery yesterday and today Margaret is at the hospital with her. My former Pastor Weldon, hurt himself by stepping in the elevator the wrong way at the hospital (he uses a cane after a bad ankle break years ago) and has had to start rehab again!

I would say the whole family needs prayer and fasting. On top of the obvious, the insurance doesn't pay for everything because Margaret had not had her insurance long enough! The church is planning some fundraising which I hope to be part of since that is something I do well!!

Here is my confession and I am sticking with it - the devil won't win this one.

Rowdy

Another Great Joke!!

I got this funny joke from my Dad!!

Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound-mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead." Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"

Oh my goodness! How funny!!!

Great Blonde Joke

I got this cute Blonde joke from my friend Linda!! How funny!!

A blonde woman was having financial troubles so she decided to kidnap a child and demand a ransom. She went to a local park, grabbed a little boy, took him behind a tree and wrote a note. "I have kidnapped your child. I am sorry to do this but I need the money. Leave $10,000 in a plain brown bag behind the big oak tree in the park at 7 AM." Signed, "The Blonde." She pinned the note inside the l ittle boy's jacket and told him to go straight home. The next morning, she returned to the park to find the $10,000 in a brown bag behind the big oak tree, just as she had instructed. Inside the bag with the cash was the following note. "Here is your money. I cannot believe that one blonde would do this to another."

8/10 Blog Challenge

This week, at Scrapfreak, we have been challenged to List the letters A-Z and use adjectives or phrases to describe yourself. So, here goes nothing!

A - Aggressive
B - Bossy
C- Colorful
D - Dangerous
E - Extreme
F - Freaky
G - Gregarious
H - Happy
I - Interesting
J - Joyful
K - Kisser
L - Loves her Daddy
M -Maniac
N - Nosey
O - Oprah lover
P - Prayerful
Q - Quiet (when sleeping)
R - Rowdy
S - Sentimental
T - Talkative
U - Unusual
V - Visual
W - Wacky
X - Xperimental
Y - Young
Z - Zealous

Okay...I tried really hard on the X but couldn't find anything! This wasn't was easy as I thought it would be! Happy reading!!

8/3 Blog Challenge

Scrapfreak Blog Challenge - I am supposed to write about 1o moments in the hour (8/3 15:48)

1). I spend way too much time on Scrapfreak!
2). Do you think that work knows I spend way too much time on Scrapfreak?
3). What kind of paper do I REALLY want to use for this birthday card that I am about to
create?
4). Is there any chocolate in the kitchen?
5). Can I take a break from work now?
6). I want to work from some other room that doesn't have a litter box! Think my bedroom
would work?
7). Am I going to be responsible for dinner again?
8). Did I ever know that my kids sat on the couch and love seat and watched TV all the live
long day?
9). Wonder if I will get a severance package at work?
10). Wonder if I will be as HAPPY as I think I would be if I get a package at work?


OMG!! I sound like I am having some blonde moments!! LOL!! This was fun!!