7th Heaven!

It is over. After 6 very long years of Auburn's owning the state's bragging rights, the Crimson Tide in no uncertain terms has snatched them back. Tonight's 36-0 shutout over the Tigers was the perfect ending to a fairy-tale undefeated season. Who could have ever predicted at the beginning of August that we would be playing next weekend for the SEC Championship as a 12-0 team? 

May this be only the beginning and Roll Tide Roll!

Giving Thanks!

A big pet peeve of mine is how early the stores begin "setting up" for the next holiday. Valentine's Day displays go up before New Year's Day. Easter up in January. Halloween in August, etc. But what frustrates me even more is that on November 1st, the stores skip right over Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas. It's like no one even acknowledges it as a holiday. 

I love Thanksgiving. I love that the weather has (usually) begun to get colder. I love the sounds (LOTS of family laughter) and the smells (food cooking, fall candles, spices, etc). And I love the traditions. We always spend the day with Lee's family eating WAY more than ought to be allowed and catching up on the past year with relatives we only see once a year.  Then, we head back home for my absolute favorite thing. A fire in the fireplace, hot chocolate, s'mores (no matter what the outside temperature) and Christmas music galore (love you, Ray Conniff singers!) as we drag out all the bins of Christmas decorations. In my mind, it is officially time to look forward to Christmas........ but NOT before!

What Day Is It?

That’s my answer to most of the “big” questions lately. “Are you happy?” “Are you sending your kids to school next year or homeschooling them?” “Are you serving right where God wants you to be serving?” and so on and so on. 

These are definitely some crazy, confusing times. Still there are some constants and those make all the swirling things bearable.

"In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." (Proverbs 3:6)

Part Of His World.......

Lee and I got back this afternoon from our trip to Tennessee. He's usually there Wednesday - Saturday every other week, but since it was my birthday week, we took two extra days and we spent the whole week. He had more writing days and I had lots of "me" time........ for reading, visiting with friends, taking pictures and working on catching up my family scrapbooks. I enjoyed seeing where he writes, meeting some of the people who work at Word, and being there when he finished writing every day to hear all about his new songs first-hand. (instead of by phone or email)

We got home, loved on the kids (who were SO glad to see us...... for about 5 minutes....

then they were ready to go down the street and play with friends) and then settled in to watch the Bama-LSU game. Roll Tide.

It's been such a good week.

A Change of Seasons

It appears that change is occurring in more than just the colors of the leaves on this Election Night. Thank God, that no matter what swirls around us, we can always claim this promise:

"True, the grass withers and the wildflowers fade, but our God's Word stands firm and forever." (Isaiah 40:8)