Prayer Request!

I need to ask you guys a big favor. Would you please be in prayer for me? Remember when I shared with you that I felt God was leading me to resign from teaching Sunday School? Well, I feel like He's leading me in a new direction but I want to make absolutely sure that this is His will for me. I think this would be an awesome ministry to be involved in but there's one slight problem, my work hours.

I need to be available on Monday nights for practice and I currently have to work. But I also know that if God is calling me, He will make a way. I just would ask that you pray that if it is His will for me to do this, that He will work out the details for me and make smooth the path. You have to be careful sometimes what you ask for because last time I prayed like that, I lost the job. If that happens, He will provide but sometimes it can be a little bit scary and exciting at the same time.

On another note, I want to let you know that I have had an awesome week or so. I had a wonderful birthday. I don't care how old I get, I love birthdays. I love celebrating another year of life. I don't look at celebrating myself, per se, but just celebrating the fact that God has given me another year, and looking forward to how He's going to work in my remaining ones. You know, there's no retirement in the Bible. I will continue to serve Him until the day I go home to meet Him and beyond!

My sweet daughter, Amanda, threw me a birthday party this weekend at Lake Allatoona and it was a very special time. Not because of me. I get kind of embarrassed by the attention, believe it or not.(Amanda would say "whatever") But because so many of my friends and family came, I was able to look at my children & my grandchildren and people who are precious to me and realize just how blessed I am and consider the legacy that I'm leaving behind. When my life is over I want people to be able to say that I touched their lives in some way. I pray daily for wisdom to be the woman that God intends for me to be.

Hugging, laughing and sharing stories with my loved ones is one of the very best things there are in the world. Basking in the joy and love is a feeling beyond compare. I think maybe it's because I didn't really have any family left until I met Charles. It's a very lonely feeling. Now since I've found my siblings and I have grandchildren & church family, I have family in abundance. If only I could get everybody together at one time! That would be awesome!

There's a few of my siblings that I have never met. I'm not even sure if some of them are still alive. I pray that I get a chance to meet them someday. I have a great deal to look forward to. Praise God!

Love you guys, and I will keep you posted on how God answers our prayers!