WHO ARE YOU, AND DOES ANYONE CARE!!!

I know what a weird thing to post. But it comes from something I have been thinking alot about lately. I think because of something someone said that I know. They said that while abortion and gay marriage and and a few other things that most Christians are against, were not personally right for this person, but, how could they tell someone else that those"Choices" weren't right for them because then they wouldn't be able to find themselves and be who they really are. I am paraphrasing but it was pretty close to that. And ever since then I have thought to myself how can someone really think that? I like to talk issues over with my mom because she's very smart and has been reading the Bible more years than I have been alive and she grew up with a really smart dad that was a preacher. So, I brought this up and we were talking about it and she said something that was so simple it would seem like everyone would know this but its seems obvious to me that they don't. She said, "people don't need to know or find out "who" they are. They need to find out who God is and then be like Him!!!!!" I tell you what people with shrinks and physcologists and everyone telling you that you need to find out who YOU are and you need to do what makes YOU happy, That struck me as so simple, who I am doesn't matter. Just because I have a tendacy to want to do certain things or because I am in a bad situation , doesnt mean that I can kill a baby. And This is especially true when I think of how God would view it. I want to be like God and he has given very specific directions about these issues. Thats the whole point of mercy and grace we aren't perfect, who we really are may not be a very nice person. We might need to change and be more like God, what if who you really are is Hitler and you just have to be who you really are? Or does it make more sense to say , I have faults and I have wants that God doesn't approve of and I am goiong to let Him take control of my life and help me to be more like Him? I just have a hard time letting it slip by when people basically insinuate that finding out who they are is more important than being who God is. I guess thats what is wrong with people today is that everything is about them and that is it they don't care about the baby they just killed as long as that was the right descision for THEM! Unbelievable!!!

I love this!

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction, I had nowhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln

Read this post from the bottom to the top!!!!

This is actually the end of the post but My mom and I went up to this awesome orchard in STanton by where Nick and I used to live in Edmore and had a really fun time. But, Jade was a tired girl and towards the end she was getting to be quite the crab this is her while we ate lunch in Blanchard. She was not a happy camper . But it was a beautiful fall day in Michigan and the sun was shining so it was a lot of fun. Things like this make you glad that you are alive! FAll in Michigan gives you a bite that makes it hurt a little but then the sun and the beautiful colors put it all together and it is very invigorating. Its like one last I'm ALIVE before we all hibernate for the winter so you feel like you have to get your wild oats out!!! hahah well hope you all enjoyed this.

Jade and I at the farm!

This is a ton of really huge goldfisht that we fed!

Our try at getting a picture with the beautiful apple trees! Ha Jade was tired and in a bad mood!

Grammy and Jade with the baby cammel. He had some pretty stinky breath though! he was sweet though!

Another big slide like the last orchard that we went to!She cried when she couldn't go again! And it is really steep for a one year old . But she loved it!

The train again!

I think the zebra was a close second ! Both he and the camel were babies and they were so cute, but unlike the reindeer he liked to wait til the last little morsel was out of your hand and then nip youa good one!hahaha Sounds like democrats to me!!! hahah

The wooden train was a big hit too!

Jade loves these horsy swings made out of tires!

Isn't he so pretty! Makes me think of Christmas!

This place is awesome they have all kinds of animals I think my favorite was the reindeer we got to feed all the animals and he was so gentle.

This was not an easy time to get pictures and she was making a weird face but she was pretty thrilled about the donuts!

I thought that the donuts at the Anderson Girls Farm in Stanton were delicious but here is JAde showing you what she though about them!!!!

Little Bear Awakens!

Here is Jade awaking from her nap and not to happy about it from the looks of things!!!! I actually took the picture not looking at her and then I looked back at the picture on the camera and saw she hadn't cooperated unbeknownst to me!!!

I thought that this was hilarious!!! Jade resigned to the fact that getting out of bed was gonna happen sooner or later anyways!

Pretty Amazing Grace!!

I love this song, I think it is partly a love song, but I sing it with God in mind.God truly is Amazing and sometimes I forget that.

Pretty Amazing grace is what you showed me, pretty amazing grace is who you are, I was an empty vessal, you filled me up inside and with amazing grace restored my pride, pretty amazing graze is how you saved me and with amazing grace reclaimed my heart, love in the midst of chaos, calm in the heat of war, showed with amazing grace what love was for. You forgave my insensitivity, and my attempt to then mislead you, you stood beside a wretch like me, Your pretty amazing grace was all I needed.Stumbled inside the doorway of Your chapel, humbled and awed by everything I'd found, beauty and love surround me, freed me from what I feared, asked for amazing grace and you appeared.You overcame my loss of hope and faith, gave me a truth I could believe in you led me to a higher place, showed your amazing grace when grace was what I needed . Look in a mirror I see your reflection, open a book you live on every page, fall and your there to lift me , share every road I climb, and with amazing grace you ease my mind, came to you with empty pockets first, when I returned I was a rich man , I found your amazing grace to comfort me, pretty amazing grace, you overcame my loss of hope and faith, gave me a truth I could believe in you led me to that higher place, showed me that love and truth and hope and grace were all I needed.

MICHIGAN APPLE ORCHARDS ARE FUN IN THE FALL!!!!!!!!

Lynette , Justin, Jade and I went to an apple orchard this last Wednesday. It was a lot of fun! But the Michigan fall air chose this last week to come and bite us so it was really chilly!!!!!

My little cowgirl!!!!

They have a corn crib with all this shelled corni n it that kidscan play in . I thought that was a really neat idea!

Its hard to get these two at the same time so hence the two different pictures!

Here we are!!!! See how happy this little girl makes me. I love her so much!

This is a really creative slide that they made. It was pretty steep and Jade went down it all by herself!! This was the face that crazy ride resulted in!!!

There was four little baby goats and lots of older goats!!! The babies were darling but we couldn't get close enough to touch them!

This is a really interesting duck that was there with her ducklings I am assuming but she has both color of ducklings and they all have really funny colored beaks that are really long! But they were darling just the same!

This was Jade's costume last halloween but I am selling it on ebay this week so I had to take pictures and man they were just so cute I had to post one!

Jade on a rocking horse that is outside this used store my mom and I go to occasionally! She loved it and loves to say horsey.

Jade after eating her peach yogurt. She loved it and lifted it up at the end and tried to drink every last drop!

Being so close to halloween, Jades recent obsession with my broom has led me to think she looks kinda like a little witch. And she acts like one too sometimes!!! haha not really!

This is a picture of my dad and Jade at a restauraunt late at night the night I got my car. It seems like an innocent enough picture. But really we had the craziest night either of us have had in a long time. Take to long to explain but this was almost the end of a very very loooong day!!

SO DISGUSTED!!!!

I don't know about all of you out there, but I am so sick of this election year I don't know if I can take another 2 months of it!!!!! My heart hurts when I think that half my beloved country is willing to vote for a man that has the "qualities" of Barrack Obama!!!! It sickens me and terrifies me that people are giving their futures and their children's futures over to this man. What is wrong with America? I've been thinking of this for awhile. And what I believe that it all comes down to is America is sickeningly selfish. Where does selfishness come from? Well, from what I can tell, it comes from not caring about anyone , even God, more than yourself. And I think that is what we are seeing in Americans these days. God is almost a swear word. If you believe in God , you are a radical! If you are a conservative Christian, then you are almost equated with lunacy. And if you have morals, they would like to put you in jail if they could! If you believe that life begins at conception , then you are viewed as some horribly insensitive person who wants to take peoples "rights". If you dare say a word against homosexuality, or adultery, then you are considered a species of odd behaviour and for lack of better word a prude. All these things are things that are specifiacally mentioned in the Bible. But they don't like to bring up the Bible because that isn't even relevent to them. Its called wanting what I want and getting what I need out of life. All this is starting to take a toll in my mind these days I war with it . I think , is this truly how its gonna be from now on? We are the radicals and we are the ones that are insensitive and we are the unloving ones? That when you mention being a Christian you have to defend yourself as if you said you were a criminal of the worst sorts. I know that is what the Bible says, that in the end days you will not be popular if you choose to go in Jesus name. But , I grow exhausted of people treating Christians like they have some sort of disease. But everyone else who gets abortions and lives perverted lives , and cares nothing about anyone but themselves they are the normal ones and they are the ones that have brilliant minds and are really living the life of self discipline. People, seriously. The hardest thing in this world is to give yourself up to God and let Him work through you. So if you've done that , then congratulations!!!!!