Are you waiting for answers?

We had a thunderstorm this week.  We received 4 - 5 inches one night. Certain parts of town were flooded.  Flooding has happened all around the state of Texas this spring.

We have been praying for rain here for a long time.  We have seemed to have several years of drought conditions.  Rain is requested in prayers at church, and you see yard signs that say "Pray for Rain."

The rain ceased for a while Thursday morning and then started again in the afternoon. I opened the front door and looked out at our muddy yard full of puddles.  I thought to myself is this the answer to all those prayers for rain?

It reminded me that all those prayers for rain were answered.  God did not send the rain the moment the prayers were uttered last summer, but as I watched the rain fall I am reminded that He does answer prayers.  We collectively did not give up praying for rain just because it did not rain immediately.

What prayers are you waiting to be answered?  The answer may not come today or tomorrow but be sure God does hear and He will answer in His time.  Don't give up praying!

I'm linking up today with Spiritual Sundays.



Have a day of blessings!

Thank you God for miracles!

I wrote previously about the ACU bus crash that happened on November 4.  One student died in the crash and others were seriously injured.  When I look at the pictures, it is just shocking that anyone lived.  One of the injured was Mrs. Pat.  She had been unconscious since the accident in a hospital in San Angelo.
Saturday we received word by email that Mrs. Pat was being moved to an Abilene hospital's hospice care.  Tests had shown no brain activity, and the family thought she was at the end of her life.  Well Saturday afternoon she woke up and started asking her family questions! 

Not knowing this yet, we went by to see her.  The family was talking with the doctor, but the nurse told me I could go on in her room.  I was so surprised to walk in her room and see her eyes open...not at all what I expected.  Then she started moving her mouth trying to talk to me and pointed to her trach.  I was just so amazed.  I got my husband from the hall and we prayed with her.  As we were leaving the nurse said we could talk to her family now.  They were in a family room and all of them just had looks of shock on their faces.  They said the doctors didn't know what happenened!

Everyone is so amazed and thanking God for this wonderful miracle!  Please pray for her and her family in the days ahead. 

To God be the glory!

Have a day of blessings!

Happenings of this week

Sunday morning at about 6:40 we were woken up by some loud wind beating against our window.  Right after we woke up the power went out.  Caleb hollered at us and we brought him to our room. My husband checked the weather to see what was happening.  The power flickered off and on for a few minutes and the storm seemed to pass quickly. 

When we left for church we saw some damage in our neighborhood.  After church we drove around town and saw some of the damage, like this knocked down sign.  There are uprooted trees all over town and trees falling on houses or buildings.  The National Weather Service determined it was not a tornado but many of the citizens said they saw a twister. 

That night I woke up at about 1:15 to something hitting our bedroom window.  It was hailing.  We checked on Caleb but he was sound asleep through it.  This is what it looked like outside.

We went back to sleep and then we were startled by Caleb hollering out for us.  My first thought was that he was dreaming or had heard the wind or something outside.  My husband got to his room first and when I got there he was flipping on Caleb's light.  I said what's wrong?  He said, "My tooth is gone."  I looked in his mouth and sure enough, one of his loose teeth was no longer in his mouth. 

We had tried several times to get that tooth out over the past few weeks.  It bled a bunch on Saturday, which upset Caleb, so we just stopped. 

I looked around on his bed and found this.  Caleb asked, "Is it bleeding?"  There wasn't a drop of blood anywhere.  I asked him what happened, and he said he heard something click and then felt and his tooth was gone.  I was glad we found it.  (I took this picture later to add to this post!) 

We were just amazed that it fell out in his sleep.  I guess it was ready to get out of there!  We'd prayed that it would come out without causing him problems or worry.  I never expected it to fall out in his sleep! 

He has another loose one on top too (the one I wrote about several months ago). 

Have a day of blessings!

Visit me at Laced with Grace today!

As we pray together as a family, I recently noticed our son saying the same or a similar prayer every time. I reminded him that we pray to talk to God and need to speak from our hearts. In the past he had done some amazing prayers that really surprised us to hear coming from someone so young. Back in March as we gathered as a family for a meal after Mammaw’s funeral, we were all touched at his beautiful prayer that seemed to hold such wisdom beyond his years and comfort for us all. Lately though it seemed he was just rushing through to say a few words and be done.

Please visit me over at Laced with Grace today to read the rest of my devotional "God Hears." My Thankful Thursday post is below.

Have a day of blessings!

Another update on prayer requests

I got an email back from Baby Cade's Mom tonight that he has the IV out, and he was able to nurse one time today. Wonderful news! She said that's one step closer to home.

The travelers also arrived back home safely. I look forward to hearing their stories of their adventures. Thanks for praying.

Good night.
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"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9

Something exciting for me!

We have the Christmas stuff finished up for the most part. I love that the busyness has slowed down and we don't have much left on our to do lists.... mostly just waiting for Daddy to get off work Wednesday so we can leave! (I guess we'll have some packing to do too but that isn't a big deal!)

Well today I had planned to make the "Caleb video" for my Mom. It won't be a surprise to her to read it here because I make her one twice a year (either her birthday or Mother's Day and again at Christmas) and was excited to post this! I got the videos all ready and the blank tape in the VCR. I connected the cables but nothing happened. I thought I must have had it on the wrong channel so I flipped through the channels. Still nothing. I could hear a little whirring noise when I attached the yellow video cable. I remember from doing these videos in the past that if it wasn't completely in the hole then it wouldn't feed to the television. I looked closely at the hole and thought maybe part of it had broken off of the camera because it wasn't really fitting snugly as I remembered it doing. JMP thought we could do it through the computer and record onto a DVD. I chatted with some Sony tech person. He wanted me to install some software that came with the camera. I continued to look around on the Sony sight looking for a picture to see if that part had broken off. Well the pictures showed a different cord than I was using! The one I was using had yellow on both ends. The one I needed was one cord with 3 outlet things (I don't know the technological name!) attached. It clicked in my brain when I saw it that I wasn't using the correct cable. I told Caleb we were going to search for that cord. I'd already looked in the camera bag, and it didn't have anything related in it. I told him we'd pray we could know where to look and be able to find it. So we prayed we could find it. I went to look in the drawer under the TV in our bedroom and there it was! I was so excited. I have no clue where this other cord I was using came from or why it was there instead of the one I needed! It was just really exciting to me to find it so quickly. It is really such a silly little thing, but it made me happy to be reminded that God does listen to our prayers. Something so insignificant but it mattered to me.

And yes we started recording the video now. Caleb loves to watch himself. It is rather funny to see how he's changed the past year.
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"I love those that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." Proverbs 8:17

Answered Prayers!

I was happy to read today that Baby Bennett was able to go home. I mentioned him here a couple months ago asking for prayer for this little newborn. It brought me joy to read last week he was going home on Sunday and then today to see the pictures of him with his family at home. Seeing the pictures brought back memories of when we brought Caleb home that first day. I can't even imagine how Bennett's parents must have felt bringing home their little blessing after being in the hospital 70 days. You can see the pictures at his site.


I'll write more about the weekend another time. Just wanted to share this blessing!
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"The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior! " Psalm 18:46