Anniversary:  This month marks the 39th year of marriage to my best friend and better half Dan. That is him above with his lips puckered up for a kiss.  Below is one of our fist pictures as a young family.

I couldn’t find a wedding photo to post but, here we are just 5 years into our marriage with our oldest son Jason. (He is about 1 year old here.)  We look so young!  It shows one of the few times my husband cut his hair.  From the early 70′s to just 10 years ago he had long hair, very long down to the middle of his back, he cut it twice during that time for job interviews and then grew it back long right away.  We have come over a lot of smooth and rough roads since this picture and we are so happy to still be together and in love.

Now for Bible College:  In eight weeks I will have completed my two years of Bible College.  I have learned so much and enjoyed my Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus the hours spent studying for test, papers and assignments that actually put into practice what we have learned.  It has been a wonderful experience.  But it isn’t over yet.  I still have seven weeks of class and one week of Easter break.

I have four books to read this quarter.  I usually post the book titles but think I missed doing that last quarter, so I’ll post all of them.

Last quarter’s books were:  The Incomparable Christ by J. Oswald Sanders, for Christology class.  You can find it by clicking the red Christianbook button in the left column of this blog page.  Our other book was Handbook of Preaching by Dr. Nathaniel M. Van Cleave, for  Homelitics class.  Our other classes, Leadership and Ethics/Christianity in the Workplace. had recommended books but I didn’t purchase them.

This quarter we have Unlocking The Abraham Promise by Dr. Berin Gilfillan who is also our teacher.  He is in South Africa right now so we have our first three classes by video but it looks to be an interesting class on Evangelism.

The other three classes are King in the Kingdom, Real Christianity, and Christian Counseling.  The books, which can all be found at the Christianbook button, are Destined For The Throne, by Paul Billheimer, Celebrations of Discipline, by Richard J. Foster, and The Christian Counselor’s Manuel, by Jay E. Adams.

I know this quarter is going to be a lot of work but I am excited about what we are learning and excited to be in the last quarter before graduation.  I may not be back till Graduation because after just the first week of classes I have a lot of reading and assignments but I will for sure be back with pictures of Graduation.

So if I am not back for a while have a blessed Easter. It is my favorite holiday.  I love remembering what was done for us.  And, enjoy your Spring.  Blessings to you all.

Life is good.  I think each day the older and older I get the more I love it.  I enjoy the events of life as well as the day to day.  I was not always this way.  I let fear rob me of joy for such a long time but now I feel happy almost all the time.  And let me tell you it is good to feel this way.  I am getting older, things don’t work like they used to, and by things I mean my body.

For example I worked in the yard today and it took me 5 hours to finish my task.

When I was done I had a full green container and 8 trash bags of leaves and tree branch clippings and I was SORE.  Ha Ha you probably expected me to say I was a happy camper and truly I was.  I am glad to be done with the task, thankful to have spent the day out in the warm CA sunshine especially after the cold snap we had recently, but I can hardly walk or type now.

My feet, legs, hands, forearms, shoulders, and neck hurt to move.  My back feels tight and I was walking bent over walking around Cost Co. getting the few things I needed.  While I was at my pharmacy to get a prescription filled it took almost an hour of standing on my aching feet because there were so many people there with the flu.  They were all coughing and sneezing and wearing face mask the doctor gave them so as not to spread germs.  I refuse to get the flu.

But back to my aching body.  I used to do things like rake leaves, trim trees, mow the lawn and what have you, then do a full weeks laundry, clean my house and chase two small boys.  I used to do full days of hard manual labor all the time but not these days.  I will be sore tomorrow and for a few days to come.  But still I am glad I got out there.  I plan to keep getting out there till I pass to the other side.  I am going to move and do and ache doing it.   I am going to use the gifts that God has given me and movement is one, and a house and yard to care for are another, till I die.

Well I hope you are enjoying the new year.  I hope you have things to look forward to this year and have many blessings in your life.  Stop by and leave me a word or two.  I love to hear from you.

Philippians 4:4 (NLT)  Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!