MOMENTS: MOMENT BY MOMENT

Why is it so hard for me to stay in the moment?

A. D. D. (Always Distracted Dotsy)

Remain. Simply focus. Remember; He has made everything beautiful in its time. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Started this morning with a cuppa simplici-TEA---will let you know how it goes through out this jam-packed Labor Day weekend!
Last night's supper for AHS wide receivers.

Nathan Liles #89, our favorite Allen High School senior and team members rejoiced and found satisfaction in all their labor--which is a gift of God. (Ecclesiastes 3:13)

Andrew and John Parker, future AHS athletes with YaYa and Poppy while Noah was in the sound booth and Caleb was with friends somewhere in the vast stadium.

Auburn vs Oregon @AT&T stadium.

Auburn was only ahead in the last few moments but those were the 9 seconds that counted---27-21!

AUGUST 20, 2019 NEW ARRIVAL

....a special delivery of sorts!  A perfect package. Worth the wait. A delivery that brings smiles!
Grandchildren are indeed the crown of the aged! (Proverbs 17:6)

The big sister smile says it all!

Even the "package" smiles!

She's wide-eyed and curious to see what Aunt Maeve has seen.....

And is wide-eyed to hear her big sister read to her!

But.....eyes closed for her serene Saturday walk at just 11 days old.

50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

LOTS OF 50th LISTS---until lists are edited & print ready you can reminisce with us...from by-gone anniversaries.

Wedding 8/9/69

10th anniversary---Folks folly but smaall tin cup gift b/c we splurged on the food.Our 13th was lunch at Doeblers Dock. We went on a Saturday for the “special,” 10¢ shrimp and oysters. ..................

14th anniversary was on a brief (1 night) cruise to Bahamas w/all 3 Our 15th in Hot Springs AR at the renown Hamilton House, a treat from friends Boyd and Deborah (kids too just not at dinner)

Our 15th in Hot Springs AR at the renown Hamilton House, a treat from friends Boyd and Deborah (kids too just not at dinner)
From the mid-80s to the early 90s, Larry’s 


Our 25th anniversary was just a month after Mommar and Grandaddy's 50th (7/21/69)....which we

 later we shared our silver anniversary (25th) with dear friends Sam and JoLynn---1994 in North Carolina at Greystone Inn w/ lots of tee time guys & tea time gals. 

position as coach of US Racquetball team gave us opportunities to celebrate anniversaries in exotic places: Le Meir in Hamburg, Germany and an outdoor restaurant in Caracas, Venezuela.

Our 30th found us as empty nesters with a little spare change so the gifts were memorable---tickets to symphony in the garden (though Josh & Molly came too) and a fall weekend "alone" (so no pics) at the Hemlock Inn in NC.

41st  anniversary---at Baptist Hospital for Mommar's surgery, fulfilling of those 1969 vows “in sickness (we include family here as well) and in health, for better or for worse” which we made unto the Lord on this day 41 years ago.

MEDITATION CONTINUES....

Last Monday's passage meditation had me on a single verse---Psalm 143:8, specifically the last 2 lines of the verse.
This time the selection prompted prayers beyond family to prayers for friends---so many friends. Sisters in Christ who seem to struggle as I do when it comes to being confident in God's daily plan for them. Such wonderings require daily focus on scripture.
I prayed the verse especially for sweet KDS friend, Sandra, who was hospitalized for observation after a scary blood pressure event. Taking a few treats to Methodist Germantown to celebrate her recovery, I saw she had her Bible opened to that verse.  I had told her earlier I was praying Psalm 143:8 for her.

After  she was dismissed from the hospital, she shared this picture from her morning quiet time. 

Her morning cuppa---tea and truth. Her special Psalm143:8 teacup served as bookmark for that same verse in her Charles Stanley study Bible!  

Then........Sunday's "responsive reading" at church that week was from Psalm 143:8----of course it was.

God is gracious to keep me meditating on a verse until "I get it"!

The meditation continues so I'm excited to see all that He has for me within these 31 words!