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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Digging in our heels and PUSHing- (Praying Until Something Happens!)
I have had such marvelous support and encouragement throughout this, and I just thank God for it! All of you out there, praying for and supporting us, really mean the world to us. The past few weeks I've been particularly blessed by three really special friends...on facebook, of all places!!
One friend simply said, "STAND! When you have done all.....STAND!" So, Karla, I am!!
Our God is certainly able....I am unmoved~ Daniel 3:16-18~ Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. but if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worsip the gold image which you have set up."
While chatting with a pastor friend, a while back, he brought me to those verses. He showed me that Rack, Shack and Benny (ok... I'm using the "Veggie Tales" names, for my purposes!) were a wonderful example of how we should pray. Our God IS ABLE to deliver us and we believe He WILL, but even so....come what may, we will continue to worship Him and to praise Him, because HE IS WORTHY! We will not bow our head to circumstances. We will not be moved. (Thanks Dr. Haney~Derek and I were talking about how great God is to have the pastor that I had such admiration for, from my youth camp, ministering w/in 30 minutes of where we live! We think it is just super cool of Him! And for such a time as this!!! God is too good!! I know Parkside is certainly blessed!)
P*U*S*H ~Pray Until Something Happens!!~ While reading the blog of a friend (Thanks, Ronnie!! "Arrington Family News"), I felt so inspired and challenged! She was blogging about the unity of the church body and how we are to encourage and pray for one another. She was telling about a book she was reading with the acronym P*U*S*H, Pray Until Something Happens. She wrote, " I want to be so enfolded at the throne of the Father that I won't leave until something happens!". I was so struck by that statement! Her words challenge me! What I felt in my spirit, was ...'I'm not moving unless it is forward!' I should be PUSHing forward. I need to dig in my heels and STAND firm! I am not budging! We need to PUSH (pray) through these situations and circumstances. We should not allow circumstances to knock us backwards on unsteady feet... I'm digging in my heels and I'm going to STAND firmly planted until I can PUSH forward!! Now, I know that this all sounds very simplistic, but to me...it was just such a revelation!! So, we are PUSHing forward. We are Praying Until Something Happens!! Please join with us to PUSH on through!!
PUSH!
Misty
SUMMERTIME!!
Wow!! It's been a while! I promise that is not a bad thing! We have had a busy last few weeks of school and summer began with a bang! We are off and running!!
(WARNING: excessive bragging to follow!)
We'll begin with the smallest Pressley~
Selah is fully potty trained and doing well. She turned three on June 1st and celebrated with a small Mickey Mouse party here in our home with family. She amazes us daily with her speech and vocabulary, she really is talker and very smart!
Caedmon~
Caed can tie his shoes and ride his bicycle without training wheels. Kindergarten ended on a high note, with him reading above grade level, spelling, and beautiful handwriting! He won several awards at the end of the school awards ceremony including "Outstanding Reading", "Super Math Whiz", "Super Speller", "Excellence in Social Studies", and "Outstanding Behavior" (and a few others!). He is really proud of himself and so are we!!
Hannah~
Hannah finished up volleyball with a third place finish for her team in their division. She received commended performances on her TAKS reading, math and writing tests; missing only one on her reading test, missing two on the math portion and a perfect score on her composition!! She also received a few awards at the end of the school ceremony including, "Exceptional Behavior", "A/B Honor Roll", and she was voted "Kindest Student" and "Biggest Animal Lover" by her classmates. We really like the young lady that she is becoming.
Nate~
Nate has been working hard and enjoying his homeschooling. He has become such a huge help to me around the house and with Caed and Selah. He is taking on more responsibilities and I believe his self esteem has greatly improved. He moved up to boyscouts and is learning so much there, including that it isn't all just fun and games! He has completed two, five mile hikes, and will be going away to camp next week. I can hardly believe how grown up he is becoming and how fast it has all happened!! (He'll be 13 in December!!!)
Visit w/Nanny and Pops~
Nate, Hannah and Caed all went on a road trip with Nanny and Pops. This was Caedmon's first time to be able to go with them and he was stoked!! They went and stayed in Childress, Amarillo, and then met Derek, Selah and I in Oklahoma City for a few days. In OKC, we ate a lot of great food and went to Frontier City. At Frontier City we enjoyed beautiful weather, short lines, fun rides, and some pretty cool shows. We caught a short country musical act, that Selah loved and an awesome cowboy stunt show....very entertaining!! We will definitely go again!
So...all that brings us up to date on what we have been doing. I'll have another short post as time allows; there is so much in my heart these days that it is sometimes difficult to put it all together in order to form complete sentences and paragraphs!! (That's a good thing!)
Hugs,
Misty
PS. Derek continues to look and feel great. He's sticking to the protocols, although he has cheated on his diet a little. We continue to *PUSH* forward (more on that later)!
(WARNING: excessive bragging to follow!)
We'll begin with the smallest Pressley~
Selah is fully potty trained and doing well. She turned three on June 1st and celebrated with a small Mickey Mouse party here in our home with family. She amazes us daily with her speech and vocabulary, she really is talker and very smart!
Caedmon~
Caed can tie his shoes and ride his bicycle without training wheels. Kindergarten ended on a high note, with him reading above grade level, spelling, and beautiful handwriting! He won several awards at the end of the school awards ceremony including "Outstanding Reading", "Super Math Whiz", "Super Speller", "Excellence in Social Studies", and "Outstanding Behavior" (and a few others!). He is really proud of himself and so are we!!
Hannah~
Hannah finished up volleyball with a third place finish for her team in their division. She received commended performances on her TAKS reading, math and writing tests; missing only one on her reading test, missing two on the math portion and a perfect score on her composition!! She also received a few awards at the end of the school ceremony including, "Exceptional Behavior", "A/B Honor Roll", and she was voted "Kindest Student" and "Biggest Animal Lover" by her classmates. We really like the young lady that she is becoming.
Nate~
Nate has been working hard and enjoying his homeschooling. He has become such a huge help to me around the house and with Caed and Selah. He is taking on more responsibilities and I believe his self esteem has greatly improved. He moved up to boyscouts and is learning so much there, including that it isn't all just fun and games! He has completed two, five mile hikes, and will be going away to camp next week. I can hardly believe how grown up he is becoming and how fast it has all happened!! (He'll be 13 in December!!!)
Visit w/Nanny and Pops~
Nate, Hannah and Caed all went on a road trip with Nanny and Pops. This was Caedmon's first time to be able to go with them and he was stoked!! They went and stayed in Childress, Amarillo, and then met Derek, Selah and I in Oklahoma City for a few days. In OKC, we ate a lot of great food and went to Frontier City. At Frontier City we enjoyed beautiful weather, short lines, fun rides, and some pretty cool shows. We caught a short country musical act, that Selah loved and an awesome cowboy stunt show....very entertaining!! We will definitely go again!
So...all that brings us up to date on what we have been doing. I'll have another short post as time allows; there is so much in my heart these days that it is sometimes difficult to put it all together in order to form complete sentences and paragraphs!! (That's a good thing!)
Hugs,
Misty
PS. Derek continues to look and feel great. He's sticking to the protocols, although he has cheated on his diet a little. We continue to *PUSH* forward (more on that later)!
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