The Church......One Yard From Hell

Wow! What an awesome message bro. Lynn preached last night. One of those messages that stirs your heart and lets you know that "you haven't already arrived". It's good to know that when you are persecuted for things that you take a stand against, that God would be proud of you for doing so. The church "One Yard From Hell" would be the ones to take a stand and not let people try to form you into their mold. This world does not revolve around us, or them, but to God almighty. In the end, we will stand before the Father. He will not ask us "how we enjoyed the ride", He will say; "Did you the will of the Father". God help me to always be a part of the body of Christ that lives the life of a church, "One Yard From Hell".

So guess I had better start my day preparing myself to be just that. A Church One Yard From Hell.

Update

Just to let you all know that I haven 't quit blogging, I have just been terribly busy. I just returned from a trip to Israel and absolutely loved it. It is definately one trip I will never forget. There was so many things that touched my heart that I can't begin to start to tell. Definately life changing!

We returned from our trip on Wednesday before Easter, so I hit the floor running. I plunged into getting ready for the Easter program "When God Ran", and proved to be a great success. There was approximately 10 saved that morning. Wow! What a touching service!

Since then we have been in revival with Lynn Wheeler and it has been awesome.

On Friday, we are headed to the mountains for the Williams Family Camp Out. We look forward to this every year. We always have a blast and also get to catch up on what the family is doing.

So, as you can tell, my life is "never a dull moment". I look forward to keeping up with all of you and hearing what is going on in your life.

Storm's

Wow! What dammage ice storm's can do to tree's around your house. It's amazing how small specks can continue stacking upon each other until the tree limb's take a bow to the ground, and suddenly they snap under the heaviness of the accumilation of those small specks. Even though it is beautiful and can make the outside look like a winter wonderland, it can also cause thousands of dollars of damage to homes and take out electricity to entire cities.

These storm's can also com in our lives in many forms. The death of a loved one, divorce, finances, tragedies of many sources. I know what it is to have storm's in my life and not know how the damage will be cleaned up, or if it ever can. I also know that I have faith in one of the most amazing people, Jesus Christ. He can cause storm's to cease with just three simple words, "Peace Be Still". Doesn't mean the storm will go away, it just means that He is in charge and at His command, the storm has to do what He says.

In 2007, many storms came to the Williams Family. My husbands heart went out of rhythm for the 7th time, I started having seizers out of the clear blue (which was brought on by stress), my oldest son, Aaron, wrecked his truck and had to put it in the shop. Three days later on April 13th, my youngest son, Joshua, was working on a drilling rig in Conway, Arkansas, and not being told or being aware of my son going back up on the drilling rig, the Driller turned the drill on. Joshua's leg was over the top drive and the drill caught his right leg and tore it off. He bled out at the scene, but was able to get him to the hospital in time to save him. He underwent 6 surgeries to repair the damage that was done, leaving him only 5 inches left of his limb.

Our family pulled together during this storm in our life and faced many storms in the days to come. We know that God was in control of our situation and that He would pull us through. I still had seizers and my husband had his heart shocked again in the middle of all this crisis for the 8th time.

In June, 2008, his heart was shocked for the 9th time. Dr's told us they would never shock him again. He has gone through so much, but still trusts in the one who calm's our storm's.

Joshua walks with a Prosthetic and does wonderful, but the pain is still unbearable at times. As the weather turned bad and changed from sunshine to rain, snow, and ice, so did his pain. It has become almost unbearable.

During the storm, our oldest son, Aaron, lost power in his house at college from the ice storm. When the power line went down behind his house, it also caught the house on fire. Not only did the electricity go out, now he has to find a place to stay. So here is mom, at home and her son is in Talequah, Ok., with no way to get him home by the warm fire, give him some homemade chicken noodle soup, and know he is O.K. Well! I know he is a grown boy, but Mom still wants him to be with her.

As for me and my sweetie, we have work to do when this ice storm is over. Limb's have fallen on our roof and in the back yard. When the storm is over, damage will be done, but we are still alive and well. We can thank our great big wonderful God for His never changing love for His children. We know that "This too (storm) shall pass" and He will KEEP ON MAKIN' A WAY for the Williams family.

Storm's will make us better or bitter. It's up to us how we handle it all.

Just for My Brother

Almost a year ago, my brother went through a divorce. He left one week for work and when he came home everything was gone out of the house. No looking back, she was gone. Needless to say he needed a little help from a woman with the empty house. I agreed to help add some decor. to it, (which is what I love to do) so I did just that today. I believe he will be a little shocked when he see's that the white walls have now become a terra cotta pot color. But, it is beautiful and not too girly for him. It was good to do something "Just for My Brother".

A New Day

Well, we have a new President! Yesterday is gone, today is a new day. It's time to pull up my big girl panties and get ready to work like a slave in my house. I hate to clean, but I sho like a clean house.