The whole family got baptized!

A few weeks ago our church held a baptism service and my entire family including my 9 yr old son got baptized. It was an incredible experience and I am so grateful for our church for where we are right now. Thank you Elevation. Thank you Pastor Steven, and of course thank you God!


Here are a few great pictures that were caught during the event!

Biltmore House

The family and I went to the Biltmore Estate in Ashville this past weekend. We had an awesome trip. The trip was paid for through my job and it was great!







The family and I went to the Biltmore Estate in Ashville this past weekend. We had an awesome trip. The trip was paid for through my job and it was great!

I am having a hard time keeping up with this thing right now. There is just so much going on in my life, but I will keep trying to post at least a few times a week. There is so much that I want to say and too little time to get it all typed out! I have been keeping notes though so I can go back to some of the topics.

Thanks for continuing to read. I really appreciate all who do.

What an awesome weekend at Elevation. This was Student Takeover Weekend. The message that Pastor Steven taught was extremely powerful!

You should definitely check it out at http://www.elevationchurch.org/ and click on the current sermon.

This whole weekend was directed at students and teenagers and how they can control their lives and that they each have a calling from God. It was some powerful stuff and over 500 people gave their lives to Christ.

Monday things took a sour note. First I was exhausted. All the working and cleaning finally caught up to me. Then when I got home I got the call that my Dad was on the way to the hospital. We weren't sure what was wrong with him. He was having pain from his chest down so it could have been many many things.

Then my son had an episode...not really sure what else to call it. It was a sort of panic attack and we couldn't get him calmed down. After 30 minutes of hyperventilating we finally called 911 and an ambulance came and got him. They managed to get him calmed down in the ambulance but we went to the Hospital anyhow to make sure that he was alright. Things are better now but I think we may be doing a medicine change in the near future.

While we were at the hospital we got the word that my Dad had appendicitis. He went for an emergency appendectomy on Tuesday morning. He is recouping and the chaos has finally died down. I finally got some sleep and went back to work on Wednesday. Scary couple of days but all's good now!

Ok, so I really fell down on my job. I haven't posted in over a week. I got really busy last week and then have had a crazy emotional roller coaster the last few days. Let me explain.

I had to clean my house and my husband and I decided to do some painting as well. Since I had been laid up since earlier in the year with my back I hadn't been able to clean. So my get together with my old high school friends was a great reason to work and clean my house. I have only 2 rooms left now! So we spent the weekend of the 5th painting and cleaning and it took the rest of the week and this past Saturday (the 12th) to finish.

By the way, the reunion went great. It was great seeing old friends again and catching up with them. We pretty much fell right into conversation like we've never been apart. It was a little strange watching our children playing together. Who would have thought that would happen had we talked about it 15 years ago?

On Sunday night my entire family, my husband, me and all three of my kids, were all baptized at our church. I am so proud of my husband and my children. This is something that I've prayed about for a very long time. It was a great night and definitely a high in my weekend.

I will go ahead and post this and then I will tell you about my Monday and Tuesday. Things didn't go so well on those days!

A mini class reunion!

I found out recently that I have a friend coming to visit that I haven't seen in forever! It's literally been years....like probably at least 10. I am really excited and a few other old friends from school are going to get together with us all at the same time. I am really excited. This will be so much fun.

I got published again!

I really enjoy this writing thing. Its a great creative outlet for me. And I can see where it might even make me a little money on the side.

Today I have a few articles in the works waiting on approval, but a book review that I did last year was already accepted and published. Come check it out and show me some love!

Angel*and*Issabug's aka Sewrtess's Articles on Associated Content

our summer trip to Charleston and Patriot's Point

Some pictures from our summer trip to Nashville

at the Charlie Daniels museum



in downtown Nashville



My Country Angel

This email has been circulated before, now it coming up as a video on youtube. Either way I think it is a great example of a man's great Faith in God.




STAND UP!!!

There was a professor of philosophy who was a deeply committed atheist. His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn’t exist. His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic. For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him. Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever really gone against him because of his reputation. At the end of every semester on the last day, he would say to his class of 300 students, "If there is anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!" In twenty years, no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool. If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and yet He can’t do it." And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students would do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students thought that God couldn’t exist. Certainly, a number of Christians had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been too afraid to stand up.

Well, a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to enroll. He was a Christian, and had heard the stories about his professor. He was required to take the class for his major, and he was afraid. But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought. Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith...he hoped.

Finally, the day came. The professor said, " If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor shouted, "You FOOL!!! If God existed, he would keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!" He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken. The professor’s jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man, and then ran out of the lecture hall. The young man who had stood, proceeded to walk to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students stayed and listened as he told of God’s love for them and of His power through Jesus.