Wedding Day

 

Today is the day, at 3:00 I gain a daughter. Also for the first time in 36 years, as spare room. Kind of weird to think about. Except for the boys I still have at home have commandeered it for a man room or so they think. I am still hoping for a guest room.

Yesterday was my part of the wedding the rehearsal dinner. I have to say that with Megan and Ben's and Ron's help it turned out to be the best meal I have ever cooked in my life. So I think I redeemed myself after my Thanksgiving fiasco.

So here we are today. It is raining. Even as I write, water in going underneath the tent from the rain. Not a single thing I can do about it either. I thought you might be interested to see how my house looks today.

First we will start with my office.

 

 Sorry that this is so dark, but the rain and clouds makes it this way. This is camera equipment. Tons of equipment sitting here in the office.

Then I thought this lens deserved its own picture.

Isn't that awesome?

Now we will go into my entry way.

 

That is boxes of cups for the tables. These really pretty etched coffee cups. I will take a picture and show you after this is over.

We are traveling into the dining room, and my dining room table.

So much stuff. You know, I wonder why I obsess about having a clean house. There is so much stuff everywhere, you couldn't tell if it is clean or not. 

Now lets go outside and look at the front yard. 

The big generator that is to run the lights, the music the projector and who knows what else. then the things with the giant hoses is the heaters. It is so cold you wouldn't be able to stay out there without these heaters. 

The outside of the tent is up next. 

 

Those cement blocks are there to hold down the tent in case of wind. There are 32 of them that weight 500 pounds each. I felt so sorry for them men who had to haul them in over the wet lawn. 

The quiet before the storm. The first part of the wedding will be like a church service. Ron and I and the brides parents will be doing communion and praying with the bride and groom after the vows. Then after this is over, everyone will have to leave while the tables are set up and decorated. 

There is still so much to be done before I sleep. I just thought I would share with you before we kick into day two. I am always numb at this part. Well should end this blog, my phone is starting to ding. Work is waiting. 

Have a lovely day,

~Kim~

"Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking untio Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, who for the cross, despising the shame has ssat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Hebrews 12:3-4

The Light at the End of the Tunnel.

 

Next week, a tent will be here. One week, eight days from today. This will be our fourth time around. Trying to get a venue ready, in an El Nino year is one filled with challenge after challenge. We won't even talk about the cold. Next week, hopefully, only one day of rain is in the forecast. Every single day, I would say has had new tests, new experiences to over come. Do I have any idea if anything will work? Nope, all we have at this point is determination and grit. At least we don't have snow.

Ron gave me a test last night.

Circle the number that most closely reveals your attitude toward life:

1." Make the World Go Away"

2. "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head"

3. "I Did It My Way"

4. "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"

 

 Inwardly I groaned, because it required thinking on my part. I realized, my attitude right now is number one,
Make the world go away. But buried deep inside of me, what I really want is to wake up again with number 4 on my lips, oh what a beautiful morning. My reflection is 2016 is the year, I will no longer ever be Kim I was but a different one I have never met. I think I can say, 2015 beat the old me to a pulp and 2016 is trying to show me that as this Portuguese proverb states, " God writes straight with crooked lines."
"Because God far more interested in our getting where He wants us to be than we are getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing." (Elisabeth Elliot)

 

For me, I must keep my thoughts on all that I have gained. Not the loss I feel. To rejoice in the joy of life and in the blessings that surround me. In the love that God gives me and in the praise I feel when I sit watching the sun come through the clouds, when rain is falling all around, yet in the distance is a rainbow. All of life if a gift. Things I understand and those I don't. When God allows, things so far out of my comfort zone, I fear I will never laugh again, then I realize, what I thought was hard ended up being the biggest blessing of my life.
Then I remember, " It is Jesus in me not a different set of circumstances."

 

No, I might never go back to who I was, but I hope I can learn to embrace who I am now. This is my desire for 2016

"Deliver Me, Jesus
---From the desire to be,
praised ,honored, glorified, preferred, consulted,
or approved.
Deliver me, Jesus, from the fear of being humiliated, criticized,  forgotten,
ridiculed, maltreated, and from the fear of what others will think."

I always think goodness, I just want a light happy blog full of sunshine. Then today it comes out all cloudy and thinky. Thank you for reading along this far.

Bye for now, more work is calling my name.
~Kim~

 " Charles Spurgeon once wrote: I bear my willing witness that I owe more to the fire, the hammer, and the
file, than anything else in my Lord's workshop. I sometimes question whether I have learned anything except through the rod. When my school room is darkened, I see most."

Getting the Motor Going

 

I am having such a hard time getting my motor started today. After so many days, weeks and months of going at full tilt, having a day where the house is quiet, well except for the sound of the washer and dryer. Then there the  men out front working to put all of our utilities underground, preparing for the wider road out front. I have a orange cone in the middle of my driveway. Does that mean I couldn't leave or no one can pull in? I wondered as I stared at it. It is a parade of hard hats and orange vests outside the fence.

When we went to Arizona, I really meant to take more pictures than I did. Finally today Kessie took pictures for me and sent me a couple. I thought I would share them with you.

This one is Sophie, five weeks.

 

Kessie said she learned to smile. Such a sweet face with lovely kissable cheeks.

 

This is her big sister. I laughed to hear, that big sister wants baby sister to come play with her. To this day, I remember the disappointment I felt when my Mom showed up with my baby brother who was too little to play with or even talk to or play all of these games I was thinking of before he came home.

 

 We have lovely rain in the forecast for the rest of the week and in to the weekend. I feel like my life is filled with so many gifts.

I hope you have a lovely week. This first week of January. I guess since it is a new year, a new month, I should mix it up and try a new schedule.

~Kim~

My friend the hummingbird, She follows me still.

"I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will."
---Charles Spurgeon

Turning the Pages, to 2016

Happy 2016, A new year full to the brim with new possibilities, promises, challenges. Lots of gifts to be opened and shared and new joys to be lived.

 

 Every day. From my heart springs gratitude. Thank you so much for continuing to be apart of my life as it is lived out loud from this blog. Thank you so much for your words of comfort, encouragement and love. Thank you for walking beside me when I was weary, when I was over joyed and overwhelmed. Thank you for giving of yourselves, when I know you were lonely, tired and sad. My friends and I call you my friends, you are faithful.  You have given me more than I could ever give back to you.

I wish you the best in this New Year.  Here is looking forward to a glorious future.

~Kim~

Make a wish!

 Trust God---Your times are in His hands. His timing is never late.
"Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!"
---Psalm 90:14