Valentine Weekend

Matt and I enjoyed getting away to VA Beach just for the night and spending the day together on Valentine's Day..It was a great time..Here are some pics from our weekend.

Our Anniversary!

11 years ago on Valentine's Day Matt and I said "I DO"..It was a perfect day...Our wedding was at 6:00 in the evening and oh how beautiful it was. The day was kind of a blur..but I guess that's what most people say the day of their wedding..(Or was it just me? I don't know)Our first date was the year before on Feb. 15th..We married 1 day short of a year being together the following year. What can I say...We were in Love..and still are to this day...God has blessed us over the past 11 years and I pray he continues to bless us many more years together. He has given us two precious children whom we adore..Matt, I just want to say I love you..(YOU ARE MY FAVORITE) and I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day but also a very Happy Anniversary!
I wanted to share just a few pictures of our special day 11 years ago on Feb. 14th:

GOD is LOVE

As we approach Valentine's Day..I'm reminded of our Heavenly Father's Love for us. God loved us so much that he sent his Son to come to this world and to die that we might have everlasting life. (and for that I'm so thankful)
John 3:16 (New International Version):

16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

I'm so grateful that God loves us unconditionaly..He is so GOOD-All The Time and I praise him for his many blessings..I choose to SERVE Him and to LOVE Him for he is such a Great and Awesome God...I LOVE YOU Jesus!!

GBW Leadership Retreat

GBW Ministries had our 1st Leadership Retreat this past weekend..It was a beautiful day out in Wakefield at the 4-H Center. We had a very good productive day and enjoyed our time together..I love all these people and am so glad to be serving alongside them in the ministry at Great Bridge West. Here are some pics of the day:

Throne Zone

Matt and the kids and I attended The Throne Zone at the Founders Inn in VA Beach Friday night..Here are some pics:

Be Kind to Everyone

I wanted to share the following that I heard on the radio this morning..It spoke to me and I hope it will speak to you as well:

Have you read that verse which says, "Be kind to everyone who is kind to you. Be kind to the people you like. Be kind when you want to impress someone, or when there's something in it for you"? No, you haven't seen that verse in Scripture, but Paul wrote to Timothy that, ...the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead he must be kind to everyone... (2 Timothy 2:24).

My Word of Wisdom for the Workplace today: Be kind to everyone.

I once witnessed a situation where a Christian sister was obviously unkind to a person simply because she doesn't like that kind of person. Based on her prejudices and some bad experiences she has had, she had classified a group of people as undesirable. And so, she was obviously unkind to this person.

My heart was hurt to see a Christian treat someone unkindly. Then I realized that I probably do similar things all too often. I mean, it's easy to be kind to people that seem to deserve our kindness. But the Bible says we are to be kind to everyone. That includes strangers, people who irritate us, people who are not kind to us—everyone includes everyone!

Once I was unkind to a clerk at a hotel who was not very efficient at her job. Her lack of efficiency inconvenienced me just a bit, and though I didn't say anything, I'm sure the look on my face and my body language was most unkind.

How easy it would have been for me to say something kind to her, to make her feel a little more comfortable, to forget my minor inconvenience and try to help her out a bit. The Holy Spirit hit me between the eyes as I walked away. The Lord's servant must be kind to everyone, even people who don't do their jobs as well as they should.

Where do you often fail to be kind? Shore that area up with prayer, and ask God to help you to be kind, as the servant of the Lord should be, to EVERYONE.

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Discipline (Not so Fun!)

Okay..so my husband sometimes calls me the "easy one"..I'm the one that gives in to the kids most of the time...Yeah, Yeah..I guess that's true "most of the time"..

I'm a "People Pleaser" so therefore I do want to please my kids..even though sometimes i shouldn't give in to just satisfy them..That is not teaching them anything, right? Right!!

I have had to come down kind of hard on my son this week...I'm trying to teach him a very valuable lesson..One that I hope will stick with him..He has tried several times to get me to "give in" and I have held my own on this one..I want him to learn a lesson through "my discipline"and I pray he will learn from this. He is such a wonderful child and I know he has so much to offer. I want him to realize that..

The bible says "train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it". Proverbs 22:6.