Cutie Patootie

Aren't they cute?!!!

"Umm God...I need you about NOW!"

Do you need to be rescued?

Do you ever feel like life is a hampster wheel that just keeps on turning? I'm guessing most of us have felt that way many times in our lives. You see, for women, we usually start out adolesence waiting for that perfect man to sweep us off of our feet (aka... be our sugar daddy) , girls you know it's true. Excuse me as I digress. Then after we marry our man, we'll get that great paying job and travel for a couple of years. When the time is right we'll get pregnant gaining no weight at all, and give birth to a beautiful baby who sleeps through the night, and never cries. As the child grows up our family will eat dinner together every night, and the kids will promptly go to bed. Of course then would begin the amazing sex that we will want every night, right? *&@!# NO! (Sorry Mom, I know that grossed you out)

Ok let's get real. We got married ( I happen to be crazy about MIke), had kids....don't forget those 4th degree tears, the kids never slept through the night, and ummm where's all of that money? LIFE HAPPENED!!!! But wait. The whirlwind keeps going and we find ourselves swirling all around and wondering how we are supposed to make it stop. The other night as I was crying and complaining about how I was at a loss with life, God shook me. He said, stop. Stop. Stop. Be quiet sweet girl. Shhhhhh. I heard my Father. He said to me there is a calm in the midst of this storm and my name is Jesus, Messiah, Sustainer, your Portion, your Healer, your FATHER. WOW!! Everything came to a screeching hault. I am nothing but He is all things. You see, us women need our Father. The world tells us to be everything. The world says that the busiest most involved parents are providing the best for our kids. I am WOMAN hear me roar!! No thank you. I want my Father. We can't do anything without Him but we especially can't hear him if we can't get quiet. Psalms 37:7 says be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.....Ok friends, the next time you hear me complaining and getting all worked up, please remind me to hush.

A Woman's Needs

Hi there. My name is Sarah and this is my second attempt at blogging. The first attempt was a slight disaster. The quick low down is I have been married for almost 9 years. I have 2 kids, a seven year old boy and a three year old girl. We live in the burbs of Nashville and we are blessed with all that we need. Of course that is a pretty general statement. What do we need? Shelter, food, water, clothes, love……and most of all SANITY!!!!

It seems that sanity is a relative term at the moment. You see, we have a 7 year old boy who is very “challenging” and has been since he was born. In so many respects he is a fun loving and silly kid. Then there are the extreme mood swings brought on by so many different triggers that everyone is forced to pick themselves up after is wake. Some known triggers: embarrassment, too much sugar, tiredness, over stimulation, irrational thoughts concerning his view of events…..his thought process is the only one that makes sense (sarcasm). Tomorrow we get results from a recent testing we had done by trusted Psychologists. Hmmmm. If they tell me that he falls “in the middle of the road” they will have to sedate me because I’m afraid I’ll go ugly on them.

Have you parents out there ever felt so much pain for and over your child that you sometimes can’t breathe? What is that called? How do you move in that place? The air feels inundated with a heavy, hot steam that weighs each foot down with invisible weights. Is this what our parents felt? HOLY MOLY. There’s nothing I need more right now than to have someone say, your son will actually be able to make it through the day and say, “mom, I’m happy”.

Not too long ago Mike and I knelt by our son’s bed and prayed for God to help him be a happy person that will show the world that life is better because he is in it. Mike and I said Amen and I proceeded to drag my pitiful self to bed. I decided to do the “open the Bible to wherever it opens and that will be my study for the day” game. Guess what?!!!! I opened to Mark 11:23 I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. (24) Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
YES!!!!! Jesus is what I need. Now the test is absorbing this knowledge through each pore and atom that makes up my being. Whew. I’m done.