NOTHING IS BETTER THAN GROWING CLOSER TO GOD WITH A GROUP OF SWEET FRIENDS

I know I have blogged before about my sweet friends who I met when I first moved here in the Just Moved Bible Study Class... The study that we did was held at a church that we all attended at that time and now some of us have gone to other churches, but we all met at this study in August 2008 and have kept in touch weekly and have grown closer to one another.. This group of ladies are just a important part of my life and I look forward to seeing them weekly. They strengthen me and encourage me, they inspire me with their God gifted talents, they listen to my crazy stories and cry with me when I am down especially when I say I want to move back to St Louis and laugh with me when I am up.. We all come from different walks of life and have some what different lifestyles but then again, we are all Married, we are all Mommas and we are all Southern girls and most important thing is we are all Sisters in Christ~~So you see we may be different in some ways but we are more alike than anything.. Right now we are doing a weekly bible study on Thursday mornings it is a study that I am sure you all have heard of if not have already done it.. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.. This study has such a awesome insight of what our purpose is in life and we are on day 12.. We have had some great discussions and great insights and great advice.. I appreciate what they do and say on Thursday mornings and it is just not on Thursday mornings, we pray for each other daily and the thing is I KNOW they are praying and not just saying it.. I can totally feel their love and their prayers when I am not with them..In this short time that we have known each other we feel each others pain and know when one another is down without having to say a word, we can tell by each others facial expressions or how we are carrying ourselves.. God has given each one of us the gift of compassion and friendship.. I would say that is the beginning of what true friendships are..Don't you just love unexpected gifts from God..When we moved here at the end of June 2008 I had no idea that I would meet these girls and have the love that I do for them today! We have gone through some situations with other friendships, with our husbands,with our families, with our own health issues and we have all been there to share and pray for one another.. I thought my life was so blessed and so good when we lived in St Louis and that nothing would ever compare, I thought it was the end of my life when I had to move away from my friends but God showed me not only was I comfortably blessed with my life and friends in St Louis, he showed me and gave me more blessings to add to my life and for that I am forever grateful..Do not ever underestimate the gifts from God that he will bless your life with....He truly knows the desires of our hearts and for that I am so glad.. Before we moved and after we moved in I prayed and prayed that God would let our family feel like we belonged here and that he would give us all a great group of friends who were built on the same foundation as we are and boy did HE~~I am so glad the he knows my hearts desires and I love the path that he has made for me.. I pray that I continue to grow with him deeper and that I can shine HIS light thru this community.. I am so glad that I have a blessed group of girls that I can grow with and that they can be my prayer partners, my spiritual encouragers and my accountability sisters! I love you all and I pray nothing but happiness and blessings for each one of you and I pray that God will bless you with a group of great friends too!!!!

Congratulations Phillip!!!

We are so excited for Phillip!! He made the high school baseball team!! This has been a dream of his ever since he could pretty much hold a bat!! This is going to be a great season of his life and ours too.. Here in the South High School sports are BIG... Especially when you live in a small town.. The whole town practically comes out for all the games so this will be a ton of fun for all of us.. A few of his friends made the team too so we will be getting to watch and travel with all of the other families... It is just so neat, when your kids play on sports teams with their friends and you are together weekly or sometimes more than once a week, you get to know other families pretty well and you become like "Family" So again I say God has Blessed us once again!!Phillip is so excited and looks forward to practicing every single day..He gets upset if it rains or something comes up where they don't get to but oh how he looks forward to it when they do.. Last Saturday, they had a 100 inning game and they announced all the players and their sponsors and that was a fun day..We just pray that Phillip has a great time playing ball and getting to know his teammates and coaches.. We pray for all the boys on the team that they will all work together for the best for the team and they come out a winning team... We pray that Phillip will be able to keep up with his school work and keep his grades up and play ball and we hope he can balance it where it wont be to overwhelming for him...Today he had his first scrimmage and they had to play about a hour away so they always have to take the bus to and from for liability reasons and I was kind of afraid that he would get tired or hungry on the bus but NO! he had a blast, he said it was actually very fun...He did really well at this scrimmage and felt good about how he did, we have told him to do his best and give it all he has and he will do fine... He has another scrimmage tomorrow and we cant wait to watch him play again! He got his uniform last week and was just so excited, they can not wear them to scrimmages, they have to wait for the season to start to wear them so they will all be clean and crisp...If you are in our area come on out and support the team! Looking forward to a fun season of life... Thanks for making us a part of your day today.... God Bless YOU!!!!