Mediocrity

We need to strive to live above mediocre lives. Let's stand up and make a
promise this year to grow more in Christ, to love more, and to evangelize
more. It's not okay to say I am okay with where I am at in my walk. With
this new year let's make a promise to live more for Christ and get into a
deeper relationship with Him. Mediocrity is not okay!

Something to ponder on...

I have been reading through a book called "Experiencing the Cross" by Henry Blackabee... really awesome book by the way.

Something to think about when it comes to the seriousness of the sin we commit against God, Blackaby speaks of women's labor pains. How many women do you know after having a baby Thank God for reminding us of the serious consequences of committing sin?

Because we know that women having labor pains is a consequence of not just our sin but of Eve's sin as well. I wonder if Eve ever thought about the consequence of the future of all women when God had cursed all women because of the sin she committed.

It's something that hit me hard because I have not had children yet, and I want to remember the seriousness of the sin and Thank God when I have children. So awesome :) Let me know what you think?

My newest website for my portfolio

Check it out, all of the photos I have taken for jobs has been complied onto a website. The content is kind of small because I am not quite sure yet what to put in it. But look in the portfolio section and some of the pictures I have taken are on there.

Visit: www.beezion.com

Living in an Rv is so fun!!

Well refrigerator door decided to break right off the hinge. Shattered a
jelly jar, broke eggs, and dented Andrew's new briefcase in the process.
Why all of a sudden it decided to break I have no idea just another great
night living in an RV and trying to make it work. Yep yep, great great.
Hope all with you is better than it is with us at midnight.

My new favorite

CD now is...


I love #2 I Need your Love
#3 Enough
#4 Porcelain Heart

And especially #9 "Thoughts of You" makes me cry everytime I am in my car and I listen to it!

Merry Christ- mas

It's not HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Don't let our society fool you into thinking Happy
Holidays is an ok phrase to say to people. Don't be afraid to say the name
Christ in Christmas. He is our only reason for the season, so let's not
take him out of Christmas.

I know that people can get caughtup in gifts and for me I sometimes wince
when I think of Christmas because to me that means people having even more
of a reason to be greedy. So, I still buy gifts because of the thought of
people getting angry at me.
I heard of a couple that said they weren't going to buy gifts because they
wanted to focus on God. That is a great statement and motive if you follow
through with focusing on the birth of Jesus and focusing on His will for
your lives(s). I would like to think that statement is true, but no one
will know but God. Let's not be people that say something and don't follow
through. Be a man, Be a woman and stick to your word. Don't make promises
you can't keep.
On another note, I am want to see someone else's view on this subject-
your comments:
How did you know the person you are married to now was "The one"?

How do you know the person you are with (dating) is "The one"?

Narnia 12/8 10:48pm

Just saw Narnia and loved it. The character Lucy makes the movie, I can't
wait to hear others comments.

Before all the hub bub of the movie back when I was a child Lion,Witch,
and the Wardrobe was the first book I can remember reading that I was so
caught up in and actually felt like I was in the book. Seeing the movie
brings back so many fond memories. I hope when I have children that they
will have a book like that!

You all should read the book and then see the movie, the details in the
book are amazing!! If you have seen it already let me know what you thought
about it....

GREAT news (on our knees)

Well, Thanksgiving day we got some really good news from my dad. He plans on getting married in February or March to a women he met through E-Harmony. They have been talking for about 4 months now and He flew up to Chico to finally meet her and they hit it off. They are talking about more permanent plans, as far as where to live. My dad has about 1 year left til retirement, so he figures that she will move down here temporarily until he retires and then both move backk to Chico. He hates Riverside and is ready for cleaner air, less traffic, and a lovely bride to be.

READY FOR THE REALLY GREAT NEWS??
The great news: When my dad moves to Chico, He offered Andrew & I to rent the house from him. The best part is He is going to let us rent it from him for only $400 a month. Which is such an astronomically amazing blessing for us because we can pretend we own a house but renting it. I am so amazingly excited and I cried when my dad told me because as life goes along I can see now how God has just put pieces of my life together. It is so great!!! Thank you Lord for your abundance and provisions in our life. We love you Lord.

Andrew Sick

Hey everyone Andrew came home sick Tuesday with 103.4 temp and yesterday didn't go to work because he still had temp of 101. Today he is down to 100, still off work but now feeling a lot of better. Dr had him on Extra Strength Tylenol, Robitussin-Cough, Benzonatate, Amoxicillin, and Chlortrymiton (for flem). Yikes, that is a lot of meds, but he is feeling better and ready now to eat a whole meal. Yah, Yah!!!! Thank you all for your prayers!

Measure of life

How do you measure your life as being good or bad?
Being a secular song and all but I still love it as I always have from the musical RENT, "Seasons of Love". If you dont know by now I absolutely LOVE musicals! Anyway, How do you measure you life? How do you value a person either someone close to you or a poor homeless man on the side of the street? Do count yourself more valuable then that person? Do you love people no matter what? This Thanksgiving holiday I challenge everyone to take a moment a look at their lives and ask yourself do you value the people in your life? Do you love even those you dont know when you have encounters with them? God loved us so much that He gave us His only Son, check yourself this weekend. Love ya all!!!

Beautiful Day

My first day at work was wonderful and God blessed me with such a beautiful
morning and beautiful sunset. Thank you Lord for allowing my eyes to see a
part of your beauty!!

All I want for Christmas...

Is my two front teeth... J/k. Christmas came a little early this year and
in a HUGE way. Our friend Josh bought us (me) a sewing serger. I have
wanted one for so long, now I can make all the baby clothes I want. (I am
not pregnant just making baby clothes as a hobby and for the future. I will
post some pictures of the clothes I have made so far. Awww, so cute!!!! God
is good... All the time and All the time... God is good. Lots of love goes
out to Josh :)

Tragedy Strikes the Kendrew Part 2

Well, as you can see above the plug had completely burned! By the Grace of God, the electrician hired by our Mobile Park fixed the problem and even better the Mobile Estates paid for the problem!!! God is good and everyday we notice that God is totally protecting us and providing for us.

Tragedy Strikes the Kendrew

Today it began, Kendra begins the afternoon by turning on the Air
conditioning in the 5th wheel and then proceeds to plug in her
straightener. 5 minutes later Air conditioning, straightener and all
electrical turns off. 2 minutes later a neighbor knocks on our door and
proceeds to tell Kendra that our meter for electrical was smoking and on
fire. So Kendra turns off all electrical and contacts Andrew and the
assistant manager. Plug for electrical had completely melted to the outlet.
May not have any electrical til Monday, hoping sooner though. The saga
continues... We will share pictures and the finish of the tragedy as soon
as we get internet up.

Tragedy struck

My dear and precious flat iron literally broke. The paddle actually broke
off the handle, oh well off to a new one, Mmmm a better one! Ooooooh.

"If you Love me..." John 14:15

John (14:15) "If you love me, you will obey what I command."

This is not to say "Lord at one time I loved you". "Love" in this verse is
in the future indicative. It's saying "If you are loving me". Its present
tense, it's a ongoing contiuous love. It's not going to the alter call or
the crusade one time and saying that is loving God. It is a daily
commitment to following the law of Christ. It's not okay to say Well, I
ONCE loved him, and that is enough. NO the Bible tells us in these verses
we are to be loving God continually.

Satan would have us believe and deceive us that the law is bad and that the
law is too controlling and unjust but the law is good. Romans (7:12) "So
then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good."
God's commandments and laws are good. We need the law, so we can know
right from wrong. The law is good because it is from God. Paul explains
here that those things that Satan deceives us with is wrong. The law is
good and holy.

If you are LOVING God then you will keep his commandments.

Robert Elliott- John 14:12

Have you ever listened to a sermon that used profanity or even just lowered
their standards to get a laugh out of you or shock you? How do you feel
about it? Maybe you feel that it is okay to get the people to laugh to get
the point across and in certain situations maybe God has called them to do
that. Shouldn't a pastor take on Christ's way of teaching in how he
speaks? Doesn't making jokes sometimes speak irreverant of God? Is God's
name not Holy enough that we should make jokes and ridicule His name? Jesus
never used shock to bring people to believe in Him, shouldn't we be the
same? Read the excerpt from a sermon below and I want to hear your
comments:

"He never misled, he never said anything that would give false hopes or
draw a crowd and get people in around them and stir them up with no
thought of the future, ah who cares if in ten years or twenty years their
not here, as long as just now were getting a crowd. As long as just now
were making people feel somethings happening. We'll say whatever it takes.
Jesus never did that once, never once! "

Saving this one for my girl

Robert Elliott speaking on John 14:7-11

"Imagine where Philip would have ended up."

"What was necessary was for Philip and the disciples to humbly say Lord,
keep on teaching me. As long as it's you Lord, as long as it's your work."

"There needs to be a teachable heart that says I can be like Philip, I
could have known you for all these years and yet still not be getting it
still be missing vital elements of who you are and what you really said,
what you really taught. Lord, I need to be teachable."

"There's no place for us thinking that we've either heard all there is to
hear nor is there a place for us to think that we've even understood all
that we have heard. And certainly not any place for us to think that we
have embraced and applied all that is to embrace and apply. That should be
a million miles from our thoughts"

** Are you living your life like Philip? Going on in life for years
thinking that you know all of God? We need to be always seeking to know
more about God! Don't let your walk become non existent,dont become
stagnant in your faith. Always seek after more knowledge of Christ. Don't
be slow in understanding God. I want you all to have depth to your
relationship with God, open your heart and mind and Be Teachable with a
humble spirit. A fire that is being fanned each moment of your life, so
that others may know HIM fully. A fire that catches so quickly no thing
could ever put it out. And the only thing to quench your thirst from the
heat always being GOD!

80 % of American today state that they are Christians! If 80% of American
were Christians then why is God not sweeping over the nation and
revolutions being started. It's because few of that % truly know God and
truly seek to please God and find favor with God. Don't be that % of people
that say they are Christians and never live it. Stand out, and boldly
proclaim the Word of God because you cannot hold it in any longer.
My prayer is that God will reveal to you all that He has shown me. That He
will put a fire in you to proclaim the Word and love of God. That he will
open your minds to understand God more and open your heart to Love God even
more!!!

Burt's Bees

Bought some hair care products from Burt's Bees and I am totally convinced that these products are the best and most organic of all I have tried on the market right now. Have kiddies, you should try Baby Bee products shampoo's and lotions. They are so cool. Check them out at: www.BurtsBees.com