Thursday, March 28, 2013

because He lives.....

Because He redeems. Because He gives hope. Because He is the life and the reason I sing. Because the troubles of this world weigh me down, I look to Him. Because His will is perfect. Because He gave His life for me.






Because He gives me His light to shine. May I shine it bright for the world to see......







because as marriages crumble around me, may I never forget "He conquered the grave".....

Below is Archived from May 2012-





WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012


temptations

 I feel like over the last month the beautiful gift God gave as Marriage has both encouraged me, and brought heaviness at the very same time.


I hope you have gathered from little glimpses of this blog how important I feel about Marriage, and how the destruction of it leaves a trail of issues that doesn't just affect the two people that said "I do".


I started thinking about statistics a few years ago when it was brought to my attention how just in our city alone, the divorce rate was painfully high, and I believe was the highest in the State of Alabama at the time. I would cringe at the thought that one of my three friends would go through a divorce, not to mention, my marriage being apart of that statistic.

Then as life continued on, and statistics would rise, I would fight against Satan, as he would discourage me into thinking that because I watched marriages fall apart around me with peers, I should question the stability of all my family. After all, we carry a past that brings those statistics to light. And statistics don't lie...or do they?


If I were to tell you how many times I have thought about my own children's future in marriage being so completely challenging verses being one of the most precious gifts God would bless them with, then it would be embarrassing.


It started when I held on to the numbers, and the fear that they would not find a husband without a deep past, and baggage for them, started to weigh me down. I realized that fear, was a sin that was being used to distract me from the tools I could be using to teach them because of the statistics, not in spite of them.


I think it is okay to mourn sin, and I am glad I do. But for me, it was when the mourning of sin, became the fear of it, that caused me to not hold on to the truth that God's perfect will for my children's life was indeed perfect. Or that His Son's death on the cross, could redeem any situation.

And isn't that just the very way we got those statistics in the first place, by questioning God's will for us, and not believing Christ's blood could redeem?


This very knowledge in the depths of how much we crave control and happiness in our lives, was brought to me when I heard a teaching on Adam and Eve. We have all been taught, from a young age about the disobedience that occurred in the garden; but that is where I thought the sin took place. My eyes were truly opened, when I was shown and realized, that something had to happen before the disobedience occurred. Yes, the serpent tempted Eve, but before she took the fruit, she questioned God's perfect will for her life. She had to have actually thought, that there was something better for her if she took it. And so she did,  and I so often do the same.



In Church, we just finished the series I shared about in the post I did on The Talk. It was designed to target singles, but it encouraged me so much. It strengthened me with the encouragement to continue to persevere in raising my children with purpose. God does have a will for their life. God's will for them is good. It is perfect. I shouldn't fear it, whatever it may be. I should trust that it is far more then I could ever hope for, because He loves them far more then I ever could. And I should pray for His will to be done in their life, not mine, not theirs, but His.

We aspire to raise our children in truth, in believing that what He has for them, is what is perfect for them. Even in tough times, even in the depths. Because what He will do with it will bring joy to their lives, and fill their souls, if they just believe it to be true and hold on to it; instead of sacrificing it to the mundane, temporary happiness that the world offers them with a piece of fruit.

May we rest in His will for our lives, and flee from the temptations to question it.



To God be the Glory.




1 Corinthians 15
New International Version

The Resurrection of Christ
1Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importancea : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas,b and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
The Resurrection of the Dead
12But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27For he “has put everything under his feet.”c Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.





Because He lives, we live. If you do not have a place of worship in community, please join us this Sunday at Wiregrass Church. Click the link I just posted for directions and times of service. Message me with any questions @ kcpilcher(at)gmail(dot)com.

Be Blessed and Encouraged! :)

Monday, March 25, 2013

life...the bug and other news....

Good Morning :)




As I sit here and type, I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I can't tell if it's from the fact that Friday morning started with this little booger throwing up......





or because later that afternoon this little one threw up every 30mins for 15hours.....







it was pitiful, just pitiful I tell ya. We haven't been hit with the bug since our kiddos were in preschool. The thought of it made me hate it, and when it hit our house, the reality made me hate it even more.


We laid low this weekend. Friday, I went to the grocery store and prepped us. Saturday, I scrubbed down the whole house and did laundry all day. Since, the last few things I've thrown up in my life took me about 10 years to eat again, I debated on filling my stomach with things like pasta, Reese's peanut butter cups, and all my other favs in hopes that if I did catch that bug, then I wouldn't crave those things for the next decade.



But I didn't, we all dined on Saltines and Gatorade for the weekend....yummy!


We are laying low one more day, to give this thing 48hours to not appear in our lives again. I will continue to do loads and loads more laundry. If any of you and I mean ANY of you have a used dryer (that works) and wants to sell 'el cheapo, then email me kcpilcher{at}gmail{dot}com. Seriously though, the heat has to come on, and the timer has to work, and it has to shut off on it's own...after the clothes are dry.....period. I will take nothing less, because less is what I have now.  This is how we are drying our clothes......







Feel sorry for us, you shouldn't. We are doing it to ourselves. If you are wondering what that thingy is....well, it's exactly that.....a thingy. No, seriously, I don't know what it's called, it came from Tim's tool box and all I know is that we play ring around the dryer knob until it reads a certain number so we know if it is producing heat to dry our clothes.


Why not just buy a dryer, you ask????? Because as soon as I curse the thing to death when it doesn't work, threaten disposal of it by the road, it ends up drying 5 loads that day with no problems, and I some how forget that it totally soured my clothes the day before.......



Actually, we will buy another one, the ol' thing has lasted us a good almost 15 years. It's time to say goodbye. We said "yes" to something back around Christmas time and since then, it seems as though things break, or unexpected expenses have been thrown our way. We have no doubt it's a challenge because of our decision, for we've been saving all our pennies for this.........











in other words........... WE'RE ADOPTING! well, we hope too, anyway :)

I have a whole post in my head and in my heart, but your gonna have to wait a few days for the full story.


Don't you love how I keep y'all in suspense.......



Think big, pray big, hope big and expect big...... Happy Monday, peeps!
















Thursday, March 14, 2013

a little (very little) catch up.....

I keep thinking I will get a chance to sit down and update you guys, but my time on the computer is faaaaarrrrr fetched. I can't seem to find any time to sit down and blog. Most of my time on the screen is spent grading papers and doing research.

The girls use the computer for schooling, so the main computer and the laptop is used 6-7 hours a day. And then my afternoons are usually playing chauffeur, chef or rushing off to an appt.


I have picked up (or should I say, the Lord dropped them in my lap) a few design jobs. It has been great fun, and I'll have to tell you the details about them and how I got started on another post :)


In the meantime, I received a few of these happy samples yesterday and it was like Christmas morning for me.....




















We have been soaking up this gorgeous spring weather we've been having. I find myself telling the girls to take as much work outside as possible.

This gal is reading the Magic Tree House books, and decided it needed to be read in a tree...



I'm surprised, (since it's about Dolphins) she didn't insist on laying on the beach instead! Her imagination fuels me most of the time.

I've discovered that I like to doodle. I have always been a TERRIBLE drawer, but the design world has forced me on beautiful days like this to doodle my design. And I have discovered that my love for color pencils didn't have to stay in the 2nd grade :)....







Oh, and have y'all discovered the new knob section at Hobby Lobby?????

before.....

after......



LOVE.....I could spend all day on that aisle.

Looks like my time is up.....time to put on the ol' chauffeur hat!


oh, and since it's Thursday..... I'll participate in the #TBT (throw back Thursday)....... This is Elizabeth when she was 3 yrs old eating a slice of Cantaloupe on the beach :) ......




Happy Thursday Y'all!

Monday, March 4, 2013

Inspiration

Sometimes it's fabric, a piece of art, even a blank wall. But most of the time it's the people. I can love a design, a swatch of fabric, or a piece of art; but if it doesn't scream that person's personality, doesn't function for that family, and I don't think it will make them smile inside....it doesn't make the cut. They live with it. I don't. We are all individuals, created differently....why live inside the same box. I can find appreciation and love in a whole lot of designs, fabric, and colors because it reflects that person.....and that makes me smile.


Super excited about a couple projects going right now and these pics have me giddy inside.

Enjoy...

































































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