Menton (Boston, MA) - Wine Enthusiast Magazine - August 2011

Menton (Boston, MA) - Wine Enthusiast Magazine - August 2011

Went to Menton- Amazing

New day

So I moved my journals and prayers...this will be just Tibbitts updates..
Is it bad to start the day eating 3 cookies?

Did Devo's with katie and elizabeth..love how 3 people read the same verse and get different things..


Elizabeth- "God goes before you"

Katie- " a sheep hears the voice of the shepherd...fill your heart with His word so you can hear His voice"...

poor Em- oh well...try again tomorrow...

Boy it is COLD! Seriously hurts to be out..luckily "faithful Friday " friends are coming here....

Peace, snow, cold and sad

the house is clean and quiet
I have food, heat, clothes and too much stuff
Yet- in a yucky mood-
Why?

My desire is to live as one who freely gives all to Him...

All to Jesus
I surrender
all to Him
I freely give


I surrender all


So hard to do..I keep thinking I am the best at fixing things...All to Jesus
i surrender
I surrender all

I am in such a funky mood-
woke up without a song
lost my devotional book

Not sure what God wants to teach me

I look outside
it is so cold and so beautiful

2 birds sit in my bush outside the window
Still

Be still and know that I am God
I will be exalted among the nations

Psalm 46
1 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.

2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
Selah

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.

5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.

6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah

8 Come and see the works of the LORD,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.

9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields [b] with fire.

10 "Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."

11 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah


Stop and think about it- the Lord is with me


My prayer
Tim King
Money for those in my family
I would eat less, exercise more

New Year , try again

Here I am trying to teach my girls how to take steps closer to christ. i want to get up , pray with them and read some scripture... today was....Deut 8:3

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every WORD that comes form the mouth of God....

The song I sang when I woke up was


In you, in you I find my peace
let every thing I say and do
be founded by my faith in you


My prayers-
For Tim King's healing
for my family to grow closer to Christ
financial provision

Amen

Back to school

Sept is here...where July and August went, I do not know...
Prayed with Elizabeth, and read psalm 23 and prayed with Katie and Emily.. I need to make time to this right- It is funny how easy it is to get up for the first day of school!


I like the 23 rd Psalm...If I can let God lead me- I can choose to not desire thing I do not need, but will follow where he has planned the steps for me to go-

My song-
all men are like grass
and their glory is like flowers of the field
the grass withers, and the flowers fall
but the word of the lord stands forever...

Pray that today I will allow God's word to change me..

My first blog

I figured out how to post this- my first attempt at blogging-
Funny that God showed me then how to do this- He gave me a song and a verse to think about and meditate on...

Life continues to fly by- Where does the time go? I suddenly have an 11 year old and a little bug returning from overnight camp. She was just a baby, singing to me in the morning to wake me ...(Thanks to Mrs. Cassidy and the Donut Man!)


God is so good He's so good to me.


I still have one "little" one, she will always be the baby. But I am annoyed that the years are flying by and I keep choosing the wrong things, and keep doing them in my own strength. My goal is to spend my mornings with God and blog what he is teaching me.


A verse for today Psalm 33:6 By the Word of the Lord the heavens were made. The footnotes state that the words of humans cannot make anything.

For he spoke, and it came to be, commanded, and it stood in place.
The LORD foils the plan of nations, frustrates the designs of peoples.
But the plan of the LORD stands forever, wise designs through all generations.
Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people chosen as his very own.


My prayer for today, that I will teach my girls to sit before the Lord. And listen for His Word. To pray for His providence and to submit to His plans...so hard. Waiting- when rushing seems so much more productive. Lord speak to me. May I dig in your Word and it can be the lamp for my feet and the light for my path. Your Word will stand forever!

2 years later- still my goal- still hard to do it!

A song comes to mind- Fear not my child, I am with you always. I know how to care for what belongs to me.

Blessed be your name

It is Friday- I am getting better at having quiet time, not so good at exercise...

It is actually quiet- Katie is at a sleepover, everyone else is asleep..


My song today...is my prayer , that in these good times I will really turn my blessings to praise, and that I will always choose to sing His praises in the hard times...

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name


So here I try to remember Romans 8

Therefore , now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death

For what the law was powerless to do
in that it was weakened
by the sinful nature,
God did by sending his own Son

Once again, I pray that today I will live in grace- I am unable to do anything in my strength- yet Christ has done it all for me!