I knew retirement could be such a hectically, busy life! I've been working on this list now for some time... Actually my last post was September, 2017. I feel rather ashamed not to be recognizing the powerful work of God in our lives. But believe me we are very grateful for all he has done!
809. Thank you Lord for working out all the details of my MOHS surgery, and reconstruction surgery last fall. Even though we live in a city of 150,000 our lack of great MOHs surgeons is very limited.. and I was put on a long hold for removal of a squamous cell cancer on the end of my nose... Praise God a friend recommended a wonderful doctor in Charlottesville who saw me in a week and had the thing off the next week... He then set me up with a marvelous reconstructive team at UVA Medical Center... Today I am good as new and I just love my two new doctor friends!
810. It has been a wonderful year to see our grand daughters growing so healthy, sweet, and talented.. One 2 the other 4, they quite amaze us with their giftings... What a blessing!
811. Praise God that we were able to make two lovely trips to Boston since September..over Christmas and over Easter. Our only child and her family live 12 hours away and so for us that is a two day pretty difficult road trip... The Lord has been gracious to give us health and the means to make that trip a couple of dozen times since they moved up there 10 years ago. I confess that sometimes I get the mulligrubs when I see my friends spending so much precious time with their grands...I am learning to deal with it, but sometimes it is hard!God is in control of all things!!!
812.We determined that this year would be the year we would get our main level three piece powder room enlarged and renovated. Thankfully, we had two closets to consume into the plan. We got started in April, went to a main, large home shopping dealer and worked with their project manager for a month and a half. Thankfully, even after that long we hadn't signed a contract because their practice of not keeping to their schedule that we had been told about, even having us wait a month.... we decided they weren't for us! That put us back to square 1... we found what we thought was a nice contractor, but after talking about the scope of the job we realized our money wasn't allowing us to have tiled surfaces....then we figured out why. He had a 100 % markup on everything we had to buy..
so we quickly said, "Adios"
Pretty skittish by this time, but we knew a young man who was in the business, we gave his company a call and he said he could work us in the next week..After one week of work, the bathroom has been demolished back to the studs, the plumbing and electrical are roughed in and we had the inspections yesterday... the drywall and tile will go up next week!!! Praise God he has set this all in motion at exactly the right time!!! I fully expect to have it complete by the end of the month!!!
813. I love our dear friends... so faithful and true...
One couple lives in a beautiful home in the mountains and they have had 2 or 3 other couples including us every year for probably 10 years in for a patriotic cookout and dining in their gorgeous screened in porch that looks out over the ravine beyond their landscaped lawn. It is always so cool and just the best time. Just Wednesday Hubs asked me "so I guess our friends didn't do a cookout this year"... I replied, "Well, it has been so hot!" So we left it at that... then yesterday my friend called and invited us for tomorrow night.. for the cold front arrived just in time and the evening will be extremely pleasant. Thank you Lord for loving us so much and to even work the weather in our favor so we friends can be together..God is such a loving God.He loves the gathering together of His children!
814. I praise God for the Holy Spirit who is always so near, knows the inner workings of my heart, knows how in my inner self I can deal with imaginings and things not from heaven..So He is always there, calming my spirit, speaking truth, peace and tranquility to my spirit, giving me hope and freedom from things that can cause me to despair, and speak truth to me so I can allay my fears and walk in HIM in peace... I love the Holy Spirit so much!
815. I am so thankful for my husband who is the complete opposite of me... Thank you, Lord, for putting us together, for without him I would be a mess. I do have my giftings.. I am the intuitive one... and I have been known to get us out of scrapes several times, but he is the pragmatic one,, very cool, calm, and collected... He never gets angry over things that I see that need to be taken care, like calling people and giving them a piece of my mind because of their incompetence at high prices.. he most often gives it time to work itself out giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.. drives me nuts... So I am trying to stay calm and follow his lead...I believe that is my mother's side coming out in me,, and I realize it isn't pretty, Lynn is teaching over these long years to just let go and let God!
809. Thank you Lord for working out all the details of my MOHS surgery, and reconstruction surgery last fall. Even though we live in a city of 150,000 our lack of great MOHs surgeons is very limited.. and I was put on a long hold for removal of a squamous cell cancer on the end of my nose... Praise God a friend recommended a wonderful doctor in Charlottesville who saw me in a week and had the thing off the next week... He then set me up with a marvelous reconstructive team at UVA Medical Center... Today I am good as new and I just love my two new doctor friends!
810. It has been a wonderful year to see our grand daughters growing so healthy, sweet, and talented.. One 2 the other 4, they quite amaze us with their giftings... What a blessing!
811. Praise God that we were able to make two lovely trips to Boston since September..over Christmas and over Easter. Our only child and her family live 12 hours away and so for us that is a two day pretty difficult road trip... The Lord has been gracious to give us health and the means to make that trip a couple of dozen times since they moved up there 10 years ago. I confess that sometimes I get the mulligrubs when I see my friends spending so much precious time with their grands...I am learning to deal with it, but sometimes it is hard!God is in control of all things!!!
812.We determined that this year would be the year we would get our main level three piece powder room enlarged and renovated. Thankfully, we had two closets to consume into the plan. We got started in April, went to a main, large home shopping dealer and worked with their project manager for a month and a half. Thankfully, even after that long we hadn't signed a contract because their practice of not keeping to their schedule that we had been told about, even having us wait a month.... we decided they weren't for us! That put us back to square 1... we found what we thought was a nice contractor, but after talking about the scope of the job we realized our money wasn't allowing us to have tiled surfaces....then we figured out why. He had a 100 % markup on everything we had to buy..
so we quickly said, "Adios"
Pretty skittish by this time, but we knew a young man who was in the business, we gave his company a call and he said he could work us in the next week..After one week of work, the bathroom has been demolished back to the studs, the plumbing and electrical are roughed in and we had the inspections yesterday... the drywall and tile will go up next week!!! Praise God he has set this all in motion at exactly the right time!!! I fully expect to have it complete by the end of the month!!!
813. I love our dear friends... so faithful and true...
One couple lives in a beautiful home in the mountains and they have had 2 or 3 other couples including us every year for probably 10 years in for a patriotic cookout and dining in their gorgeous screened in porch that looks out over the ravine beyond their landscaped lawn. It is always so cool and just the best time. Just Wednesday Hubs asked me "so I guess our friends didn't do a cookout this year"... I replied, "Well, it has been so hot!" So we left it at that... then yesterday my friend called and invited us for tomorrow night.. for the cold front arrived just in time and the evening will be extremely pleasant. Thank you Lord for loving us so much and to even work the weather in our favor so we friends can be together..God is such a loving God.He loves the gathering together of His children!
814. I praise God for the Holy Spirit who is always so near, knows the inner workings of my heart, knows how in my inner self I can deal with imaginings and things not from heaven..So He is always there, calming my spirit, speaking truth, peace and tranquility to my spirit, giving me hope and freedom from things that can cause me to despair, and speak truth to me so I can allay my fears and walk in HIM in peace... I love the Holy Spirit so much!
815. I am so thankful for my husband who is the complete opposite of me... Thank you, Lord, for putting us together, for without him I would be a mess. I do have my giftings.. I am the intuitive one... and I have been known to get us out of scrapes several times, but he is the pragmatic one,, very cool, calm, and collected... He never gets angry over things that I see that need to be taken care, like calling people and giving them a piece of my mind because of their incompetence at high prices.. he most often gives it time to work itself out giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.. drives me nuts... So I am trying to stay calm and follow his lead...I believe that is my mother's side coming out in me,, and I realize it isn't pretty, Lynn is teaching over these long years to just let go and let God!
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