Greetings from Spirit Lake, Idaho

I never cease to be amazed at how Awesome my God is and how much He loves me! As I sit here at the table and look out at the beautiful sunrise over the evergreens, I am awed at His handiwork and even more awed at how He continually blesses me and allows me to see Him at work. There was a time when I was too immature to see God working in my life and instead only saw what my eyes could see in the flesh. God is so GOOD!
We are leaving for Mexico on Thursday morning and will arrive at El Faro Orphanage at K-49 on Saturday. I have met the team from Hayden Lake and will meet the team from Silverton, OR and Eugene, OR on Friday when we meet up with them. I am praying that God will speak to me clearly on this trip and show me His plan for me regarding El Faro. My Dad has been sharing his heart with me and what he sees when he is there and it includes the children and I there on a long term mission. Since I have never visited El Faro, I take his 'unction' seriously and have given it to God in prayer. Until recently, I have not felt any prompting but now that I am content where I am it appears that I am more open to the Spirit's leading and really want to know God's heart in this. One thing over the past 29 years I have learned.. I don't want to take even one step without God or even outside of His direction. I am filled with anticipation and an eagerness yet sobered by the reality that sometimes His answer does not always come in our timing.

Happy Birthday to Us!!

Happy Birthday to Chena Litzen, Shalom Kaggwa and me!! Yes, we all share this very special day together and God must have thought we were all pretty special to give us this 28th of February to share. I do realize, of course, that there are others who we share this day with but right now those two precious little girls (Sorry Chena, when you are 40--10 IS little!) are the ones that I am choosing to celebrate with!!

Post Valentines Day

One of my prayer partners asked me this morning how I spent my Valentines Day and after thinking about how much I should tell her I decided to just bare my soul. Here is my Valentines Day highlight and you should feel special that I am sharing it here with you too.

I went to meet this extraordinary gentleman yesterday for a very close and personal encounter. He is handsome but that really had nothing to do with my accepting his date. We had just made the date the day before ( I know! very last minute) and I was not really prepared as I would have liked. I arrived a little early so I had to wait for him to finish working. But he was very sweet and got me settled in nice and cozy on this nice leather lounger that was oh so comfortable. Seriously, it reminded me of an expensive spa or the really nice stuff that is on display at Costco.

He apologized more than once for making me wait on him and asked how my day was going so far and I could tell he was really trying to make me relax. I am not real good at this kind of thing! So anyway, he had nice love music playing on the XFM through some nice Bose speakers and a really nice ambiance.
Just as I was to the point of being so relaxed I thought I would fall asleep he came back and started tickling me! Talk about getting fresh the old fashioned way with a 'pinch here and pinch there'. If it weren't for those deep blue eyes with kindness and honesty shining from them I think I may have decided I had enough. He is so sweet and caring though that I decided to go ahead and trust him.


Boy it went down hill fast!!!

Don't ever schedule a dental appointment on Valentines Day! One filling and a crown repair on my bridge-- an hour later with a mouth so sore that even if I had gotten any chocolate I couldn't enjoy it. I drove myself home. He (Dr Fulton Sr.) worked on upper and lower jaws so had to give me 'extra' Novacane that had me sleeping from 4:30 pm until 7am this morning! I didn't even feed my kids last night. Missed my devotions and prayer time and but a really great nights sleep..

Well it could have been a great story if it wasn't so true!