dream on!

i still can hear my friend, emma's voice, and see that beautiful smile on her face as she spoke these encouraging words for girls of all ages to hear~

"no dream is too big, no dream is too small..." she shared/spoke that for a simple dvd i was grateful to produce for women to encourage them to pursue their dreams, no matter how young and no matter how mature in age they are; no matter the circumstances, no matter what the stronghold may be.. God hears the voices and He knows how to speak to the desires and builds us strong and stronger in our spirits, in our minds, and in our hearts, so that we can pursue those callings, those dreams that He has created for us, before the foundations of the earth were put into place! wooooohoooo!

here is my dream:

to visit and to be with young girls and young women and older ones in india that have been through and are going through difficult trials such as being forced into a life that is degrading and horrific, to say the least.. i want to be jesus there, with the skin he gave me and reach out with love, that he gives me, to bridge them over to the throne of grace, the arms of mercy, the spirit of perfect love from heaven! (this bookmark i found recently found at barnes.. it reminds me of these beauty people!)

what's your dream? i'll be praying for you~

love, lisi

trade your troubles for truffles!

hehehehehe...... just thought that sounded pretty great!! ";-)
no, really! for love day saturday, my chriser gave me some truffles.. man! we shared them; i bit into one, and he ate the other half... almost ritually, we were one in the truffle kingdom! as we are becoming one in papa's kingdom!! woohoo!!!
i think we should trade all of life's troubles for the truffles!!
that's my thought, and i'm sticking to it! literally!!! haha!!
lover boy was for budster from me, and my girl for laur, and te amo for chriser~

i'm giddy.. :-) (note to self: eat them gradually, as in, not all at once next time!!)

love machine

thanks mami! the boys LOVE this 'machine'!! hehehehehahaha! the song is very memorable!! muah!!

lauren is 14!

this is laur's 'golden' b-day/or 'star birthday'!

i love this! she celebrated her age with her birth day!

2/14/95, so this year is her golden! 14 on the 14th!!!!

"the very happy-our-daughter was born" couple!!!

dada-daughter moment.. him giving her a purity ring/
she wanted the one that focus-on-the-family sells.. http://family.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=5012827&netp_id=601274&event=ESRCN&item_code=WW&view=covers

she is our star and god's light shines in her smile! we love you bg! our valentine bg!

revolve for valentines!

we sure enjoyed our time together in houston this past weekend. revolve tour was really neat and the girls loved it!! gan said, "my chest is still palpitating!!" (from the very loud and fun music!! hehehe) but, she's kidding! she had a really great time! the four of us were blessed! :-)

oh! and lauren had her 14th birthday on valentines.. she's our love bg! (babygirl)

1 peter 4:8

"love covers over a multitude of sins"

just read these few sentences in the prologue of the book, 'practicing the presence of people; how we learn to love' by mike mason....

wanted to share~

'.....pondering the verse, i think of a gentleman taking off his coat and laying it over a mud puddle so that a beautiful lady in dainty shoes may walk across. in this parable, the gentleman is Jesus, the coat is His blood, the beautiful lady is you and i, and the love is the bridge across which we walk into one another's arms.' (pg. 6)

i love you Jesus... thinking sooo much of you this tuesday~ love, lis

wilderness love

i was spurred on by my dear sally friendship this week... something about knowing, being in, talking about the wilderness.. (actually, the holy spirit moved on my spirit through my amiga....) frederick buechner writes on love in the book, 'a room called remember'.. amazing writer!
i am reading a book about wilderness now, so it was truly cool to read once again the words of buechner... i first read this sermon in the book, 'secrets in the dark/a life in sermons', last fall..
i thought i had not read it, for some reason, when i spoke to my friend.. i went home and saw that i had, and man! i had underlined a lot!!
i was inspired to re-read it and remember.. so grateful i did.. thanks sally! :-)
here are some passages that speak so well, i think:

Deuteronomy 6:4-7 (he quotes the scripture)
................hear, o Israel! only more often than not we hear nothing because we live in a wilderness where more often than not there is nothing of god to hear. and of course it was in just such a wilderness that the great words of moses were trumpeted forth in the first place, and the people who first heard them were in the wilderness with him, as wandering and lost as we are, with nothing to keep them going but the hope of a promised land, which much of the time seemed a promise so remote and improbable that even the bondage they had left behind them in Egypt looked hopeful by comparison. ....................even in the wilderness-especially in the wilderness-you shall love him.
.....................the final secret, i think, is this: that the words "you shall love the lord your god" become in the end less a command than a promise. and the promise is that, yes, on the weary feet of faith and fragile wings of hope, we will come to love him at last as from the first he has loved us-loved us even in the wilderness, especially in the wilderness, because he has been in the wilderness with us. he has been in the wilderness for us. he has been acquainted with our grief. and, loving him, we will come at last to love each other too so that, in the end, the name taped on every door will be the name of the one we love.
............."and these words which i command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."........
and rise we shall, out of the wilderness, every last one of us, even as out of the wilderness Christ rose before us. that is the promise and the greatest of all promises.

are you in a wilderness love? i'm in the wilderness of love and it's a manna journey and a blessed sweet joy, with surprises and unexpected moments of care, trust, faith, comfort, laughter!(my favorite!), and so many other emotions, and fruits of the holy spirit of the LIVING GOD!
i will choose this day.. and the next, and the next, with his hand leading... to love the lord god with all my my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my might. woohoo!! :-)


after i finished typing some of the sermon, i was looking for a picture for this post... i ran across this dvd/movie that is based on a true story.. thought it was appropriate to share since it's the same 'subject' of leaving the 'one we love and promised to', and returning to the promised love in the end... the real god is our covenant god! i haven't watched the movie, so sorry if it's not good production wise, etc.. but the summary is good, i thought~

Summary

Inspired by a true story, the made-for-TV Personally Yours stars Valerie Bertinelli as the recently divorced Susannah Stanton. Shed of her husband Jesse (Jeffrey Nordling), an Alaskan rancher, Susannah strikes a blow for independence by opening up her own restaurant in Anchorage. Still, there is something lacking in Susannah's life, and her three children think they know what it is. Placing a classified personal in the local newspaper, the enterprising kids advertise for a perfect father, knowing full well that their specifications match one man and one man only -- their own dad Jesse. An engaging illustration of the old saw that "love is lovelier the second time around,"



happy day to you this friday!! love, lis