"Princess and Daughter of the King"

It's been a year since I left the church in Gallup. I spent hours in preparation each week for worship. As a leader, I felt it was time to leave as my husband didn't like the town. I had to wait for the Lord to give me the OK and a peace before we continued looking for a new home. The first thing we did was look for work and also a place to worship. I didn't know that it would be so difficult to leave what I loved doing, that is the teaching, the playing keyboard, singing and encouraging others in the congregation to love the Lord with all their heart. I have this fire in me that wants to do more than I am. I find it difficult and painful to be out of the loop, so to speak, when the church we attend doesn't function like a church but a Bible study and brings a few songs to sing. I'll continue to pray about this and the emptiness I feel when I can't share the music that the Lord has given me. The music is part of who I am. I read an article recently from an...

The following is a poem I wrote several months after my eldest son was born and was included in a Christmas letter I stumbled on recently. "This Christmas brings our hearts and minds To God's greatest gift, the person of Jesus. It is He who imparts His love as we find, Not the babe in the manger but the man Jesus. His gift to us was himself when He died On that cross, oh the love of our Jesus. What joy we share as our hope is found Not in the baby lying so sweetly but in Jesus, Who shares our joys and our ups and downs. It is He we worship each Christmas. It's Jesus. We're so thankful for His great love profound Someday soon the world will bow down to Jesus. This Christmas let us sing praises to our King and not be all tangled in the world's riches. This Christmas let us remember Him and bring Gifts of the spirit that cross the bridges between ourselves and men in the world's ring. Let's meet Him this Christmas and His riches. So this...

We prepared for a snow but not as much as that which fell New Year's Eve and New Years. My husband and I traveled to the town park Green Valley. It was packed with Phoenix valley people and their families, sliding and throwing snowballs. They were there because of the 8 to 12 inches of snow. It was like Christmas at the Walmart because of the crowds. The cashiers there weren't used to the crowds. We took videos and pictures of this rare occasion. Last year, in fact, we hardly saw any snow. At Christmas we had a sprinkling, I call powdered sugar snow.  This year the snow was powder but eventually thawed and froze overnight making travel dangerous. My son and daughter-in-law had to come up too and enjoy what they don't see in Phoenix. http://www.smilebox.com/playBlog/4e4445354f5455354d54593d0d0a&blogview=true