March for Emmalyn!

April 30th I will be participating in my first March of Dimes walk in Abilene!

I am so excited and so very humbled to be a part of this amazing foundation!

For who you ask? The answer is simple! This sweet, sweet face!

You see, this is my precious niece Emmalyn Kae! She is a miracle straight from God! She decided she needed to jump into this world 10 weeks early and surprise us all! It was a surprise infact! A scary, exciting, nervous, anxious and most definitly prayer filled journey through NICU and the first few months at home! She is amazing and growing so much and I'm so honored to be her AUNT! So, please keep this team that is forming in your thoughts and prayers, and if you felt led to help give to this foundation, a website is being formed and will be up soon and I will post it! There will be many fundraisers in honor of this walk, as well!

Such a tiny angel! God is so good!

Power in Prayer

I'm not sure exactly where I've been since I last wrote....I was pretty dedicated to this blog for a LONG time...But everytime I thought about blogging, I would start and just couldn't get enough words together to create a blog worth reading. Today I realized I need to blog about prayer. Maybe it's because I haven't spent enough time on my knees lately and I'm feeling that conviction or something else. It seems like when I stop praying, stuff starts happening! Is that true? I'm not sure!

I have sooooo many prayer requests right now, but for some reason, I don't feel that I should share any of them. I have friends who need prayer, co-workers who need prayer, family who needs prayer and of course, we need prayer. I guess you just could pray that God takes care of everyone on our prayer list. He knows who they are and knows their specific needs!

I just wanted to share one last thing, I found this scripture online while researching what God has to say about praying and wanted to share it with you:

1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)11 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

This says to me that NO MATTER how rough things may be, always turn to God and He will guide you in the direction you will need to go!

and finally ~

Psalms 145:18 (NIV)18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

This tells me, that I should tell God my heart (He already knows it anyways, so why hide it from Him????) and share with him my dreams and hopes and desires and He will listen to me. He will be near to me and hold me in His arms and comfort me!

May you each be blessed!