Forever Beloved

Faith, Love & Truth

♥ march ♥

this little pup just makes my heart happy…he sure loves his mama more than anything…
oh march is here, finally…that gives me hope that spring is on the way and right around the corner (i hope)…i’m sooooo totally over snow and winter…i’m ready for some warm weather and sunny skies!  and as selfish as it sounds, to have my husband to myself in the evenings and on the weekends. 
can you believe my little bloggie has been viewed 40,000 times?!?!?!  AND last month i actually blogged every single day…isn’t there an award for that or something?
we had a wonderful weekend…friday night the roads were complete yuck and joe had to work till midnight so the kids and i snuggled up on the couch and watched dvr’d shows from last week (abdc and project runway). 
saturday we let daddy sleep in for a bit…i made us some cinnamon rolls and the littles and i snuggled on the couch again and watched little house (one of my FAV shows ever!)…once joe was up we headed over to altoona to the sportsman show, it was a pretty good time.  we also ate at outback and did some shopping.  we had a GREAT day together, it was much needed.  saturday evening we put on our pajamas, snuggled back up and watched movies.
sunday joe got called out to work  🙁  which was a complete boo…but the littles and i made the best of the day.  i had tons of laundry to do, we had shoveling to do and i made two big pots of bean soup (ham and bean AND hobo bean)…joe actually got off of work at 8 rather than midnight and was home early enough to spend some time with us  🙂  complete yay!!!
out for now
~kisses

~change~

Change always comes bearing gifts   ~Price Pritchett
change and i haven’t always been friends over the years…normally change is something i resist at all costs.  change would make me so angry and frustrated and eventually i would just give up, finding it much easier to just not change. 
last year i realized easier isn’t always better.  and i knew in my heart there were things i wanted to change, things i HAD to change.  i also knew i couldn’t do it alone, the only way my change would be successful was with the help of God.  and i prayed…and prayed…and prayed…He was there and listening.  my change has been a success because of Him helping me.
today i find myself humbled and again at His feet, praying for help and change.  i know i can’t do it alone and honestly, i wouldn’t want to.  when it comes to change, there is God’s part, and there is our part. if we want to change, we can.  but we have to do it God’s way.

out for now
~kisses

love is a choice

“Now choose life, so that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” – Deuteronomy 30:20

you choose to love or you choose not to love.  
we’ve bought into this myth that love is uncontrollable, that it’s something that just happens to us; it’s not something we control.  love doesn’t just happen to you.  love is a choice and it represents a commitment.  there’s no doubt about it, attraction is uncontrollable. but attraction is not love.

i have to admit i’m guilty of thinking love is uncontrollable.  when i married joe i had NO IDEA what love meant.  i thought we would just breeze through life because we loved each other, i thought that was enough.  i didn’t realize what a daily choice and commitment it would be. 
you must choose to love God
he won’t force you to love him (Deuteronomy 30:20).  you can ignore God and go a totally different way.  you can destroy your life if you choose to do that.  God still won’t force you to love him because he knows love can’t be forced.

out for now
~kisses