It's Been a Long Time

I hope ya'll have missed me as much as I've missed YOU!  :)  Really, I have finally stopped for a few hours and thought I would sit down and write a post.  It's amazing how much I think about "blogging" when I am unable to do so.  I've "jumped" on the "blogs" and skimmed over my friends and families posts this week, but haven't sat down and "taken them all in" as I usually do.  I've missed it, too! 

Last weekend we were in Quitman with the Clark's.  We had a fantastic time!  They are like family to us and we always enjoy being with them.  Mallory and Taylor and beautiful young ladies, and love God. I love seeing children who have grown up in the church, and love God with all of their hearts! It's a great example of what the church can do to "save our children".  I've said it many times, and still believe it..."We did our best to raise our boys to love God and serve Him, but we didn't raise them by ourselves!  We had a church who loved us and loved our boys, and they helped us bring them up to serve the Lord!"  Thank you, saints of God, who love the pastor and his family so much that you stand with them, arm in arm, and fight for the saving of our children!  

Keith and Carla, ya'll are wonderful and we are so PROUD of what God has done "through you".

We got home from Quitman, and I loaded my car with my suitcases and left for Pflugerville to be with Karla, and to shop the rest of the week!  I had the top down on my convertible and was having a wonderful, relaxing trip when I felt the "road changed".  Then, I felt something strange in my steering, put my foot on the brake, and I KNEW something was WRONG!  My car did not want to be controlled, so I slowly brought it to a stop...on the side of the road...got out of the car and walked around to the back.  I heard a "hissing" sound, and saw that I had a FLAT TIRE!!!  The whole tire looked like it had been cut with a knife, except for one small section!  It looked really strange. Here I was out in the "middle of no where"!  Now, what was I suppose to do?  I got back in the car and called my husband and told him what had happened.  While I was talking to him a "work truck" pulled over and backed up to my car and FOUR men got out of the car.  I told Wendell it looked like I had some help, but he insisted on me calling 911, "just in case" I needed help from an officer.  I called, and they stayed on the line with me while the "work guys" changed my tire.  The police didn't have time to get there for me, because the men had changed the tire so fast, and I was back on the road in a very short time!!!  Thank you, Jesus!  Of course, they had to put the "do-nut" on my car, and I had to drive no faster than FIFTY the rest of the way to Pflugerville, but I made it!I had a wonderful week shopping with Karla.  I love having her with me when I shop, because she "makes me" try clothes on!  LOL!  For all of you "shop-a-holics", I know you don't believe there could be a woman alive that doesn't like to shop, but you have just met one!  :)  I usually only shop out of necessity!!!  "Necessity" calls only about twice a year for me, but when it "calls", Karla always makes it "more fun"!  

We got to see my "best friend, Vicki" while I was there.  Karla and I met her for dinner on the last night.  It is always good to see Vicki.  She makes me laugh!

There were a couple of things that happened this week that once again made me thankful to be living for God.  Karla and I had gone to eat a "late night supper" at IHOP and a waitress came to our table and asked, "Are ya'll United Pentecostal"?  We said, "yes", and she came back with, "Not Assembly of God, but United Pentecostal?"  We smiled and answered her again, "Yes, we are United Pentecostal".  She then asked, "Can you tell me where I can find a United Pentecostal Church?"  Karla gave her directions to a church in Austin.  

Then, when we went to eat with Vicki I noticed a couple sitting over to the side of the restaurant, not far from our table.  Almost as soon as we sat down the lady who was sitting to the side, came to our table and said, "Excuse me, but, are ya'll United Pentecostal?"  We once again said, "Yes, we are!"  We had some conversation with her, and found out she had recently moved there, and her "friends mother" had just moved in with them.  The "mother" was a United Pentecostal saint, and they were looking for a church for her to go to.  I noticed when we walked in that "the couple" was "hugged up" in the booth, and there was an alcoholic drink sitting in front of the man.  After the lady came to our table, and returned to hers, we noticed they were no longer "hugged up" and the man seemed a little uncomfortable.  He sure had his guard up!  I said to Vicki and Karla, "You know, I imagine there is a little mother at home who has been praying for her son to come back to God, and we just "happened" to walk into the same restaurant where her son was at."  I am sure God was once again putting someone in the cross-road of this man's life, and was saying, "Come home...come home!" 

After all of the conversation, and directions given to our inquiring friend, Vicki looked at us and said, "See there!  We just walked in and was a witness!"  She was right!  If we had looked like "the world", and "acted like the world", neither one of these ladies would have come to us inquiring about the United Pentecostal Church!  I will say once again.....I LOVE MY LIFE!  I LOVE LIVING FOR GOD and being separated from this world.  There is nothing I "do not do" that I "want to do"!  I guess you could say, "I'm Happy Where I'm At"!