2013 – The Year of Great Grace

2013 – The Year of Great GRACE

This Word of the Lord was received by Kenneth Copeland
on August 17, 2012

“Stay where you are! Stay steady! Your greatest BLESSING ever is at hand. No one can stop My plan for you. It’s a BLESSED plan. STAY ON MY WORD. Stay strong in faith! Insist on walking in My commandment of love. NO DEVIL, NO GOVERNMENT, NO MAN CAN CURSE WHAT I HAVE BLESSED. Believe that. Know that! You belong to Me—not the world! We will carry out THE BLESSING plan together. I’m teaching you GRACE. Keep it on your mind throughout 2013, and beyond. Never, ever let it go. The thing that I can do that is exceeding abundantly above all you can ask or think is to make ALL GRACE abound toward you, and that’s what is happening for you and for your country, right now. BE BLESSED! Enjoy My GRACE. It’s yours.”

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This word was given to Kenneth Copeland on August 17, my birthday!!! It makes it that much more MINE! I take it. I receive it, in Jesus’ name.

He’s telling us to stay where we are. He wants us to stay in Texas no matter how hard it seems. The doors for a new job seem to come open and then have shut tight again several times already, but we know that God has something wonderful for us, and it looks like it will happen in Texas.

Thank you for praying and agreeing with us for a whole new wonderful life for our family on a farm in the country.

Mystery Object Identified :)

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Have you figured out what the mystery object is from this post?

Here is the man who built it.

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Aaron!!!! Patrick’s mentor, trainer, friend and friend of our whole family. The little girls just love him!

What did he build?

A computer that looks like an old-fashioned radio for his mother’s birthday.

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What did she think of it?

She loved it, of course.

He put it together at our house and surprised her with it when he took it home.

Isn’t that an awesome gift? I thought it was absolutely beautiful and very creative.

So that is what the mystery object was. Did you guess it?

Birthday Month – Random Acts of Fun-ness

Still no job for Gary, but God continues to provide for us.

We managed to have quite an interesting month in spite of our forced frugality.

Here are some of the things we did:

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Aaron took Patrick and Anna to see a movie, Rise of the Guardians. They went in style!

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Morgan’s birthday party on New Years Eve. There were lots of fireworks here in Texas for Morgan’s birthday! He was very honored! 🙂 They may have had something to do with New Years Eve, but still we enjoyed them for our celebration of Morgan’s birthday.

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And as usual the birthday party games consisted of video games.

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Teams upstairs and downstairs as usual. Here is the downstairs team – the brothers who are almost exactly 10 years apart in age!

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I like to watch Kim Clement TV. Here I am watching it wearing my mantle from Kim Clement.

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We will Conquer Our Mountain! And go into our Promised Land!

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A gift from Mary, Aaron’s mom. Lots of sentimental value for me. I used to have lots of Snow Buddy ornaments and decorations, but I lost them all when we lost our house. Now I have this wonderful Santa with Snow Buddy music box that Mary gave me because I saw it at her house and mentioned how much I loved Snow Buddies. Thank you so much, Mary!

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Our pretty Christmas decorations. We kept them up through the birthday celebrations.

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Emma got ANOTHER umbrella for her birthday. She dearly loves umbrellas! I went to the mailbox this morning, and the weather was gray. It had rained earlier. Emma came running after me and said, “You need my umbrella!” It wasn’t raining right then, but I bet she wishes it was!

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I had been planning to do a big birthday party for all of the January birthdays (4 of them) at once, but when Emma found out that it was Jan. 8, HER birthday, she wanted a party right then. So we threw together a quick birthday party complete with a present and confetti cake and brownies. I was going to wait until Gary got a new job. As it turns out, it’s a good thing we didn’t wait!

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I think this was from the night we went to Cece’s 21st birthday party.

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Garrett loved his German chocolate birthday cake. Since I had Emma’s party on her birthday, I went ahead and had the twins’ birthday party on their birthday, Jan. 10.

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A hint to help you guess what the object is in my “Can You Guess What This Is?” post here.

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Very random! I just happened to notice this heart in a pan in my sink. I take these little things as signs from God saying that He loves me!

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Emma climbed all the way to the top! She’s the Queen of the Mountain! The kids all love this climber at the park. We went to the park last Saturday, and the temps were in the 70’s. We stayed until after dark as you can see.

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It almost looks like she’s a circus performer in this shot. I think she felt like one!

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The moon was beautiful that night! What a wonderful way to spend a January evening.

Singing Helps Little Ones Learn Without Even Trying!

You Just Can’t Keep Them From Learning!

Shawn kept having the Ay Ay Ay Song going through his head, so he said he wanted to learn the whole thing, so he could really sing it. So I looked up the lyrics and taught him the song. We sang it so much that Emma learned it, too. She came up to me a couple of days later and started singing it to me. I had almost forgotten it, and she helped me to re-learn it, so I decided it was time to get out the video camera. Here’s Emma and Abby, and sometimes Garrett, singing Cielito Lindo.

I had been working with the twins and Kelsey and Morgan on the Books of the New Testament. I taught them a song, and when they learned it perfectly, they knew all of the Books of the New Testament, and they got a prize out of the Treasure Box.

Kelsey quickly learned them all, then Morgan, then Garrett, then Fiona. Little did I know that little ones were listening in and learning them, too. Abby and Emma surprised me one day when they started singing, “Matthew, Mark, Luke, John…” So I decided to record them singing that, too. They got a prize for learning them as well as they have them now. When they get them perfect all by themselves, they will get another prize. They are working on them!