Living

1. Count your blessings, not your troubles. 

2. Learn to live one day at a time. 

3. Learn to say "I love you," "thank you," and "I appreciate you".

4. Learn to be a giver and not a getter. 

5. Seek the good in everyone and everything. 

6. Pray everyday. 

7. Do at least one good deed every day. 

8. Learn to count. Put God first. 

9. Let nothing bother you. 

10. Practice the "Do it now" habit. 

11. Fill your life with good. 

12. Learn to laugh and learn to cry. 

13. Learn to practice the Happiness habit.

14. Learn to fear nothing and no one. 

15. Learn to let go and let God. 

 ~Author Unknown~ 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

You Are God Alone

"You Are God Alone"

You are not a god

Created by human hands

You are not a god

Dependent on any mortal man

You are not a god

In need of anything we can give

By Your plan, that's just the way it is

[Chorus]

You are God alone

From before time began

You were on Your throne

Your are God alone

And right now

In the good times and bad

You are on Your throne

You are God alone

You're the only God

Whose power none can contend

You're the only God

Whose name and praise will never end

You're the only God

Who's worthy of everything we can give

You are God

And that's just the way it is

Well Bye,

 ®achel™

What is Love?

Well Bye,

 ®achel™

All Of The Words

"All Of The Words"

How do I speak of the indescribable to You
I will try to explain these feelings that are true
So looking to the sky I will sing and from my heart to You I bring

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship
I worship You

In your presence I forever choose to live
I will praise You for it's all I have to give
So looking to the sky I will sing and from my heart to You I bring

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship

By Your grace You let me come talk to You
It's not that I'm worthy I thank you Jesus
For the love that You have shown

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship

With all of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship
I worship You

 

 

 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

I didn't get to do a Valentines post....

"You aren't loved because you are valuable. You are valuable because God loves you." 

~Unknown~

"God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!" 

~Unknown~

"What's earth with all its art, verses, music, worth compared with love, found, gained, and kept?" 

~Robert Browning~ 

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." 

~Sydney Smith~ 

I didn't end up doing a post on Valentines' Day so this will have to count as a late post. 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

To Wisely Waste My Days

 

 

"To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days." 

~Thomas Dekker~ 

1572-1632 

Well Bye,
®achel™

Through Heaven's Eyes

A single thread in a tapestry 

Though its color brightly shine 

Can never see its purpose 

In the pattern of the grand design 

And the stone that sits on the very top 

Of the mountain's might face 

Des it think it's more important

Than the stones that form the base?

So how can you see what your life is worth 

Or where your value lies? 

You can never see through the days of man 

You must look at your life 

Look at your life through heaven's eyes 

Lai-la-lai...

A lake of gold in the desert sand 

Is less than a cool fresh spring

And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy 

Is greater than the richest king

If a man lose ev'rything he owns

Has he truly lost his worth? 

Or is it the beginning

Of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man 

In wealth or strength or size? 

In how much he gained or how much he gave? 

The answer will come

The answer will come to him who tries 

To look at his life through heaven's eyes

And that's why we share all we have with you 

Though there's little to be found 

When all you've got is nothing 

There's a lot to go around

No life can escape being blown about 

By the winds of change and chance 

And through you never know all the steps 

You must learn to join the dance 

You must learn to join the dance 

Lai-la-lai...

 

So how do you judge what a man is worth 

By what he builds or buys?

You can never see with your eyes on earth 

Look through heaven's eyes 

Look at your life 

Look at your life 

Look at your life through heave's eyes!

Well Bye, 

®achel™  

Something reminde me of a Dream

 I really like this and if you were to ask me exactly why I like it I couldn't tell you. It's just a plain white movie with words on it, but I really like it and it reminded me of the dream I have in the back of my head. The dream that one day I will publish a book that is worth reading and that people will love.
Right, I know it's just a movie. Try to see outside the movie. 


Well Bye,
®achel™  

You Can Have Me

You Can Have Me by Sidewalk Prophets

If I saw You on the street

And You said come and follow me

But I had to give up everything

All I once held dear and all of my dreams

Would I love You enough to let go

Or would my love run dry

When You asked for my life

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me

Father of love, You can have me

You can have me

If You’re all You claim to be

Then I’m not losing anything

So I will crawl upon my knees

Just to know the joy of suffering

I will love You enough to let go

Lord, I give you my life

I give you my life

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me

Father of love, You can have me

You can have me

I want to be where You are

I’m running into Your arms

And I will never look back

So Jesus, here is my heart

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me

Father of love, You can have me

You can have me

When did love become unmoving?

When did love become unconsuming?

Forgetting what the world has told me

Father of love, You can have me

My Father, my love

You can have me

Well Bye,
®achel™  

What Makes Happiness

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness."

~Charles Spurgeon~

Well Bye, 

®achel™

I wanted to write and finish a book!

 "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 

Now put the foundations under them." 

~Henry David Thoreau~

I've been trying to finish a book for years. Any book; small, big, it really didn't matter just finish something! Starting is easy but finishing is much, much harder.
Last March Jess told me that she had found a company that publishes books and they were having a contest. It was free to enter and all you had to do was write a complete book. 
I hardly even listed to what she was talking about and when she was done I said 'yeah that sounded was cool, but I wasn't going to do it'.
The next week we went on vacation to a lake house. (The first week of April.) The day after we got back I started writing. I wrote non stop all through April and May. At night I fell asleep while typing words in my head and, I'm not kidding, while I walked my dog every thought I had was slowed down because I was mentally typing every letter of every word. (Fortunately I didn't do that while I was talking).
Anyway I kept at it and for the first time ever I finish! Thanks to a lot of willing family members who helped edit and edit and edit. I entered it in the contest in June. And I didn't win. I didn't come close!
But I had finished and that was the best thing I could have done.
Daddy bought a printed copy of my book for me because he is an awesome Dad! And the next week I started on another book. Erin walked in and asked me what I was doing; when I told her she looked surprised. "Again?"
I stared at her for a moment then asked her what she was doing.
"Playing the violin."
"Again?"
She understood what I was saying.


I love it when I'm in the middle of a good book and no matter what I'm doing, always, at the back of my mind is the thought of that book and I look forward to when I can go back and read a little more of it.
Writing is just like that for me. I always know, at the back of my mind, that I have a story waiting for my; and the best part is I get to decide exactly what happens next!


Well Bye,
®achel™
 

Let inward love guide every deed

Though I may speak

with bravest fire,

and have the gift

to all inspire,

and have not love,

my words are vain,

as sounding brass,

and hopeless gain.

 

Though I may give

all I possess,

and striving so

my love profess,

but not be giv'n

by love within,

the profit soon

turns strangely thin.

Some, Spirit come,

our hearts control

our spirits long

to be made whole.

Let inward love

guide every deed;

by this we worship

and are freed.

  

"I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. "

~1 Corinthians 13:1-3~

Well Bye,
®achel™

Any Kindness

Day 361

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any goo therefore that I can do, of any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." 

~William Penn~ 

William Penn is not in the time period but he was close enough and I don't guess anyone will care but me.


Well Bye,
®achel™

Law and Liberty

Day 346

Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." 

~James Wilson~

More the Heart than the Head

Day 340

"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head."

~Noah Webster~ 

The Love of God

The love of God is greater far

Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

 

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.


Chorus: O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Well Bye, 

®achel™

  

Nothing special

These are a few pictures Jessica took the other day for our movie. 

Kinda like publicity photos, but not.

We had a lot of fun being goofy and getting Jess to laugh at us!

Well Bye,
®achel™

I love them so much!!!

Well Bye,

®achel™

The Small Things!

Well, to start out I have this notebook that I like to put all my school papers in;  I pull in out everyday, sometimes two or three times in one day. Well I've been using it for quite some time now and the binding was falling apart, the cardboard that makes it stiff was bent down and the red plastic was pealing off. But I just kept using it not bothering to look for a new one. The other day I pulled it out while Mommy was in the room. We laughed at it and she said something in passing about getting me another one. Well, I didn't give another thought for the rest of the day, or the next, but the day after that I walked into my room and found a new red notebook, just like my old one, on my bed. Mommy had found if for me.

It doesn't sound like much, but I just loved the fact that she had thought about me and remembered that I needed that note book and had taken the time to get it to me. I was reminded again what a great life I have and what a great family I live in!

Thanks for the notebook Mommy!

®achel™

Smile in trouble

Day 222

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
~Thomas Paine~

Well Bye,
®achel™