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Tim plays baseball and Whitney follows him around. This page was created so that our friends and family can have a glimpse into our daily lives while we're on the road. Love and miss you all!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Morning coffee



Heating up some water for my coffee, looking out at the water. It's going to be a great day.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Roll with the Punches



This is our home until... well... We find somewhere else :) Not having any idea how long we'll be in town makes it a tad difficult to find a place to rent so I went somewhere that rents nightly! Tim's a little skeptical but no worries folks. I got him a ...

...memory foam bed. He won't even be able to tell he's sleeping on the ground. I also met some of our neighbors today. They're very kind...

And we all had a bar b que...

Delicious corn. Anyways, we're off on another adventure. Life is good. God is great. Gotta go work for the man now...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Working Girl



This, ladies and gents, is my new jacket. I am now officially employed by the Braves. If you can get a job working at the field, it's easier because they understand if I have to pick up and leave tomorrow so... Here I am :) Not too bad of a gig. I get paid to watch baseball, which is a requirement of mine anyways if I'm going to watch any game that Tim's not playing in. AND - the best part - I don't have to miss any of the games Tim starts in! God does provide. Still looking for a place to stay while we're here in MS, preferably a host family but like I said- God provides. Oh. And did I mention I get to wear this cool jacket?

Monday, April 18, 2011

Walking Through the Fire

Lucy: Is he... safe? Mr. Beaver: Safe? Of course he isn't safe! But he's good I tell you. He's the king! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMKp4g_ZrGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player Great book. Great video. Great day.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Friday, April 15, 2011

This is the product of...

...having a husband who eats so much that we have to stock our hotel fridge. I'm getting creative with the healthy microwave meals. Well, as healthy as a meal from a microwave can be. I sure do love my life.
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If I could...

...add up all the hours I've spent waiting for my husband while sitting in a parking lot, I bet it'd be a good chunk of our marriage.
< Looking forward to getting to the hotel, relaxing, and spending the next 10 days by the pool. I really have no complaints.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Gypsy

Well, we're headed to Orlando for a few more days before heading back to Gwinnett. I got to go home this week for a couple of days to visit the fam and got to spend time with my favorite 5 year old!!!
< Hope everyone is well!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Funny how things work...

Remember just a couple of days ago when I said something like "I hope this praise continues when it's our turn in the valleys"? Yeah? Well it's our turn now. Maybe we're not in just the valleys. I mean, I feel like we've surpassed the valley; I feel like we fell straight to the bottom of the canyon. And it hurt. So yesterday, when we got some disappointing news, I called my prayer support chain - my family. ---On a side note: I do believe my family's prayers are one of the only reasons I haven't gone crazy in this psychotic life--- When my grandmother mentioned that she asked for prayer from a family friend, she said this lady's response was "How exciting to see what God has in store for them!" Oooookkaayyy lady. This is my life that was just turned upside down and you think it's exciting??? It made me laugh after I realized that the lady saying this has been through hell and back in her own life. If she can see that God has a plan for everything, I can too. This is nothing - and I do mean NOTHING - compared to what she's been through. So I decided to take that approach. The "yeah-so-what-things-aren't-going-my-way-big-deal-let's-be-excited-to-see-what-God-has-in-store-for-me" approach. And then this morning, God showed himself to me. Let me explain... For a while now, I've really felt like I was praying to the ceiling. My prayers were hitting the roof and bouncing right back at me, never reaching God's ears. I've begged, I've pleaded, and through it all I've praised. I didn't feel like praising Him but every morning, I told Satan to get out of my way, and I obeyed God by reading His word and communicating with Him. I felt like it was getting me nowhere. I didn't feel like it was doing any good. Until this morning. I was in the closet (don't ask), on my knees, reading this Psalm:
The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

Great is the Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.

-Psalm 147:2-5
All of a sudden, I felt this overwhelming presence beside me and a picture in my mind of me on my knees crying and Jesus kneeling beside me, carefully cleaning and healing my wounds. Don't get me wrong. The answer to my dilemma wasn't written on the wall or verbally announced to me. I'm still confused about our next step; but He let me know that He was there. All the while, He hears me and He's beside me. God knew I was at the end of my rope and wanted to throw in the towel and he reinforced the fact that He hasn't left me and He never will. He's the author of my story and I'm still in the first few chapters. I may not know where I'm going but all I need to do is take one more step because He's walking in front of me. As long as I keep my eyes on Him, I'm where I need to be. It was a great morning.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Puts Things in Perspective.

"I'll tell you how the sun rose A ribbon at a time... It's a living book, this life; it folds out in a million settings, cast with a billion beautiful characters, and it is almost over for you. It doesn't matter how old you are; it is coming to a close quickly, and soon the credits will roll and all your friends will fold out of your funeral and drive back to their homes in cold and still and silence. And they will make a fire and pour some wine and think about how you once were . . . and feel a kind of sickness at the idea you never again will be. So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. You will know by the page count, not by the narrative, that the Author is wrapping things up. You begin to mourn its ending, and want to pace yourself slowly toward its closure, knowing the last lines will speak of something beautiful, of the end of something long and earned, and you hope the thing closes out like last breaths, like whispers about how much and who the characters have come to love, and how authentic the sentiments feel when they have earned a hundred pages of qualification. And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" — Donald Miller (Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road)

Donald Miller Quote

"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event. "

Crosswalk.com

Came across this devotional and wanted to share. It's from crosswalk.com
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April 1, 2011

A Place of Thus Far
Wendy Pope

"Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, 'Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?'"
2 Samuel 7:18 (ESV)

Devotion:
Have you ever been in a place of "thus far?" A place where you are experiencing God's blessing and favor on your life. Not blessings and favor by the world's standards of materialism and wealth, but by the Lord's standard of provision, protection, providence, and peace that come from walking in His presence daily.

I want to be in that place of faith, like David, following the Lord's leading and trusting His ways, not my own. I want to meet regularly with the Lord, sitting and taking summary of all He has done for me. With thankfulness and humility, I want to say, "Who am I that you have brought me thus far?"

Oh the places David had seen in his lifetime! From grassy meadows to the splendor of palace life. From dirty fields tending sheep to hiding in a drafty cave, and then to the throne itself, King David arrived at a place of "thus far" in his life. He had experienced every emotion that exists, from confidence to fear, love to hate, and sadness to joy. After all that King David had been through I can certainly understand why he needed to go sit before the LORD and ask, "Who am I?"

He was overwhelmed with the goodness of God and the faithfulness he had experienced. He had been through some of the toughest situations a person could go through, yet he remained faithful and God gave David his reward. Yet, I have to think the reward of kingship and royalty paled in comparison to knowing the goodness and faithfulness of God.

Have you been there? Life has taken twists, turns, and changes at every bend, yet somehow for a season you have arrived at a place of seeing spiritual blessings from the Lord. Yet you realize your place of thus far pales in comparison to knowing and experiencing the goodness and faithfulness of God.

No matter what current circumstances you find yourself in, with our Living God there is always a place of "thus far" waiting around the next bend. This is a place of celebration, praise, complete humility and gratitude before the Lord. I have discovered the hardships we go through are all worthwhile when we get to our place of "thus far." From a grateful heart, we can pour our blessings back out to the Lord as we cry, "Who I am Lord, that you have brought me thus far?"

Dear Lord, forgive me when I don't sit and take summary of Your tremendous favor in my life. Your blessings are far superior to anything this world can give me. Help me to remember my place of "thus far" when Your plan for my life leads me to another season that may be risky and cause me to walk by faith and not by sight. I offer this praise of thanksgiving to You. In Jesus' Name, Amen