Of Snoring and Thunderstorms....

Hmm So well where to start... I should have already blogged this... seeing today is already Tuesday. :) We have been extreemly busy... lol when arent we? so I guess ~ Better late than never!
We had a super bad thunderstorm early Sunday morning! I only remember waking up around 3:30am thinking I need to get up and turn that air down.... because it was so hot... but didnt really want to get out of bed and then realized that we were having a major thunderstorm.. and I think the lights are off but cannot really tell because every few seconds the lightning was flashing.... so I sat up in bed and looked toward the kitchen to see if my eyes would focus enough to register in my mind what was going on... when all of a sudden I see this other light wavering... and before I go to hide under the covers and make Chris go and check on it I realize it has to be one of my kids... lol So I got up and low and behold it was Tyler... okay so let me tell you a little about him... He can sleep through ANYTHING! So when he got up it had to be pretty bad... I went into the kitchen and he proceeded to tell me that the electricity was off... and the storm was so bad that it woke him.. so here we were looking for a lighter to light a candle so he could sleep in the living room... and getting the couch ready for him to sleep on, so after our fruitless atempts and dropping everything because we couldnt see, and trying not to wake up anyone else... I told him to grap his laptop and bring his blanket and we would make him a bed on the floor in our bedroom if he wanted me too... and he was all for that! So I got him fixed up and told him I was sorry in advance if his dad stepped on him in the morning... LOL was totally just kidding... (yes I can laugh in the middle of the night) lol so I climbed back into bed and got the pillows situated on my side just in case taylor woke up... so she could climb right into bed and go to sleep... so here I lay trying to go to sleep when Chris who hasnt budged... starts snoring! Okay shouldnt I be used to this??? Ummm no for one thing.. the ceiling fan wasnt on... and it was super quiet because of no electricity... and well my wonderful hubby usually doesnt snore!... and even if he starts sounding like he is going to I touch him and tell him he is snoring and he stops.... so Well I tried that and ummm to no avail, he didnt even skip a beat! so I settled into the rythmitic snoring and the pillow over my ears... all the while the thunderstorm is still going full blast... and started to drift back into sleepytown! Thank you Jesus!!! :) Taylor came in not long after that and stood at the door whispering "shani" trying to wake me up and tell me that its storming... (which by this time... it had slowed down considerably!) lol my kids are so cute! lol so I told taylor to climb into bed. So here we were all snuggled into to bed and I thought now Im going to get to sleep Tyler was on the floor with a bunch of blankets and Chris was sleeping and taylor was starting to sleep and gigi was at the foot of the bed! Ahh sweet Sleep here I come!!!! Ummm... HALT! No!!!! Chris who hasnt stopped snoring.. was still snoring and then would you believe it.... Taylor started snoring! I was dying! Here they were battling for who was going to snore first and I was in the middle! S0 I thought Lord... please please help me sleep... I now had two pillows on my head! lol what a sight I must have been! So there in the wee hours of the morning still listening to the thundering and watching the lightning from the corner of the shades flash on the wall... I began to think of the storms of life... and the Lord began to minister and talk to me... Here I was spiritually going through a storm in my life and I had prayed the night before I went to bed that the Lord would show me what to do in my life to take things out of me and help me to grow... and here I found myself out of my nightly routine and comforts..... I was letting everything around me keep me from falling asleep.. I couldnt shut anything out and I couldnt get my mind focused because that is all that I could think about instead of resting and settling down... I was mentally in a tizzy... in the Bible when the storm arose on the sea... Peter walking on the water came to Jesus! what a miracle! He saw Jesus and he wanted to be with him! but as he was walking to Jesus... something happened! He took his eyes off Jesus and let it stray to the things all around him... the wind, the waves, the tempature, etc... and he started to sink... BUT God reached down! and caught him!!!! He wasnt far he was right there!!! There is a song that the only part I remember is... If you can get me to the cross I can find my way home... I love that song... Through all the toils, pain, suffering, bills, death, arguments, etc... dont let anything get your eyes off Jesus! If they have shifted... Look up! Get refocused!!!! Look to the Cross! He did it all! he paid it all! he finished it all! there at calvary for you and me!!! Whatever the need... whatever the problems you are facing... fear, anexity, divorce, dispair, sickness...... etc look to the cross! That is where he purchased our salvation! and anything else we need we can find it there at his feet... Let his blood cover you! and let His spirit saturate you!!! And know... He is there, right there with you! He is alive and well! Dont let the storms of life let you forget!






Kubarikiwa

"Blessings on You"

With God

Looks like stormy forever

And you'll never see the light of day

Paul and Silas kept on singing,

believingTheir deliverer was on the way

For they knew

With God, I'm protected

With God, I'm set free

With God, none shall harm me

With God

Looks like stormy weather forever

And you'll never see the light of day

Three times that day Daniel knelt and prayed

Oh not afraid, of the consequences he might face

And he cried
With God, I'm protected

With God, I'm set free

With God, none shall harm me

With God

The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want (shall not want)

He's my strength, He leads me on

I walk through the valley I'm not afraid

He's there, He is there

For with God, I'm protected

For with God, I'm set free

With God, None shall harm me

With God