Magical Night

Gods Blessings and gifts

I am reading a book called " The Wind Is My Mother " By Bear Heart.

This book is a native American teaching and I just love it.   Bear Heart talks about God a lot.   But this saying about God caught my eye and thoughts going.

Bear is talking to a man and the man said I've been called to preach.  

Wonderful who called you bear asks??

God the man says.

Bear: , why that's even more wonderful if he called you.  So when are you going to start preaching?

Man: That's what I wanted to see you about.  I need some seminary training , at least 2 years.  But my daughter's graduating this year and next year my son graduates.  Meanwhile I'm working at a service station barely making ends meet.

Bear: Wait , wait, before you go any further , I know exactly what you can do.

Man :  What?

Bear:  Go back and tell God the one who called you all about these problems. Maybe he didn't know when He called you , so you tell him.

If we are genuinely called by God , there will be a way provided.

How many of these gifts, blessings did God send our way and we did not see or take it.  Did we put them on a back burner  for later.  Or did we take that leap of faith because we KNEW God called us to do it?

This page in this book got me thinking really deep, I could not sleep for hours.    They are many more teaching about God like this in this book.

God Bless, to you all , I hope this gets you thinking, mj

Two Horses

I found this, and I thought it was really neat.

There is a field, with two horses in it.

From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse.
But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing. Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind.
His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him.

This alone is amazing.

If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell.
Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field.

Attached to the horse's halter is a small bell.
It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.

As you stand and watch these two horses, you'll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is, trusting that he will not be led astray.

When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back, making sure that the blind friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges.

He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.

Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives.

Other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way....

Good friends are like that... you may not always see them, but you know they are always there.

Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.

Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly....
Leave the rest to God

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Kristi, what a good girl

Kristi is such a good girl.  She stands by what see believes in.

Kristi is very involved in her animals  and loves to serve in our church.  She will get upset if she misses serving at church.  Kristi is on our worship ministry team, she is a lead singer.  But Kristi will  miss serving for the Ducks hockey game, but just a time or two.

While I was at the Dr.'s Monday she meet a boy who is into the Manga and anime that she and her sister are into.  They talked for a bit about the next convention coming up and what they want to do.  I told her she can give him our number so they can all meet (other anime friends) with each other to plan for the convention and what they can dress for as a group.   His name is Nathan.

Well Nathan just called awhile ago, they talked anime and he asked her out on a date.  Kristi is 16 years old.  She told him thank you but she is not ready to date.  She said she rather spend her time with her animals and serving God .   But we can be friends and talk and meet at the convention.  Nathan said ok, he is the same way.

I am so proud of her she stood up for what she believes in.  Shayna is the same way, no boys yet.  They are fun in a group but neither girl is ready for a boyfriend.  

I think it helps because they see how Michelle is going from man to man , like it is nothing.   It makes them see things different.  We also have taught the girls courtship and not dating.  It has worked for Shayna and Kristi.

Thank you Kristi for standing for what you believe in.

God Bless, mj

My moms Birthday and Fall, 104.

Today is my moms 63rd birthday.  She says she feels old this year like she did when she turned 40.   I tell her age is just a number, we are who we are, numbers are that just a number.

But I understand.  My best friend Janet and I have been friend for 24 years.  That makes us feel old!!.  I know age is just a number.

Here is my mom with Jeffie her great grandson:

Jeffie was almost 2 in this picture.  He is know 3 years old.

Mom gift we got her??? Of course her favorite, Ducks hockey tickets 7 seats off the ice, next to the teams box she can can high five them !!

Dad is her date. The game is tomorrow night.  Happy Birthday mom.!!

Ok, I am lost.  It is fall right???   We seem to have lost fall.  Or someone stole it.  We are still in summer mode.   Today it was 104. Yup 104.  Where is fall??  Does fall realize that it will be October in the morning??  The girls keep telling me it will be October when will it cool down???

Hubby and I were going to take down our pool for the fall and winter, but what fall??  We have a above ground salt water pool that I just love.   He comes home some night to find me floating in it.

Well that is all, if some finds California's fall floating around please show it how to get to us.

God Bless, mj

Hockey game tonight

Tonight Shannon took us girls to our 1st hockey game of the season.

We had a blast!  I walked the whole thing!  From the truck to our entrance , to our seats and back!  The back part was hard!  We sit in our seats  through all the periods and break times.  Sitting there for so long in the cold building made my leg stiff.  It was really the 1st time I was able to notice a difference in my legs with the cold.  I told hubby next time I am wearing my Uggs!  I normally wear flip flops, ok we all do.

But it was so nice to get out and be normal with hubby and the girls. We are sending the girls to the greet and meet on Thursday with 2 friends, because I can not be on my leg like that for hours.   We are sending them with jerseys and a Stanley cup photo for the Ducks team to sign. 

Shayna is going to Disneyland in the morning to see about a job.  They pay good and have good benefits.   Say a prayer please. She wants this until her classes open up.  Then she will work and go to school.

Thank you for a great night hubby.

God Bless, mj

Tomorrow, this week and a maid

Here is my week.  I am writing this to KEEEP ME on track.  Do you here that me?? .................... Yes,  I do !!

1. Get up and STAY up with hubby!!  No going back to bed!!

2.  See foot Dr. and SET up surgery!!

3. Set up and keep other 3 DR.'s Appt.

4. Redo girls bathroom.

5. Redo dads bathroom, keep girls out!!  and call tile guy out to fix his boo boo.

6. Have Kristi clean her boxes out of the upstairs hallway, Hear that Kristi Bean???  No more boxes in the HALL.

7. Move china cabinet into kitchen.

8. Bring in and set up e.t. center in family room.

That is all for now , plus my normal weekly stuff.

But on a GOOD note hubby tells us girls when we get caught up on the house we get a maid!!!   .

We are so happy!!  He sees all that I do and did before I broke my leg (it is still broken 9 months later).  My being down for so long and his seeing what is not being done because of it. He never knew all I / we did. 

Now when hubby looks at some lists like a fall cleaning list I wrote out he reads it and says but you do / did most of this every week!  Yes I / we did and do.   Add what we did / do at the ranch each day, just was amazing to him. 

But with Shayna going to work it will be just me and kristi a lot of the time.  We two will not be able to do it all.   So hubby is going to let us hire a maid to come in and clean the heavy stuff twice a week.  What a blessing.  I could use her know though.  We girls are going to have our hand full trying to do it all and play catch up.  But what a pay off!!

God Bless, mj

Daughters wedding photos

Here are a few more pictures of our daughter Dejah's wedding.

This one I just love:

Here is one of Dejah with our new son-in-law Joseph and his new sisters Shayna and Kristi:

Next we have Joseph feeding Dejah some wedding cake:

Now it is Dejah's turn :

That's my girl .

I can not wait for all the pictures to be back they had a wedding picture done on the bull.

God Bless, mj

My daughters wedding picture

I can not believe it our oldest daughter Dejah is married!  She is 22 years old and lucky to have found the man of her dreams.  Thank you Joseph for making her so happy.

Here is the wedding picture:

I gave them 2 years to have a new grand-blessing started cooking for me.  Dejah loves that idea Joesph just blushes!   Wont they make cute grand-babies??

Dejah may not be a child of our womb but is of our heart .  God blesses us with her 7 years ago.

God Bless, mj

We girls are sick

Today when I was getting ready to send hubby Shannon off to work I found Shayna in the bathroom doing her hair.  She looked like death.  I felt her head she was burning up, daddy felt her head, same burning up he said.   I gave her so medicine and sent her off to bed, where she still is.   Kristi came down burning up, felt my head burning up!  Shannon say he is sleeping the his truck tonight!  I told him there are dog houses!!! 

Shannon is so great to us.  He said for us girls to just take it easy today and get better.  What a guy.  There is always so much for us to do and he just wants us to rest and feel better. 

We girls will do wash and keep up on a few things and of course feed the zillion animals we have.  But that is it.   Thank you hubby, you are such a blessing to us all.

God Bless, mj