Stacy and Brian come for a Quick Visit!!

So great to have them here for 14 hours!! It was hard getting good pictures because the little ones were still sleepy! Brianne, Joshua and Anna Grace make for one sweet busy family!!

Pride......

"Beloved. sometimes a prolonged rebellion and resisted warning can result in a drastic chastisement, but God's desire, particularly toward His beloved child , is neither to destroy or condemn. It is to re-grow us free of the fruit-rotting parasite of pride. God is not trying to destroy us, He's trying to keep us from destroying ourselves."
~Beth Moore from her study "Daniel Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy."

3 of my friends and I are studying this weekly and we are learning so much. I have never "gotten into" the Old Testament.
Previous Beth Moore Bible Studies that we have completed are "David a Man after God's Own Heart" and "Esther" and now "Daniel" have sparked such a great interest in the Scriptures. Help me Lord to be the woman I was created to be ~susan

62 years ago today Mom and Dad were married!

 Mom and Dad were married 62 years ago when they were 18 and 22 years old. This photo was taken 2 years later. It is so special to me because Mom is 3 months pregnant with me, their first born. Wow, are they young, Mom is so cute and Dad so handsome!

Another picture early in their marriage! Love the car. Thank you for being my parents and for loving me. Mom went to heaven 4+ years ago and Dad just turned 84 and is going strong! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Encouragement in Prayer

Encouragement in Prayer May the following quote by Octavius Winslow be an encouragement to you in prayer.


And all things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. Matthew 21:22


Draw near, then, seeking soul, with boldness; Draw near with the lowly boldness of a child–with the humble confidence of a son. Dear are you to your Father. Sweet is your voice to Him. Precious is your person, accepted in His Beloved. You cannot come too boldly–you cannot come too frequently–you cannot come with too large requests. You are coming to a King, that King your Father, that Father viewing you in His beloved Son. Oh, hang not back. Stand not afar off. He now holds out the golden scepter, and says, “Come near; what is your request? Come with your temporal want. Come with your spiritual need. Ask what you will, it shall be granted you. I have an open hand, and a large heart.”

This too shall pass....

If only we could remember this! God's ways are always better than our ways!!

More pics of Haddon's and Karlyn's visit!

 Big Haddon and Little Haddon play ball. Little Haddon loves baseball and has a rug burn on his knee from sliding into base on my great room carpet! So so cute!

 Pregnant with #3, it is a boy and all is well at 24 weeks! Thank you Lord!!

 Trying to get a picture of Miss Giggles is next to impossible!

She so wanted a picture with her Mom, Sue Sue and Toni but getting her to look at the camera was most difficult!!

 Sucking on a lemon, but he too, will not smile when you want him to, otherwise he is a very smiley baby!!

Once again Miss Giggles cannot sit still or open her eyes and look at the camera all at the same time!
I loved having them with me. God is so good to give me 3 generations of this family to love!

There is no pit so deep.....

"There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still."
,,,,Corrie ten Boom

The first time I read this quote in her book the "Hiding Place," it made me cry knowing all that she had gone thru
in the concentration camps......
and all that she had lost! What a godly
woman she was!!