| 17/07/08 11:11 PM |
#433
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Ann Morgan (Prather)
Hello again everyone, sorry I'm so sporatic. :( I've been trying to catch up tonight (reading). I am too busy at work and don't normally want to look at my computer when I get home.
My heart and prayer goes out to each of you who are dealing with the loss of family and friends.
I guess most people probably noticed that I said I felt like Destin was my home, I want to explain a little better, Destin was the first place I felt as though I "fit in", I have very close friends there, several at once, for the first time in my life. Everyone there is FROM somewhere else. I had an awsome church, Village Baptist, anyone going there on vacation that feels like church, should visit. My friends there helped me get through some very difficult times after my divorce. I can relate soo well to what one of you mentioned earlier about wishing you could take your church with you. I never had a church home like Destin, I have faith and pray daily that the Lord will take me back there soon. I have not found my church home in Fort Smith, although I pray for that too. Everyone here is so closed off, I can't stand the thought of raising Morgan among such a spiritually MISlead group of churchgoers, I mean does it really matter if you can make it to more than 80% of the choir practices if your singing for the Lord? People are soo caught up in the DOing, they forget that it's not about practice it's about praise!!! The Lord converts it if I accidentally hit a wrong note. :) I have never had soo many spiritual awakenings as I had among the open loving friends and church family. They truly helped me learn to walk with the Lord, "walking in the light" is right, if Anyone knows about a spiritually lead church here in Fort Smith I'd love to hear about it. :) That's all, thought I should make myself understood. Stuttgart will always be the place I'm from.
David -
You are in my prayers daily, as are all of the men and women protecting our country overseas and at home. It makes me want to cry for you all, I can only imagine how hard you all have it, please keep safe. Do you have any of those multi-million dollar modified hummers yet? the ones supposed to deflect the blasts outward? My cousin's husband flys back and forth with supplies and wounded or dead soldiers, and he says the same things you say, the media is just propaganda here.
Beth -
"I" collected Smurfs and i still have an entire box of them, LOL!!!! Just found it in my hope chest when
I cleaned out last summer to move back from Florida! :)
Scott -
I'm good, I'm sorry about all you are going through, it is hard to explain things to our kids sometimes and we wonder why we must find the explanation. Some times it's self therapy, the Lord will protect them from the part they cannot understand or deal with. I heard a speaker on family matters say the other day, "we never know what God has in store for our children, what experiences will mold them into what he has in their plan. Just as he uses those things to change us, he may also be teaching our children lessons, you may even have to take a moment and pray before you speak." God WILL give you those difficult words though.
I had to find a delicate way to explain to my daughter when she was 4 that her Father signed away his rights to her when she was 2. She had to hear it and it could have been severely damaging to her ego at that age but God gave me the words, and it made US closer. As I spoke "I" realized that what was coming out of my mouth was in a way, healing for me too. There was, I suppose, some guilt or resentment that was released from me when I explained that it wasn't her fault or mine, he chose to be a "not so nice husband and father". She 's still independant but respects more what I have done and continue to do for her. And most of all she knows I love her and I got the opportunity back to let go of the feeling that maybe "I" could have done something differient. The Lord has bleesed me richly.
Ashley -
I'm really good, I have a beautiful daughter.
Jason -
I saw "the boat" in Fort Smith the other day and I immediately thought of you all! :) LOL! don't know who owns it though.
Laren -
Thanks to you and your team of helpers for making this website soo successful and fun!!! I can't wait to see everyone. I would not have expected it to be any less than the best with you taking care of it. kudos
HEY Ladies -
Remember the "PIG OUT PAILS" from middle school. I need one of those for Morgan, you know where I might find one?
I'll try not to write a book next time :) Gotta go, it gets late too fast when your old! LOL
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