a new day....

Today is a new day. I have left facebook and now I expect to have more time in my day. I will miss knowing my friends joys and sharing their sorrows in real time...seeing up to date pictures of their families, and sharing mine, but I will do that here, and those who would like to see them, just check in now and then!

The reason? well, I had been uneasy for a while about the way they change up everything and reset our settings, did not like the face recognition thing, and being tagged in every unflattering picture for the world to see...but it's really more about what we don't know....what is happening behind the scenes that hasn't been expose yet...

and this. I feel the Lord wanted me to get off FB,.
some will understand that easily...others may think it's odd...and that's fine with me.

Trust & Obey, for there's no other way!

Stop complaining?

Phillipians 2:14-16a
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life.

This verse gives us good information on dealing with offenses. If we break it down, it could be read this way....If you grumble & argue, then YOU will be to blame, impure & at fault. OUCH!

If you don't "complain" then you willl be pure...

Teachings from The Bait of Satan- John Bevere

9-11-11

It's been ten years since the tragedy of 9-11.
and taking time to remember, the lives lost, the innocence lost, the suffering of families who lost loved ones that day or in the subsequent wars...kind of puts my piddly problems in prospective.

His Grace is always sufficient for me.

Only God

In God is our Hope...This is a challenging season...but My God is Greater than any Other...and I rest comfortably in His Will.

My Heart

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
Nate and April, and their boys in Annapolis this summer....

pictures by her cousin, Seven Set Studios.

ahhhhh I missed them!

We Love Lax

Ahem....
Nathan Maus has been awarded U.S. Asst. Coach of the Year for the State of Michigan!....wow.

It all began a long long time ago, when Nate didn't make the soccer team at his school....he was dissapointed, and a lax coach at the school gave him a lacrosse stick, and said, practice on your own, then come try out for the team...Lacrosse? what was that? we had played baseball, football, basketball, and soccer....
Who knew it would turn out to be "his sport"...He was very good! Of course us rents had a difficult time with the rules at first...you are allowed to hit with the stick...."hey! stop that, that's my kid!" lol but we learned, and came to LOVE the sport of Lacrosse ! I will admit to watching the national championship games when no one else is home....

Nate played High School- All State,
then club College Lax for WMU...
coached, taught camps...He worked for Warrioir Lacrosse (Warrior Sports) in summers, then went full time....

He came back to DLS for his love for teaching...and began coaching with Coach Jolley....and viola! The U.S. Michigan Assistant Coach of the Year!

Now as I watch his boys, Connor & Jordan throw around...
and I think we may have a second generation of players here.
I am well pleased.

Best Daughter Ever

Happy 25th Birthday to the best daughter ever....
You came into our lives with a surprise...
and we have been delighted with you ever since!

You have been an easy child to raise...never giving us any cause for alarm or trouble...always level headed...strong work ethic....doing your best, without feeling the need to be perfect...comfortable in your own skin...



Always caring for others...compassionate...you have a sacrificial love for people, willing to go an extra mile or two, because you are able, a peacemaker- smoothing and soothing ruffles feathers. you will take it upon yourself to make sure people are taken care of properly...meeting needs others shrug at....forsaking sleep to drive a friend somewhere...lining up volunteers to paint a house...using your own money to bless others...giving all but asking little.

A servant....at home, at work, at church...loving people, generous to a fault.
A leader...strong in the Lord, confident, able to leap small buildings with a single jump...always rescueing the rest of us.

A coach....teaching instructing, encouraging, wanting your girls to excell and exceed what you have done. (and pretty sucessfull I might add)
A friend... I am honored to be called friend by you, those of us so honored have experienced a rare and beautiful thing, a friend who is loyal to the end, overlooking our faults, but never our needs. Those who have experienced your friendship- true honest, without guile- know that we have been given a gift that God alone doles out.


Always giving your best, generous to a fault, and asking very little in return.
YOU are the most Amazing Daughter, and Friend I know...
I love you, Princess
Mom