Life With Derek music video..........This Is My Idea from Swan Princess

This is another video I made. I love this song from Swan Princess...and I love Life With Derek!
:)

Heaven Song by Phil Wickham - Nature slideshow

Here is a finished video that I have been working on. I finally got it on YouTube..so I thought It would be fun to share it on here.

Expectations

I would like to share something from a book I was reading by one of my favorite authors, Sigmund Brouwer. It's from a book called SHORT CUTS from the Accidental Detectives kids series. In this particular book, Sigmund writes a short story and then the next chapter he gives his own thoughts behind the story.
In one of these segments he talks about expectations. Here is part of that chapter.




Life is difficult.
"This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we see, truly see, this truth, we rise above it. Once we truly know that life is difficult---once we truly understand and accept it---then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."
If, like me, you prefer fast-paced books and movies with car chases, shooting, and pretty women, you may have raced through those first five sentences above, written by M. Scott Peck, M.D., in his book THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED. I think I can promise, however, that if you understand and remember those five sentences, you will be granted a tremendous freedom.
Expectations.
I would appreciate it if you would read Dr. Peck's five sentences again. Slowly.
Expectations.
If you expect it to be cold, and you dress warmly, it's not a big deal. But if you go to Hawaii and have to shiver on the beach during a snowstorm, you'd be extremely disappointed.
If you plan a two-mile hike and are still walking twelve miles later, you'll be disappointed. And so forth.
If you expect life to be a breeze, if you think life should be easy, then you will be forever disappointed, because LIFE IS DIFFICULT. Always.When you finally accept that life will always be difficult--that when no sooner have you overcome one hurdle then you will be faced with another---it no longer matters that life is difficult: it no longer frustrates you. You simply begin to overcome the next hurdle, with gratitude for any rest between.
Life is difficult, and once we accept it, we rise above the difficulties.






I was reading this and I just had to stop and think about it a minute. It wasn't really anything I hadn't heard before....but it was something that I had forgotten. Often I complain and ask God "Why does life have to be so hard?" And often it's something small and insignificant that I'm complaining about. That's why it is important to remember that life is difficult....but God is right there with us the whole way. He will give us strength, guidance and the rest and peace that we crave..if we trust in him and depend on him to see us through every hurdle and challenge we face.  


Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.


1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

My Baby Cookie

This blog post is in memory of my darling cat, Cookie. He was very sick and wasn't going to make it..so we had to put him to sleep this last monday so that he wouldn't be in pain anymore. I wanted very much to post about him sooner and name all of the cute, sweet, precious things that I love about him...but it makes me too sad to think about it. So for now I'm just posting this. He was the best, kindest, coziest, lovable baby boy ever. I miss him so much every day.