Aunt Bea’s Corner

Not a lot of time for writing at the moment.  I keep thinking life will slow down and I can get my thoughts into words but that has not happened so far.  Some have asked me to post some new pics of Brayden so I thought I would at least take the time to do that.  He is now 1 month old.  He had a check up today and now weighs a whopping 10 lbs 8 oz and is 21 1/4″ long.  Here are a couple of new pics that I took Sunday night when they were over….

In Pappy's Arms!!!!

Bright eyes

My schedule has been rather busy lately.  Work has taken a lot of my time.  This week alone I have worked almost 13 hours of overtime.  There were a lot of funerals and we had two weddings on top of that.  Brad has been home the last couple of weeks and of course there is the new grand baby.  I so love my time with him.  I have to make every second count.  He was over last night and it had been a week since I had seen him.  He had grown so much in that amount of time.  He’s the sweetest little thing ever. 

Life in general has been hard lately.  Lots of things going on in my family and with my friends.  It seems like there have been a lot of attacks going on around us.  I’ve devoted a lot of extra time the last couple of weeks to prayer.  I pray daily on a regular basis anyway, but I’ve added a lot more to that.  When people know that you are a prayer warrior they tend to come to you for that reason.  So the responsibility recently has been greater than usual.

Our lesson this morning in SS was about the single prophet Elijah standing against the 450 Baal prophets in a challenge to their god.  They both had bulls that had been slaughtered and placed on an alter and the Baal prophets were calling on their god to send down fire and ignite their sacrifice.  Of course they were not successful.  Elijah on the other hand, took special care in making his alter and had his bull and wood watered down, not once, but twice and also added water to a trench he had dug around his alter.  He called on the one true God only once and the fire he sent down was so great it burned up the sacrifice and the wood and the rocks he had placed around it and consumed all the water in the trench.

I guess my point is that I serve an awesome God.  The one true God.  The God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.  I know he is able to take care of me and all the problems that I am facing and that my family has been challenged with.  The real question is do I have enough faith to leave them at his feet and not try to take them back?