Friend in Friend

Today at 1pm we have Cayla’s follow up appointment at Vanderbilt. She will be having another ultrasound done on her stomach and bladder by the urologist that preformed her surgery last month. Last month they found nothing, Praise God!, but he wants to check it out again just to make sure. Just wanted to fill you all in so that you can be praying, I will try to do a quick little follow up tonight sometime on how things go. Bye for now!
~C

There has been so much craziness in our lives, the Lord has been teaching me so much in the past month that I could not put it all into words, and If I even tried it would take days, no months! I am so going to copy my hubby on this one and just copy and paste an e-mail that i had sent a while ago updating family on Cayla, here ya go!

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Email:

Alright, we got the results back yesterday.

The Doctors took us back into the conference room and sat us down, he said, “well you know the mass that I was showing you in the Ultrasound (by the way it was very clear), well we went in and we didn’t find anything, there was nothing in there at all.”. He really had nothing more to say than that, he did want to schedule Cayla in for another Ultrasound, that he wanted to do himself, in a month just to make sure.
Then later the nurse that was with Cayla during all the procedures came in to run us through the different meds that she would need to be taking for recovery, then she said, “Don’t you think that is amazing that they didn’t find anything?” I told her “yes!”, then she started to tear up and said ,”Well I better get out of here before I start crying.” She rushed out, and a few minutes later came back with another popsicle for Cayla with tears still in her eyes. Praise the Lord! Not only was there Nothing found in her bladder, At ALL, but all of the pain and irritation resulting from the testing that we were warned of, was not there, Cayla has had no pain or even discomfort at all!
Thank you for your prayers, God is GOOD, and he healed our baby girl! We love you all!
Feel free to call or e-mail, we would love to share more!

~The Brown Family

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Psalms 90 :1-2

“Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations

Before the mountains were brought fourth, or ever you had

formed the  earth and world, from everlasting to everlasting

you are God.”

I really don’t think that I can bear to go through all the details again, so if you are reading this and have no clue what i am talking about, feel free to read my husbands blog (training for.. (I have a link to it)), in his last post he did a good job at the details of it all.

So today Cayla goes in for testing.

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“I will bless the LORD at all times ; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the LORD ; The humble will hear it and rejoice. O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together! I sought the LORD, and He answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces will never be ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him And saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them. O taste and see that the LORD is good ; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! O fear the LORD, you His saints ; For to those who fear Him there is no want.”

This summer it will be 3 years!

Three years ago I reached my breaking point, you that place where you reach the very end of your self and you realize that you have gained NOTHING!It’s where you take that honest look at yourself, and all that your life adds up to, and instead of adding up to something it just loops back around to the same place you have really always been, your whole life. Sure my circumstances look a little different, I was now married and had two children and a dog at the time. And yeah, along the way, through knowing  basic bible morality, I changed a few behaviors. I stopped the party lifestyle, I stopped cursing, I stopped listening to bad music, but underneath it all I was still the very same person. I had become a white washed tomb, I looked the part, different, new in fact, but there was still that same rotting corps with in the tomb.

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O how far I am from from where I so Long to be.

I am so tired of stumbling over this sinful flesh of mine.  It seems that no matter how close I get to the Lord, no matter how blown away I am at his almighty power and Love, no mater what all I have seen and heard, and no matter how many times he softens this hard heart, I can not escape my fallenness. How I long to be FREE from it!  Wall after wall is built and torn down, built up and torn down, again! Everything within me desires the day this flesh is gone!

Yet another day for yet another wall to be torn down.

“Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way

everlasting!”

Yet another day to surrender more and more, letting go of the sin that so easily entangles, Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith!

At least I know, that no matter what, God is Good,  he loves me, and will never leave me as I am. Praise the Lord for that!!

~C

Man I tell you what, I have so much swimming in my head right now that I can’t even think or see straight. I am back now from my trip to Texas, and as much as i tried to prepare emotional, and spiritually for this trip, I arrived EXTREMELY unprepared! I am trying to process everything right now.

The Good was very good and sweet to my soul, the Lord did some amazing things and it encouraged my faith in him greatly, however the enemy was there. I am struggling with bitterness and hurt, there was a spiritual battle, and i came out wounded. I share this for the sake of prayer, I do not want the enemy to steel my joy from all that I have seen the Lord do those 5 days in Texas, pray for me the strength to let it all go and embrace the goodness of the Lord.

I look forward to sharing some pretty cool things that went down… in time though, I need to spend a few days with the Lord in his Word, be recharged, drowned in TRUTH for a while, ya know?

Until then, peace to you in the Lord!

~C

I love this picture, it is one of life’s peaceful moments, the sun rising on a blanket of fresh snow, every day is a new day to be enjoyed. Another day to rest in the Beauty and goodness of the Lord.

So this is my last day before I leave on this crazy trip to Texas, it will be me and my sweet Annikka (7 months old now). My Papa is not doing well, his health has declined over the past years, and it appears that his life in this world is coming to an end very soon. I am not sure of where he is with the Lord, so it will be hard, so those of you reading this who pray, please pray for his salvation.

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…What the wiil of God is?

I think this is one of the MOST asked questions by us as believers and followers of Jesus Christ.  Job oppertunities pop up, New relationships begin, Conflict will happen, and Trial is Sure to come, So ……. How do we know, how do we really know what the will of God is in those times?

Well the ONLY way to truly know the will of God is to rely on His Holy Word ALONE! I was reading in Romans this morning and Paul clearly answers this often asked question.

Romans 12:1-2

Lets break it down:

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, Holy and Acceptable to God. Which is your spiritual worship.”

As true believers whom have been given the gift of the Holy Spirit, our desire is to please God because it is His Spirit that we now have, however we are still in flesh and can be deceived by it. We desire to do that which Paul is appealing to us in Romans, but what is it to be a “Living Sacrifice” that is “holy and acceptable to God.“?

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Our Mariage

Is proof that through Jesus Christ

ALL things are possible.

I am glad that The Lord dreams bigger and greater then I.

“Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing ; but that she would be holy and blameless.”

~Eph 5:22-27~

I GET to Submit to my Husband and REST in his lead

What Freedom there is in God’s word and in his TRUTH

Thank you Father for today!

Samariton Woman at the Well

John 4:15-18
” The woman said to him,
“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty,
or have to come here to draw water.”

Jesus said to her,
“Go call your husband, and come here.”

The woman answered him,
“I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her,
“You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have
had five husbands and the one you now have is not your
husband. What you have said it true.”

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Finally in verse 18 “Sir give me this water”, she stops resisting his promise (GIFT) and starts to turn, asking him for what he offers her.  Jesus faithfully pursued her, even in the midst of her unbelief. In Gods word it says that an unbelieving heart is evil (Hebrews 3:12), so while she is still yet evil he pursues her. Now as a woman we all desire to be pursued, in our eyes, to be pursued it to be loved, and Jesus pursued this woman in a way no other man had. Jesus pursued her, not for his own personal gain (sexual pleasure), but it was for her gain, he pursued her because he wanted to GIVE to her.
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