THOUGHT FOR TODAY…

Only God knows how TRIUMPH comes from Tragedy, how weeping breaks over night and JOY comes in the morning.  ~ starla smith Thankfully we have a GOD who is ABLE a God who is SAVIOR a God who brings LIFE out of ashes a God who answers with Loving Kindness. Psalm 143:8 Cause me to…

When disaster strikes

 (picture from CNN.com) Over at Rise and Shine Women’s Retreat Facebook page they asked this question this morning: Are you praying for the people of Japan? If you could speak to them what would you say? I answered: Look Up, Look UP, our help comes from the Lord God Almighty…Jesus is our HOPE. Have Faith…

A Boy and his Grandpa

This picture is of my dad and my son. They are fishing off the porch. :0) My dad always seems to get into character when the kids are around. He tells them ” I’m 5 years old.” I think they believe him…lol   My dad’s use of his imagination, his ability to have the eyes of a…

A testimony – the beginning of many twists and turns.

Friday Facts will be back next week…. THIS FRIDAY I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY!!!  Some more Starla History:0) 2008 was a wild year at my house. In  early 2007 I got pregnant. I wasnt particularly excited about it either.  I had spent the last prior 9 years convincing myself that my daughter was plenty….

an IPHONE!!??? Huh??

The other day I was driving down the road and I saw a license plate on a car that I didn’t understand at first. Has that ever happened to you? You are sitting there while your mind is trying to make out a word that is on the little plate in front of you at the…

Friday Facts!!

02/25/2011 It’s Friday Facts …woot!! 1.  Potty training a  “determined to be independent and do it myself child” makes for lots of wiping up of floor and toilet and wall. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! :0/ 2. My church has officially changed its name. YEAH sooooooooo exciting!! We are now called:   3.  A poem A crystal in the…