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I have had a great week so far. Even getting my post in earlier than normal
. So much to be thankful for but I want to focus on a visit I had earlier in the week with the mother of one of my oldest son's best friends.
On Monday my mother and I took my oldest son and two of his friends along with my youngest to a free skate park in La. Did I ever mention that my son is a big skater. He lives to skate and play the guitar. Anyway they had a great time even with the heat. I got good video of them doing some real skateboarding and it was nice to see all the tricks my boy can do. I never realized how much energy he exerts on that board. No wonder he stays so skinny. Maybe I should take that up. LOL
Well I have gotten really close to one of his friends mothers. The Lord has truley blessed me with some ladies that have boys a lot like mine and even one with two boys that are the same age as two of mine. So they have experiences similar to mine. I do not have that at my church. One of these ladies was brought up in church and the other, well come to find out we have so many similarities it's mind boggling.
I have been praying that my son would make friends that have a Christian home. Friends that would have the same types of rules and such, also most definitely the same beliefs. I have shared (I think) the struggles I have had with him and between him and my husband. He has raised him 13 out of 15 yrs but there is still a lot of stuff there we are trying to work on.
Well he has. Praise be to God! Oh and not mention both boys are from homeschooling Christian families!
I have gotten really close to friend #1's mother. We talk on the phone at least once a day almost since we met. It's only been a short time so far. Friend #1 and #2 are both here at my home a lot and my son has spent a lot of time at friend #1's house. He even went to Florida with them a few weeks back.
Friend #2 has been over here a lot more than my son has been to his house. He spent the Sunday before last with them and visited their church with them. I have to brag for just a moment...may I? Well I got a call after my son was there for two days from this mother telling me how great my son was, how firm in his faith he is and how respectful he is!!! Thank You Jesus!
The mother is a Sunday School teacher and the father is the SS Super and the youth Sunday School Teacher
. Now I know these friendships have been formed by God but I didn't realize how much God's hand was really in it.
I hadn't really visited with Friend #2's mom that much and had very few phone conversations with her. So I didn't know a whole lot about them. Just saw how good there son was, met them both and that's about it. Asked friend #1's mom what she thought too because all three are peas in a pod and almost inseparable since the summer started.
These two boys have been friends for over a year. They met at the church my son attends on Wed nights youth services
. Much larger youth group than our home church and really reaching out to the teens. Anyway she (mother of friend #2) comes to pick him up Monday after the skate park. She gets out the car and says to me (looking a little uncomfy at the time), " I wanted to ask you and Friend #1'a mom if maybe we could all get together and have a little prayer session for our children and our husbands, their jobs to prosper and the boys for direction and such?" . I was so happy. I really can not even explain the feeling I got inside when she asked me this. Blessed, happy, hopeful that's three words that come to mind. But really those can't even describe the feeling I had inside.
Then she came inside. this is unusual. The norm is for her to drive through the circle drive, pick him up and go. We begin to share with each other our lives and what God has brought the two of us through. I could feel the Holy Spirit all around us as she shared her testimony.It was just amazing.
I knew at that moment that God had a BIG hand in the friendship the boys had formed. I would have never dreamed that I would meet and make two friends that I could relate to here in real life. Not to say anything about the online friendships but sometimes we ladies need another ladies that has gone through, is going through or maybe been through the same things with their children. Then on top of that PRAYER PARTNERS!!!!
So today I am thankful for Blessed Friendships. The ones that you know God planned before we were formed, for our children and for ourselves. I thank God that He sees the needs of a mother and hears the cries and prayers and He answers.
I thank God that I now have more prayer partners than before. Ones that I know will be praying for my son the way they would want someone to pray for theirs. Friends that like my son, friends that can talk to my son in a loving and caring way and I know that they mean every word they say. Friends that want their children and teach their children morals and purity and godliness. Friends that are not perfect but perfect for me!
Ladies this is a very BIG thing for me. I have been waiting years to have friends with sons my sons age, that love the Lord ans can understand him and I. So these are prayers answered that have been prayed many, many years now. He is an on time God!
Oh let me not forget to thank Iris for hosting Thankful Thursday. I pray the Lord bless her as she is such a blessing to many out here in Blogland. If you haven't heard of Thankful Thursday or maybe want to find out how you can be a part of this, click on the graphic at the top of this post, join us in Giving Thanks.
Be blessed,
Stacy
Prayer:
Thank you Jesus for all the many blessings you have sent this last week. Thank you for new prayer partners, friendships that I know will last and you hand in our lives so apparent that their is no denying that you love us so much you will make a way where there seems to be no way. Lord allow me to be as much a blessing to them and even more so than they are to me. Lord I pray in Jesus Name that you use me, lead and guide my mouth to speak of your goodness, to encourage them in their struggles and whether in word or deed let your light shine through me.
In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
. So much to be thankful for but I want to focus on a visit I had earlier in the week with the mother of one of my oldest son's best friends.On Monday my mother and I took my oldest son and two of his friends along with my youngest to a free skate park in La. Did I ever mention that my son is a big skater. He lives to skate and play the guitar. Anyway they had a great time even with the heat. I got good video of them doing some real skateboarding and it was nice to see all the tricks my boy can do. I never realized how much energy he exerts on that board. No wonder he stays so skinny. Maybe I should take that up. LOL
Well I have gotten really close to one of his friends mothers. The Lord has truley blessed me with some ladies that have boys a lot like mine and even one with two boys that are the same age as two of mine. So they have experiences similar to mine. I do not have that at my church. One of these ladies was brought up in church and the other, well come to find out we have so many similarities it's mind boggling.
I have been praying that my son would make friends that have a Christian home. Friends that would have the same types of rules and such, also most definitely the same beliefs. I have shared (I think) the struggles I have had with him and between him and my husband. He has raised him 13 out of 15 yrs but there is still a lot of stuff there we are trying to work on.
Well he has. Praise be to God! Oh and not mention both boys are from homeschooling Christian families!
I have gotten really close to friend #1's mother. We talk on the phone at least once a day almost since we met. It's only been a short time so far. Friend #1 and #2 are both here at my home a lot and my son has spent a lot of time at friend #1's house. He even went to Florida with them a few weeks back.
Friend #2 has been over here a lot more than my son has been to his house. He spent the Sunday before last with them and visited their church with them. I have to brag for just a moment...may I? Well I got a call after my son was there for two days from this mother telling me how great my son was, how firm in his faith he is and how respectful he is!!! Thank You Jesus!
The mother is a Sunday School teacher and the father is the SS Super and the youth Sunday School Teacher
. Now I know these friendships have been formed by God but I didn't realize how much God's hand was really in it. I hadn't really visited with Friend #2's mom that much and had very few phone conversations with her. So I didn't know a whole lot about them. Just saw how good there son was, met them both and that's about it. Asked friend #1's mom what she thought too because all three are peas in a pod and almost inseparable since the summer started.
These two boys have been friends for over a year. They met at the church my son attends on Wed nights youth services
. Much larger youth group than our home church and really reaching out to the teens. Anyway she (mother of friend #2) comes to pick him up Monday after the skate park. She gets out the car and says to me (looking a little uncomfy at the time), " I wanted to ask you and Friend #1'a mom if maybe we could all get together and have a little prayer session for our children and our husbands, their jobs to prosper and the boys for direction and such?" . I was so happy. I really can not even explain the feeling I got inside when she asked me this. Blessed, happy, hopeful that's three words that come to mind. But really those can't even describe the feeling I had inside.Then she came inside. this is unusual. The norm is for her to drive through the circle drive, pick him up and go. We begin to share with each other our lives and what God has brought the two of us through. I could feel the Holy Spirit all around us as she shared her testimony.It was just amazing.
I knew at that moment that God had a BIG hand in the friendship the boys had formed. I would have never dreamed that I would meet and make two friends that I could relate to here in real life. Not to say anything about the online friendships but sometimes we ladies need another ladies that has gone through, is going through or maybe been through the same things with their children. Then on top of that PRAYER PARTNERS!!!!
So today I am thankful for Blessed Friendships. The ones that you know God planned before we were formed, for our children and for ourselves. I thank God that He sees the needs of a mother and hears the cries and prayers and He answers.
I thank God that I now have more prayer partners than before. Ones that I know will be praying for my son the way they would want someone to pray for theirs. Friends that like my son, friends that can talk to my son in a loving and caring way and I know that they mean every word they say. Friends that want their children and teach their children morals and purity and godliness. Friends that are not perfect but perfect for me!
Ladies this is a very BIG thing for me. I have been waiting years to have friends with sons my sons age, that love the Lord ans can understand him and I. So these are prayers answered that have been prayed many, many years now. He is an on time God!
Oh let me not forget to thank Iris for hosting Thankful Thursday. I pray the Lord bless her as she is such a blessing to many out here in Blogland. If you haven't heard of Thankful Thursday or maybe want to find out how you can be a part of this, click on the graphic at the top of this post, join us in Giving Thanks.
Be blessed,
Stacy
Prayer:
Thank you Jesus for all the many blessings you have sent this last week. Thank you for new prayer partners, friendships that I know will last and you hand in our lives so apparent that their is no denying that you love us so much you will make a way where there seems to be no way. Lord allow me to be as much a blessing to them and even more so than they are to me. Lord I pray in Jesus Name that you use me, lead and guide my mouth to speak of your goodness, to encourage them in their struggles and whether in word or deed let your light shine through me.
In Jesus Name I pray. Amen.
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