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Seasons Greetings

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:04:00 -0600

Well here it is December 3, and once again my beloved wife has shamed me by updateing both her blogs. Thanksgiving was good just us ( Family) at home and we had a good service at church that morrning. One of the things I am especialy thankful for this year was being able to go on the men's retreat to Hulm lake. It was a wonderful time of worship and great teaching. I was convected about my walk and repented of not alowing Christ to be the Lord of my life. ( Matt. 7:22-23)

More milestones

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:09:00 -0500

Summer is running away and fall will be here soon, as we perpair for the new school year ( as if Homeschooling ever realy stops) just a few thoughts.

We have had our ups and downs. I have a on going problem with my knees( years of hard use ) and am now trying to build up the mussels to try and avoid an opperation.

Our car was totaled in an accedent, Praise GOD no one was injured and we were even blessed with a car to replace the old one.

My Beloved's TTP is still in remission and our middle daughter has started her " cycle" .I should add that it is before her older sister. This is hard on her because she is a middle child and so even though she is "first" in this it's hardly a treet.

My family and I are going to the Above Rubies retreat in Pine Valley CA . This is part of our vacation, we'll start out at Pine valley for friday night thru sunday morrning the we'll spend a few days up in Morrano Valley visiting with my Beloveds family then home to just relax and do some fixing up around the house.

The Good News is that GOD is with us in all our trials. He has gone before us to clear a path He follows behind to keep us from being overtaken by the enemy and He is always by our side as alli, comforter and friend.

Blessings till next time Tim

Times of rememberance

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:33:00 -0500

We all have those times in our lives that stick with us. Some are good and others are not so good. In looking in the old testament we find some of the faithful building alters in places that GOD had met them, other times we find alters being torn down. In my life I have built a few alters , not of stone but of the mind and heart. Today is one such day . This is the annaversery of the day that my Mother broke her hip and started the events that ended her mortal life. A moment and the course of lives is changed. The alters we build tie us to time and can help point us in new directions. My beloved wife is doing some alter building of her own. With the passing of her Mother and all the stress with the "misplaceing" of her Father this will be such a place in time for her. My job as her husband is to helper build a GOD approved alter, one of rememberance of life. My prayer for her and all of us is,

Lord grant us the strength to build the kind of alters that will last, ones that show life to ourselves and those who come appon them. Let us be ever mindfull of Your mercy and grace even in the midst of trials, morrning and hardship. Bind the unhealthy thoughts and nurture the life afferiming ones. Help us always to seek first Your kingdom. In Jesus name, amen.

WOW . What a Tme we have been having.

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:37:00 -0600

Now most posts that start with a title like that are probably about a realy great vacation or a super blessed missions trip, well......
That's not the case with us (at least not for now).
Ok here's the run down as of last year.
Dec. Christmas found us utterly broke.Just days away from The 25th and we had a negetive balance in the check book.GOD blessed us mightly through our church friends. They realy steped up and providedway more than we could have ever imagained. The down side was that our youngest was ill with the flu. Keep that in mind. By January the rest of us were also sick execpt my beloved Regina who got to have a large growth removed from her foot and needed to be off it for three weeks. About a week into this she got a call that her Mom was in the hospital and her cancer had returned ( in Riverside Ca. about 150 miles from us). Just a week to go in the staying off the foot thing and MaMa( Reginas Mom) has been transfered to a Hospis Care facility. So off we go to see her and get down just in time to spend some time with her and pray with her. The next morrning she went home to the Lord. We get home and a few days later we find out that when the funeral home went to bury her ashes with the remains of her husband that they couldn't find him! No kidding the cematery " lost" all record of Mr. King. At this point the sisters down south are going around with the cematery and we still don't know were "Dad" is.About all we can do is cry a little, Laugh some and pray ALLWAYS. This too will work out in GOD's timeing. But for now it's enough. Hope this hasn't been too long, I'll update when every one gets to be were there susposed to be.
P.S. I went to post this and was looking for what category to put it in and the best one has to be Eclectic LOL All in All this is just another proof that GOD has a sence of humor.

Happy Thanksgiving

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:53:00 -0600

It's Thanksgiving day (well early morrning) my beloved reminded me to up date my profile it some how got changed. So doing that I found that I haven't posted here in a while. Thoughts are on the day ahead and food, Family and food and well food. It is at this time of year I generaly go into a funk, it might just be the weather or it's all the hussel and bussel for reasons utterly un related to why we honor the Day. I would like to get back to the roots of Faith and try to strip away the layers of humanist nonsence that has covered the truth of what we believe and why. In my youth our family had a cabin in the Hi desert of southern California we would offten spend holladays there and enjoy the peace and quite. It was just a three room building, a living room/bedroom about 8 ft. x 20ft. a kitchen maybe 10x8 and a bed room also about 10x8. It had a large fire place at one end of the great room and the cooking was on a wood burning stove we used an Ice Box (as in you had to put Ice in it ) and the nessasaries were out the back door down the path to the little house behind the little house on the prarie.All in all it was a great place. No phone no running water (execpt what was pumped up to a tank on the roof) . Lighting was by colman lantern or oil lamp. The entertainment center was an old Victrola record player, crank type that played 78 rpm records. One of the things I recall was how your ears would ring from the lack of sounds. That would last about a few hours then you would be treated to the wind in the pine trees or the call of wild birds and other critters. No car alarms horns honking or loud radios. I think I miss the silence the most. The Bible tels us to " be still and know I am GOD" I wonder sometimes are we able to do that in this day. I for one am going to try and unplug, be still and wait on GOD.

Have A Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving

Better late than never?

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:01:00 -0500

Once again it has been way too long a time between posts. I have no excuse save sloth and the tyranny of the urgent, The sloth is just my own failing to stick to typing out my thoughts, the tyranny comes from all the things that seam important but maybe are not so.

The school year and all the attendant activties are in full swing.

My beloveds TTP is in remission and she is doing well, although she is having some problems with joint pain. This is mostly in the A.M. but will act up at other times as well.

Dads ( my father) ALZ is staying stable for now and the other medical issues with him are also under control.

At work the powers that be keep trying to fix the non-broken and seammengly render useless that wich does work. Oh well I guess that is all part of the fun.

An odd set of cercumstances lead to my attending two funerals in one day. Two unrelated people in two parts of town both just an hour apart. The first was for my former employer/friend who had passed away sept.12. He was a mentor a friend and one of the best bosses anyone could ask for. If you know the Christmas Carol, he was Fozzywig ( Ebenizer's master whe he was an apprentice) jolly and fun but able to inspire good work habbits.I will miss him. the second was the father of a girl I first met in high school, lots of years ago.He passed on Sept.13. His life ,wile not as involved with mine was important and worth the attendance. Each was unique as were the men they were for but each shared a message of hope for those left behind. I was moved to contact another old friend and found him and his family well. And I take some comfort in knowing that I am GODs and when this race is run I'll go to be with HIM forever.

No big finish, no deep message save this ,cherish everyone all the time. our days are too short to waste not loving and being loved. One of the things I herd the most was..." I had just been thing about..... when I found out he had died" How offten do you get the chance to say "I care "and don't do it? How much would it mean to you to know you were being thought of ?

Call whoever you think about right now, just to say Hi.

Grace to you and yours ,Tim

Up Dated Update

Wed, 16 May 2007 23:34:00 -0500

The last month or so has been a blur. My beloveds TTP and all that that entailed has been a trial for sure. GOD is great and greatly to be praised. The blessings are still comming and I am surprized just how much help we realy do need. I was talking with a brother at church last week and relized that I had driven back and forth to the hospitial (aprox. 20mi roundtrip) as well as almost daily trips of maybe 5 to 15 mi for a month on one tank of gas. I know that might seem like a small thing but the fact that I didn't even need to get fuel was a blessing. That as well as dinners, bags and bags of food and even money, it is all so wonderful.

To-night was Reginas first time out in public on a big scale( our three girls AWANAs Awards night) It was so great to see the number of people who were so happy to see her. We are blessed by the preyers of the saints and I am encouraged to know that GOD is alive in this generation and for such a time as this.

GODs peace be with all who pray. You are the voice and ears of the LORD. Thank You.

Praise Report & Update

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:59:00 -0500

Praise GOD My beloved is home with us again! She stil has a ways to go yet but at least she will be able do it out pataint and it is down to only 3 days a week. We still have the issues of my work times and getting my Beloved to her treatments. Also trying to get ourselves back on a "normal" routine, Three girls, homechooling and keeping up with caretaking of my father. All things work to the good for thouse who love the LORD.

Be Blessed, Tim

My how time flys.....

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:14:00 -0500

when your computer isn't working.Or why this hasn't been updated in a wile.

The news around our house has been that I have been a stay at home single dad for the last three weeks. My beloved wife is in the hospitial with a blood dissorder called TTP. The short story goes like this. On Monday eve we were picking up a few things at the market and my beloved had a tingeling and some numbness on her left side (Face,Arm and Leg) . We took her to the ER and they checked her out and said that it wasn't a heart attack or stroke ( Praise GOD) but...... Her blood count plateletts were dangerously low down to around 10 thousand nornal is 175-200 thousand. Needles to say she was checked in right then. She was transfered to another Hospitial downtown the next day and started Dyalisis to cleen out the bad stuff and replace the plasma. This is a 4-5 hour process and has been going on daily for over two weeks. At least the numbers are comming up and they say she should bee relesed next week.

All that and trying to be Dad, Mom and Homeschool teacher as well as caretaker for my Father (ALZ) it has been a trying time. But GOD is good. We have been blessed with dinners most nights and the hospitial has been a missions filed for my wife.

We are blessed " All things work to the good for those who love the LORD"

New Years Part II

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:28:00 -0600