Thursday, January 10, 2013
"When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me." Psalm 56:3-4
I have a confession to make. I have been living in(well, mainly sleeping in) fear the past few weeks. I will not go into all the details, but the week before Christmas Jeremy and I were awakened early one morning to the sound of a woman screaming her head off in our backyard. To our horror it was actually our landlord that was making the women scream! The woman was severally intoxicated but our landlord was dragging her out of the house and into the garage!! The police were called and the event was not as scary as it was perceived from our second story window, but still pretty crazy. Our landlord came and apologised and was sincerely sorry for his actions, but I have not slept good in the apartment since the incident. I am fine until I hear him come home every night and then I start to panic a little. We usually hear him talking around 12:00 or 12:30 each night, and it wakes me up and I get super anxious. This morning I woke up at 2:00 to him and another man talking loudly and it just unnerved me! Now, before there is a car load of people coming up to take us away from this place :) I will admit that I believe that I have nothing to fear. I believe I am safe and I truly believe that this is where we need to be this year (notice I said 'THIS' year!) Our landlord is a nice guy and has been very generous to us. I believe that God has made our paths cross to be an example and show him Christ. I just need prayers that I will stop hearing him talk in the night. I have slept so poorly and I feel like I am about to lose my mind! Sleep is very vital for fibro patients and it is taking a toll on me. This afternoon some rain is moving in and so with the added stress of not sleeping I was hurting so bad that I thought there was something seriously wrong. When we got home I sat in my massage chair and I started feeling better so I am convinced it is just my fibro. If I was not feeling better I was going to have Jeremy take me to the hospital (Yes, that is how bad I felt!) We went to eat at a Mexican restaurant that we are hoping to start having our Bible study at on Sunday nights and Jeremy thought I was about to pass out. I just need some relief and a good nights sleep!
The manager at the Mexican restaurant said he would need to talk to the owner about us meeting there, so I would ask that you would pray for us and our church plant about this issue. We would like to start having small Bible studies starting in March. We are also praying about a church that came on the market a few months ago that is in our neighborhood. There is an apartment building right across the street from us and the church is directly behind that building. We were drawn to the property when we first moved and then one day we were walking to the library and we saw the "Property Available" sign had been put up. You can view the property at this link. Even when we move from this apartment we are wanting to stay in this neighborhood. We would love to buy a house some where on the streets near where we are now. Please continue to pray for us as we move forward to what God has in store for us.
I have not taken very many pictures the past few days, but this is one of Sam and Emma playing with some clay that our dear friend Boo Boo (aka, Angela Trotter:) got for them.
I have a confession to make. I have been living in(well, mainly sleeping in) fear the past few weeks. I will not go into all the details, but the week before Christmas Jeremy and I were awakened early one morning to the sound of a woman screaming her head off in our backyard. To our horror it was actually our landlord that was making the women scream! The woman was severally intoxicated but our landlord was dragging her out of the house and into the garage!! The police were called and the event was not as scary as it was perceived from our second story window, but still pretty crazy. Our landlord came and apologised and was sincerely sorry for his actions, but I have not slept good in the apartment since the incident. I am fine until I hear him come home every night and then I start to panic a little. We usually hear him talking around 12:00 or 12:30 each night, and it wakes me up and I get super anxious. This morning I woke up at 2:00 to him and another man talking loudly and it just unnerved me! Now, before there is a car load of people coming up to take us away from this place :) I will admit that I believe that I have nothing to fear. I believe I am safe and I truly believe that this is where we need to be this year (notice I said 'THIS' year!) Our landlord is a nice guy and has been very generous to us. I believe that God has made our paths cross to be an example and show him Christ. I just need prayers that I will stop hearing him talk in the night. I have slept so poorly and I feel like I am about to lose my mind! Sleep is very vital for fibro patients and it is taking a toll on me. This afternoon some rain is moving in and so with the added stress of not sleeping I was hurting so bad that I thought there was something seriously wrong. When we got home I sat in my massage chair and I started feeling better so I am convinced it is just my fibro. If I was not feeling better I was going to have Jeremy take me to the hospital (Yes, that is how bad I felt!) We went to eat at a Mexican restaurant that we are hoping to start having our Bible study at on Sunday nights and Jeremy thought I was about to pass out. I just need some relief and a good nights sleep!
The manager at the Mexican restaurant said he would need to talk to the owner about us meeting there, so I would ask that you would pray for us and our church plant about this issue. We would like to start having small Bible studies starting in March. We are also praying about a church that came on the market a few months ago that is in our neighborhood. There is an apartment building right across the street from us and the church is directly behind that building. We were drawn to the property when we first moved and then one day we were walking to the library and we saw the "Property Available" sign had been put up. You can view the property at this link. Even when we move from this apartment we are wanting to stay in this neighborhood. We would love to buy a house some where on the streets near where we are now. Please continue to pray for us as we move forward to what God has in store for us.
I have not taken very many pictures the past few days, but this is one of Sam and Emma playing with some clay that our dear friend Boo Boo (aka, Angela Trotter:) got for them.
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