Oh the beauty of childhood! We are having a grand time with our grandsons (and our daughter!) this week. Playing horseshoes, catching lightning bugs, & playing 'concentration' with sweet 'bunny' cards with the oldest. Oh those smiles and hugs...

I want to pass along a great Bible resource today. It is called E-Sword and is truly marvelous. I read some of the Bible online this morning with a wonderful devotional that pops up automatically. When you have time I hope you check this link out. It is a free download and amazing for what all it offers and is capable of doing.

I'd better run off now and get my day started. We have big plans for more fun in the making. But being reminded....

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice ofthe archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then we which are alive and remain shall abe caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." I Thessalonians 4:verses 16 & 17.

This is one of my favorite books, among many! A Winnie the Poo book with yellow pages. Did you ever have a book with yellow pages? Its like sunshine...that lifts the spirit. Please do click on this pic to enlarge it, I am so unsatisfied with the quality of it on the blog at first glance. It is such a beautiful page with its sunny yellow paper.

We spent yesterday painting the pc room. Oh what work. Every time I pull out shelves of anything they take over the room/house. And yet I press on, trying valiantly to organize and clear clutter.

Hubby is stopping at the library right now...to borrow 2 spinning books I ordered. Oh happy day indeed...I looked at these briefly at Barnes & Noble Booksellers(don't you love that title?, I do. Especially today when everything formal is rather tossed aside). So....I'll have a couple of weeks to enjoy the spinning books...learning from them and if I REALLY like them, I'll buy them perhaps. I hope your summer days are pleasant and not all work like mine are this week! You know what that old saying is, nothing ventured nothing gained, groan. =)

Life is full of so many wonderful things to enjoy, yet I long for the Lord to catch us away....away from this present evil world where children aren't safe and there are locks on our doors and fear is silently present for many people. There are no locks in heaven. "Praise ye the Lord"

"He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." Psalm 147: verses 4 & 5.

This is an interesting item for me to come across while browsing photos for a post. It is one of a set of small and very lovely crocheted doilies my Aunt made us for a wedding gift 42 years ago. Wednesday will be our 42nd Wedding Anniversary. Where have the years gone by so quickly? I know one thing, a good marriage just gets sweeter as the years go by. I am thankful for my sweet husband...he is a gem.

'Sweeter as the years go by' reminds me of the hymn that says that also.
Both my husband and I are thrilled to be saved...trusting in Jesus Christ, now and forever.

What fun over at Photo Bucket! Vacation Bible School 2009....our lesson stories were from John Bunyan's 'Holy War'. Such great truths we thought about...we all enjoyed acting out the story also.

Look! I just learned how to blur faces in a photo....smile. Only-the picture is too large and I clicked on medium pic in Blogger here. Oh no! Blogger resized the pic and cut part off. ( but,if you click on this pic it will show you the whole photo)

Anyway, this is a part of our happy Vacation Bible School class. The 'Mansoulians' (representing man's soul, in the fight between Godliness and the evil ones) and the kids with the white helmets on were the bad guys besieging the castle walls. The Ear Gate first of all. Oh be careful little ears what you hear....be careful little eyes what you see, for the Father up above is looking down in love...we had a great week!

I'm getting ready to order a copy of this print for each child to have for their own. It will go out in the mail next week with a helpful tract. May God continue to work in their hearts the rest of the summer and beyond. Just thought you might like a glimpse!

I am just taking a 'tea' break...well not this fancy but pleasant none the less. I'm having Hedley's 'Rooibos' South African tea...flavored with wild cherry and very pleasant. And, I'm about to renew my library books. Renewing online is simply a pleasure. No worrying about when they are due. Just pop online and see.

Bible school is going well, the children are excited and learning Bible verses and earning points to participate in the nightly skit. Praise God that we still have the freedom to teach the gospel....but for how long I wonder. In God we trust. Wishing you a great day. It is here, our air conditioning man just fixed our ac! Oh, bliss!

I am as late as you can get with this entry for 'Wednesday Stamper' for the past week's challenge which is to use a spider. My background crackle stamp is from 'Stampin-Up' and I used some clip art and a transparent text. Super fast and super fun!

Last week our son went to the state of Washington on a business trip and he brought me home a present. (Please click to enlarge this pic so you can really see her better) A wooden puzzle of the Statue of Liberty.

I put her together the next day...a very dreary and darkish kind of day. But, inside at the kitchen table two heads were together...and my Lady of Liberty was taking shape. I put the base together, got stuck on the body....he figured that out for us. Then I got the head together all by myself...yay!!! and the arms, and here she is. There really were not any directions, except 'match a to a' and so on.

I'm ready to have a try at another one son! I still feel exhilarated just looking at her lovely self with all those little pieces.

Just a note to say our Pc has been down. We had to buy a new wireless router. After 3 tries we finally got one that worked for us. Tonight we are back online but its dreadfully late. We had a nice Father's Day here. We took our special man out to lunch after church, which we all enjoyed. The church service AND the meal!

Tomorrow starts our Vacation Bible School. I am looking forward to it and am sure it will be a fun week, full of blessings. The end. (of this blog post...grin.)(and this day!)