Wow! It has been awhile!

Well, it has been a long time since I wrote in this blog! I have been kinda busy. A lot has actually happened since that ring banquet....my my...that was a year ago! Since then, Kristin got her drivers permit, finished her junior year, went on a missions trip to Honduras, played on four teams....I am way behind. Korie has reached her last year of middle school, had a surgery, gone to camp by herself...why didn't I wrote then!! She had a BLAST!

I am facing some health issues right now. I will probably have lots to write about that soon. I have learned some STUFF already! Pastor has been preaching about Faith for several months now as we study Genesis. As Abraham's faith was tested, I wondered a lot about that. My faith was tested when Korie was born in some ways I failed because it took me 2 years to forgive God and not blame him. Then all the stuff with my dad really challenged me. He had such an awful death and he was such a faithful man. I couldn't put the two together. I wanted answers and didn't accept it with out any. I knew God was close through those two trials but I was kinda mad at Him. I got over that and I regret those reactions. As I pondered Abraham's choices and as I am studying Job again for the 3rd time in the last 10 years, I have come to admire them.

I have been praying a lot these past few months to God and telling Him I really trust Him but I have begged Him not to test me in that through Korie, Kristin or Steve. It never ocurred to me to add myself. Now I am facing some things. And I have a feeling that Satan had a hand in what I was tested in, such as he did with Job, and God allowed it. My only thought about that maybe being true is that he picked the thing that scares me the most....anything with the word LIVER in it. So I feel I AM being tested and I am trying to totally trust God this time. I need prayer and I need God for this.

So that is where I am now. I want to be more faithful in my loggings....we will see.

TTFN, Donna