Craziness!

Wow!
I can only find the words to say "Wow!"
Since my last entry, everything has been haywire... craziness!
It all started 2 weeks ago on Thursday, when Mandy had her Midwife app.
She had eaten horrible all week that week and her blood pressure was up, so they had to take labs... They came back bad of course, but they told her if she could behave herself for the next week and her labs came back good, she could still have her baby at home like she had hoped and planned.
Well the next week passed and she got the results...
Some things had gotten a little better and others had gotten worse. Like her liver enzymes.
So a couple of days later they told her she had to have the baby at the hospital and she had Preaclampsia, which means her liver is shutting down, and they were going to have to induce her.
What a way to stress a pregnant woman!
So we have been worried sick about that!
So today she went and seen the doctor that would deliver the baby, and he told her she did have Preaclampsia and she will still have to have the baby at the hospital. But he would give her until Monday night at midnight to go into labor.
So we are all praying she will go into labor by herself before midnight on Monday.
So please prayers for her and the baby!
Then on Wednesday night, I got a text that my cousins horse had a very severe case of colic and she needed prayers.
So I called her.
She told me the basics and how it happened. Then she gave me the real news...
Maggie wasn't going to make it through the night.
That's what the vet said anyways...
Of course I told her I would be praying and then I told Gabby and she told her family, so we were all praying that Maggie would fight for her life.
And she did!
Trysten texted me that next morning and told me Maggie is in the all clear! And she was going to make it!
That just shows right there the LORD knows what is going to happen and how its going to happen.
So yes, this week has been pretty ruff.
But even through all the gunk, "dust and fog" There is always light at the end of the tunnel. As said in my words. lol
Right now we are like half way through the tunnel. I think this is the point where it hits us the hardest and just when you think you can't see that light. It's there and it never did leave.
That light is Jesus!
I know everything that is happening is happening for a reason and that reason is in GOD's will. And I know we need to rest our hearts and be at peace just to know the LORD has it all under control.
Its kinda like back in my first entry, Blessed and Beautiful, The LORD is going to make this all into something Beautiful!
So let us rest and be at peace with the LORD!
In CHRIST,
Taterbug

Trials and Triumphs

So things have been a little crazy lately! There is so much to do in so little time, ya know?
But its good to be busy--to an extent, right?
If I weren't busy and keeping myself in check I would be "bored..."
Ewww! That's what that word "bored" reminds me of. Eww!
Life has it's ups and downs, and right now I can't be more thankful for all of the people I have in my life.
I have come to realize, the LORD gave me all of these people for a reason, even the difficult ones... lol
I got to thinking today, if I didn't have those challenges that people bring upon me, I don't think my faith would be as strong as it is now. I need that push- that challenge!
There has just been a bunch of foolishness around in the air. In my opinion, foolishness is VERY contagious...
Its definitely been in the air here, where I am.
I have had that true test of faith.
Trials! I have almost come to like that word. Weird huh?
I heard from a very smart man one time, if you pray for trials to not come our way, whats going to sharpen us to depend on the LORD and have a stronghold with the LORD himself?
I prayed for trials, and I got them.
Yes, I knew it wasn't gonna be easy, but now that I look back, I am really blessed to have them.
Psalms 34:1
Look it up!
He really is an awesome GOD!
He has also given me that leg up, if you know what I mean *wink wink*
Mandy only has 3 days left until Olivia gets here! Yes us girls have been sooooo excited!
Since I live next door to them, and she is having a home birth I am gonna be there!
Olivia is gonna be the closest thing I have as my little sister, and Kelsey of course!
So I am pretty excited about that too!
So I guess this is the part in my life that I can label "Trials and Triumphs for Taylor."
Suitable name, huh?
lol
I hope that whatever your going through right now, you use as a blessing, or a sharpening tool.
Whatever goes wrong or whatever goes right, His praise will always be on my lips. Will it be on yours?
In CHRIST always,
Taterbug

Blessed and beautiful

So what is this all about, Blessed and beautiful?
Well for starters, I am so blessed it really blows my mind. I get views from different people, some I barely know. And there views on "blessed" are sometimes right on target, with mine, or way off track. Yes I don't have a father that can be with me, yes some of my family is not right with the LORD, and yes they make mistakes along with me. But that doesn't mean I am not blessed.
I have a wonderful mother that loves me dearly and raised me to love the LORD and to obey her, I have a wonderful teacher that has also taught me to fear the LORD and give me guidance to knowledge, I have two sisters that are always telling me how blessed they are to have me and are always there to back me up, and I have a earthly best friend that would tell me anything and encourages me.
That's a lot to be thankful for, and there is sooooo much more!
And you know, I find myself asking quite often, why am I so blessed? Honestly, I haven't figured that part out yet. But what I do know is when the LORD calls me home, His will, will unfold and i'll find out soon enough.
Does the word "death" scared you?
It scares a lot of people.
I almost have an anticipation to go home to the LORD, because I can't wait to be with my true love forever and all of eternity!
Powerful stuff I know. lol
Ok so lets get to the beautiful part, shall we?
Everything about this life is beautiful!
Now I know what you are thinking, "She is flippin' crazy!" And I am going to admit, murder, shootings, deaths, cancer, etc... is not beautiful. But if you really think about it, something beautiful can come from it.
For example: A women not raised to fear the LORD, but to hate him. She grows ,"up", in a since, barely finishes high school, and finds her heart to be restless. She wants more--but of what?
She tries everything, but nothing seems to work. So she turns to drinking. But of course that's not enough, so she does the next "best" thing, in her eyes, the drugs.
She tries to stop but can't.
She is hooked.
She spends all her money on drugs and alcohol she looses her home and car, she can no longer pay for them...
Next is the streets.
She is a mess.
She is walking to know where with very heavy high doses of drugs and alcohol in her blood and when people see her they don't think she is going to make it. So they walk on.
She is a lost cause.
A man. A new servant of the LORD, sees this beautiful women in distress and sees she needs to get to a hospital right away.
-- 2 weeks later.
Man: "You had a close call out there"
Woman: "Why did you bother?"
Man: "The LORD told me about you, you are his angel He told me. He knows you are something special, not just some women on the streets."
Woman: "Why did you listen to "Him?"
Man: To be honest with you, I am new at all of this. I didn't know who or what He was talking about. He just told me to find you. After thinking and searching for a couple of days I needed a break. So I went out for a walk. And I found you."
Woman: "How did you know it was me, He was looking for?"
Man: "He said you would be the most beautiful thing I would see on earth. And you are."
--2 years later
Man: "I love you more than the fishes in the sea and higher than the moon!"
Women: "You have always had a way with words."
Daughter: "Mommy, daddy? Are you ready for prayers?"
See she started out with Satan, then after alcohol, drugs, and the street, the LORD turned it into something beautiful!
Beautiful!
What a joyous word!
So I think you, now, get my point.
Yes things in this world are ugly, but with the LORD the most ugly and unruly things can become something beautiful!
Thank you guys so much for reading!
In CHRIST,
Taterbug