First and foremost I want to say thank you to a God who never is absent.......even if I have been. To my many friends and family I say Thank you for your love, support, and prayers. The long wait is over as I had my hearing for my Social Security Disability. Although I have been waiting over 4 years, the judge said if I would accept my 50th birthday as the date of disability, he would grant it today. I accepted and the long wait is over. It is finished, and yet another part of my life is just beginning. I do not know where God is leading us from this point but I must say, "To God be the glory!" for the path He has brought us on. We know not where we are going but we know without a doubt that we can trust Him and where He leads. I will try and continue to be more consistent here.

Again, thank you!

Cheryl

Tonight I have been watching an episode of TimeWarp a great program to learn from as they film action and then slow it down to about 500 frames a second. Tonight we watched as people showed various skills from the Las Vegas entertainment. One of them was with fire. Various parts of the showgirls were dipped in a jell, flamable liquid applied and then set on fire. They say that when the jell begins to heat up you need to put the fire out right away. The last thing I just saw was when they coated the bald head completely with the jell and then he allowed the four showgirls around him would shoot fire breathing at him igniting his head. He then faced the camera and they used a fire extenguisher to put him out. There was some concern as the last person who did this was not squeemish about fire but got too hot and ended up with some burns. Now I don't know about you, but that just does not seem to be something on my list of things to do before I die. Why would you seek out or willing accept something that was  going to possibly hurt, burn or scar you for life? (In more ways than one) There is a lot to be said about this from a spiritual persective. We often flirt with sin just as these people did with fire. There is something about touching or doing something you know is 'dangerous'. In the end we find that we can not get away from the very thing we yielded to no matter how hard we try. If we were to try and put the flame out ourselves, we would only spread the fire; in this case sin, to other areas of our lives. Praise be to God that He has the extenguisher we need. We do not have to continue to put ourselves at risk because Jesus already did it for us. So the next time you are tempted to 'flirt' with sin, remember that Jesus said he would send what ever we need to be overcomers. Blessings and goodnight.

Belonging to a group on face book, I was sent the following and was so in agreement that I felt it needed to be shared here too. I hope you take something away from it no matter where you are in your realtionship with another.

The unknowns of marriage...

Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right person

1 Timothy 6:11 (King James Version)
11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

In Thorton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth, the character Mrs Antrobus says to her husband, "I didn't marry you because you were perfect... I married you because you gave me a promise."

She then takes off her ring and looks at it, saying, "That promise made up for your faults and the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married, and it was the promise that made the marriage."

In every marriage, no matter how well the two people know one another, great mysteries remain! Very often, each person comes to the marriage
- not fully knowing himself or herself,
- not fully knowing about life, and
- not fully knowing about his or her spouse.

What is unknown is far greater than what is known! Becoming a faithful, loving spouse not only takes courage and faith, but patience and a desire to keep learning and growing. Better than the question, "What kind of spouse do I desire to have? is the question, "What kind of spouse do I aspire to be?"

---from South Pacific SDA Website----