TAILS - "Once upon a time"

Make a post using the prompt "Once upon a time." It can be a real story or idea that you want to start that way, a fairy tale of your own, etc. (Remember this is TAILS so your post needs to start with "Once upon a time.")


So...once upon a time....
My family ACTUALLY took a holiday
It was over 7 years ago...
(You can tell by how young my kids were)
How is that for pathetic...
We went to Victoria
and hung out at all the cool touristy spots...
(Is touristy a word??)

We will actually get a holiday this year,
but I don't think we will be able to afford to travel all the way to Victoria..
The ferry is horribly exspensive,
and the drive would not be fun with little people...

Taken in front of the Parliment building in Victoria

This was a great fish and chips place on the docks on the ocean...

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I don't have much time to post this morning, as my kiddos are being unusually active...so I will post another performance from our Easter service...This is my Pators wife and her daughter Carla...
They did a good job, don't you think?

A few weeks ago Eden turned to an empty corner and shouted with outstretched arms.."I love you Daddy!"
"Um, I'm over here", I told her
"I was talking to God", she said.

-Sailing Between the Stars
Stephen James

Through My Eyes Friday..

This is what I was looking at this morning...
Pictures of my wonderful grandson, and grand daughter
that my oldest daughter posted on Facebook.
They are beautiful pictures,
but they also make me sad,
because although they live three blocks away from me
I never see them.
Cassidy is seven months old
and I have seen her three times since birth....
I didn't even recognize her in these pictures.

Talon

Cassidy

Aunty Brandy with Talon and Cassidy

More Easter Performances...

Our friends Scott and Cori, Paul and Tammy do a quartet...

Wordless Wednesday...

My Easter babies...

Gracie

My son Jeremy (left) and my grandson Talon

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For Barb...

Now You can't say I never posted myself..LOL!

This is On My Knees
Jaci Velasquez

There are days
when I feel
The best of me
is ready to begin
Then there's days
when I feel
I'm letting go
and soaring on the wind
'Cause I've learned in laughter or in pain
How to survive!

I get on my knees! (x2)
There I am before the Love
That changes me
See I don't know how
But there's power
When I'm on my knees

I can be
in a crowd
Or by myself
and almost anywhere
When I feel
there's a need
To talk with God
He is Emmanuel
When I close my eyes,
no darkness there
There's only light!

I get on my knees (x2)
There I am before the Love that changes me
See I don't know how, but there's power
In the blue skies, in the midnight
When I'm on my knees
I get on my knees (x2)
There I am before the Love
That changes me
See I don't know how, but there's power
When I'm on my, oh, when I'm on my
When I'm on my knees

Heads or Tails!

The Wonderful Skittles..aka Barb runs a weekly meme over at Heads or Tails....
This week...Barb chose...


HEADS - "Reason"

SO I posted this video of my daughter Brandy singing
"As Far as the East is from the West" by Casting Crowns...

She was the REASON I sat there and balled like a baby--on the stage right behind her--in front of the whole audience the entire time she sang.....
Oh...and did I mention, that I had to sing right after that?? LOL!

Here I am Lord and I'm drowning
In your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don't want to end up where you found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight

I know you've cast my sins as far
As the East is from the West
And I stand before you now
As though I've never sinned but today
I feel like I'm just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scar[r]ed hand to the other

I start the day the war begins
Endless reminding of my sin
Time and time again
Your [T]ruth is drowned out by the storm I'm in
Today I feel like I'm just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scar[r]ed hand to the other

I know you've washed me white
Turned my darkness into light
I need your peace to get me through
To get me through this night
I can't live by what I feel
But by the truth your word reveals
I'm not holding on to you
But your holding on to me
Your holding on to me

Jesus, you know just how far
The East is from the West
I don't have to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
(The arms of your mercy I find rest)
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scar[r]ed hand to the other(x2)

(Just how far, the East is from the West) (x3)

From one scarred hand to the other

Casting Crowns

Matters of Faith??

I don't often discuss matters of my faith on my blog, but today, I found something a little profound...although I don't suppose it should be....

Hebrews 11 records victories of faith for many people, but it also speaks of those who died "not having received the promises they asked for..." Here is what I found profound....

Despite not receiving the things they asked for..they still died in faith...just as they lived in faith....

I find that pretty amazing...especially when I consider how weak my faith can be at times just because God doesn't answer my prayers the way I want them answered, when I want them answered....
These servants of God were obedient and lived in faith regardless of a promised result.

We were commanded to live by faith whether or not we see the promise...Those servants were fully persuaded that when given a promise by God, it was true. Many of them received many victories as well through faith but not everything that was promised was received during their lifetimes....however it did not change their behavior or trust in God.

Therefor I submit that our walk in faith should NOT depend on how many times in the past God has answered our prayers, but instead on the promise He has given us. If He promised it, then live as if He will answer it....Faith is just as much a walk of obedience..NOT A DESIRED RESULT...for getting what we want...

A good thing for me to think about today.....

Hope everyone had a great Easter...there are videos and pics of my wonderful kids and grand kids below....

and tomorrow a treat! My daughter Brandy singing at church Easter Sunday.....And she ROCKED!