Feb 17    Oh Lord Our Lord how majestic is your Name.  It is in your name that I come today.   Healing and Your love for a coworker who is in pain,  Be with her and the Doctors and her family.    Give her piece and keep her not feeling antsy but to sit back and relax to heal.

Feb 18   God you are the maker of the universe.  Your Mountains and waters here in the Northwest show Your work so well.   Thank you for letting me grow up in this small piece of your universe.

Feb 19   God you are the one who gives and takes away.  There is time when we all loose a pet.  It is hard.   Be with a friend who had to say goodbye to her cat of 18 years.   Help her and the remaining cat adjust to life with a friend gone.   Let them be open to what you have in store for them.

Feb 20   Thank you for Wednesday.   Hmmm  the middle of my week.  Help me smile and be helpful to those I will encounter today.  Thank you for forgiving me for all my sins.

Feb 21  Changes Lord.   There are so many of my friends who are having changes in their lives.  You will be there for them, You will show them your love,  You will give them Your presence in their lives and decisions.  Be there and show them the way to your will Lord.

Feb 22   Thank you for two friends birthdays.   Thank you for two men who love you so much.  These men give so much to others in your love.   Bless them this year.

Feb 23  Thank you for health.  You give reminders to take it easy.  I really don't like to do nothing all day but to spend it with you Lord is good.   Thank you for feeling better.

Feb 10   Worship
 Lord it is so great to spend time today in church worshiping you.   From the organ playing prelude to the sermon and hymns all for your glory.  

Feb 11  For a friend in need.
 Lord hear my prayers for a friend and her family as they wait for medical answers this week.   Hold them in your hand and show them the Love you have for them.   Help them trust you for all the answers.  

Feb 12  For the people I encounter everyday/

Lord in life today I ask that you use me to show Your Love to them.   You know who I will encounter today that needs you to touch them.   Help me serve you in this way to be there for them.

Feb 13   Midweek

Oh my Lord it is the middle of the week.   The dread of days ahead to weekend.  May I find your joy in my day today.   Forgive me for the unpleasant thoughts I have had this week.   Jealous and envy have been on my heart.   Lord I want your Joy to fill me and get the jealousy out.    I need to find your will in my life.   I want to serve you and be satisfied with what you have given me.

Feb 14    Valentines day


Lord I thank you for all my friends.  You have given me such wonderful friends who have the most wonderful examples of love for each other.   I know you have plans for me and I just need to wait for your will.    Again  Thank you for the wonderful examples in my life.

Feb 15   Friday

Thank you for Friday.   The day to prepare for the weekend.   The day that I am able to learn more from You.  Thank you Lord.

Feb 16   WIC

Thank you for the Women in the Church.    What a great group of women who want to serve You.     We enjoy getting together to help the church.   Today Lord we helped supply the kitchen.   Our kitchen is used in so many ministries.   Thank you for that.

Feb 7     For patience.  

        Dear God I  need patience,   Patience with traffic, with people and with situation I can not control.    Help me relax in your Love and just take life as it comes and not hurry it out.


Feb 8  For the Northwest

Dear Lord      How magnificent is your nature in the Northwest.   How glorious are the colors of each season.   Your Hands have made all of this for me.   The blue sky, sunshine, clouds, the growth of the trees and plants.   You are awesome.

Feb 9

For a friend

Dear God   I pray for Rachael and Nate as they are trying to adopt a child.   You know their needs.  Both the money and support that is required from them.  They are both working so hard to help this child.   Their own children are also praying and helping to bring a child home.  Lord you can do anything.   Help them be strong and encourage them and be with them through this adventure.   Help them not have stress.   Leave them with peace and never let them waver from the goal you have for them.

Feb 6

Lord today I pray for my coworkers.   Be there for them.  They all have lives outside of work and with so many unspoken needs.   Help me not to be judgmental, or put them down.    Help me accept everyone as one who knows you are needs to know you.   Let your light shine thru me at work.   Let me demonstrate your love in my actions, and words.

So I thought of something to do this month and hopefully it will continue forever.  

I started praying for one thing, person, situation a day for the next 28 days.   Yes I started on the first but debated about posting it.  Then thought maybe others will be encouraged.

Feb 1   Prayer for myself.   Yes I know why me but I need God's help in seeing this thru.

        Dear God,   I just want to spend sometime with you today.   I am amazed how you have worked in my life and continue to.  Please help me to be more like you.  Help me show your love in all I do.   Help me to minister to those who need it.   Help me to forgive others.  I thank you for all you have provided for me.   I thank you for your Son and spirit.  I ask for your forgiveness.


Feb 2  Thankful for His Son.

         Dear God,   How can I thank you for the gift of Your Son.  Thank you for the example you gave for us.  Oh, to be like Jesus is a work in progress.   Help me show Jesus in my life.

Feb 3  Church

     Dear God.  Oh how I love hymns and the sermon.   How important is the church in my life.  To worship and serve you.  To see the older generation and the younger blend together.   To learn from the sermon as well as from others.  To have the faith of the senior ladies.  All things I am so grateful for.  

Feb 4 Family

Dear God.  Thank you for my family.    God you know what each of us need.  I pray for my family for health and for their needs both ones they talk about and the unspoken one.  

Feb 5  Friends
     
     Dear God.   Thank you for all my friends,    I am amazed on my friends.   You have people walk into my life at all times.  Thank you for the close friends.   I pray for there health and needs.   You know all the needs.   I pray for the  families of my friends.  


Well that the start   TO BE CONTINUED.

So many people will be having new goals for the new year, but I decide to plan to do 13 activities this year.  Just because it will be 2013.  

So here are my thirteen activities

1.  Visit Leavenworth Washington.   Not just to spend a hour or so but the whole day exploring the town

2.  Pedicure,   I have never had one.   I don't like my toes and so I have stayed away. This year I will get one done.

3.  Travel to Seattle Washington just to wander and take pictures a few time during the year.

4.  Ride the San Juan Ferry and visit Friday Harbor.

5.  Hike the Lime Kiln trail out of Granite Falls

6.  Visit the Big Four Ice Caves.   Again live here and never been.

7.  Hurricane Ridge.   What to go on a clear day.

8.  Ride the Seattle Great Wheel.   I would love to ride during the day as well as at night.

9.  Visit Butchart Gardens in Canada in the Spring and Winter..  My goal is to visit each season.

10.  Visit Mount St. Helens

11.  Go to Multnomah Falls

12.  See the Fremont Troll.

13.  Go up in a Hot air balloon.  I have the tickets just waiting for the day.

November

November is one of my favorite and saddest months of the year.

It is my favorite for my Dad and I would go to the Auto show in the Kingdome.   Hearing the ads this year just made me think of Dad.

1984   In the Kingdome walking among the new cars.   I was 20 years old and working my first real job.   My dad and I were just spending a Friday evening out.

Entering the Kingdome you see all the shiny cars, trucks and neon signs from all the dealerships.   We start walking.  Open car doors,  looking inside at all the 1985 new cars when my eyes landed on a 1985 Plymouth Voyager gray with blue interior.  I spend over an hour looking at everything about this car.    Mind you I was not out to buy but  dream yes.  

Why would a 20 year old female want a 7 passenger minivan?    I just did.  

We looked some more and came back to the minivan.   This time I left my name with the dealer and we went home.

The phone rang early Saturday morning.   The dealership,   The minivan was advertised in auto section of the Seattle Times and if I came down to the dealership I could test drive the minivan from the Kingdome.  My dad and I left for North Seattle.     I drove the minivan,   I drooled over the minivan and dad said to me " you can use the dodge dart for trade in, and I will cosign a loan."

I was in awe, I was going in debt, I was getting a brand new minivan.  

I had my brother's both say "Why did you get a minivan??"    My minivan carried youth group, moved many people, went on a trip to Colorado without me, and on many road trips.   Oh I miss my minivan.

I had it 11 years when it got totaled in an accident.

My dad use to like to go to the auto show and home shows.  Of course to tag along has given me some great memories.

As for the sad November is the month that my dad died.   In 1995 He went home to heaven to join my mom.  

Thank you Dad for the awesome memories.