Can you believe it???

It's already November!!! 2007 only has 57 more days to go! Where has the year gone?

William's birthday is only 2 weeks away, Thanksgiving, our vacation, Christmas and then 2008! Wow, it's so hard to believe!

I'm wondering if I can squeeze in so much stuff in these last days of 2007. We are still in the process of changing rooms, building closets in our house and now we are getting new windows! (Supposedly this coming week!) Our windows are the original from 1880 also! Back then I wonder if the time seemed to go as fast as it does for us today.

My house was built with no electric. There is a fireplace that heated the house in what used to be the kitchen. It is soon to be our bedroom again. There was no bathroom in our house! I guess somewhere in our backyard was an outhouse...yuck!(it's just tooo cold out there!) Now we have a bath and a half. There was no running water. Our basement is actually a cellar. There is an old staircase in the back that doesn't go to anything anymore, because there is a room added on, and it also has an old coal shute. A neighbor said they remember when it had a dirt floor, but there is now concrete. When I look at the stone that our foundation is made of, I try and imagine how many people it took to build, and how long and hard they must have worked to build it. When I touch the stone I am touching the past of long ago. 128 almost, years ago...it's amazing to me! Did the people who built this house so long ago ever imagine the changes this house would go though? Would they have known it would still be standing strong? Could they even imagine the new fangled things invented today? I think not.

But...God did! He knew me and you before we were born. He knew where we would be placed in this world and with what family we would be a part of. He knows everything about us. He loves us...we are His children...He is our stone foundation! Have we all gone though the changes He planned for us, or are we taking a detour to that destination? Are we putting ourselves first instead of HIM? We have a little time left in this year. Can we try for the next 57 days to spend more time listening to what He wants to tell us by reading His Word, talking to him in prayer, and then STOP...and LISTEN! Take some time to see the changes in the world around us. Let's soar on wings of eagles! The leaves have turned golden, and brown. The frost is back. The sky is still blue. God is talking to you.