Sorry I've Not Kept Up

I know I have been quite the slacker in keeping the blog up to date.  I'm afraid family and health issues have kept this on the back burner.  With that said, I will be fervent in updating the blog and doing my best to be better at staying current.

I am grateful that "all's well that ends well" after a very scary few months of health problems for me, one of which resulted in surgery.  To make a very long story in a short amount of time easily explained and without much detail, I am on the mend and thankful for clean/negative tests, as well as the many, many doctors I have seen to see me through, encouraged me and worked to get me back and better for my family. My service work means much more to me now having just a taste of what so many less fortunate than myself face, and my family and role as mom are even more treasured.

Thank you to those that were aware of everything and prayed.  Your prayers were answered in great ways!  God bless you.

Now, where were we...yes, back to getting back to things! 

Romans 5:3
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;


2 Corinthians 1:5-7
For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.