Amazing Strength,Power,Beauty

Mendocino Calif

Ginormous redwood

Ginormous root grown over a rock on the side of a hill

shack in the stillness of forest

turbulent rapids

With God ALL things are possible!

I wanted to share a few photos taken as we traveled through California.

How amazed Ron and I were to see such beauty! a hidden treasure,------we took a road less traveled off Hwy 1 And what a sweet surprise!---Such power, force, strength, ginormousness, and stillness in these pic's

The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim His handiwork,day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they display knowledge, who has measured the sea with the palm of His hand? or measured the heavens with the length of his hands? Who knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord or give Him advise of counsel?

Has the Lord ever needed anyone's advise? Does God need instruction about what is good? Did someone teach Him what is right or show Him the path of justice?

NO!

For all the nations of the world are but a drop in a bucket. They are nothing more than dust on a scales. This is God's word in{Isaiah-- Psalms}

We are in awe as we try to capture in a photo God's beautiful Creation, read His word and read the power of His word.

Psalms ----By the "word" of the Lord were the heavens made, for He "spoke" it and it came to be.

He's God, He does what ever He chooses,how ever He chooses, I am not supposed to understand all that I can not comprehend..........How we shrink to nothing in comparison to our Lord Jesus who created us. I Believe what the Lord says.........I KNOW NO OTHER LIKE HIM!

Ron and I are so Humbled by "His Love" for us..................so very Blessed -----

Amazing Love Our Father God has for us that we even exist.

I Love you , thank you for your prayers and taking time to read our Blog, We Pray you come to know the "Living God" who loves you more......... The Lord gave us a good day.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness"has made his light shine in our hearts so we could know the Glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

A New Day,New Mercies, New Grace!

With God ALL things are possible! Luke 1:37 Matt 19:26

A beautiful new day the Lord has given us--- thankful to be alive, have breath, and be able to Praise Jesus, walk the property, take in the different smells of the trees and water,watch the boats go by,wave to a friend, greet a new face, share a smile, talk story to and ol timer, watch an eagle fly over if your looking up! and watch a pack of deer cross your meadow, or just sit looking out the window in wonder........Our Lord is so good,.....such simple pleasures if we stop to take it all in.......

As I sit here and write today,I watch my man ride the lawn mower in the meadow, and think about My Father in heaven...........He is beyond my comprehension, I think about Heaven and how My Lord sees the "whole world",

Acts 7:49 Heaven is my Throne and the earth is my footstool. Isaiah 66:1 Rev 19:4 God is seated on the throne Hallelujah.

He is everywhere at once, He is all power, His Power is unlimited,

God knows everyone of my thoughts before I think them,He knows what I will write about Him,before I write it!......Psalms 139:2

an awareness that fills me with "great awe and fear" at the same time..............

Prov 9:10,1:7,Ps 111:10 Prov 15: 33 Prov 23:7

I'm blown away by How God chooses to do things in our lives,and I do not know why he allows each instance of suffering,affliction, tragedy, to come into any one of our lives, But Ron and I are learning our part is to "remain faithful" to Jesus,as Jesus is so faithful to us,

God understands all things, God is in control of the world, and only he understands why we are allowed to suffer,this begins to become clearer to Ron and I when we see Jesus for who He is.

Isaiah 40:31 Those who trust in the Lord will find new strength,,and today I need new strength I can't take from yesterday its all gone.......................................

When we walk through our disappointments,fears,concerns,uncertainties,we look up desperately seeking the Lord for His strength, His comfort.....through His word and prayer we see Jesus more brighter and more magnified more precious,by his tender compassionate ways,

His kindness by His great love, His encouragement through His powerful holy spirits empowering to comfort and guide us when we begin to fall ,even right after He has picked us up!..........................crazy!

We courageously accept what God allows to happen in our lives and remain firmly committed to Him and Him alone.

It's challenging, there's no heroes here!!!!!

God help us to be More Christ centered and not self centered....................

God Help us to have a deeper awareness of our daily walk with you applying it to our lives,

not being so "need --me --driven" but asking ourselves........

God when it is all said and done,and we lay our head down-----

If all we have is you.....Lord ----are you enough?

God's perspective is more beautiful, "this is not our home'" {we are just passing through}

but until we meet you face to face Jesus, "help us" to live this life-- your enough------may you be the one that is glorified in everything we say and do---------------

help us Lord not to allow everything in our lives to fall back on us, we can get pretty self absorbed,--------a lot absorbed-------I Confess this before you-----forgive us Lord when we do this.........Help us to exalt you,

My Mama made a plac 30 some years ago that says:

Faith

Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high. Doubt questions,'Who believes' Faith answers,'I'."

God is who he says he is and God does what he says he will do! I want to encourage any and everyone who is going through a circumstance that has just gripped your life with craziness,Illness,disease,uncertainty, LOOK UP!

Ron and I have a God who is living and active and He is only a breath away He loves you so much,He gave his life for you so that you could know personally how much he loves you,

you are the only one who can make the decision,you are the only one who can make the choice, you are the only one who needs to acknowledge that you have a "need greater" "than yourself', His {Name is Jesus} I know your a good person,

but God's word says "there is no one good enough"no matter how good they are in their own eyes or someone else s..............we all fall short of His Glory,His Holiness, His perfectness,His Righteousness, only through His son Jesus Christ are we made right in God's sight........

John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son,that whosoever believe on him will not perish but have eternal life........ and my prayer for you is that you do not have to walk through your trials,troubles, loneliness alone, God gives us His Holy perfect divine spirit to help us each and everyday through His perfect Holy word this is how God communicates to us and through us. Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved. No rituals, not steps,no programs,no looking within, "only Look up and acknowledge" the only one who can save you from yourself.....the only one who can save you from an "eternity separated from Him"

Death, disease, sickness, illness,tragedy,devastation is all around us.Life is gone in an instant...............The only hope you have in this life is Jesus........ He is our hope and salvation, our eternal hope,I Love you and pray those that read this never knowing you have a Father in heaven who created you for His purpose and His Glory loves you very much and wants you to know Him and have a relationship personally with him and everlasting fellowship, we have one chance at this life,I Pray you acknowledge the living God who gave you life. He Loves you so much.

God's Grace daily given.

Dad and I traveled to one of the other local Islands across from Friday harbor and captured these beautiful pic's, ---it was raining---that did not keep us from enjoying this Island,and the people.

With God ALL things are possible!

Always covered in the shadow of our Lord God Almighty

With God ALL things are possible!

We had a great day, Ron wanted to go for a walk today so we went out to British camp, a beautiful place to walk around and see all the beauty in the above photos. We took our time enjoying our walk along the water and trail,talking and just taking in the morning, we drove over to another place we love "Roche Harbor" had lunch and walked around the marina.

Our favorite past time......................Enjoy greatly being near the water! Enjoy taking walks! Enjoy being treated to a good lunch! We took the long way home looking across to Victoria Canada, Praying for the day we will motor boat over there again....... Lord Willing. We came home,Ron is resting, He's done for the day, pooped!

Ron's Brain tumor is a reality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, we are reminded that Ron has a brain tumor when things happen to him, one being focal seizures that cause numbness in his jaw, the side of his face spasming now uncontrollably, and speech very slurred, these seizures cause him to be very tired when they've had their way with him. He will sleep for a couple hours, wake up, and be back to his sweet,stinker ol self.

We thank the Lord this does not happen daily................{the stinker ol self} "I mean the seizures"

This is an obvious reality,{the stinker ol self} "I mean the seizures" the other is Having this surgery, Now I'm serious!!!!!

Our Lord Jesus knows we need Him desperately, to save us from ourselves,we live in these fleshy bodies, and we can get out of control in our thoughts and conversations,we need Jesus to comfort us in our times of uncertainty and our anxious thoughts,and when Ron and I get anxious about all that is ahead we can only look up............. and literally cry out to our Father God. we know He hears us and comforts us,He shadows us continuously, we know our emotions can greatly influence how we think ,Either we control them or they control us. Sometimes the things we cannot control can cause anxiousness, and we can become vulnerable to this anxiousness......................... Remember I said we live in these fleshy bodies...........flesh and blood, raw emotion and thoughts!

God is not the creator of anxiety!------------ and worry does not fit our Identity as followers of Jesus Christ So Ron and I have to make a choice not to live here................ Jesus tells us in Matt 6:25-34 the cure for anxiety, Jesus is our Prince of peace...... Phil 4:6,7 Do not be anxious about anything...............but in every situation with prayer, petition and thanksgiving, present your requests to God which transcends all {our} understanding Jesus who is our prince of peace will give us the peace that only He can give us, guarding our hearts and minds against the things that catch us off guard.......... Jesus our great protector will lift those anxious moments off us gathering us close to him in his strong hold. We don't want to be left to ourselves,I know what a mess I can make when I allow the uncertainties to overcome me,

{for a moment} maybe longer than a moment................Ron and I Know how Big our Father God is! He is Trustworthy,Dependable,His Promises are the very truth by which we put all our hope and trust in,

Romans 8: 37-39 despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14;27 I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.God will supply all my needs according to His riches in glory by His Precious son Jesus Christ,His grace is sufficient for us, he will never leave us nor forsake us,If I remain in Christ Jesus and His word remains in me,he tells me I can ask for anything in His name, according to His word,His will, it will be given to us,God does what He says he will do,God Promises Victory over death, He raised Jesus from the dead defeating the power over sin and death,Therefore God exalted Jesus to the highest place and gave him the name above all names

Romans 8:28 God has promised that all things work together for good to those who love and serve Him faithfully, for His purpose.... It may be difficult for us to see and understand how this is accomplished at times, but God has promised it, and He will deliver

Acts 16: 31 all believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved,

Ron and I can live by these promises, we ask the Lord to help us apply them daily, living and breathing, his word believing he will do what He says he will do.

Each day the Lord gives us is a new day, with His new grace, His new Mercies, Our Father In Heaven gives us His best, our Prayer is that we give Him our best.... this is a daily application, this does not come naturally, it takes our willingness to yield our wills to Jesus and His super natural power poured out upon us through the indwelling of His holy spirit strength daily, where we are so weak, Jesus is so very strong.Our Faith battles are daily, our victory is in Jesus.

Monday, Thankful, Grateful, Blessed!

With God ALL things are possible!

Its a Beautiful day on the Island, Thank you Jesus------Blessed to wake up and see sunshine,deer,boats,be alive! Here are a few shots of being out on the water

Love being out on the water, "how great our Lord is everyday of our lives",

we are so privileged to see Jesus through His creation,beauty,design close up--- on the waters of the San Juan Islands. There is something very peaceful,and tranquil cruising in protective waters enjoying the beautiful colors, landscape textures, sea life, cloud formation in the sky, just pure beauty. Only the Lord Jesus could create such beauty.. And the heavens declare the Glory of the Lord, and the sky displays His handiwork Psalms 19 Proverbs talks about How the Lord sets the limits of the seas so they don't spread beyond their boundaries, we witness this as we travel the water ways.

We Thank you Lord for giving us this day so you can be Glorified in it all.

Today we are very thankful,---------Ron is doing great today----------

"Father God will Choose to use little children" for His Will" and Glory"

With God ALL things are possible!

This Little guy is our 2nd grandson Nyah Bless, Ron and I got a text message from his Mommy and Daddy-----tonight as we sit in our Hotel room------This is the text-------

Tonite at dinner, nyah stopped us & says, "wait! we need to pray" lol! so we all grabbed hands and nyah led prayer... sooo cute!

To understand Ron and my excitement you need to understand the prayer that we have been steadfastly petitioning to our Lord for years, that our Sons and Daughter in loves will be Lovers of Jesus Christ, committing their lives totally over Jesus, and that our grand children would be set apart for the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ .

As Ron and I have gathered with our children and grandchildren many times----- we acknowledge Our Father God in prayer before we eat, we hold hands and thank the Lord for the food He has provided for us, and bless Him-------------their can be resistance, but we leave those consequences to the Lord, what goes on behind the scenes the Lord is always at work, what we don't think is impacting our babies is the very thing the Lord will use to stop a meal to impact the need to acknowledge Him!

I am Praising the Lord that He would empress Prayer upon Nyah's Heart to acknowledge Jesus and thank Him for His food and----------------- express to His Mommy and Daddy

"WAIT" we need to pray!

Bless you Jesus, Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus said,"I praise you,"Father, Lord of heaven and earth,because you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned,and revealed them to little children. Luke 10:21 Yes Father for your good pleasure, Lord thank you for the Little children, we rejoice for this! Your ways and plan are far more beautiful and better than ours,we trust you,for you are so faithful. Thank you Lord

Blessed Assurance

With God ALL things are possible!

Where do I begin! What a month and a few weeks this has been. We have been here in Santa Barbara for this time, Visiting Family,had a new arrival-- grand baby girl Ella, and

Dr's Visits, it seems one affliction after another,along with spiritual warfare and trials!

Ron and I continually tested through it all! Praise the Lord He has been with us in every situation helping us in our weakness, sweetly rebuking in our resistance,and carrying us in our pain, refining us in those areas of our lives that Our Lord Jesus wants to be in full control and center of. I will confess there have been some hard days and many hard days to come. Today we had our appointment with Dr Linda Liau Neurosurgeon at UCLA

Ron and I woke up this morning after a hard night the enemy wanted to mess with us big time,Ron prayed over us before we slept, the Bible says we are not to let the sun go down on our anger,for this will give the enemy a foothold, We woke up and had our coffee talked a minute,then went into Prayer,confessing to the Lord, just so sorry for grieving the Lord and each other,asking for His forgiveness,what a refreshing the Lord gives us when we go before Him pouring out our souls to Him, confessing our sins to Him and each other,the burdens are lifted!

We bless you Father God.---------From that moment on we were on a mission we had a trip to to trek--LA, we got in the car at 10 am Ron said I forgot my wallet,we turned around and went back to get it now its 10:30 am---- we are still on schedule, thank you Lord---- we take the coast hwy 1 down through Malibu,Santa Monica, get off at Sunset take it in route to UCLA

I asked Ron if he had gotten directions this way-------- He said no,

"so we said Lord help us get there quickly", traffic,stop n go,winding, rough, narrow roads, bumper to bumper our appointment is at 1pm its 12:15 stop lights, traffic, Ron's starting to feel sick from all the jerking and stopping and wrestling of me driving, -------poor guy He looks like the hula doll in the back window of a car, bobbing all over the place,

usually I drive enjoying the scenery, "NOT TODAY" We've got a 1:00 appointment and we can not miss it! 12:30 were still making our way -------time ticking away----- Oh Lord help us, we come up to a stop light and see the road veterans way,-----I say Dad I think that is the road we took last time, Ron---Oh I don't know----I guess go ahead and take it,----------then Dad says hopefully the street Gaily will be ahead--------- wouldn't you know it! --------It was the next street, -------we follow it around and I tell Dad -------I don't know where to go from Here, Oh Lord help us, as were winding down the hill-- Dad sees "medical plaza parking" pull in there--- I pull in get a ticket------thank you Lord----- we need a parking space close because were 12:45 now --appointment is at 1-----

Lord Help Us, --------As My Mom say's HA!----------------the Lord had a spot just for our truck right in front right by the door and the space in front of us was easy out right to the exit! Now we could have never planned it the way our sweet Jesus did for us, Praise you Father God! Your Our master provider "Yahweh-Yireh "

Ron and I looked at each other and started laughing and praising the Lord, we were praising and thanking Him the whole way to the Dr's Office,

By the way------ this happens quite often things like this,we are always amazed how our Lord works,but not surprised!

We ended up being in the Dr's office for 3 hrs mostly waiting,when Dr Linda spoke with us after looking at Dads MRI She explained everything and answered our questions,

Ron has a

"Primary Malignant Neoplasm oligodendroglioma grade 3" they grade Brain tumors 1-4 ---4 being the worst. What this means is cancer-----NON CURABLE-------how she determined this is by the way the tumor is lit up more than last time---------when Ron gets a MRI they shoot a dye into his veins this dye has broken past the "blood barrier" of the brain,

the blood brain barrier acts very effectively to protect the brain------- So for the dye to leach into the tumor it is lighting up the cancer which has covered a good portion of Ron's tumor,

The Dr told Ron "don't wait"! to put this surgery off ---------she believes she can get a good portion of the tumor and then use the tumor as a test vaccine to fight Ron's tumor--------- it's really a double edged sword at this point, the tumor will continue to grow causing great pressure on his brain, inevitably, paralyzing Ron,and worse!

The Blessing in all this is Ron is very healthy and looking at Him the Dr was surprised that He was doing so well, for the size of His tumor, Ultimately Our Lord God has complete control over Ron's Life, the Lord has kept this tumor from doing what it should and could have been doing these past years, Everyday we have to put our total trust in Jesus no matter what it looks like through our eyes, this is to over whelming to us if we do not!

Nahum 1:7 The Lord is good and a refuge in times of trouble, He cares for those who trust in Him.

So

Ron is scheduled to have brain surgery June 14th

we are excited to get back to Friday Harbor have some real down time soaking in what time the Lord Jesus has given us to enjoy and get prepared to come back.

I will be able to stay with Ron in the Hospital, Ron may need physical therapy or speech therapy which is a great possibility the Dr says, ---Or not it all depends after the surgery, they have to tell you these things.

He will be able to be at their in patient clinic. Another Blessing is we let her know we are living in Friday harbor and would she be able to refer us up in that area and she said yes!

Praise our Lord Jesus Christ. We walked out of there feeling so Blessed,thankful and full of hope. We will take one day at a time, we thank you so very much "family", "friends" for keeping us covered in prayer, we feel the presence of the Lord upon us daily even in the midst of our weary days, today we rejoice! I'm Pooped!

Blessings

Easter Sunday Service

These were all the People ripe for the harvest, Today their names were written down in Glory. It wasn't about how many people came to Easter service, it was how many came into the Kingdom! They Heard the good news and the "Power of God" moved upon them to get out of their seats. Jesus Christ is the author and finisher, Lord of Lords King of Kings, It is the Power in the Name of Jesus that sets the captives free and breaks off the chains of sin. We give all Glory Honor to our Heavenly Father, we praise you Jesus.

Ron and I were truly Blessed, we Pray that the Lord Protect,cover and shield these new believers, that Christ would be rooted deep in their souls and they would,be hungry for Jesus delighted in what He has saved them from, an eternity separated from Him. Grounded in God's word, loving Him with all their heart mind and soul and strength. In Jesus Name


With God ALL things are possible!

Ron is not feeling good these last days,been a little sick,sleeping alot,

we thank you for all your prayers, Its a Beautiful day.

Blessings Sandie

Easter weekend "We Bless you Lord" Thank you for your great Love for us

Jewel London

Sasha Blaze

Elijah Mosiah,Nyah bless

Ella Koa Divine our new Baby Girl Born March 23rd 2012

Good Friday Service
With God ALL things are possible!

Hello to all who read this blog, it has been a while since I have written, These are our precious grand babies The Lord Jesus has Blessed us with 5 babies-----

Elijah 13 years,

Nyah 4 years,

Sasha 2 years,

Jewel 1year,

Ella 2 weeks today. We Praise you Jesus.

Last night was a Blessed night,Ron and I were excited to be with the body of Christ on good Friday, What a Precious friend we have in Jesus,He paid it all for us, willingly being the substitute, going to the cross dying in our place.

I hear the Savior say,“Thy strength indeed is small;Child of weakness, watch and pray,Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blessed

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

When from my dying bed

My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Ron and I realize more today our lives are not our own they have been bought with a great price,

Ron's tumor has grown to 6.5.4 cm the tumor has taken up all the available space in his brain,we will be going back down to UCLA to see Dr Linda Leiu April 10th Tuesday 12:30 PM .Ron has been doing so great,by looking at him you would not even know. He has never had surgery, He was diagnosed with a "Brain Tumor" Oct 4Th 2009 and when he was first diagnosed the neurosurgeon said his tumor was inoperable, now that it has grown to the size it has, they are very concerned and want to do surgery. This is the part that we are not comfortable with knowing all that goes with it. Chemo/Radiation reoccurring growth of tumor and then Chemo/ Radiation all over again.Its overwhelming to think about. Ron and I rely heavily on the counsel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and do not want to be foolish with our decisions. There is no peace in going through this surgery------- Please keep us before the Lord we covet all your Prayers and know the Lord is covering us greatly. I will be posting as we start to go ahead with things.

Thank you.

Sandie