WOW

Yesterday was exhausting! First I slept in till 10:30. Was kinda upset that Dave let me sleep so late but he was right, I needed it. Then we left at 11:30 for the Sawgrass Mills Mall so I could get my valentine's day gift. YAY! they had a bag I liked and what was even better they had 20% off coupons that day! I love it when I get a $318 bag for $84! It's super cute and purple!
We got Bryan an mp3 player cause his broke. Brody picked out a crazy frog cd. Dave picked out tshirts for Brandon & Brett and got himself what he needed to get his bike running again. Then the twins spotted a rock climbing wall. I caved and let them do it. (I'll post the video and pics tomorrow when I have more time as I have just been called into work.) They loved it and Dave & I are considering renting it for their birthday in May. We certainly have a big enough yard now!

At about 2:30 we left the mall and headed to Costco for eye appointments. The twins still have that 20/20 vision they have been blessed with. Eyes are healthy and they did great. I will always be amazed at God's miracles. They are so healthy! You would never think they were 2 months preemie and so close to not being here today. Choking up now....

I had my eyes checked and lets just say the report wasn't as good! The eyes themselves are healthy but the vision...my prescription hasn't really changed but the astigmatism in my right eye has doubled. She warned me the glasses are gonna take a while to get used to since the left eye barely has any astigmatism in it at all. Oh well...gone are the days when I had 20/20.....

Shelly

Here's Pastor Hersch

Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes. Solomon 2:15

In their book, Living a Power-Filled Life, Bill Tucker with Pat Maxwell talk about a four-hundred-year-old tree that crashed to the forest floor Over the centuries it had been struck by lightning fourteen times, braved great windstorms, and even defied an earthquake. In the end, however, it was killed by little beetles. Boring under the bark, they chewed away its mighty fibers until the giant of the forest lay broken on the ground.

How true it is, it's the little things in life, which at the time seem harmless, but when you put them all together, they can cause great devastation. And as the ditty puts it:

It's the little things that bother us and put us on the rack,
you can sit upon a mountain but you can't sit on a tack!

But the biggest danger of all is found in our so-called "little sins." Eventually they will catch up with us and inch by silent inch will drive us farther and farther away from God. And a preacher once said, "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

Sins—large or small—are a spiritual cancer and unless we get the cancer, the cancer will get us. As God's word says, "Be sure your sin will find you out." Numbers 32:23

The good news is that God also says, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

1st John 1:9



Pastor Hersch