The Wonders of Your Cross

Nothing quite ranks with this song....

The Wonder Of Your Cross
The wonder of Your cross shall be our meditation
To gather in that shadow when the sun went down
To weep with those who though that You were leaving
You were leaving Jesus
The humble Kind Who never wore an earthly crown

To steal away at night when the took down Your body
With love and tears to leave You in a borrowed grave
To go with Mary to the place they laid You
Where they laid You Jesus
And in the morning find the stone was rolled away

The cross O the wonderful cross
What glory what victory I've found
I'll come to the wonderful cross
And my whole life I lay down

Were Heaven's praises silent in those hours of darkness
Your Holy Spirit brooding 'round that empty throne
Until the declaration He is risen
You are risen Jesus
He is not dead behold He lives forevermore


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShxaHauPmAA

God of Comfort

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
It's wonderful how God is a God of comfort... and yet we must not lose the real picture. God is a God of comfort and because we as Christians are comforted by Him we need to go out and comfort as many people as we can. Spreading God's love and peace in this world as we live our lives.
This past little bit has been the Easter week/end and so on. We need to remember that the real reason we can celebrate is only because Jesus raised from the Dead! There would be no rejoicing in anyones heart is He had not risen. There's a song that Robin Mark (a praise song writer and singer) sings called No One Like You Lord....

No One Like You Lord
You are the stone that the builders rejected
A rock of refuge where my pride is broken
A sure foundation when the sand is sinking
Where we are built upon like living stones

There is no one else like You
There is no one like You Lord
There is no one else like You
Son of man and Son of God
Son of man and Son of God

When from the cross You to the depths descended
The hosts of hell conspired to make You captive
But every chain of sin and death You've broken
And triumphed over by Your mighty power

I want to run the race You've set before me
Even to share in the suffering of the cross
That I might gain the prize for which You called me
To be with You Son of Man and Son of God
To be with You Son of Man and Son of God

Then from the earth You to the heights ascended
Where You are seated at Your Father's right hand
Forever pleading for the souls You've captured
Forever watching as You call us home

Son of Man and Son of God
Song of Man and Son of God

A strong reminder that God is unfathomable and no one can come close to matching Him. We love and follow a wonderful Savior who will never leave us even in the deepest valleys or the narrowest openings. He is and will always be with us who are Christians! Thank you Lord!!!
Hannah

For Sale

Hey y'all...
I'm putting some things for sale on our other Blog.... www.panhandleroughriders.blogspot.com we left off the "The". Don't ask me who or why. :-)
Any how check it out.
Hannah

Braces and colds

March 23rd..... we're on our way to get braces and some fillings... Namely Mom, Naomi, Lydia, Ezekiel and myself. :-) We've been working on getting over our colds... most of us are doing OK. Naomi still has a rotten cough, Ruth and Martha are taking naps every so often, but they seem to be on the mend. The rest of the kids have coughs and general getting over illness feelings. Thanks for the prayers. :-)
Ellie and Lydia played offertory last Sunday, they chose to do a medley for Canon in D and As The Deer... Ellie played Mandolin and Lydia guitar. Every one enjoyed it.... :-)
I didn't go to Youth on Friday, in stead went to a Ladies evening... Supper and then watched a Christian comedian movie. The gal was from Georgia... I believe her name was Anita Renfroe. She was good, clean and funny, yet you had a time to think and understand God as well. :-) She sang a couple songs as well... They were more along the lines of 21st century southern gospel. Some drums and electric guitar. They were OK, but..... :-)
5 of us kids are getting our hunters safety course in April... we have to fill out a form or two before we can start. And go over a book of rules and so on. I'm not sure when exactly the classes are, but I think it's early April. And I think we'll be wanting to take the PAL class as well, which would allow us to buy and/or sell firearms. I'm not sure how much it will all cost.
See y'all.
Hannah

Colds

March 16th..... So how's it been going for y'all? Most of us here are down with colds.... Ruth has been battling a fever and a pretty bad cough for the past several days and Naomi has had a hard time talking at all.... So once again I ask prayer for our healing. We seem to not be able to throw this cold out the window, by the time half the family is well the other half is sick and around we go again. I had thought that I would miss this one since it's taken me a good three weeks to feel any effects... but I've found a slight sore throat and a runny nose are my companions now. :-( We've canceled our singing at the Hospice on the 19th... we simply can't make it. Mom says she thinks the main reason we get sick so often is because we're living in tight quarters and also that we can't seem to keep ourselves in vitamins due to the fact that cash is short around here. I noticed that when I was on certain herbs (I had bought them in powdered form and made capsules from them) that if I did get sick it was a very light touch and I was over in a day or two... so I'm hoping to be able to order the herbs from the states and get back into taking them. (I haven't found a Canadian supplier) I don't like having to be dependent on taking herbs/vitamins to stay healthy but if it does the trick then I'll do what I have to do. :-) Maybe someday my immune system will be strong enough to handle illness without catching it. :-) As for the tight quarters theory I know that that is a huge problem.... in our house in MT I rarely got sick, Naomi, Ellie and maybe Dad would get sick but the rest of us didn't usually get anything but the flu when it was going around.... probably due to the fact that the house was quite large and we had enough space to go around. Here in SK we've always had small houses and we noticed the increased illness immediately... So what can I do?!? Pray that God will make the house bigger or pray that He'll send some young men along to help out some of the older girls? :-) Or as Martha says.... “You know if God killed off some of the family we'd not get sick as much.” LOL! She can think of the silliest things when she's tired. :-) But I'll stop complaining now.... I'm glad we have a roof over our heads, and in-spite of the trouble a large family can cause I'm thankful for all of us. :-)
Till next time.
Hannah

Devotional

I was reading my devotional and it was talking about the verse in Hebrews: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.... “Faith is like dropping a letter into a mail box. Faith, with assurance, drops its letter and lets it go. Distrust on the other hand holds on to a corner of the letter and wonders why the answer never comes.” That hits pretty good, I've been faulty of that a lot, not having faith in God to answer my needs, I hold onto the corner and worry about it. I need to trust and let God take care of the problem, He will show me what to do, how to do and when to do, but I need to let go of my worry and distrust and let Him take the lead. :-) I've been worried about several things this past year and the last several weeks have been getting down to the grit in my patience, thank God for the reminder to keep trusting Him and the reminder that He sees all and will open or close every door that He sees fit to. :-) My God is a wonderful God! :-) I need to simply trust my pains, worries, hopes and ideas to Him, He will answer if I let the “letter” go. :-)
Hannah

Prayer requests

Prayer request....
Y'all probably remember me talking about the Mennonites that Dad, Ellie and Lydia stayed with while they were looking at land in MB before they looked at SK.... any how the one young family they stayed with lost their little boy in Feb. also the other family lost their elderly father as well. Please pray for them in their time of pain. They are very nice and good people, and the pain has to be so much losing a loved one. Please pray that God will help heal the emptiness that the deaths have created for them. Thank you.
Hannah