Financial update and a THANK YOU!!!!

This is for those of you who are paying attention to & caring for this part of our lives:
I had to have our furnace/hot water systerm serviced yesterday. About 5 hours of labor plus parts so fairly expensive. Perhaps $500 plus?? unless they have mercy on me!!!

The blessing in it is that it now works at 83 1/2% efficiency. I guess brand new ones work at 86% efficiency. May cut down on oil usage too???

We lose our health coverage as of the end of January. Now we are a 3 person family instead of 4 so the amount of money I can earn/receive is lower. I will have to pay for health insurance after January for the 3 of us. I don't know how much that will be yet.

On the plus side, I have my music to sell, David's Harris' book that I have with me...I get 50% of sales, Bob Quadra's CDs & we get 100% of that, and Sandra Cooper's jewelry (of which I have a LARGE collection with me) and we 100% of those sales. These items have to be purchased directly from me in order for the proceeds to go to us. (Except for my music on soundclick.com)

I just need to be more intentional about the getting the word out about these items & get a new batch of my own CD done for those who don't use iPods etc.

PLUS you all have been tremendously generous in your financial blessing. I have not had to be anxious about that part of our lives. THANK YOU!!! We (I say "we" because the kids have become quite lavish in their giving to others lately...like Bobby was. I can't think of a time that he ever said, No when I was feeling led to give something that was a sacrifice for us...even when I gave away my ENGAGEMENT RING!!! Rodney Howard Browne meeting...need I say more?!) we keep giving & God keeps giving back PLUS more added on top! It is quite a story He is building into us.

Heading west.........

we'll be in western PA with family for Christmas. Should be back around 1/4/08. thanks to my lovely friend, intercessor, prophetess, housesitter & her beautiful doggies for watching over things whilst we are away...........love to you all.

new song Take Me There is almost complete

This is the first song of a new project I am working on with Bob Young, Jeff Reid & Tony Green (as well as though of you who I have emailed an early mix to for input :) can't wait until it's done & to get started on the next tunes.

DO NOT STRESS OVER CHRISTMAS & NEW YEARS ETC...

When my husband & I bought our first house this summer, we had no idea that we would have less than a month before he would die suddenly & unexpectedly. But God KNEW.
When we closed on the house, God spoke to my heart: DO NOT be uptight about getting the house in order, unpacking & all of that. RELAX. ENJOY your husband, enjoy your kids, enjoy the land & the house.

And this time, I listened. We had rich, beautiful, simple, joyful time together...the 4 of us & time with friends & family in those 3 weeks. The boxes were stacked everywhere & we didn't care. It was OK & we LOVED each other & i am so glad we did. I am so glad we had those times by the river & in the yard & in our new town & putting aside the TO DO list for awhile.

So here I am, 5 months after his death, many boxes are still stacked around me reminding me of HOW GLAD I AM that we chose to set aside most of the DOING to simply BE with the ones we love the most in all the world.

CHERISH the ones you love, LOVE the ones you're with, FORGIVE & LET GO of the hurts, FORGIVE yourself, DO NOT freak out over tinsel & gift-buying & your hoilday menu or guest list or your disappointments in yourself or others. LOOK people in the eye & say THANK YOU. "Shower the people you love with love...Show them the way you feel. Things are gonna be much better, if you only will. That's what I'd like to do to you....." - James Taylor sang it; not sure who wrote it!. EVERY chance you get. With as much love as I can convey in a BLOG..........Mimi

Hurricanes of Love are Here...

Well, it's 4:44AM so it seemed like the right time to post this. around the fall of 2001, I had an experience with God. I think it was right around the time my extended family & I were near the Outer Banks, NC. We had to be evacuated from the coast due to a major hurricane that came through. God began to speak to me about His "Hurricanes of love" that were coming to this realm. He gave me the impression that many people see this move as something chaotic, wild, driving, insane & they would reject it as something that couldn't be of God. But He put on my heart that it WOULD be from Him and that those who have drawn near to Him in INTIMACY over the past years would recognize this as Him, His doing. In it I sensed that He would be reordering EVERYTHING. Picking up everything that is, and placing things back down in His order (which is so VASTLY different from what we think of as "order"). I also felt that those who rejected this move would also come against those who embrace it. Hey. It's ALWAYS been that way! So if your an "embracer" get over it & walk in love. If you're a "rejecter" perhaps you might want to step back for a moment or two...pause...read your "Owner's Manual" on a deep level & then see what happens next! :) None of us have EVER been down this road before...only He knows the way...which He reveals to those who lay their heads upon his chest, listen to His heartbeat & love....the thing that clued me in that these Hurricanes are releasing right now is that I wrote a new song during a time alone with God as the kids & I were travelling up & down the east coast & into the midwest. When we hit Chicago, it got really strong....wanting/needing to be more BLISSED than ever
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Possible MOWevent western mass??????

just in the seeking God/discussion mode right now. Thought if you take the time to read my blog, you may even take the time to pray too :)

wow wow wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

worcester MOW event...wow is all i can say right now.

AND Jeff Reid's 11 year old nephew that was in an induced coma about 4 weeks ago & doctors gave about 2 weeks to live is OUT OF THE HOSPITAL AT HOME!!!!!!! Michael, Jeff & others prayed for him. Michael declared he would live & not die AND get out the hospital & it came to pass. We are thanking God hugely along with the Reid Family. Check out Caring Bridges web site I think for more about Alex Reid :)