~Rachel and Family~: Apr 26, 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Week One

Mary is one week old this morning. Now she's sleeping. Hannah is down here with me reading books. The other kids went to church this morning with Paul. He's running the show by himself. Good, good, good man. I will go to church next Sunday when I'm better rested and healed and Mary is somewhat predictable. Church is enjoyable... but it is still work, especially when there are so many children without parents there and the regular extra needy people ;)

Family life is adjusting back to normal (well the new normal!). I'm able to keep up with the housework now and feel more out of the fog after 5 straight nights of 1-2 hours of sleep. Now I know why the POW camps used sleep deprivation as a form of torture! Mary has slept the last 3 nights for atleast 4 hours straight. Amazing after such a terrible start. Of course, I still have a hard time sleeping because I am compelled to check and make sure she is still breathing. And I have to wake her up to nurse her. I think it's funny that now it's my turn to wake her up!

I'll start up some light Corps work next week. I have 3 main things to work on.... Women's Ministries Sunday, Mother and Daughter Banquet and Camp Invites/Parent Meeting. I'm so blessed to be able to bring my babies with me and love them up and get some stuff done at the same time. Train them up young! Our children should know how to be Officers like the back of their hand by the time they grow up! (ha!ha!)

Yesterday we went to look at the RVS at the Cherry Festival. It just so happened that while we were there looking, the Parade started and we got to watch the whole thing from the comfort of a $70,000 5th wheel toy hauler. It was great!! Then we went out to lunch at Big Jim's and spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out at home.

I couldn't believe when yet another church lady showed up with dinner last night! They have been so good to us. But I have to admit, I'm not always sure about being on the "receiving" end! It has been a blessing, but I hate to put anyone out! I'll tell ya... we have so much food!! They have cooked for us like we're an Army!

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Love the LORD Your God. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers, thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Deuteronomy 6
-Jehovah God