Inspired

Last week my kids and I went on a load with my husband Hector to Washington State where I got to see some of my family who mean a lot to me. While I was there I received a message quite clear to me. We drove by a huge lottery sign in Oregon which read 330 million!! I immediately thought about what "I" would do with that much money. The first thought was CHURCH!! Being that we just had some pretty, um, tense elections, regarding finances. I thought the first thing I would do with the money would be pay off all the churches and buy all the necessary things we need and then some, maybe buses, gyms, redo the whole church in San Benito and redo the auditoro!! But then I thought...wow, THAT WOULD BE WAY TOO EASY! Then the message came...
Can't you see what I am doing?! This is just a trial you MUST overcome to get from point "A" to point "B". You need to go through this to learn. And yet you have not. You have decided to try to move forward on your own two feet, rather than let Me be the one to guide you along the way. And then you "think" you are in My Will.
Can't we see that this is what life is all about. Trials come to our life and we need to get through them "with the help of God". They come to help us learn how we can rely on God and how with Him we can get through. He wants to see what we do with what comes our way, do we stray or do we stop and let Him take the wheel. Why do we feel that we can do this on our own? Yes, we say from the mouth out, sure I asked God to help me, but do we? Do we really get on our knees and plead for our church, family, health or whatever we need. Sometimes that's all He really wants, for us to truly seek Him. I think everything would just fall in place, the money would just come, problems within the family would just fade and make us stonger, we would heal in an instant...but NO we just dig, and dig and dig and the hole gets soo big, we don't know how it happened or if we can get out of it...till we sit down on our behinds and just think, WOW, Lord you are the ONLY way out! You are the only one who understands me, the only one who can resolve this! And when we do...His arms just open up and He'll say, "here I am my child, I've been waiting for you to come to me, I love you and will never leave you."

I just feel sad that many people don't see it that way, they choose to take things in their own hands and don't care who they hurt a long the way, they have things interfering with their Spirit and choose to ignore it and try to fix it by moving away. Um, sorry, but you need to fix it, not run away from it! God has been so good to me, he has brought be through some really tough things and I guess sometimes you have to go through things to learn and to GROW! His Spirit is the best thing that has happened to me...and saddening Him is the worse thing ever. I don't want to do anything to sadden His Spirit in me. I wish we all thought that way. But I guess that's life...you live and then you learn. Hopefully we all learn before it's too late.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
John 4:23,24

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21

Update!

Well it sure has been a while since I've poured out my heart on this blog!! I guess the truth is, with Facebook, it's so much easier to say what you are doing and move on. You don't have to sit here...thinking what to write! But these past few months I have been through some tough times in my life and I have chosen not to "expose" my self on fb, twitter, or myspace anymore. I've been hurt by many things ppl have said to turn things I have written into something I did not mean to say. It's amazing to see how some ppl feed off of these posts and make them into something they are NOT!! And at the end of the day, I really don't care what anyone has to say about things I choose to post or not, but I would rather close doors that can cause ppl to rumor! It's all good, I chose to learn from this and move on, I was affected but I'm not going to dwell on it! I know, ppl will be ppl and some just truly can't help it. Gotta just love them anyway, but close some doors along the way. Our pastor here at church said the other day, we should try not to talk to ppl who never have anything positive to say. And when you think about who you are talking to in your daily life and realize that some ppl are just criticizing and pointing fingers ALL the time, you just got to cut the cord. Its so tough sometimes but, hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I have entered a new level of closeness with Christ and I just want to elevate to be closer and closer to Him...I don't want any distractions and I think I'm getting rid of some of them :) God has been soo amazing to me, He has opened my eyes to so much more than I could have ever imagined and like never before want more and more of Him. I don't claim to be the perfect person but I am trying to be a better person each and every day.
Today we had an amazing presentation of our "Noche Mexicana" with choir. I think it sounded amazing! I received many compliments on how we sounded and am very pleased with how well everyone did. I am thankful to God for His presence in my life tonight...He is so sweet and amazing and I love feeling Him with me!
I miss my hubby soo much!!!! He is in WA for harvest, left around the 6th of September, so he has been gone 2 weeks tomorrow. I hope the next few weeks passes super fast so he can be home soon!! I am so thankful that my kids are doing well and have been very healthy and have been doing well in school.



This is a family picture we took at Aaron's 3rd Birthday party.

Dear Blogspot...I wanna go home!

Love,

Sandra

Summer time in Washington 2010

Soooo I've so been slacking on my blogging...I really need to try to stay on track!! Well, I'm here in WA enjoying my summer with my mom and dad and Eric. This year has been more eventful than last summer here. I really have been having a great time, we've gone to silverwood, then to tri-cities several times, aquatic center twice and to Orman's pool once. Today dad got a 4 ft pool from craigslist!! It's soo cool and I'm soo looking forward to swimming in it! We set it up today and had a bbq, it was nice.
As for my kids, they are just having a ball!!! They love it here! Vianney told me she wanted to stay here for school!! I'm ready to head home, I just have lots of things on my mind, like lil' Hector's therapy's and school registrations for the kids...getting ready for school to start and Aaron's party. I wanted to start choir soon...we'll see how it goes.

My birthday!!

So the 3rd was my 33rd Birthday!! Yay me!! Lol, just a little minor excitement there! I really don't feel that old but I'm totally excited to be this old and have received as many blessings in my life as I have. God has been so good to me and I am grateful for His abundant love for me. My day was good, I went to the gym in the morning and went out for a lunch date with my honey at Chili's where they brought me an amazing desert that I'm still drooling over! Check it out!! Mmmmmmmmmmmm...


So this is my hubby and I on our lunch date!



Then I finished off the day by going to church and giving a class to my "Girls Only" class in church...it was a good day :) Thanks to everyone who called, text or sent me messages on Myspace and FB...made me feel super special =)

Been a while! But I'm back =)

Can't believe it's been so long since I've made time to sit and blog!! I guess sometimes you get so caught up in the everyday of life to sit and type. I have had an amazing past few months! So much has happened to me that I can not begin to write it down or explain! God has blessed me with soooo much and I am everyday more and more grateful to Him! My kids have been through many ups and downs with sicknesses since last year but nothing major, they have all been doing great in school and that is much to be grateful for. My hubby had his birthday in November 09 and we spent it in Mexico which was a lot of fun, took him for his birthday to "Las Enramadas" it seems to be becoming a tradition because we have done it for his birthday for years now...here is a couple pictures from that day...





Then December was fantastic because I got to have my parents here and that's always a big part of my year, I don't get to have them all year so I really enjoyed the time we got to spend together. Christmas was busy with choir and all but I didn't have to do much because it was only extension choir who sang in Mex and we were all practiced already. January 5th was my bro-in-law Josias' wedding and that came out good then after that Hector started work again. Can't complain God has been so good to us and He has also given me a need to seek Him more this year. I've been trying to give God the best of me and instead of quantity, quality. I have decided to let go of some jobs I've had in church, I've let my Sunday school class go and my G.O. class go because I have felt I need to give 100% to choir this year. I love to work for the Lord in all I can but I don't want to give less because I have more, does that make sense? Well it seems to be the right thing to do at this moment and unless God tells me otherwise that's the way it will be. I have some great plans for choir for Easter and am planning a nice drama musical this year that I want to make super impacting!! I'm very excited for this new year and what it has in store for me. :)
I've also been working out at the gym for a few months now, I started in October, having done some "Slim in 6" for over 7 weeks and got no results I decided to go to the gym instead. That started out great, I lost 5 lbs the first month, 5 lbs November and then I was off for over 3 weeks in December and gained 3 lbs!!!!! So I started again the middle of January and am hoping for results. I must admit I have lost some will power and feel like giving up but I think it's due to the fact that I haven't been sleeping well lately, I need to be more careful of the time I am going to bed because I feel the lack of energy when I am not well rested. I definitely need to work on that!! I promise to do my best and see if I have results.
Anywho, I just wanted to mention that I have been blessed with the best kids ever and the most wonderful, amazing, loving, incredible, handsome, funny, caring, husband ever!! I Love You and thank God for your existence!! Thank you for being you and all you do for me and our family, don't ever change!!!! Muah!!







True Love Always =)

Es una aventura Dios mio....

Y es una aventura conocerte,
caminar y obedecerte, y vivir por ti.
Es una aventura estar contigo,
caminar y ser tu amigo, y vivir por ti.
Y es una aventura cada dia si te tengo a ti,
si te tengo a ti.

Es una aventura, el mar puedo cruzar,
camino sobre el agua, si tu conmigo vas,
es una aventura cruzar por el umbral,
que lleva a lo imposible si tu conmigo vas,
Si tu conmigo vas.

Es una aventura que no acaba,
al confiar en tu palabra y seguirte a ti,
es una aventura cuando creo sin importar
lo que yo veo por que estas ahi,
es una aventura cada dia si te tengo a ti,
si te tengo a ti.

Es una aventura, el mar puedo cruzar,
camino sobre el agua, si tu conmigo vas,
es una aventura cruzar por el umbral,
que lleva a lo imposible si tu conmigo vas,
Si tu conmigo vas.



Te amo Señor.