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God's 7 step plan for Conquering Anxiety

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Isaiah 41:13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you Do not fear; I will help you.  If God is holding your hand, and is walking with you, why are you so afraid? You have nothing to fear... Nothing. Hello Friends. How have you been doing? Have you been struggling with anxiety recently related to Coronavirus or other matters? It's okay to be honest with yourself. God sees, God knows and God cares. Really. Guess what? He's not going to leave you to drown in it alone. If you are a child of God, your Heavenly Father gives you a Biblical way to have victory over anxiety. He gives us a very clear step by step battle plan in Philippians 4:4-8. 4  Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!   5  Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.   6  Do not be anxious about anything,  but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.   7  And the peace of God,  which tran
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Travel update!!

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Hello Friends!! It's been awhile since we have had adventures together hasn't it? Well, buckle up for a little adventure around home! California Recently my family and I finished a 3 month stay in our hometown in California. It was our longest stay since we moved into our RV. After spending a while in the desert, I drank up the beautiful California fall colors. Nature is breathtaking to me, I feel it reveals God tender joy in simple creations. Job 12:7-10 Random fact number 273 about me, I LOVE roses like so much. I am going to have rose bushes someday. Fire and ice roses are my favorite and particularly beautiful! Here I am enjoying God's beautiful art. My great grandmother grows these beautiful flowers, and this was the last of her crop. We spent the afternoon reminiscing over old family photos. (I'm talking stuff from the 80s, Did you know womens hair really was THAT HUGE?) Next came a big family Christmas! Lots of food and smiles everywhere! In
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Lessons from Avocados??

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When I was younger and went to Sunday school, I loved object lessons. The teacher brought something from home and explained how that thing was an example of something the bible taught. As I got older and out grew Sunday school I kept searching for object lessons. I find that if we look, our eyes reveal them to be everywhere. We see them in  Even our pets . Recently I noticed an object lesson that I found to be applicable to anyone.  A few weeks ago my family bought a bag of avocados from the store. This is not uncommon for my family as we enjoy having avocados to cook with and snack on. However this bag was bad. We had the avocados for almost three weeks and they would not ripen. I got impatient waiting and tried to cut one open. I slipped and stabbed my finger. I was using a dull knife so I'm fine, it didn't cut too deep but it stunned me a bit. When I finally got it open the avocado was extremely hard. I had to cut the meat off the seed. I made a snack with it but it was b
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Peace

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Today's society moves so quickly. Picture the average American family. I'm imagining mom and dad and two or three kids. Do you see them? They wake up on Monday morning and scramble out of bed. Dad gets in the shower and then dressed for his six figure job that takes up all his time. Mom wakes up and gets the kids out of bed while she waits for the shower. Then everyone eats so fast they barely get to chew. Next they get in their fancy car and rush off to school. Mom then proceeds to work. The kids are at school being force fed so much information and being told to memorize it all. After school they go their separate way to their extra curricular activities. Then they have to do their homework which takes up most of their evening. Mom and dad get home later that evening and barely get to see their kids. They all go to bed just to get up and do it all over again the next day. Sound overwhelming? You bet! I'm exhausted just imagining this. But maybe you are familiar with this
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Love Your Enemies

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Hello Everybody!! I'm sorry it has been so long since I have updated y'all. We are in a season of life right now where we have been stationary coming up on two months. I have been doing a lot of thinking about my blog and what to post.  My blog mainly features what I learn about my Lord, myself, my family, and God's creation as I travel. So being stationary, I was worried anything I wrote about would be boring. As events unfolded, this topic of loving your enemies was pressed on my heart. Then my pastor gave a sermon on the topic and I knew that was my green light to start writing. So here we go. Love your enemies. Yep, you read that right. Isn't that such a strange concept? Our culture has always been supportive of a self satisfying attitude. Culture tells us to look out for number one and those who are mean to us, aren't worth it. This age of technology makes it so convenient to burn people online. It's so much easier to send a nasty text or post a mean
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God Teaches Me Through My Dog

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Everyone who knows me, knows that I am totally, completely, undeniably horse crazy!! I don't have one of my own (yet) because it wouldn't fit in the RV. However, I have another passion, my dog Hunter. I'm so thankful for my happy boy This is my boy Hunter. He is blind, but doesn't let that stop him! He is super sweet, and honestly believes that he is a ten pound lap dog. (He is actually eighty five pounds!) One of Hunters favorite foods is ice cubes, *although he would eat anything you gave him! We rescued him six years ago, so we don't know exactly how old he is, but we estimate around nine or ten years old. He is a yellow American lab. As wonderful as Hunter is, he has some pretty silly fears. For example the smoke detector. Smoke detectors save lives and yet the loud screeching sound scares hunter out of his skin! Another instance is fireworks. I can imagine to a blind dog loud explosions would be a little unnerving! As these things occur, I sit uncomfort
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The time we were escorted off of Walmart property at threat of arrest

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Yes you read that correctly. No we were not arrested. (Thankfully) Yes it's a hilarious story. I'm dead serious.  I was sitting around the table with my family one night reminiscing. Our conversation brought us back to the time we were asked to leave Walmart. We came up with some pretty fun names for my story. For example, The Time we were Falsely Accused and escorted from Walmart. Or, The time we were almost arrested over a 3 dollar hot glue gun. Either way it's a pretty funny story. It's been long enough now that we can laugh about what happened. However at the time it was no laughing matter. Thus starts my tale of woes.... I love doing crafts, especially anything on canvas. I had just seen a video that inspired me to start a new project but I needed a hot glue gun that I could pretty much ruin. Instead of putting glue in it I was going to use crayons. So I picked up a mini one at Walmart for 3 dollars. It was a high temp gun which may have been w
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

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Traveling on the road, you get to see a lot of cool things. This last month I got turn my eyes skyward to experience something amazing! Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Last month we got to spend a few weeks in Albuquerque NM, for the balloon fiesta. It was incredible! I had never seen a hot air balloon in person before, so it was an amazing experience. Each morning we would wake up to balloons all over the sky, and many of them landed in a field  in the RV park.  Morning patrol, rising with the sun The Fiesta had two different "sessions."  There was a morning session and an evening session. The morning session activities started at six a.m. If you were planning on getting to the field by six, you had to be up at five or a little before. Crazy early I know, but seeing the sunrise with the balloons is worth it! You would eat, pack all your stuff and hurry to catch a shuttle. When you got there it would still be dark. After going through the line and
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