Then Sings My Soul Sunday #3

Count Your Blessings
Johnson Oatman, Jr.

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings—wealth can never buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

From God's Word Fridays (11/20/09)

Psalms 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Wordless Wednesday(Mr Man's 10th Birthday)

On Sunday November 15,09 Mr Man turned the big 1 0
We had his birthday party on Friday the 13th. Here are the pictures from Mr Man's birthday party.

The last 24 hours.

Last night at this time I was sitting in the ER with Little Man waiting on results from his strep test and his flu test.. Turns out Strep was negative but he tested Positive for H1N1 well the rapid type A flu test. He was running a 104 fever and they wouldn't let us leave the hospital until they could bring it down to 100, we were there awhile.
At 6:30AM this morning I was waking Princess up and at 7am I was sending her out the door to school.
At 7:30AM Sweet Pea woke up with a 102 fever so I was calling the school letting them know she wouldn't be in.
At 8:30AM I was taking Mr Man to school and stop to pick up some Tylenol and Motrin for my two sick kids with fevers and dropped off Little Man's prescription for his tamiflu.
At 9:30AM I was at the doctors office with Sweet Pea finding out she too has H1N1. was there for a while and didn't get home until 11AM
At 11:30AM I was getting a phone call from the elementary school letting me know Mr Man was sick(again) and I needed to come pick him up.
At noon I was calling the doctor for him, he already had the H1N1 so I knew it had to be something different but I didn't know what, he really wasn't complaining about anything except a tad bit of swimmers ear(from swimming to much Friday night at his birthday party which I'll post about later) and just basically not feeling well.
At 12:30PM I was off to the CVS to pick up Little Man and Sweet Pea's tamiflu and prescription cough med. And hitting walmart because I didn't have any lunch sort of food in the house because I wasn't expecting to be feeding the kids lunch this week since they should have been at school.
At 1:30PM I was feeding all my sick children lunch.
At 2PM I gave Little Man and Sweet Pea there 1st dose of tamiflu.. the tamiflu came in tiny bottles. I gave Sweet pea's hers first I read the bottle not that closely just enough to see how much to give her and it said 1tbs.. So I gave it to her and then got Little Man's bottle out and read his bottle and it said 3.ml WOW I thought she gets a lot more then him but they really aren't that much different in weight. So I took a closer look at her bottle and saw they had labeled her wrong... UGH UGH UGH!!!!!! They had the cough med label on the tamiful and the Tamiful label on the cough med. and I just gave way to much tamiful to my 7 year old..
At 2:10PM I was at CVS asking if it was going to hurt Sweet Pea that I gave too much and showing them there mistake. (I have a story to go along with this but it can wait a day or two.. just don't let me forget)
At 2:30PM I was picking up Princess from school.
At 3PM Sweet Pea was saying her belly was hurting and has been hurting since I gave her the tamiflu.. and next thing your know she is in the bathroom and she threw up. and it looks like all she threw up was the tamiflu. Guess to much of the stuff didn't mix well with her. that was the only time she threw up today. Thank you Jesus..
At 3:30Pm Mr Man was not so lucky.. we found out the hard way why he wasn't feeling well.. As he puked in 3 different spots on the carpet on his way to the bathroom... Poor kid has it coming out both ends top and bottom.. and with in 3 hours he had puked about 9 times.
At 3:45 I was cleaning up puke off carpets
At 4Pm I was calling the school letting them know I wasn't making it to my parent teacher conferences that were tonight.
At 4:30pm I was back at walmart picking up more Lysol I was at the end of mine that I got when Mr Man had H1N1 not all that long ago.
At 5:30 I was feeding the ones who could eat dinner..
At 6pm Mr Man was crying his eyes out in pain all cramped over holding his stomach asking me to make the pain go away.
At 6:30pm I was on the phone with the doctor as my son was screaming and crying his eyes out in pain asking them if they could get me in now and not at our 8pm appointment time. They agreed..
and at 6:45 I was in the waiting room of the doctors
At 7pm we were in the exam room seeing the doctor. gastrointestinal flu. He was close to dehydrated.. so he ended up with a suppository to try to help him keep some water down. He has to go back to the doctors at 11AM tomorrow
T 8pm I was doctoring up the H1N1 sickies who at the time Little Man had 102 and Sweet Pea 101 fevers.
At 9PM I was getting Mr Man a one ounce sip of Gatorade
At 9:30PM I sat down to type this out

There you have it one day in my life

Then Sings my Soul week #2

The Light of the World is Jesus

The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin;
The Light of the world is Jesus;
Like sunshine at noonday His glory shone in;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee!
Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

No darkness have we who in Jesus abide;
The Light of the world is Jesus;
We walk in the Light when we follow our Guide;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee!
Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

Ye dwellers in darkness with sin-blinded eyes;
The Light of the world is Jesus;
Go wash at His bidding and light will arise;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee!
Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

No need of the sunlight in heaven, we're told;
The Light of the world is Jesus;
The Lamb is the Light in the City of Gold;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

Come to the Light, 'tis shining for thee!
Sweetly the Light has dawned upon me;
Once I was blind, but now I can see;
The Light of the world is Jesus.

From Gods Word Friday(November 13, 09)

Philippians 4:4-13
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

I normally don't make notes in my From Gods Word Friday post, because Gods word is powerful and can speak for it's self.. but I wanted to share today.. that I think these are some key verse for a Christians happiness. Rejoice in the Lord Always.. In spite of poverty, trials and affliction we can have joy. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. We are not to worry because we can come to God in pray with everything, and When we do that.... Then.... the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. What an amazing promise from God that is... Then if we obey God and Think on things that are true, honest, Just, pure, lovely, things of Good report, virtuous and things we can praise God about.. Our time will be spent thinking of God and what He wants us to think about and not on the other things that want to steel our joy. Then we like Paul can say,"for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. " OH How I loves these verses..

Wordless Wednesday(pics from my birthday)

I forgot to charge my batteries for the camera so these were taken Monday on my birthday with the cell phone.. sorry they are blurry. The cake DH baked and let Little Man the 4 year old ice and dump sprinkles on.. Prettiest cake in the world.. don't you think. :-)