Well we aren't going to move yet:( The house we were sooooooooooo in love with won't workout. they didn't want horses on the property. Wish they just would have said that upfront but oh well. We were possibly going to board the horses but why have em if I can't even see them and then it would have cost us more than we are paying now and we want to get cheaper not more. We need to be able to do better not worse so we decided to just keep looking and see what we can find. Just REALLY would like to find it before winter! But we will see.
Other than that nothing to exciting. Just getting excited for Halloween. I love Halloween and I love to dress up! I am going as a buccaneer this year and Eric a rouge pirate:) I am not sure where we are going yet but we will find somewhere fun I am sure. Just fun to get out and be something you aren't for a day:)
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
28 Hours of Hope!!!
28 Hours of Hope
http://k99.com/give-to-the-28-hours-of-hope/
Below is a post from a blogger friend(GUNDIVA) and I wanted to share it and ask for y'all help. I to have been in abusive situations and no one said anything. Friends and family said it wasn't their buisness or didn't want to get involved. I hate to say this but if you know it is going on IT IS YOUR BUISNESS and you could save someones life by saying something. I didn't give much but if everyone gave a little, guess what that would equal a lot!! I know this may not be your city or even your state but it will help someone that needs help. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE EVEN IF JUST A LITTLE!!! Click the above link if you want to donate. Thanks:)
(gundiva post)
In the three years or so since I've been blogging, I've seen bloggers who have never met face-to-face pull together to help little girls with cancer, mommies with cancer, people just having a rough time who need a shoulder to cry on and have seen the bloggers stand together, strong, through good times and bad.
I've been lucky enough to participate in the blogging community and have been blessed enough to help some of our fellow bloggers.
This time, I'm asking for help. Not for me, but for abused children in Larimer County. I was lucky enough growing up that my mom got us out of a potentially abusive environment. She took the beatings for us until she said, "enough!" and got out. She had a very wise counselor at the time who told her that she was going to get out of the marriage no matter what - she either gathered her courage and left, or she'd get out of it in a pine box. There were no options. He also explained that wife beaters don't stop with the wives - they move on to the pets and the children and when he killed her, who was going to protect the kids?
People knew about the beatings Mom was recieving, but what is there to do? Our close neighborhood friends knew, but, you know, what happens behind closed doors, how is it their business?
We kids knew. Hell, Dad would line us up on the couch in birth order and command us not to move when the beatings commenced. We knew, but we didn't say anything. It was our own dirty secret. If we told, we'd be the ones getting the beating. Selfish, I know, but we were kids. Dad was a big, strong firefighter. What chance did we have against him?
Silence was our enemy.
We didn't tell.
The neighbors didn't tell.
The teachers didn't tell.
Silence.
Thank God for Mom's counselor. I don't know if she told or if he figured it out. He was a smart man. Smart enough that he knew the patterns of abusers. When Dad started in on Junior, the youngest of the four of us, Mom realized her counselor was right and got out.
There are a lot of kids nationwide, not just in Larimer County, whose parents aren't as strong as Mom is. There are a lot of kids for whom Silence is their enemy.
They don't tell.
Their neighbors don't tell.
Their teachers don't tell.
Silence...
...it's killing our kids.
The Good Morning Guys at K99 sponsor the 28 Hours of Hope every year in an attempt to break the silence and raise money to help abused children in Larimer County. They will stay on the air for 28 consecutive hours, taking calls and pledges from the community and Country Music celebrities. They went on the air at 5:00 am this morning and will continue to be on the air until 9:00 am on March 11th. Jeez, and I complain about working fifteen hours straight - these guys will be working non-stop for twenty-eight hours for a cause they believe in.
RockCrawlinChef and I will be making a donation and I'd like to ask each of my followers to make one, too. It doesn't have to be a lot. Even $1.00 on your credit or debit card will help. The change in your car's ashtray or change jar will help. To donate, click here or on the picture in the sidebar, that will take you directly to the donation page. You can make a donation on-line, over the phone, or via mail.
If you can't afford to donate, then do something about the Silence. If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, tell someone. Break the cycle of Silence. All it takes is a phone call to break the cycle - either to the police department or social services.
And, please, please feel free to steal this post for your own blogs or link to it. The more exposure we can get, the more we can help the children and break the Silence.
http://k99.com/give-to-the-28-hours-of-hope/
Below is a post from a blogger friend(GUNDIVA) and I wanted to share it and ask for y'all help. I to have been in abusive situations and no one said anything. Friends and family said it wasn't their buisness or didn't want to get involved. I hate to say this but if you know it is going on IT IS YOUR BUISNESS and you could save someones life by saying something. I didn't give much but if everyone gave a little, guess what that would equal a lot!! I know this may not be your city or even your state but it will help someone that needs help. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE EVEN IF JUST A LITTLE!!! Click the above link if you want to donate. Thanks:)
(gundiva post)
In the three years or so since I've been blogging, I've seen bloggers who have never met face-to-face pull together to help little girls with cancer, mommies with cancer, people just having a rough time who need a shoulder to cry on and have seen the bloggers stand together, strong, through good times and bad.
I've been lucky enough to participate in the blogging community and have been blessed enough to help some of our fellow bloggers.
This time, I'm asking for help. Not for me, but for abused children in Larimer County. I was lucky enough growing up that my mom got us out of a potentially abusive environment. She took the beatings for us until she said, "enough!" and got out. She had a very wise counselor at the time who told her that she was going to get out of the marriage no matter what - she either gathered her courage and left, or she'd get out of it in a pine box. There were no options. He also explained that wife beaters don't stop with the wives - they move on to the pets and the children and when he killed her, who was going to protect the kids?
People knew about the beatings Mom was recieving, but what is there to do? Our close neighborhood friends knew, but, you know, what happens behind closed doors, how is it their business?
We kids knew. Hell, Dad would line us up on the couch in birth order and command us not to move when the beatings commenced. We knew, but we didn't say anything. It was our own dirty secret. If we told, we'd be the ones getting the beating. Selfish, I know, but we were kids. Dad was a big, strong firefighter. What chance did we have against him?
Silence was our enemy.
We didn't tell.
The neighbors didn't tell.
The teachers didn't tell.
Silence.
Thank God for Mom's counselor. I don't know if she told or if he figured it out. He was a smart man. Smart enough that he knew the patterns of abusers. When Dad started in on Junior, the youngest of the four of us, Mom realized her counselor was right and got out.
There are a lot of kids nationwide, not just in Larimer County, whose parents aren't as strong as Mom is. There are a lot of kids for whom Silence is their enemy.
They don't tell.
Their neighbors don't tell.
Their teachers don't tell.
Silence...
...it's killing our kids.
The Good Morning Guys at K99 sponsor the 28 Hours of Hope every year in an attempt to break the silence and raise money to help abused children in Larimer County. They will stay on the air for 28 consecutive hours, taking calls and pledges from the community and Country Music celebrities. They went on the air at 5:00 am this morning and will continue to be on the air until 9:00 am on March 11th. Jeez, and I complain about working fifteen hours straight - these guys will be working non-stop for twenty-eight hours for a cause they believe in.
RockCrawlinChef and I will be making a donation and I'd like to ask each of my followers to make one, too. It doesn't have to be a lot. Even $1.00 on your credit or debit card will help. The change in your car's ashtray or change jar will help. To donate, click here or on the picture in the sidebar, that will take you directly to the donation page. You can make a donation on-line, over the phone, or via mail.
If you can't afford to donate, then do something about the Silence. If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, tell someone. Break the cycle of Silence. All it takes is a phone call to break the cycle - either to the police department or social services.
And, please, please feel free to steal this post for your own blogs or link to it. The more exposure we can get, the more we can help the children and break the Silence.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
HOPE for the first time in a long time
So I just have to say that today the LORD really spoke to me. I have been praying and praying to hear from him. I have been praying for so many things lately...Hope, strength, patience, peace, no fear, direction in our lives and so many many other things. Today hope was sent. It was sent in the form of a Dr. Dobson broadcast. It was a broadcast done from crystal peaks youth ranch in sisters Oregon. This is a ranch I have mentioned before and is very dear to my heart. This is the place I got hope another time when I really needed it most!!!!
OK so you are thinking that looks like a skinny old horse with a bunch of paint on him and that is exactly what it is!!!!! But no he is even more than that. This is JOB, he was of course named after job from the bible and that is because he had been through such terrible things. But on one of the breaks I was leaning on the fence watching all the horses, crying as I just felt so terrible I was praying GOD please talk to me, please say anything...and at that very moment from the bottom of the pasture this broken, boney horse who normally slowly, and achily made his way around the pasture looked up at me and ran to me at the fence. He came right up and put his nose in my face. I started to pet him and at that moment on his neck plain as day and spoke right from the LORD was the word HOPE.
As you can imagine immediately broke down crying and job just stayed and let me cry my tears all over his beautiful dusty face. It was then I knew GOD was always with me. I held that day sooooo dear to me and lately I have let things fade that memory and I won’t do that again!!!
I am not sure what the LORD has for me. I hope it would be to work at or run a rescue program and to change lives but I just know I want my life to be about him. I want to spend everyday of my life seeing GOD work in others and see people come to him and be saved. I don’t just want my life to be about money and things. I don’t want to die wishing I had done more for him and others. I am going to be praying fervently about this. I want more than anything for my life to change for him in big ways!!!!
Here are the links for the broadcast if anyone is interested and the crystal peaks website. They are amazing, humble people who are truly devoted to the LORD and helping others. Amazing story of what they have done through the LORD!!!
http://www.crystalpeaksyouthranch.org/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/20/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-i/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/21/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-ii/
My whole life I have just craved animals. They bring sooooo much joy to me and they were always there for me when I needed them. They never hurt me like people did or if they did it wasn’t on purpose. They were my saving grace. But it was horses that had something soooo very very special. I felt like everything was right with the world when I was on them. I had a dream for so long of rescuing horses and then helping kids who had been in bad situations like I had. It was in 2006 that I found out about crystal peaks and went for one of their information clinics on how to run a ranch like this. But I had no idea that the LORD would speak to me in such a big way that time. I was feeling so hopeless at that time as I was in a very abusive marriage that had prity much taken everything away from me and where I wasn’t even allowed to worship GOD in the ways I wanted or needed to. I prayed the whole way there that GOD would show me how to make my life better. Well this is what he showed me.......
OK so you are thinking that looks like a skinny old horse with a bunch of paint on him and that is exactly what it is!!!!! But no he is even more than that. This is JOB, he was of course named after job from the bible and that is because he had been through such terrible things. But on one of the breaks I was leaning on the fence watching all the horses, crying as I just felt so terrible I was praying GOD please talk to me, please say anything...and at that very moment from the bottom of the pasture this broken, boney horse who normally slowly, and achily made his way around the pasture looked up at me and ran to me at the fence. He came right up and put his nose in my face. I started to pet him and at that moment on his neck plain as day and spoke right from the LORD was the word HOPE.
As you can imagine immediately broke down crying and job just stayed and let me cry my tears all over his beautiful dusty face. It was then I knew GOD was always with me. I held that day sooooo dear to me and lately I have let things fade that memory and I won’t do that again!!!I am not sure what the LORD has for me. I hope it would be to work at or run a rescue program and to change lives but I just know I want my life to be about him. I want to spend everyday of my life seeing GOD work in others and see people come to him and be saved. I don’t just want my life to be about money and things. I don’t want to die wishing I had done more for him and others. I am going to be praying fervently about this. I want more than anything for my life to change for him in big ways!!!!
Here are the links for the broadcast if anyone is interested and the crystal peaks website. They are amazing, humble people who are truly devoted to the LORD and helping others. Amazing story of what they have done through the LORD!!!
http://www.crystalpeaksyouthranch.org/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/20/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-i/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/21/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-ii/
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