tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10550407111754007772012-02-16T06:42:12.295-06:00Ramblings from the LodgeAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-30450357534428828432011-11-29T17:02:00.001-06:002011-11-29T17:02:30.962-06:002011-11-29T17:02:30.962-06:00“A holy regard of God” by Charles Spurgeon
“Free, full, sovereign pardon is in the hand of the great King. It is His prerogative to forgive, and He delights to exercise it.
Because His nature is mercy, and because He has provided a sacrifice for sin, therefore forgiveness is with Him for all that come to Him confessing their sins.
The power of pardon is permanently resident with God. He has Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/11/holy-regard-of-god-by.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-38111007424070373312011-10-20T07:22:00.000-05:002011-10-20T07:22:39.768-05:002011-10-20T07:22:39.768-05:00Keep a Quiet MindToday, 2 of my favorite people collided...Mary Kassian wrote a blog about keeping a quiet mind and she ended with Amy Carmichael's poem. It's been an emotional week for me and I needed this encouragement and challenge today. I thought you would enjoy it today too.
GIVE ME A QUIET MIND
When winds are blowing, waves are rising, falling
And all the air is full of dust and spray;
When voices,Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/10/keep-quiet-mind.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-77081020674856543752011-08-08T19:02:00.001-05:002011-08-09T05:33:11.897-05:002011-08-09T05:33:11.897-05:00Fresh Grounded ThoughtsIn March of 2010, I went to a conference where I was introduced to Jennifer Rothschild. I believe I have introduced her here before and I still owe you a book review of her book I read earlier this year but I can't tell you how much she has meant to me and how God has used her in my life to encourage and grow me. Each month she writes a blog called "Fresh Grounded Thoughts". I want to share Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/08/fresh-grounded-thoughts.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-34054965393329663552011-08-03T22:04:00.000-05:002011-08-03T22:04:48.163-05:002011-08-03T22:04:48.163-05:00Happy 38th Birthday ShaneShaneman had a big birthday this year! We both took a vacation day on the day and decided that from now on, we will definitely be taking vacation for our birthdays...it was GREAT! He got to sleep in and then we packed the car and headed to Gadsden to eat at his favorite restaurant, Maters Pizza Emporium...
Shane's Mom, Grandmother, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Sandy, Uncle Jim, Tyler, Cassie and Isaiah Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/08/happy-38th-birthday-shane.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-41308825328046482542011-08-03T21:41:00.002-05:002011-08-03T21:41:39.380-05:002011-08-03T21:41:39.380-05:00Bob Riley
No, not that Bob Riley, but my grandfather, Robert E Riley. He just happens to share a name with a former Alabama governor...small world huh? My Pawpaw Riley is now in the presence of the Lord, rejoicing and complete. He died on July 19th in Garner, NC. Pawpaw was a brilliant man, my Dad described him as one of the smartest men he ever knew. He was married to my sweet grandmother, Sybil Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/08/bob-riley.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-90384547375681724852011-06-16T20:43:00.001-05:002011-06-16T20:43:33.128-05:002011-06-16T20:43:33.128-05:00Rain and God's MercyTonight it is raining and we have lost power. I read this as a friend's status: today was a fresh reminder of God's mercy, "for It rains on the just and the unjust alike.". God, who is rich in mercy, has seen fit to give us some rain tonight and for that I am thankful! So since it's raining and no power, I decided to blog from my iPhone blogger app...so forgive any typos! :-)
It's been an Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/06/rain-and-god-mercy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-80034282954304155502011-02-26T18:54:00.001-06:002011-02-27T07:55:27.776-06:002011-02-27T07:55:27.776-06:00SaturdaySo it's been a gorgeous day here in the Ham and we were busy! The great news is I sat with 2 of my favorite ladies this morning and discussed being anxious and frustrated...anyone guess what book I'm reading? :-) I then went to Aldi for our weekly groceries. Shane sent me a text that he was getting off early so that was great news for our Saturday! :-). I made calzones for Shane and he is Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/02/saturday.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-89506933490597617512011-02-26T08:32:00.000-06:002011-02-26T08:32:27.521-06:002011-02-26T08:32:27.521-06:00Pawpaw
Last Sunday I got a phone call while we were getting ready for church...It was my dad telling me that my grandfather had died. My mom's dad had died about 10 minutes earlier from complication from Alzheimer's. Shane called our pastor and a few close friends to let them know. I cried and then sat and remembered what a special man he was. I'd like to share a few with you.
My Pawpaw was a Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/02/pawpaw.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-25544505912891423962011-01-30T21:00:00.002-06:002011-01-30T21:00:06.044-06:002011-01-30T21:00:06.044-06:00Weekend in ReviewI'm going to start a new goal for me...posting about my weekends. We'll see how long I keep it! :-) Hopefully I can get into taking more pictures with my Iphone and then can post pictures too! :-)
This weekend was a real treat! I only worked for 2.5 hours on Friday and took the rest of the day off...it was GREAT! My Dad, Mom, Beth (sister) and Paul (bro-in-law/awesome mechanic) came to Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/01/weekend-in-review.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-4778125717632989472011-01-30T20:42:00.000-06:002011-01-30T20:42:18.200-06:002011-01-30T20:42:18.200-06:00Happy Birthday GrannyToday my Granny is 77. She might not have wanted me to post that age, but I love it. She is the classiest lady I have ever known! She has had jet black hair ever since I have known her...and she never dyed it! She was with me when I was told that my other grandmother had died from cancer. She brought me soup and grapes when I was sick in college. She has been married to my grandfather for Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-birthday-granny.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-47917049761398506552011-01-01T21:02:00.003-06:002011-01-01T21:16:16.797-06:002011-01-01T21:16:16.797-06:00New Year, New GoalsSee, I told you I'd be back...it's the 1st, I'd say I'm doing pretty good on the promise! Haha! Anyway...I don't really make New Years Resolutions but this year I want to share with you a goal of mine...reading. Yes, I can read, but have not made it a practice, a discipline to read often. My husband is a true bookworm and you will find a book in his hand (or ear) whenever he is on down time...he Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com2http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-year-new-goals.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-31860636509959410792010-12-21T14:23:00.013-06:002010-12-21T14:59:59.674-06:002010-12-21T14:59:59.674-06:00So let the old year die with a fond goodbye...2011 will be here in about 10 days. 10 days…where did 2010 go? I have been absent from the blog mainly because I never really felt like I had anything earth-shattering to share…and I still don’t but I realized that it’s not about the earth shattering moments in my life, it’s about God’s guidance through each 24 hour day that I should be sharing. So 2011, here we come and I will be so much better Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2010/12/so-let-old-year-die-with-fond-goodbye.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-33373776380592745082009-12-14T20:20:00.002-06:002009-12-14T20:23:33.473-06:002009-12-14T20:23:33.473-06:00Day 1: Gen 1-13 Some verses that struck me this morning...Gen 2:5-6 - no rain yet and God still provides for the nourishment of the trees and plants of the eart...by a mist...not a mist from the sky but a mist from the GROUND!!!! Why do we so often doubt He will provide for us?And Genesis 4:6-7----God is asking Cain why he was angry...and God says "If you do well, will not your countenance be Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-1-gen-1-13.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-49775040898021834792009-12-14T20:13:00.002-06:002009-12-14T20:19:48.635-06:002009-12-14T20:19:48.635-06:0090 Day ChallengeSo some friends and I have made a pact to read through the Bible in 90 days. Some of us have never read the entire Bible before (including me) and it's about time! I'm excited and nervous about keeping up with the rigorous schedule but if I can be on facebook every day, I can read 13 or so chapters of the Bible! My prayer is that God will open up my eyes to see Him more clearly, even in parts Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/12/90-day-challenge.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-27901634445730981532009-09-04T09:20:00.003-05:002009-09-04T09:27:13.474-05:002009-09-04T09:27:13.474-05:00Amazing GraceAbout a year ago, a dear, dear friend sat in our home and reminded us of verse 4 in the hymn, Amazing Grace. It reads: The Lord has promised good to me His Word, my hope, secures. He will my Shield and Portion be,Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/09/amazing-grace.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-21331920222816528922009-08-14T08:09:00.008-05:002009-08-14T09:27:49.249-05:002009-08-14T09:27:49.249-05:00Cooking 101...Tuition FreeSo Shane and I have started cooking together. It started about 2 weeks ago when he got a french press for his birthday. Since I have known him he could master the George Foreman grill and the microwave but he had never learned to boil water...so we started there. But since we started we have boiled water, made turkish coffee and last night we made spaghetti!Boiling water to use in his french Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com3http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/08/cooking-101tuition-free.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-46123024451989738272009-08-03T12:01:00.004-05:002009-08-03T12:13:42.225-05:002009-08-03T12:13:42.225-05:00Sweet Caroline...At 5:42 pm last Thursday, in Rocky Mount, NC a little girl was born into this world. At 24 inches long, she is an answered prayer to many that have prayed for her. She is gaining two parents that love her and know that she is a gift from the Lord. Her mother is one of my best friends. Her mom and I became instant friends when she took the time to call me when I was about to move to her town. I Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com3http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/08/at-542-pm-last-thursday-in-rocky-mount.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-40438122570749312132009-07-31T09:11:00.007-05:002009-07-31T09:25:22.948-05:002009-07-31T09:25:22.948-05:00Meet George Jetson...Do you remember the Jetsons and their flying cars? And their robot maid? What about the doors that opened by going up and down instead of out and in? Well last night the Jackson family and the Riley family made it into the Jetson’s world…well almost. We had our first official Skype dinner! It was the BEST! Shane and I set the computer up at the end of our table, Mom and Dad set theirs up right Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/07/meet-george-jetson.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-86772738408829011522009-06-12T12:26:00.009-05:002009-06-12T13:06:07.532-05:002009-06-12T13:06:07.532-05:00More Pictures...As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a second time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.Dietrich BonhoefferLetters and Papers fromAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-pictures.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-90712291976567169512009-06-08T10:27:00.005-05:002009-06-09T13:54:07.253-05:002009-06-09T13:54:07.253-05:00Going to the chapel...AND WE GOT MARRIED!!! As Beth and I left the house on Saturday morning @ 6:30, we sang with my mom that song...in (of course) 3 part harmony. It has been on all of our phones since March...it was GREAT! Now it has to come off! :-)We had SUCH a great time! Leave it to my mom and her team to make things as easy as possible. The wedding day was an example of how a wedding should be...calm! Mom had Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/06/going-to-chapel.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-68757700967035645642009-05-29T10:03:00.001-05:002009-05-29T10:04:08.918-05:002009-05-29T10:04:08.918-05:00I am HisOf First Importance today..“I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by donation and I am His by election; I am His by covenant and I am His by marriage; I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am universally His; I am eternally His.Once I was a slave but now I am a son; once I was dead but now I am alive; once I was darkness but now I am light in the Lord; once I was a child of Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-his.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-49423680306128230852009-05-12T08:11:00.005-05:002009-05-22T08:21:43.698-05:002009-05-22T08:21:43.698-05:00A Love for God's People“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” 1 John 3:16What does it mean to have a love for the body of Christ? Does it mean just praying for them? Does it mean that we have to be at their beck and call? And how does that fit in with loving God. Lately I have been struggling with how all of this fits together...love for God and Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com1http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/05/love-for-gods-people.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-17040971579563542132009-04-20T12:41:00.003-05:002009-04-20T12:56:00.132-05:002009-04-20T12:56:00.132-05:00"The Knife of the Heavenly Surgeon" by Charles SpurgeonThis sickness is not unto death. John 11:4From our Lord's words, we learn that there is a limit to sickness. In all sickness, the Lord says to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall you go--but no further!" His fixed purpose is not the destruction of His people--but the instruction of His people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth--and regulates the heat!1. The limit is Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/04/knife-of-heavenly-surgeon-by-charles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-44320218296135977322009-02-24T14:27:00.002-06:002009-02-24T15:05:03.190-06:002009-02-24T15:05:03.190-06:00February 24thSome "God" sightings of His Faithfulness...My sister is engaged to the love of her life, Paul and they are getting married on June 6th!!!A "blogworld" friend just got news that her husband's final severance check will come on graduation day in May!My friend Catie and her husband are moving to MI, their first pick for med schools! These are just a few of the exciting things we have seen God do inAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com2http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/02/february-24th.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055040711175400777.post-64243933578432572652009-01-13T15:19:00.002-06:002009-01-13T15:36:43.223-06:002009-01-13T15:36:43.223-06:00Magdalena Grace RobertsThis morning this sweet little 5 month old girl left this world. She had Trisonomy 18. I do not know the Roberts personally but have grown to love their faith in our BIG God! Through this whole experience they have remained confident that God was, is and will forever be SOVEREIGN! Please keep Noah and Julie in your prayers as I am sure their heart is very sad today! Abbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13878105192914628567noreply@blogger.com0http://arjack201.blogspot.com/2009/01/magdalena-grace-roberts.html