tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:19:17 +0000Fellowship NorthGodJesusann voskampfaithfamilymargaret feinbergone thousand giftsretreatsaharawisilent prayerRudy CarrascoVivian Pellasadvent conspiracyamerican-nicaraguan schoolarkansas house of prayercar accidentcastle bluffcookingcucumberdesertelection2012emmaus roadfallfreedomgive moregodly mangratitudegrowthjoan chesleyjournalinglatina christianleavesliving water internationalmotherhoodnewborn babynicaraguaoctober 21 1989otto helwegprayersacred echosilencesleep deprivationsolitudesomozaspend lesstan sahsateacherthankfulnessthe organic godwaterwater engineerwomenzucchiniA veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota ~ Sometimes we feel that what we do is only a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less if it was short of a drop ~ madre teresa de calcuttahttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Rob)Blogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-639245502688070443Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:19:00 +00002012-11-09T19:29:07.777-06:00latina christianoctober 21 1989Rudy Carrascotan sahsaVivian Pellas That's what my Nicaraguan granma would say if she was alive, "To God be the glory, mi'hijita", if she were to read the incredible humbling honor my brother Rudy Carrasco gave me in graciously including me in his list of 14 Latina Christians in America to Know. When I read this story & all that lives between the lines, I stopped & meditated on 2 things: I humbly think back to how God http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-dios-sea-la-gloria.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-4032098683167811045Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:24:00 +00002012-11-06T22:24:11.877-06:00election2012Fellowship Northfreedommargaret feinbergretreatsilencesilent prayersolitudethe organic god This past weekend 33 women (and one guy, the worship leader) retreated to a beautiful camp to seek God's voice in quietness, solitude, silence in the middle of orange, red, yellow fall leaves in Central Arkansas. I've lost count of how many Silent Prayer Retreats I've led in the past several years. All because one day I was looking for a movie to entertain me on a Friday night, and while http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2012/11/true-freedomon-election2012-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-5353298327263593587Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:42:00 +00002012-10-10T20:30:35.550-05:00arkansas house of prayercastle blufffallgrowthleavesprayerSo I was trying to be all "spiritual and stuff" in this monastic, silent room at the Arkansas House of Prayer, last October of 2011. Starting slow & tapering down my breathing. Quiet enough to hear my heart beating. Beating for a rhema word from God. Revelation that there's still hope for this struggling heart. I thumb through my Bible. Slowly. Don't want the pages to turn too loud lest I'm http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2012/10/leaves-fall-in-fall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-5546607369025695605Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:25:00 +00002011-11-27T22:07:12.292-06:00advent conspiracygive moresaharawispend lesswaterIn college I read a challenging, life-changing book about world missions. I read about a Chinese pastor of a large underground church who wrote a letter to another pastor and friend of his in the United States. He wrote to his friend something paraphrased like this, “We’re praying for the American church and for our brothers and sisters in Christ there. It seems that we’re handling our http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/11/im-alive-or-advent-conspiracy-week-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-577014544103449795Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:40:00 +00002011-06-21T21:43:04.345-05:00cookingcucumberzucchiniSo I love my small town and the fact that they have a locally-grown farmers market in the Argenta district. Saturday I woke up and hauled my hubby & toddler promising them to stroll around and breathe better just by going to the outside market rather than a retail convenience store. I'm smiling from ear to ear with my cute recyclable shopping bag. I only came for blueberries really and as I'm http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/06/im-afraid-of-yeast-in-my-freezer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-3446645221099146360Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:34:00 +00002011-06-13T12:00:46.155-05:00nicaraguasomozaYou know when you wake up moaning and something in your insides just doesn't feel right? like, you know it's not hunger pain? I hate to wake up on a Monday when my dear hubby is still out of town thinking I have to juggle the day with a toddler on my own...AND get Montezuma's revenge on top of that. Was it last night's hotdog? or yesterday's lunch burger? You guessed it. Probably both!So I grunt http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/06/2-alka-seltzers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-4157748656772799523Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:37:00 +00002011-06-01T22:44:44.377-05:00emmaus roadretreatsilent prayerwomenI forgot to share this blogpost that Donna invited me to contribute to at our Fellowship North blog. About 40 of us women from Central Arkansas went on a 24-hour Silent Prayer Retreat near Hot Springs. Here is a nugget of what happened on the way. I'd also like to share another account of that beautiful weekend together. My sister-friend Alison Chino wrote on her own blog with pictures that I http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-found-our-way-on-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-8505470730247849792Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:14:00 +00002011-06-01T22:47:58.166-05:00ann voskampmargaret feinbergone thousand giftssacred echoMy beloved friend Margaret Feinberg writes in The Sacred Echo, that God whispers so that we can be still long enough to listen. I've been drawn even more to this thought as I read through a HUGE God whisper by another beloved author, Ann Voskamp, in one thousand gifts. God speaks to us in the every day mundane things and I've been making a list, as I shared with you all on my last post.So I http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/05/god-whispers-its-both-verb-noun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-389634406897421650Tue, 24 May 2011 03:17:00 +00002011-06-01T22:48:43.138-05:00ann voskampgratitudejournalingone thousand giftsI know. *gasp* I'm writing again. Carlos Fuentes, one of my inspirations in the Latin American prose & fiction, told me one day that he believes in no such thing as inspiration when he writes, instead he believes in discipline. We must write daily, whether we want to or not. Practice makes perfect.So, I was challenged, but the rebel in me sometimes doesn't obey just to prove the opposite. That I http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-thousand-gifts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-4543000527497415765Mon, 16 May 2011 02:43:00 +00002011-05-15T22:46:07.837-05:00"Ines was *burn* on the 16th of May, 1978 in Spain, but I was in Nicaragua at the time, and when her uncle called me with the news, it was around 9:00pm on 15th of May" my father is telling the story that he tells every year on the eve of my birthday. This time he's telling the story to my inquisitive husband. And oh, he meant I was "born" not *burn*. I didn't burn. Excuse his http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2011/05/abandonment-trust.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-3095367713547050022Thu, 20 May 2010 03:39:00 +00002010-05-19T22:41:47.414-05:00car accidentthankfulnessA week ago I found myself paralyzed with fear with a thought that didn't belong in my head. The thought that I could leave this earth and leave my husband and son. Now, my Nicaraguan grandmother always taught me that "to live is Christ and to die is gain", so I'm not afraid of dying because I know I'm going to heaven. But a week ago out of nowhere I was afraid my son would experience what I did http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2010/05/walking-thru-valley.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-5414296715955511901Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:39:00 +00002009-11-28T11:40:24.166-06:00familyhttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/11/nash-gettin-chatty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-932150543806713515Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:00 +00002011-06-01T22:50:47.138-05:00motherhoodnewborn babysleep deprivationI have come out of the daze of those first few weeks of motherhood! Nash is asleep right now, alone, in his bassinette, something he HATED doing those first weeks when I thot I would never sleep again nor ever shower or brush my teeth, much less wash my hair. Praise God he's out of that newborn state of eating every 2 hours! (24 hrs in a day, divided by 2, equals 12 feedings!)In one week exactly http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/11/once-upon-time-i-slept-8-hrs-straight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-1698345590266769906Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:10:00 +00002009-09-21T21:10:53.279-05:00familyhttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/09/after-stroll-around-block-with-nash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-8828878234173601272Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:51:00 +00002009-08-29T23:51:57.976-05:00http://robmcbryde.com/god/presenting-inesmcbryde-com/:)http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-post-at-robmcbrydecom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-3005436702015808726Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:18:00 +00002009-08-24T00:19:25.550-05:00faithFellowship NorthGodJesus"Money, Sex and Power" Series: Sex III - Sexual Immorality from Rob McBryde on Vimeo.This is a portion of the message from the August 2nd, 2009 service at Fellowship North. Harold Nash preached about Sexual Immorality from a man's perspective and then invited Ines McBryde to share from a woman's perspective.You can download the entire message (MP3) from the church website at the address below...http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/08/money-sex-and-power-series-sex-iii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-2618490603925749460Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:37:00 +00002009-07-29T22:39:26.051-05:00Rob has a new blog where he posts stuff about God, Life, and Technology. Check it out at http://robmcbryde.com.Thanks for stopping by.~Ineshttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/07/hisher-blogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ines)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-5350037590624415154Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:25:00 +00002009-06-04T21:49:59.271-05:00So many things have changed since the last time I wrote on my blog! 6 months ago I didn't have a 2 pound baby around 14 inches long growing in my belly. I used to be able to lift my laundry basket full of clothes and I wasn't falling asleep at around 8pm in utter exhaustion. But as I sit here looking at Rob's size 9.5 tennis shoes sitting on the carpet, next to a pair of newborn baby tennis shoeshttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/06/has-it-been-that-long-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-5830085121711375203Mon, 04 May 2009 15:40:00 +00002009-05-04T10:41:25.988-05:00faithGodJesushttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/05/walking-with-god-best-sermon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-8535218755742475294Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:47:00 +00002009-02-04T13:47:35.071-06:00Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.The set up was simple and now I don't have to visit six different websites to post status updates or blogs. Check it out and make your life simpler. :)Sincerely,Rob McBhttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2009/02/pingfm-for-all-you-status.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-7798440288705055564Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-12-18T10:41:31.461-06:004 years ago today I was getting my hair done before I put on my veil and wedding gown. I woke up determined that I didn't care what went wrong that day, as long as Rob and the pastor marrying us were there. The cake came about an hour and a half late, undecorated, and that didn't even bug me. The video guy also came 10 minutes after the ceremony was over, I think, so we don't have a video of the http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/12/2-x-2-anniversary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-7097553428599949465Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:01:00 +00002011-06-01T22:52:11.599-05:00desertsaharawi"*Arabic-babbling-gibberish-rambling-BARCA*", my host mom, ******, said to me. I turned to her 17-year-old daughter, ****** (the "y" pronounced like the "dg" in bridge, kindoff...) and asked in Spanish, "¿Qué dijo tu mamá?" (what did your mom say). ****** responded, "She's given you a name...your name now is Barca." I was even more perplexed, "what does it mean?" ****** smiled, "It means good http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-name-given-in-desert-is-barca.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-2601159974653038165Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:15:00 +00002011-06-21T22:15:31.304-05:00godly manliving water internationalotto helwegwater engineer Yesterday I received the tragic news that one of my heroes in life went to be with the Lord. Like the apostle Paul says, he became "absent in body, but present with the Lord". After crying and mourning for a while, I decided, "wait a minute, he's happy! and wait another minute, this man truly lived for God!" Was there something this man hadn't done?Married a beautiful godly woman who kept him onhttp://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/11/remembering-legend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-8710174660164040854Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:41:00 +00002008-09-25T13:11:23.201-05:00SO! hello? anybody out there? *thumping finger on the mike* 1, 2, 3, check. Well, I have neglected writing anything in the last few weeks. I guess this new job and life in general (like sleeping in late in the mornings) has kept me from the written word. I don't have much to say except that I'm also procrastinating right now. I should be writing a support letter for my trip to Algeria, but like http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/09/better-write-something-quick.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19190404.post-2155495286465365200Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:24:00 +00002008-08-19T00:24:48.457-05:00http://familiamcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/08/jamna-and-jons-wedding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Rob)0