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A Different Night Before Christmas

Started Dec. 12, 2008

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Quote: not a quote - an update...
read with caution - follow up with prayer

Yeah, so the Jimmy thing... lets just make this short and ugly shall we?? We got married in April after meeting with the pastor a couple times...
- he started drinking heavily on the honeymoon and gambling and never stopped.
- he ran up major debt that I had to put on my credit card to get off the cruise ship.
- the temper started about a week after we'd been home, yelling - swaring and lying to me.
- 3 weeks in... are you keeping up? I broke my leg and he couldn't take me to the ER, pick up my meds, get the groceries or make his own dinner much less mine and threw fits about my not having his breakfast ready or lunch packed in the morning.
- one month anniversary, I'm sleeping on the sofa "armed" with my crutches
- week five I've started looking myself in the girls' room when he is home - he tried 3 times that week to hit me and kicked the dog
- week six finally got him into counselling - where he proceeded to lie to the pastor about things the pastor knew about and had witnessed... just plain bold faced lies
- week seven and eight were spent living in my car because he stalked me everywhere I went and almost broke my folks' door down
jump to July - Franklin County - no clothes, no job, no money (had to borrow the gas money to get down here) but finally a safe place to live... a new start... opening myself to God's healing and mercy. God is still in control.
Its almost November - I sign a lease on a new apartment tomorrow. I have a job that I enjoy, a church I love and a town and friends that have opened their arms to Tucker, Ruth and I. Nikki is safely in San Fran studing art and working. Boy... what a 6 months.
Can 2008 be over now please?

City (optional), State (required), Country (required): Rocky Mount, Virginia

My Relationship Status: Separated

My Profile is for:: Myself, A Ministry, An Author, Other

I am here to:: Meet other Christians Locally, Meet other Christians Globally, Make Friends, Have Fun, Fellowship, To Network with Family and Friends

About Me (Things I enjoy, Spiritual Gifts, Passions, Hobbies, Pets, Travels, Studies, etc.): Things I am passionate about... My God, my church , my family (daughters Nicole and Ruth, my parents Anne and Bill, even my brother William LOL)
Things I enjoy... studying and reading, discussing issues of the day, hanging with my daughters, working at church - missions and women's ministries, spending time with my family, politics, photography and just talking with people
Things I don't enjoy... issues with my ex, spelling, math, traffic in Northern Virginia and rude people

I Attend Church:: More than once a week, Frequently, As Often As I Can

Favorite Website Links:: too many to list! truely
I have 37 FILE FOLDERS in my faves list
though more and more I find my self on Bible Gateway, the Cyber Hymnal and my fave Christian Graphics sites designing business cards and such... gotta suppliment my income somehow

Favorite Music:: TobyMac, AudioAdrinaline, Barlow Girls
any reformation hymns
classical masterpieces
classical guitar - I'm trying to learn to play

Favorite Books and Authors:: God's Word - in many translations - at the moment I am rereading through "The Complete Jewish Bible" though this is cheating some what as I gave up on my copy of the Torah
Walter Walgerin, C.S. Lewis, Beth Moore, Liz Curtis Higgs...
anything about the Commonwealth of Virginia History
honestly though you'd never tell from my spelling I love to read - just about anything

Mabry Mill in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This is where I first fell in love with autumn, I was 8. Daddy let me take a picture with his camera and then for the next 10 years the mill and its surroundings became a favorite source of insperation for painting and sketching. Now that I'm "old" I do photograpy. LOL - quick gratification.

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Update on Momma

Her surgery went well. She has woken up and actually eaten a bit of Jello and some cranberry juice. I spoke with the nurse and he told me her bp is up but managable. Her pain med (dilauted) is analgisic based and not an opiate which is good, and the dose is actually very very low. I was amazed. God is so good. I'll speak with Momma in the morning and update y'all again. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. Daddy too - btw good news. My brother William stepped up to the plate and staid th… Continue

Posted on December 12, 2008 at 11:39pm — 1 Comment

The Lesson of the Little Drummer Boy

And as Aaron looked at the Babe he thought it was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. “And yet there is something more about Him – so much more”.

“Your gift little drummer boy given out of the simple desperation of a pure love is the one favored above all. See”

Aaron’s heart was filled with joy and love and he knew at last that the hate he had carried there was wrong as all hatred will ever be wrong. For more powerful, more beautiful by far than all the ions of sadness and cruelty and d… Continue

Posted on December 12, 2008 at 2:30am —

Can there possibley be beauty for ashes??

Its advent time again, a time of preperation and anticipation of Christ's coming to earth as a babe. Its a rough spell for me this year. Painful really. What should be filled with joy and wonder is instead filled with sadness and a sense of loss.
Life lesson lately have really hit below the belt. I'm tired of starting over again again again. Tired wondering if my children miss me. Tired of wondering what went wrong, tired of hurting and pain.
So I started wondering - what do I have to offer Chri… Continue

Posted on December 7, 2008 at 10:44pm — 2 Comments

Father Forgive Us

Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed be his kingdom, now and for ever.
Bless the Lord who forgiveth all our sins. His mercy endureth for ever.

Hear what our Lord Jesus saith!!
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great
commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 22:37-40

Hee… Continue

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 3:13am —

Moving, Another Tech Shooting and Work

Well, everything that was put in the storage unit is down here. Kinda safe and sound. Lots of broken and DIRTY dishes! What did I expect really?? At least I have a matteras. I have gotten to the point that I can only deal with about an hour of sorting stuff at a time before the idiocy of it all gets to me.
The apartment is wonderful. I have internet and Tuck has a huge lot between us and the armory to play in. The only thing I really miss is my dishwasher and washermachine/dryer. But stairs are… Continue

Posted on November 13, 2008 at 2:13pm —

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At 3:48pm on March 21, 2009, ForChristsGlory said…: Hi Wanda,

I hope 2009 is bringing blessings and restoration into your life!
~alva

At 9:47pm on December 9, 2008, John DeDakis said…: Hey...... Just found out today that my agent loves my second novel (working title "Bluff") and my current publisher -- if he likes "Bluff," too -- plans to bring it out within a year...... so this is very encouraging news, considering there's so much constriction and layoffs in the publishing industry right now. Thanks for asking. JD

At 5:15am on October 30, 2008, Allen said…: water color away! blessings! allen

At 8:48am on October 29, 2008, Shae Nesbitt said…: Hey Wanda,
First of all thanks for accepting my request for friendship. I hope you will take the time to listen to my music and that it will inspire you in some way.

Regarding your search for the Psalm. Have you tried either Psalm 11 or Psalm 125? I do remember a word on mountains in both of these scriptures. Please let me know what you find out. I look forward to getting to know you better and hope that you are in perfect peace as you read this message.

Shae'

At 6:10am on October 29, 2008, Allen said…: good morning wanda! yes, Ketchikan, Alaska is where they were taken. a friend of mine, that lives there 8 mos. out of the year invited me up there to experience that beauty that God had created to drawn him to Christ! It was truly a one in a life time experience and a wonderful trip!

At 11:21pm on October 28, 2008, PhotoGuy said…: I've been away from GA for a while. Just pretty overwhelmed with a lot of work so have not been looking at the photo posts for some time. You have some great photographs. What are you shooting with?

At 7:11am on August 30, 2008, Tracy Hurst said…: I am new to Gracealley and I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello!

Blessings!

At 6:36pm on January 30, 2008, Wanda said…: Just wanted y'all to know that I am not hiding, just don't have internet at home at the moment. Too many bills - not enough money. Please continue to pray for my girls and I as I continue to look for a job. Thanks!