If I Could Be A Women Of Faith Speaker What Would I Talk About.

If I could be a Women of Faith speaker there would be so many things I would love to talk about but I think what I would talk about is the journey I have taken from being a fierce Christian as a child and how after moving around several times I and my family and how that impacted us. I would talk about the importance of finding a church home and how one bad experience at a church can totally send you in a different direction than the one you wanted to travel in the first place. I would talk about the years that I wasn’t at church and how that didn’t effect my prayer life but how it impacted the life I lived. I would talk about how being single and pregnant and in an emotionally abusive relationship that ended brought me back to church and how finding a church home has helped me grow in God and find many areas of my life that I can give back. I stopped going to church and I lived a life and made decisions I am not proud of but God was always with me, waiting for me and I am so glad he did. This question means a lot to me because I wish I had enough insight to actually be a Women of Faith speaker or at least the ability to be involved in this Wonderful ministry.

Post away

I don't post a lot but I think maybe should. Maybe this will help me take stock of my life. What keeps going through my head this verse Proverbs 3:5-6, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight. I truly love God and truly want my relationship to grow with God and as my relationship grows I would love for my daughter's to grow as well. Also I truly want to help the girls in my Youth Group to grow in their relationships with God also.

Please be patient with me as I get the hang of this. And I am all for good advice.

There was a time
When all was lost
Hope seemed an eternity away
In walked God
The darkness turned to light
The hurt and pain slowly became the past
As each day passed I grew in spirit and faith
God walked with me every day
loving me for me and encouraging me each step
Tomorrow almost here and the past is the past
but I trust in God each moment of every day
Thank you God for always loving me and always being with me.

Amen

Birth Story

I think it's time to start remembering things about my daughter and her birth. First of all it was a pretty stressful time but a great time at the same time. I went in for my regular check up after having some worries about my blood pressure it was slowly escalating. I went in for my check up and my blood pressure was higher than normal. I was already dilated to 3. I had been experiencing a lot of back pain in the previous days as well. My appointment was at lunch time so they decided to send me up to maternity and check some things out. On the way up to maternity I ran into two of my co-workers who had been visiting a family member. I told them as I was wheeled by that I would be back to work. After being up in maternity for about an hour, they found out that my liver enzymes were elevated so they were going to induce. First though they had to get my blood pressure under control so they introduced me to magnesium sulfate - I don't recommend it because they have to put you on a foley catheter and it made me sick. It's not fun to puke when you haven't eaten since breakfast. At 4 o'clock that day they started me on Pitocin t0 speed things up. Not such an easy thing to do when you are using something to slow things down. For a while it was pretty boring except for being constantly sick. My mom, Aunt Becky and friend Erika were all there for me and that was pretty cool. Things progressed slowly. I think I actually started feeling the contractions around 11:oo pm that night, they honestly didn't register where the monstrous headache I had from the other stuff they were giving me. The nurses kept asking me if I wanted an epidural and I kept saying no. Finally I asked them if it would make my headache go away. So they sat me up and I said I think I'm going to be sick. They asked me if I could wait and I was like I don't think so. I got the epidural and went to sleep. I think at one point someone came in and said that nothing would probably happen until sometime the next morning which did not make anyone else in the room happy, they were all getting tired. Around 12:15 I woke up and was like I think I need to push. I had to repeat that more than once. They got someone to check me out and they were like yep the baby's ready and then they said can you wait a couple of minutes. At 12:30 the doctor came in and they still didn't think a baby would be coming rather quickly, 18 minutes later and a couple of pushes Morgan was born. She was beautiful and mommy was very excited but pretty drugged up and not feeling the best but I remember thinking I could so do this again. My aunt was like why isn't Cathi excited but I was and I was so incredibly blessed with a beautiful healthy baby girl, Morgan Elizabeth weighing 6 lbs and 1 oz. 21 1/2 inches long with lots of black hair. No taped on bow for her photos. God truly blessed me such a wonderful gift, Morgan.

More about Morgan next time...

Hmmmm...

This is new for me. Blogging that is. I can post away on facebook but write about my life, not sure but it's something I have wanted to do. I am a single mom with a beautiful 8 year old daughter - she is God's gift to me and my assurance that God does answer prayers. She is the light of my life and also the most crazy part of my life but I wouldn't change it for the world. I love God and I truly hope that my love shines through for her and that she loves God too. Her Christmas letter to Santa written at AWANA asked Santa for peace and to be a good Christian. Not spelled quite that way but she is only eight and smart.

I truly hope that God continues to grow both of us and that in this year of 2010 or twenty ten that he blesses everyone we love.