"Make Our Efforts Successful"

Everyone is starting to feel healthy in this house. I guess I'm the remaining sickie....I still have a slightly sore throat, and a major sinus infection. I'm getting some rest (with two toddlers, just how much rest can a woman get????), I'm taking my vitamins, I'm sleeping with a vaporizer.....I just hope I'll be 100% soon. Someone told me the other day that most people are being affected by this crud that is going around for three to four weeks at a time! That's way too long for me. I think the best thing for us would be warm, fresh, springtime air; opening our windows, and doing some spring cleaning......ah, yes, that would be terrific. But, alas, we are currently receiving 1-3 inches of snow, with another inch or two expected tomorrow. Temperatures for the next week are expected in the 20's and 30's. Spring, where are you? It's been almost six weeks since that blasted groundhog saw his shadow!!! I'm ready to do some yard work, too!

Can't wait to have pictures of our current church drama to post. Isaac and Emma are in it with me this year....maybe next year (especially with his new job at the mission) Daddy will join us as well. tonight was our first full dress rehearsal. Isaac did great! He even tried to sing along a few times! Em was another story altogether! At one point, I lost hold of her, and she took off across stage, right into the middle of a scene where our Mary Magdalene was dancing, and presenting her alabaster box to Jesus......What a stitch! Our friend Crockett, who is Jesus, grabbed her eventually, and she stood on his lap, bouncing and clapping! What a show-off.....I wouldn't have any idea where she would have gotten that trait!!!!! :)

I've got a scripture I want to share with you all. My prayer is that someone sees this scripture, and the following prayer that we, as parents of an autistic son, prayed just yesterday. It held so much meaning for us. We think we should pray it EVERYDAY!

"Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good. Let us see your miracles again; let our children see Your glory at work. And may the Lord our God show us His approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!" (Psalm 90:14-17, New Living Translation).

Dear Lord,
Thank You for this beautiful passage out of Psalm 90! Thank You that it brings a hope that we will sing for joy to the end of our lives. Thank You that we can ask You for gladness in proportion to our former misery and that we can ask You to replace the evil years with good. Lord, according to this Psalm, we do pray that we would truly see Your miracles again, and that we would see them in Isaac's life. Let us, and let our children see Your glory at work day after day, beginning today! And, dear Lord, make our efforts truly successful. Show us what to do and where to go to get all the help we need for Isaac and his special needs, so that he would be successful as well.
I pray, Father, that You would expose anything that is oppressing us in our lives and causing every promise in this Psalm to not be fulfilled, and that You would begin to break the power of that oppression so that we truly will sing for joy to the end of our lives!
In Jesus' name...Amen.

I can't think of any better way to end this posting. Pray this with the Ewing family, won't you? Pray it for us, pray it for your own lives! This is definitely a scripture that I will hold to my heart forever, memorizing it, and placing it deep within my mind! PTL...

More soon...