There are moments

After reading the Cyr's blog and laughing so hard (entitled Why my kids will be guests on Dr. Phil ). I wanted to share this story with you.

Honestly at night after a long day with the Oakster I miss Oakley. I want to wake him up and start to play with him. He's just so cute and fun to be with. I felt that way until last night when Oakley decided to wake up @ 1 AM and wants to go downstairs...so being a dumb dad here we go. He doesn't want to sleep on the couch as usual he wants to eat yogurt, watch Tree house, and take out the cars to play. It felt like it was 10 AM FULL of energy. Every time I said Oakley it's nigh night time and daddy’s tired and wants to go to bed, let's go...he starts flipping out (like temper tantrum). So I bring him upstairs and he's just losing it...wakes up Ginny and she asks "What's wrong?" and I am explaining how he's going nuts and I am exhausted as I lay him on the bed and he stops crying and puts the covers over himself and wants to go to sleep. AHHHHHHHH. I would never hurt him but sometimes as parents the thought crosses your mind.

4 NEW pictures

We haven't updated our pictures in quite a while. So by popular demand (cough Ronnda & Larina) and threats here they are. So for the safety of my life and no one looking at our blog any more...here are our amazing children. We aren't biased are we? Every parent is irrational about their own kids. Proven fact...I just proved it.

Finally Ginny captured this picture of Rebekah smiling. At this age people (Marvin Dynna) say that it's only gas but we captured it and nobody will ever know...dang! I just told the world. Forget the whole gas comment I was just kiddin.

Here is Oakley mowing the lawn with our next door neighbour Carl. He LOVES lawnmowers (loves is an understatement).

I love this black & white picture of my two favourite girls. My lovley lover Ginny and my little princess Becca.

Ginny took this awesome picture the other day. His hair is wild and we love it. He's been a blast and a pain in the butt lately. So blessed to have these kids...especially when they sleep.

Does God still heal today?

This summer our friend Trisha Gieni had been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis is when your body’s immune system is attacking your joints and doctors don’t know why it does that. Usually this condition happens to older people and being 20 yrs old the doctors were shocked and really concerned. She visited two doctors and one specialist. They took test after test. She thinks she got 16 blood tests.

The doctor’s solution was that Trisha would just have to live with this condition. They put her on medication just to help with the pain and gave her some exercises to do.
Trisha determined that God would heal her. She talked to and emailed her friends and let them know what was going on.
People responded well. People emailed prayers, prayed with her over the phone, prayed over her during the prayer ministry time here at Bethel, our worship team prayed over her, she went forward at Teen Camp for prayer and of course her family gathered around her at home for to ask God for a healing.
When this condition came upon her she would have pain in her wrists, fingers, hips, knees, shoulders, toes, ankles, etc. There was one time where she couldn’t walk for 2 days. Another time her body was embodied for 3 hrs straight. She couldn’t work. Even in the midst of her toughest days Trisha just felt that it wasn’t going to last and she would be healed. She said there was so much prayer that it was evitable that she would be healed.
One day she just felt better even healed. She went to the specialist and told him she didn’t feel pain anymore. She professed that she was now pain free and hadn’t been taking her medication for 2 weeks.
Of course the specialist sent her for some more tests. All the tests came back negative to RA and she has been healthy ever since. So of course the specialist thought maybe she had picked up a bug overseas. Trisha had been in England during the last school year and her ministry team went to Malta (where Paul was shipwrecked in the Bible) doing missions for a month. And somehow Trisha had gotten a bug.
But when you ask Trisha, “So what do you think happened?” she responds, “Something was obviously wrong with me. Either I had RA and was healed or had some kind of bug and was healed.” Trisha really feels that God has touched her life and brought a healing to her body. Praise the Lord!