Title & Signature Change

I've decided to change my title from  Trucken 4 Jesus to Blessed & Unknown Journeys... Trucken just doesn't seem to fit since Moine's accident. And I wanted something more that would go with what our life entales at all times.  I chose Blessed because We are so Blessed!! And I chose Unknown Journey because our journey is always Unknown and God fills it in for us!!  I've also changed my sign in name from 4 Muskateers to Rhoda Martin.  So yes it's still me blogging just doing some changes!!  Hope you all have a great day!!

Laura Story- Blessings

This song has become a very special song to us! I share it in hopes that you can be encouraged as well.  If you hit the link above you can listen to it. If you just want to read the words scroll down they follow!!

                                             Blessings~Laura Story
We pray for blessings, we pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel you near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if each promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we’d have faith to believe

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win, we know
That pain reminds this hearts,
That this is not, this is not our home…

What if my greatest disappointments,
Or the aching of this life,
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy.
What if trials of this life,
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise?

Waiting And Trusting...

Waiting And Trusting

   What no phone call from the Doc.? And you have no results as yet??  Waiting, waiting and still more waiting! I get so tired of waiting and just want to whine and complain at times. You know what I'm sure God gets tired of waiting on me to completely trust Him and give Him full control too. Maybe this time of waiting is what God is trying to use to teach me yet another thing in this situation. In fact I know it is!
    Trust? You mean you want me to not worry about my husband working alone with no one else around since he passed out? You want me to fully give up my husband to you and trust him completly to you? Just trust God, He will take care of us! I know, I know but its so hard to fully give up the love of your life or your child but as my husband reminded me last night, "The sooner you give in and give it all up to God the sooner He can do His complete work and the sooner You can enjoy life and Live in God's Will! God knows what's best for us!"  
    This is particularly hard for me as many of you know my father had a stroke when I was 10 and it left him paralyzed. My mom had to work and provide for the family. Life was rough and hard but I did learn alot. I don't want this for my family though. I want my children to have it better! To have what I wanted but couldn't have. Now I know my husband isn't paralyzed or anything like that and for that were very thankful. But he is very worn out and the children say, "Dad is just always so tired and worn out and is too tired to play games most days especially if he works a few hours during the day."  And so my head spins and I'm like "No, God! Please No!" This has been the restling of my heart of late. Until I learn to fully Trust God!
     I have had to learn to TRUST God so much more! And to not just give God control of most of my life but ALL of my Life. Even the most prized people in my life. I know God is my Father and He is the King of my heart and my husband is second! Is God truly 1st in your life and your husband 2nd and then your children?  I've realized so often God ends up last not first. If He isn't first in your life I challenge you to make Him first. Make sure and spend time with Him in His Word and in prayer. Does God have complete control of your life or are you holding back to something or someone you hold so dear to your heart??  
     If I could redo one thing in my past it would be to enjoy and truly make God the true love of my life when I was younger and single and didn't have much else to worry about. But I'm not going to linger on that I'm going to move on and cotinue to do it in my married life.
     My husband was so right when He said, "The sooner, the better!"  As weird as it may  sound were thanking God for allowing this to happen to us. We have become closer as a couple. Closer as a family! Best of All closer to God!! And have learned so many valuable lessons!
     Here we are near the end of another day and still waiting for answers but I have HOPE and TRUST God! He knows!!We have a doctors appointment on Wednesday morning and we should get the results to his 24 hour EEG then. Until then one thing I know is We are in God's care!! PRAISE HIM!!!
    Hope you have a great day trusting and relaxing in God even in the mist of the unknown! I like to call it the great adventure with the ones I love best or the Blessed & Unknown Journey!!!  Blessings~
 

A Special Supper with Leftovers

 

Delightful Leftover Supper

 

 

    I want you to know this idea didn't origonate from me but I absolutely loved it as did my children so I wanted to share it with my friends as well.

 

My Girls helped set the table! They loved doing it!!

I also typed out a menu and here it is!

    Each place setting had a name tag that the girls had made as well  and then beside each place setting was the menu that I had typed out. It was all left~overs that I had in my fridge that needed to be eaten. A little of this and a little of that! Even though my 2 youngest couldn't read it they loved it just as much as the others did. I then was their waitress and took each of their orders and served them.  They loved it as they got to choose what they wanted for supper! It cleaned out my fridge really well too!!!  We all enjoyed it so much that I think well do it again sometime when the left overs stack up!! It made a special evening with the food that was already made!!         Happy Serving~ 

 

 



When Life Hands You Lemons...

When Life hands You Lemons make Lemonade

 

    Does your life seem rough right now? Do you feel like life just isn't fair? Do you feel like no one truely understands you? Does it seem like what more could happen to you?

     Have you lost someone you loved dearly? Has your life took a drastic change? Do you know how to handle that change? Does it seem to overwhelming and you don't even care?

     Are you ready dear brothers and sisters if Christ should return tonight? You know things can change in just the blink of an eye!

     If your facing something dramatic and life seems to overwhelming and your stressed from your head to your toes. I want to encourage you friend God already knows! So give your cares to Jesus and let Him have control. It's not easy to do I can tell you I'm struggling right along myself.

    I'd encourage you to take time to read God's Word and to meditate. A few things that have become so real to me are: God says, "For I know the thoughts  that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give

you an expected end ( a future and a hope)."

    God also tells us to not worry or fret. If we do we lose the peace and joy that He has to offer us.  He also says, "...in whatsoever state I am,  therewith to be content." I find it hard at times to be content in the valley's that God allows in my life but I'm striving to always be content and to praise God for even the valley's in our lives. Because it's in the valley's where we truly grow!

     Have you asked God to give you a peace and a joy to continue on through what He has allowed to come in your path?  God says, "to let our request be made known unto God in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving!" Also "I can do all things through Christ which strengthen me!"  

    A few other sayings that have become special to us are: When God closes a door; It's for your protection. When God open's a door it's an invitation! And the other one: If God brings you to it; He will see you through it! We seen this on the way to the ER recently when my husband passed out on me and after they admitted him to the hospital on the other side of the sign was the top saying. It spoke straight to my heart and was exactly what we needed to read.

    I've been challenged lately; Am I making lemonade out of what I consider were lemons that God gave me? Do you make lemonade out of your lemons??

    Where still deep in this new chapter that God has allowed in our lives and still have no idea what lies ahead for us but I pray I will always take to heart and remember this blog through it all. I fail, I struggle, and I cry out,"Why?" And you know what that's okay. God hears my hearts cry. But its then in that time that I need to commit it all to God and let Him have complete control and to Trust Him where He leads! Is it easy? "No!" Is it worth it? "Absolutely!" 

    As a dear friend told us resently, "Psalm 23 says, He makes me lie down! It doesn't say if you want to its says He makes me." God knows your needs and whats best even before we do.

    I'm ever so grateful to my dear husband! It will be 8 years next week and I am so BLESSED!  Through this valley He has been so strong, He has been a great encouragement to me and I have been so blessed by his gratefulness, confidence and trust in God through it all! He has a peace that is undescribable! He has taught me that I can't change anything anyway so why not just trust the Lord who is our Guide, our Strength,our Comforter? I'm slow but I'm learning and I'm so blessed. My days always go so much better when I do exactly what the Bible says and what my husband has encouraged me to do!

      Dear Friend, Will you trust God with your life? Your Family? And will you make lemonade out of lemons?? 

      I pray you have somehow found courage to keep putting one step in front of the other. Have a great day!  Blessings to All~

                                  ~ A fellow traveler trying to make lemonade~