Today I am thinking of those who have gone before us. The song above is beautiful. I think of my grandparents and the roads they have traveled I think of the saints and friends and family and those we never new. The roads that they took?? The families who were left behind to mourn and miss having them around. Some only had a short road to travel to home. I too am thinking of those who are still traveling through. Oh Lord help us to appreciate life and living, help us to appreciate friends and family. Help us to reach out to them as well as to strangers. They all, we all have a story a road that we have traveled. Up hill down hill, twist and turns, right turns, left turns, wrong turns. Lost along the way and having to get back on the right road. These past few weeks I have heard of many people who suddenly lost a love one children and adults. Life is so precious we don't know when it will be the end of our road and for those who are near us. Lets hug are loved ones and take a walk with them in their shoes that is.

Right now I can't stop thinking about an elderly lady who lives across from us. She often alone. I always mean to visit and talk with her. I really need to visit her. Just sit with her and listen to her story. Yes I will go visit with her maybe even take notes we can learn so much from others. I think with time we have lost the story's that really mean so much...

Dear God may your words be pressed upon my heart and mind. Lord help us to pass down your word and the faith that the saints had before us may we carry that torch of faith and pass it on to our children. Help me Lord to follow the tracks you have laid before me...May the grace of God carry me all the way home.... And may we take the time to tell the story's to strengthen. Amen.

I so desire to have a orderly and neat home. I am ready to go down the road that will take me there. I have gotten on and off that road. Trying many different things and seems I can't stay on that road. But I am determined...I recently got a new used car and love it. I am determined not to do like the other cars...mess slowly creeping in. So far have gone a good while without letting anything creep in. So now I want to move that into the house. One room at a time. Focus is the key to keep the overwhelm out and to stay on that road. Can't take short cuts nor wait till later. Right now the focus is the Kitchen. Once I get it spotless I will focus on keeping it spotless. Once we develop a habit of keeping a clean Kitchen I will move on to the next room. Will still straighten up in other rooms and such but main focus will be room by room and one habit at a time.

I will try and remember to post again in about a month on where we are at. Would love to here what you are doing to stay on that orderly road. The ups and the downs.

Thanks for stopping by RroadWeTravel

This is a video a high school friend of my husbands made of our family

Psalm 150
Let Everything Praise the Lord

150:1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens! [2]
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his excellent greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

Tuesday we headed to childrens for the boys endocrine check ups. They passed the test and both got better A1C. They have different A1C targets due to age. They both did not hit their target but getting close. I am looking to see even better next visit. So glad to have that over with. I hate Type 1 diabetes and hate that two of my precious boys have it!! I wish that we could get diabetes over with,that I could kiss it and make it better but it is here to stay (with Type 1 insulin is not produced due to destruction of the of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas) so we learn to do our best and keep pressing forward learning more about the disease and different ways to better manage the disease and moving forward with other things, dreams and such, despite the disease and its opsticals.

One thing I always think about when we go to their appointments at Childrens is other people that pass us who are going through much of what we are or worse. Your heart goes out to the parents and children. Its kind of like being at church and you here all the prayer request and realize that other people are hurting too. Stepping outside of yourself and realize where one pain is there is a greater one still.

We are all on a roller coaster ride some more intense than others. And God is there for all big or small. Let us be sure to let God in for the ride and with him we can step outside ourselves and feel the pain of another and reach out in some way.

Today stepping outside of myself and my family and sharing about another, one whom a friend shared about on Facebook....Please take the time to pray for Bonnie and her family. Click on A Greater pain still if you would like to donate to her fundraiser.

A Greater Pain Still

"What is more I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I have lost all things not that I have already attained this, or have been made perfect but I press on to take hold of that which Christ Jesus took hold of me."

Please step outside of yourself and listen to Bonnies Story.

Dreading tomorrow....What is tomorrow?? The exciting endocrinologist visit for my boys. Every three months we get to go, glad to be able to because it is important and helpful to their health none the less not something I get to excited about. Many of us parents with kids with diabetes don't get to excited about the visit. I am sure this is also true for the diabetics themselves. I heard one mom describe it as going to the principals office when you were a kid. I guess we get a since of failure because we just can't get it 100% right know matter how hard we try. It is very frustrating to not be able have there BG's at a perfect number at all times no matter how well we do things. Yes we CAN take better control but never complete control. Taking better control and accepting that we can't get complete control are both very difficult!! I have two children that have type 1 diabetes that makes for double the difficult. Then add that they are toddler and a teenager well, more difficult. I think another thing about the visit is just like a reminder of the reality of the disease and how it plays a heavy weight roll in our lives. We have are routines and BG checks and insulin shots are just apart of our daily lives. That just the way it is but we really don't put much thought about the disease if we did I think it would make the task much harder because we'd be falling apart while we did the things we needed to do. The visit reminds us of the Disease because that is the only focus. I think it also brings back memories for me when they were first diagnosed and all those feelings. Oh and the Test......the A1C is always like waiting to find out if you passed the test. UGH...Tomorrow I am hoping for better A1C for them both.

Love, love my kid's and have a great desire for us all to learn and grow in such a way that we WILL be able to better manage. This will always be an on going process even for the doctors. With new tech. and new findings about the disease. So much to learn in some many areas...1 step at a time...Will always stay hopeful...


Thanks for stopping by R Road WE Travel

Galatians 5:6 (King James Version)

6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.


To my brothers and sisters in Christ

A parable...

A young lady who was given no more than a week to live lay in bed with illness waiting for her time. She never heard or read scripture and new not God. Her father the king called for the preachers,teachers and all those who walk with God. For he was concerned for her after life. The king told 2 men and 1 woman to share one verse in the bible and to share about its meaning to his daughter.

The first man was good about keeping the sabbath so the verse he shared was as follows

Deuteronomy 5:12 (New Living Translation)
12 “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Then the man proceeded to explain what the sabbath was and the evils of not keeping it.

The second man had prior engagement with some men who some what walked with God but did not walk as the man walk, he was to speak to them the correct way to walk. So this man did not come to talk with the girl. He said he would be glad to the next morning though.

The woman spent much time in prayer asking her heavenly Father to give her the message that the young lady needed at this time in her short life.

She went to the young lady and spent much time with her. She ask her questions about her life growing up. The elder lady spent much time just listening and getting to know the young lady. The elder lady also shared about her own life. The young lady listened to the elder for the elder truly and clearly cared for her well being.

Durning her stay she opened up the Holy Bible and read

John 3:16 (NIV)

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life

She shared with the young lady the life of Jesus. The birth, death and what he did on the the cross for our sins and the resurrection. When she was through she began to pray with and for the young lady and asking for the holy spirit to move within the young ladies heart. Then she gave her the bible and said now get to know God and His love for you. Then she left. The very next morning the young lady went on to be with the Lord.

What scripture, what would you share?? Remember today could be the last for those who pass you by. What will you spend most of your time sharing and with whom??

May we not only live as though it is our last but live for others as though it is their last.

~ w/ Loving-Kindness
Charity Gordon