:( Dealing With The Loss Of A Piggy :)

Its Saturday Everyone!

Something is wrong with my blog site… I’m not able to add photos until our tech people fix the glitch… sorry. I wanted to include a smokin hot picture of my wife yesterday (LOL) to go with my blog about how great she is… and I wanted to include a picture of LILLY the piggy today as a tribute to her time with us! (fixed since this post)

A guy from Roanoke came and picked Lilly up yesterday at 5:30pm… a very very sad moment at the Balsamo home. She was grunting and faintly squealing… pushing her wet nose up under my chin as if to say, “Please Dad, don’t do this to me… please don’t just sell me off like I’m a barn animal… I’ve become your daughter over the past few months… I’m scared to go live somewhere else… how can you be so cold and heartless!” Wow… it really took the life out of me. Coree and Heaven went to the movies last night and it was just Emily and me watching CSI with no Lilly… I woke up with no new hoof wounds today… very sad! And if you think I’m bad… you should chat with Heaven about it.

Ok… I must talk about something else before I stoop into a deep state of depression. Hmmm… Well church is going to be amazing tomorrow. Our worship leader, Michelle Powers informed me about the new song were doing… a remake of a rock and roll classic. I heard them in practice and I can’t wait!! You guys coming to Destiny Family Center at 10am? I hope so! Bring Heaven and me some kind of “cheer up” gift if you can… it could rescue us from the depths of despair. LOL

It’s going to be warm today… we might go on a hike! What are you guys doing with this beautiful Saturday? Whatever it is… make it FUN and EXPERIENTIAL… don’t be BORING… don’t be lazy… get your blood flowing… breathe the mild winter air… oh, and spend some time praying for Heaven and me, that God would comfort us in this time of loss!

Enough about me… I need to push my pains aside now and minister to my dear bloggers! Here’s a spiritual thought to bless your weekend!

2Corinthians 4:16-18 “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”

As we walk with God, our spirits are being renewed day by day… and even though life can be troublesome, and situations may seem to get the best of us at times… our present troubles are not as big as they may come off… they never really last very long either. So a big key to living an amazing life is to remember this: What’s happening IN US is far more significant that anything happening TO US.

Whenever we become overly focused on this physical world and our temporary physical circumstances, we can feel like life is not good, or fair. This is why it’s so important to remain ever conscience of the BEAUTIFUL THING HAPPENING IN OUR HEARTS! All hell may be breaking loose all around us… but God has promised that he will never leave us alone! And if he is NEAR, then he is working in our favor and we are not failing like it may seem to everyone else. We FIX OUR GAZE ON THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN with the naked eye… the things that really matter… things that last forever!

Even though traffic is usually way down on Saturdays, I always try to write as if this one blog is someone’s lifeline! Today’s blog is VERY GOOD… I hope it blesses you all in a very big way! Chat with you later or see you tomorrow! Goodbye for now my friends!