Finding Joy in the small things.....

This past Sunday at church our Music pastors wife preached a sermon on Prayer in our preachers absents(sp?). What a sermon! It was such a wonderful sermon about how we take Prayer so lightly as believers. Ie. We pray and we sent our prayers up like balloons yet we make excuses when we don't get an answer. However God's words teaches believers that there is power in prayer- You speak that mountain out of your way and it shall be done. Well Jay and I really enjoyed her sermon and we were energized to be fed that word to remind us that we have POWER in prayer! So we started praying diligently about our housing situation (we haven't closed on our house yet but the carrot is still be strung along in front of our faces). We have found our perfect house and the seller is just as excited for us to have it as we are BUT we haven't closed on our house yet. For a while I have just totally written it off b/c when I talked about it I either got really upset (crying) or I got really angry about it. I laid the burden down and have for a while but the last several days I just feel a desire to pray about it and pray earnestly. So I'm praying earnestly and I'm expecting an answer to my prayer. I say this to just say that it was nice to be reminded how important prayer is for us as God's people not just for the big things but pray about EVERYTHING!!

School is going better! I got a 100% on my career project today and the quiz was postponed bc we are have a test on Monday. Hope that I continue to keep understanding it! Kailee got her little hair cut into a short little bob this week but the amazing Tara Mendias! She'd been begging and begging to let Mrs. Tara cut it again so we made an afternoon of it and she got out of school early. Tanner is doing wonderful on his reading! He makes me so proud and he's the sweetest little boy that a mama could have! My mom is doing great! She is almost fully recovered from surgery and she's ready to go back to work! Also she retires in 4 weeks!!!! 36 years of service at FT. Gordon! let me be the first to give her a shout out GOOOOO MOOOOOM! I am so very proud of her and can't wait until they get here for good! I believe that's why the housing thing really is burning at me so badly! Jay is doing great but he's SUPER busy at work right now! He's running 2 jobs out of Savannah (one is a new Mitsubishi car plant) and one out of Athens so poor guy is burning up the roads! I think that's about all that's Shakin' with the Akin's :) hope everyone is having an awesome week!