glory to god

wow..... i can truly testify to god's goodness and faithfulness -- a miracle has happened tonight. miracles happen all the time, but sometimes it takes a big one to remind us of that. so a miracle happened tonight....

went to prayer meeting at church tonight where we started sharing various prayer requests.... about 1/2 hour into the meeting, maggie's phone rang and she suddenly jumped up, saying that a little boy from our church had drowned..... she rushed off to the hospital along with our pastor, leaving us to pray and ask god for a miracle. as we sat together with council members who were meeting in an adjacent room, we prayed and asked for god to work according his will..... i read psalm 121 and as we were praying, 2. kings, came to my mind and i started reading aloud about elisha and the shunamite woman whose son died. elisha laid on the child, eye to eye, mouth to mouth, hand to hand... and the boys body became warm again.... as elisha tells the mother to take her son, she fell to ground and worshipped god.... we asked god for that kind of a miracle and we got it!!! a few minutes later, the pastor burst into the room sharing that "all was well".... he came back to!!! praise god for his goodness.... may this little boy be a testimony and a witness to god's faithfulness and goodness.... the glory goes to god. may this little boy know this story so that he can give god the glory for the rest of his life!

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i was incredibly blessed to talk and pray with a spiritual mother/mentor to me after the prayer meeting.... i am so thankful that god has put this woman into my life. thank you, maggie, for loving me the way you do.

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on my way to prayer meeting, i thought this tonight:

"if god were a fly on the wall, would he be pleased with my words and actions towards my husband? if he were in the room, how would he respond to my self-righteousness and my justifications? would he approve of my thoughts and stubborness? would he say, "right on!" or "way off"???"

and then i had to remind myself..... "oh yeah.... god is everywhere.... he doesn't need to come in the form of a fly"

i was very humbled to remember that in the midst of the thick of it, god is present and can see and hear what i say. time to eat humble pie.....

ahhhh.... my brothers have been so "productive".... i love my niece and nephew!! and one more due in july and another in october.... auntie amy & uncle rodrigo will be spoiling these newest family members!!! :)

Owen (about 12 hours old, just born a month ago!!)

Owen w/Auntie Amy and Daddy Andrew

Allison, my sweet niece (16 months old), who lives far away on Vancouver Island

the rest of the story.... or is that yet to come??

so, the fact is that I had to go back to the dentist the next morning for the root canal.... long, long story short, i inhaled 45 minutes of nitrate before they gave me three and a half shots of something that is supposed to numb me up good. problem is that it never became numb. eeks!!! i was so worked up by the third shot that all effects of the nitrate vanished in an instant and i decided that i had to get out of there.... is that weird or what?? the previous day i had two shots and i was numb for another three hours after leaving the dentist's chair.

we'll try again next week... i postponed it as long as i dared! i'll be asking for prayers that 1) the shots work right off bat, 2) i won't be too scared, and 3) that i won't feel a thing.....

spent the day with the dentist today.... and i get to go back tomorrow for a root canal. .... it's obscene what dentists charge....

good stuff

good memory: rodrigo pulls up to a mcdonalds and ask for a whopper, jr!! the girl reminded him that you can only get whopper, jr. at burger king.... hahahahahaha

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one highlight of the last week was traveling to chicago on a monday afternoon to go to the mexico-senegal friendly game..... 60,610 people attended and i would guess that 90% were of mexican descent. ramses and rodrigo held a "felicidades mama" banner in honor of mother's day and lo and behold, martha actually saw him on tv!! great game... until mexico scored and the beer started raining down on us.... people were so excited they just threw their cups up in the air... rodrigo said it was a good thing that it was early in the game as it may not have been beer that came down. mexico won 1-0; that was enough to keep rodrigo awake to drive us all home that night so that we could get a couple of hours of sleep before work the next morning.

the soccer frenzy has hit our house.... the big debate is now whether or not we invest in cable so that rodrigo can watch every game that he can.

Akon - Official World Cup Song

Love this Pepsi commercial!!