Scout

Scout you will be SO missed! You can run now!





November 2001-July 1, 2009

Things that make me smile! : ) Part 1

This post is so random... I was going through iPhoto trying to clean it up and I was just so thankful to God for so many things... these are some of the many pictures that just make me smile... It still takes forever for me to post a picture! Need some blogging basics I think! : ) This is long... get ready!

My Family! Easter 2009!

The Cross... all the kids read a scripture and place a flower in the cross!


My hand Painted prayer journal from a friend! (Y'all so sweet my friend went to get me a prayer journal and they didn't have any that looked like me... so she took a plain one to our friend Cabell, who is the best artist, she hand painted it just for me! Don't you love just being known... I love that... so special!) Is it not just adorable! My only problem now is that I am scared to write in it! I don't want to mess it up! : )


Flowers my friend gave me for my birthday... My "I'm Believing God" platter my dear friend, Cabell, painted for me... it has the five pledge of faith statements around the Hydrangeas... I love it! : )


Watching my Boys Playing Lacrosse!




Sorry, I know this is gross... but it's my son's all time favorite picture! : )

A little at home surgery needed! How sterile do you think this is??Getting Started!

Faithful Assistant


Better Bite that gauze pretty hard!

Stitches!


Such Fun Late Night Entertainment!

The End! Oh my handsome boys! Good Work Dad! : )


Watching my daughter cheer! Amazed how she does her leg like that! I think we just did Herkeys (sp?)


Wanting hair that looks like Taylor Swift!


Baby Emmy! : )


Having Chas come visit! He is doing so well! (with my Dad)
My "Tuesday Bible Study Girls"


Surprising our friend JMom from "Lots of Scotts" for the Heart Walk! She was the honoree!

Scout and Lilly


First Prom



My daughter having spend the night company!





More to come... whew that was long! : )

I just LOVE this song!

Cool New Site/ Brite Revolution

I wanted to tell you all about a really exciting new web site! My brother is a musician in Nashville, TN and has launched a new site with a friend (where he is releasing his new album). It is called Brite Revolution and is a subscription based music download site. It is only $4.99 a month and Brite pays artists to record and release new music on their site monthly (they don't ask for the money back). The best part is that Brite gives 10% of their gross subscription revenue to non-profit causes of the users' and artists' choice. The artists include Billy Cerveny (my brother), Caedmon's Call, Ginny Owens, Waterdeep, Matthew Perryman Jones, Katie Herzig, Andy Davis, Drew Holcomb, Joy Williams and more. The causes they are partnering with are: Compassion International, Make A Wish Foundation, Bloodwater: Mission, Mocha Club, International Justice Mission, Invisible Children, Save Darfur and Best Friends Animal Society.

So...please check it out. Please tell your friends. These are great artists that have worked so hard over the years. And they are giving back! www.briterevolution.com (and be sure to check out Billy Cerveny - he's my brother! :))

Happy New Year!

"May the God of HOPE fill you and your family, with all JOY and PEACE as you TRUST in Him, so that you may overflow with HOPE by the power of the Holy Spirit!" Romans 15:13

Living in the Present

This was one of my devotions this morning... I love Brennan Manning... Jesus help me grasp this... I so want to live in the present moment... I know this is only possible by the power of your Holy Spirit... so come Lord Jesus... help us all be like little children!

The Geography of Nowhere

To live "nowhere"- composed of two words now and here- is to live in the temple of the present moment. Paying attention to the gift that arrives right now, right here, is one of the premier skills of spiritual life.

To live in the present means to trust deeply that what is most important in life is the here and now! We are constantly distracted by things that might have happened in the past or that might happen in the future. It is not easy to dwell in the temple of nowhere, to remain focused on the present. Our mind is hard to master and keeps pulling us away from engagement with the present.

When Jesus tells us to become like little children, he is inviting us to forget what lies behind and to forgo concern about the future. It is only now that we are in the presence of God!

I just love that... "It is only Now that we are in the presence of God!" : )

Life by the Spirit

Sometimes I can tune out things if my heart isn't there... I grew up in the church and sometimes you hear things so much you (or I guess I) tend to think I already know that one... Lets take for example, "The Fruit of the Spirit" When I hear that I immediately go into this mode in my head... yeah, yeah, yeah...I know all about the "Fruit of the Spirit"... "Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control"... I even sing Steve Green's version in my head from all my years of hearing the, Hide "em in Your Heart, series with my kids... Anyway... I had a friend call me today she was going to teach on "The Fruit of the Spirit" tonight and she said, "Emmy, listen to it out of the Message"... she went on to read it to me. Now, I don't know why sometimes I need things shaken up a little to break the familiarity (too much church baggage, I guess)... but I was like, WOW! God used it to really speak to my heart! It was so powerful!! After I got off the phone I immediately looked it up and reread it, meditated on it, prayed through it... Oh Lord How I Long to Live by your Spirit!

Life by the Spirit (The Message)

My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.

Galatians 5:16-26 (The Message)

AMEN... that is all I have to say!