MP writes:
Hi all,
So as some of you know I was extremely sick on Saturday and stayed pretty sick through Wednesday. During those days I left the couch only to go to the bathroom or go back to bed. After Monday I left the couch to take a shower, which I sat in. Yesterday I actually made it to the table to eat!! I still felt like uggg but my mom kinda forced me to come to the table though half of the time I was laying on it. Today I can walk around a bit but only for like fifteen minutes. I am still on the couch. Ba-hum-bug!!!!!!!!!!!! ( Nana did I spell that right?)
Papa, Mommy says that at your house couch sick time is three days? Well I guess I am very lucky that I am not at your house because I have been on the couch for almost 6 days!!! Would I have been allowed to stay because I am a grandchild? Or would I have been moved to the cot? Or would you have done what you do to squirrels on the bird feeder to me? :):):):):)
Today was my first day out of the house since Saturday at noon. It has been a really hard time for me. I went to see Ashton at work. Haha. I was only gone for less than one hour and I am physically worn out. How sad is that?
But in all of this I did learn something spiritual. God was teaching me to have more patience for the things he has planned for my life and to trust his timing. I love y'all
Love always,
Mallory
P.S. I forgot to tell you that I have already gone through an entire tissue box.
March 5, 2010
March 3, 2010
JP: Being Stretched
JP Writes:
As many of you are aware, for the the last 3 years I've been plagued with some pretty severe back pain from time to time. My first episode occurred while in North Carolina for work. The morning I was to leave to come home my back went out, and I was faced with 2 options - 1) Lie there and wait for the maid to come find me in my underwear and socks on the floor or 2) Dress as best I could and drive home from Hickory. Somehow I managed choice #2. After checking out of the hotel under my alias of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I began the drive home. The normal 4 hour drive ended up taking 8-1/2 hours. At one point, I stopped at convenience store for gas and Advil. As I attempted to walk/crawl inside the store, the cashier came outside to ask if she needed to call 911. I gave her my credit card and told her, no, just bring me some Advil and a Diet Coke, and I would crawl back to my car and wait for her.
Nowadays, I'm usually good for an episode about every four months or so. These attacks are usually brought on by such strenuous activities as pulling up socks, putting on underwear, or picking up a pencil size twig in the driveway. I know, Tuffy, old age. Usually after about a week of stretching and moving I am able to go about normal activity. Until that time I contort my body into a position that I am comfortable in and relatively pain free.
Well, while moving some boxes in the garage recently I triggered it again and was down and out. No one to blame but myself. However, this time I received some professional help. One of our friends in our home group happens to be a Physical Therapist, and she offered to show me some exercises and new stretches. And to my surprise, she didn't focus on the bigger, major muscles in the stomach and back. We focused on the smaller seemingly more insignificant muscles around the spine and in the pelvis region. Also, these weren't long painful stretches, but slight subtle flexing. If we constantly "fired" and triggered these muscles, then they would eventually become trained to automatically fire and kick in when needed. The pain from the initial injury had caused them to actually shut down. The good news is that they could be retrained to do what they were designed to do.
As I lay there this week "firing and stretching", the Lord spoke to me. His desire is to stretch us. He wants us to come out of the comfort zone that we've created. We've contorted ourselves so that we can still fit into the world while our hearts desire is to have more of God. We look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and don't even know it. People from both sides are running to us wanting to know if they need to call 911. And, just like me, we just want to medicate the pain and try to comfort ourselves with things that bring us ease or pleasure and continue on our journey. We fear that these stretches will be drastic, painful, dramatic, and uncomfortable.
The truth is that, yes, it can be that way. God's ways are not our ways, and He comes and moves in ways that seem weird, strange, and painful to us. We don't like it when this happens because it's not how we've set God up to work. However, the Old and New Testaments are littered with examples of the Lord moving in bizarre extreme ways. But, most often His stretches come in slight and subtle ways. They come when we surrender our will and desires to the desires that He has for our lives. Everything He does is out of love for us. He desires to give us the better things in exchange for the things of this world, just as we desire to give our children better things. He gives of Himself as we ask. But are we to receive these new stretches blindly? By no means. 1 Thessalonians 5 tells us to test everything and to hold onto the good. Or to put it another way, "chew up the meat and spit out the bones." But likewise, we are not to be like small children who turn up their noses because it doesn't look or smell like they want it to be. The milk of our childhood in Christ shouldn't satisfy us. He wants us to desire and seek the solid food. The key is to be tasting, chewing, and spitting. The Lord's escargot and caviar is there for us, but He will not force it upon us. Just like He didn't force the manna into the Israelite's mouths. They had to make the effort to go and pick it up. He just wants us to open our hearts to take a taste.
So, we need to ask ourselves, are we satisfied with the World's Pizza , Pasta, and Dessert Buffet bar and just stretching our stomachs? Or do we desire to eat at the Lord's Buffet and exercise with Him as trainer?
"Taste and see that the Lord is good!" - Psalm 34:8
Jeff
As many of you are aware, for the the last 3 years I've been plagued with some pretty severe back pain from time to time. My first episode occurred while in North Carolina for work. The morning I was to leave to come home my back went out, and I was faced with 2 options - 1) Lie there and wait for the maid to come find me in my underwear and socks on the floor or 2) Dress as best I could and drive home from Hickory. Somehow I managed choice #2. After checking out of the hotel under my alias of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, I began the drive home. The normal 4 hour drive ended up taking 8-1/2 hours. At one point, I stopped at convenience store for gas and Advil. As I attempted to walk/crawl inside the store, the cashier came outside to ask if she needed to call 911. I gave her my credit card and told her, no, just bring me some Advil and a Diet Coke, and I would crawl back to my car and wait for her.
Nowadays, I'm usually good for an episode about every four months or so. These attacks are usually brought on by such strenuous activities as pulling up socks, putting on underwear, or picking up a pencil size twig in the driveway. I know, Tuffy, old age. Usually after about a week of stretching and moving I am able to go about normal activity. Until that time I contort my body into a position that I am comfortable in and relatively pain free.
Well, while moving some boxes in the garage recently I triggered it again and was down and out. No one to blame but myself. However, this time I received some professional help. One of our friends in our home group happens to be a Physical Therapist, and she offered to show me some exercises and new stretches. And to my surprise, she didn't focus on the bigger, major muscles in the stomach and back. We focused on the smaller seemingly more insignificant muscles around the spine and in the pelvis region. Also, these weren't long painful stretches, but slight subtle flexing. If we constantly "fired" and triggered these muscles, then they would eventually become trained to automatically fire and kick in when needed. The pain from the initial injury had caused them to actually shut down. The good news is that they could be retrained to do what they were designed to do.
As I lay there this week "firing and stretching", the Lord spoke to me. His desire is to stretch us. He wants us to come out of the comfort zone that we've created. We've contorted ourselves so that we can still fit into the world while our hearts desire is to have more of God. We look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and don't even know it. People from both sides are running to us wanting to know if they need to call 911. And, just like me, we just want to medicate the pain and try to comfort ourselves with things that bring us ease or pleasure and continue on our journey. We fear that these stretches will be drastic, painful, dramatic, and uncomfortable.
The truth is that, yes, it can be that way. God's ways are not our ways, and He comes and moves in ways that seem weird, strange, and painful to us. We don't like it when this happens because it's not how we've set God up to work. However, the Old and New Testaments are littered with examples of the Lord moving in bizarre extreme ways. But, most often His stretches come in slight and subtle ways. They come when we surrender our will and desires to the desires that He has for our lives. Everything He does is out of love for us. He desires to give us the better things in exchange for the things of this world, just as we desire to give our children better things. He gives of Himself as we ask. But are we to receive these new stretches blindly? By no means. 1 Thessalonians 5 tells us to test everything and to hold onto the good. Or to put it another way, "chew up the meat and spit out the bones." But likewise, we are not to be like small children who turn up their noses because it doesn't look or smell like they want it to be. The milk of our childhood in Christ shouldn't satisfy us. He wants us to desire and seek the solid food. The key is to be tasting, chewing, and spitting. The Lord's escargot and caviar is there for us, but He will not force it upon us. Just like He didn't force the manna into the Israelite's mouths. They had to make the effort to go and pick it up. He just wants us to open our hearts to take a taste.
So, we need to ask ourselves, are we satisfied with the World's Pizza , Pasta, and Dessert Buffet bar and just stretching our stomachs? Or do we desire to eat at the Lord's Buffet and exercise with Him as trainer?
"Taste and see that the Lord is good!" - Psalm 34:8
Jeff
February 26, 2010
MP: Updates from My Life
MP writes:
Hey Y'all,
My friend, Havi, and I have been talking about spending the night together lately and we are finally going to be able to do it tonight! I am absolutely excited. Havi is one of my close friends at dance. She is actually one of the first people that I met at Dramatic Truth.
My favorite class is tonight. It is jazz and Hannah York is my instructor. On Tuesday I have Hannah for modern and Sarah (her sister) for Ballet. Then I have jazz on Friday with Hannah. Saturdays I have two class as well. They are pointe work with Bec and Ballet with Sarah or Hannah. For those of you PHWDers Hannah's jazz is like Mrs. Whitney's or Jenna's. :)
If you think of me during the day please pray for my cough. I have had about two weeks now and it will not go away. It is one of those congestive types.
Angel, one of my small group leaders, birthday was on Wednesday, the night of our small group. So we celebrated it by having a chocolate fondue for her. I took some apples. There were also strawberries, marshmallows, gram crackers, and bananas. Man they were so good!!!!!!!!!!!!! After we pigged out for a long time we prayed and prophesied over her. It was great.
Love always,
Mallory
February 24, 2010
KP: Some Portraits of the Price Family
KP Writes:
We are happy to say we had our portrait session that Moma and Dick paid for and asked us to have (before Christmas) To our defense, before Christmas was not even an option with hectic schedule of 'normal' life, then adding in the Student Awakening, taking on new roles with the Events Department, the holidays, and a trip to GA. (Plus I was SICK!! Twice)
Georgia red and black under white.
Georgia bulldog colors for the girls.
So we tried to comply in January, and had to reschedule twice. The third time was a charm. I must say, we have beautiful daughters. I hope that you see the joy in our faces that we have as a family. I attribute that not only to the fact that we are such loving, joyful people but also that we are content in being exactly in the middle of the Lord's will for our lives at this time.
Thank you to all who partner with us through your prayers and your finances. Your role in the prayer ministry is invaluable. And rejoice, the Lord is moving. The young people, particularly college students across our nation and throughout the world are being awakened. Many are being healed emotionally, physically and spiritually consequently being equipped to bring a harvest of souls. We are believing for revival. Pray with us in that vein. Our nation must have revival. The world needs revival. Release more, Lord!
Love you guys,
Kristian
P.S. Try as I might, I cannot straighten this picture.
We are happy to say we had our portrait session that Moma and Dick paid for and asked us to have (before Christmas) To our defense, before Christmas was not even an option with hectic schedule of 'normal' life, then adding in the Student Awakening, taking on new roles with the Events Department, the holidays, and a trip to GA. (Plus I was SICK!! Twice)
Georgia red and black under white.
Georgia bulldog colors for the girls.
So we tried to comply in January, and had to reschedule twice. The third time was a charm. I must say, we have beautiful daughters. I hope that you see the joy in our faces that we have as a family. I attribute that not only to the fact that we are such loving, joyful people but also that we are content in being exactly in the middle of the Lord's will for our lives at this time.
Thank you to all who partner with us through your prayers and your finances. Your role in the prayer ministry is invaluable. And rejoice, the Lord is moving. The young people, particularly college students across our nation and throughout the world are being awakened. Many are being healed emotionally, physically and spiritually consequently being equipped to bring a harvest of souls. We are believing for revival. Pray with us in that vein. Our nation must have revival. The world needs revival. Release more, Lord!
Love you guys,
Kristian
P.S. Try as I might, I cannot straighten this picture.
February 19, 2010
KP: Valentines Dinner
KP Writes:
By now you have read all about Valentines Day dessert, AKA Jeff's birthday cake, AKA Mallory's first home made cake. Since Valentines is my favorite holiday, we set the table using the china and enjoyed a nice dinner together. This is our tradition and we love it. Don't the girls look beautiful dressed in their red? Jeff's cleaned up pretty good, too!
Kristian
KP: Wedding Bells
KP writes:
Wedding bells are ringing. One of my children is getting married.
Relax, NOT Ashton or Mallory. One of my children from our Intro Internship. Chastity quickly became one of the 'extended Price family' while we were in our 3 month internship. She has been such an incredible big sister to Ashton and Mallory, having them over to watch dance performance DVD's and Love Comes Softly movies. They love to spend the night at her house for girls night out, complete with pizza, pop corn and all night talking. Well, Chastity had a very memorable New Year! She and Will got engaged. They will be married this May in Heston, Kansas. ROAD TRIP. We are excited for the ministry that they will now have together as man and wife. We will miss Chastity very much as they will be moving to Texas to be house parents for a group of late teens/early twenty-somethings. Oh, but what a great mom/sister Chastity will be. Bless you guys. We love you.
Kristian
KP: More Snow
KP Writes:
Beautiful snow pictures. This snow was really wet and had big flakes!
This is our back yard. These are some of our pear trees.
Our lantern looks even prettier with the snow on top.
The remnants of my mums. Under all that snow is a sleeping flower garden, each section surrounded with large rocks with stone path.
Snow hats on the 'flowers'.
Slush on top of the frozen fish pond. 'Fortunately' we had already accidently killed the fish before winter came. OOPS!
Snow on our apple tree.
A view into the front yard. I wish you could hear the silence when it snows. It really is a sound like no other. Such peace.
Love ya,
Kristian
Beautiful snow pictures. This snow was really wet and had big flakes!
This is our back yard. These are some of our pear trees.
Our lantern looks even prettier with the snow on top.
The remnants of my mums. Under all that snow is a sleeping flower garden, each section surrounded with large rocks with stone path.
Snow hats on the 'flowers'.
Slush on top of the frozen fish pond. 'Fortunately' we had already accidently killed the fish before winter came. OOPS!
Snow on our apple tree.
A view into the front yard. I wish you could hear the silence when it snows. It really is a sound like no other. Such peace.Love ya,
Kristian
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