Spiritual Warfare

I saw an article someone one Facebook posted about a pregnant mom in Florida, who drove her minivan with a 10yr old, 7yr old and one more younger child onto the beach and into the ocean. The family was rescued and it was horrible reading the account it made me want to cry and also have a huge heaviness of heart thinking of it and then today one of the men that rescued the kids said the mom looked possessed. It got me thinking about spiritual warfare. It's very real but I can't say I've experienced someone who is or at least someone who is so very clearly acting possessed. Even though I believe that there are demons that possess people it seems foreign or rather unreal at the same time to me. I know though if I was little less sheltered I would probably encounter more of it. It's scary though to think what people can do or will do when under demonic influence. Thankful for the assurance of the Holy Spirit within me. Anyway, I am sure I have more thoughts about this but I am feeling super sleepy….so perhaps I will continue this train of thought later :)

652days

Well just thinking about blogs, thinking about Elias, I was curious how many days exactly it's been since he passed on into Glory, into the arms of Jesus. It's been 1 year, 9 months and 13 days. It is all so fresh in my mind, yet also a live time ago or rather a different life. A day doesn't go by that I don't think about him, gaze at one of his many pictures we have of filling our walls, the one I look at every night before I sleep, feel the sting of threatening tears begin and either win or abate for the time being. I miss you my little love and all the days we didn't get to see you grow in.
I think I want to start blogging again but I really don't want it to be just about family life, a journal or purposeless ramblings :) I was thinking about my facebook account and this blog how I use it, how I follow other people but I've been pretty quiet just observing and also I was thinking about how small my circles of fellowship are these days. The majority of interactions I have with peoples besides my kiddos and random strangers at the grocery store or elderly neighbors are my long distant friends on here/facebook. And I love Jesus and need to think about him more, and read about him more and make his words the center of more of my conversations then they presently are so I guess I am going to steer my blog entries more towards that direction....in the direction of the hope we do not see yet our eternal hope... these entries will probably still be just a sort of journal of family life but perhaps more thoughts and conversations about things that matter most in this life, at least that is my goal. :)