Walking Out Trust

Walk your Trust Out!

Have you ever woken up at night and known you needed to just trust God and talk to Him.....that He was speaking to you in the middle of the night and that trust was the thing that He was after....listening to RZIM ministry tonight before going to bed put Trust front and center in our minds. Are we trusting God right now, even when our life looks to others a bit mixed?....  Gary and I have had the privilege of traveling and living all over the United States in our almost 44 years of marriage now.  We don't regret one bit of any decision we have made in our life together.  To others it may seem foolish at times, but not to us.  We have explored and we have tested our strength of tenacity and faith.  Faith that God leads, that He never lets you down and He is your very best friend.  Gods' Word is Truth and God can never forsake us; Never. We love Him and we only want to serve Him with our lives and our attitudes and our Spirit.  We pray for our family and our friends and others that come into our lives all the time..... God allowed us to even build our own cabin....that was an adventure all its' own....we have helped others by moving to help them.....we would do it again!!.....
God bless you as you are in your adventure with God....we have desires and things we would like to see God allow us to do in our retirement....reaching into lives more, helping them know God better, being real.....letting God love on them and us!!.....Travel well my friends.....Trust Him.....He won't let you down, He can Not.

All our family minus one in SC at Reunion

HOT!! notice the wash cloth :)

Yes, we do live on the "edge", always will

 Recently, we had our walk with our son, his 5K for gaining support for his future kidney transplant.  His Dad wanted to be that donor but his age will probably stop that due to his age of 63 now.  Trust.  It comes in alot of forms.  We are building a needed porch on the west side of our cabin now...it is weathered....the porch will protect the logs more....Trust....God protects us....Trust.....
God Bless!!.....Kari

Creation

Family and Time

Just some pics of family time together, celebrating so much work by the Graduates and training them by their parents....time marches on...."I'll fly away"!! .... Thank you Mindy for the pics to share :).....

Yep!.....one day they are little and full of giggles and then you turn around and they are 16, then 19.....wow!!........a journey!!  A Flick Journey....blessed!!!   Kari

Graduates

Time does fly by.....two Grads this Spring....lots of life behind them and lost of living ahead too.....have a blessed life girls! is our prayer.....

The story goes for the record that these gals dad went to kindergarten and every day brought back a picture of a house....I asked him if he thought he might like to use his imagination and try drawing a new idea....he came home with the house on one side of the paper and a Indian Tepee on the other.....the rest of the year!!.....Kids are sweet and they all grow up so fast.....but then some of us never really grow up!!....and that is OK too!!  We pray these new graduates follow God with all their hearts, minds and souls.....for really, nothing else matters in life than that.....if we seek the kingdom of God first in our lives.....ALL other things will be added by God......and scripture is where life lies.....all truth....written by God....for us ......  How amazing is that!!......Journey on with God Graduates!!.....and your journey will be most blessed!!   Love...... to you both......Grams and Gramps

Spring Sightings!

Just enjoy.....imagine birds chirping!! We have tons of frogs "calling" this Spring....is that what you call it....but it is just fine, fine, fine that we have Spring.....long awaited.....do you trust the Ground Hog now?.....I don't think so!!.......Oh we were so so ready this year!!  Catch my Spring Quilt Surprise at In The Sewing Basket  Blessings!!  Karen

We have to move this....building a porch here....so pretty!!

opps! last Easter but still pretty!!

Blossoms caught in my hands!

Just gorgeous!!

Magnolia about to burst out!

You should smell these hyacinths!

Catch Me Up!! So pretty!!

Can I say again, Time Flys?

This Is the Cabin That My Gary Built!

ER Nursing with Grandgals and Son Watchin!

For the Love of Quilting!

Yes, time flys!! and we are having fun! Why not?.....we are blessed beyond what we deserve and I truly mean that.  When you look around and see the needs of others.....at times it seems like the world has lost its' Mind....but we know who holds us in His hands, now don't we~!....it is still a chilly winter here in Indiana.  I just put our resumes' in for a job with a company in Ft Wayne that does in home IV therapy.  That would be right up Garys' alley....mine would just be not so intense, but I am up for a new experience if we do seem to be the couple they could use in our area to start setting up that services. We will see!...  I have worked in Home Health and Hospice so I know what to expect going into a home to provide a service. Have technical skills? yes and so does Gary. He has tremendous seasoned ER skills..It is just such a different world when you are in a home and relying on your supply of things and the family is always watching! and that is good and it is the way it is now in nursing....some people are skeptical due to nurses that did not give their best care or doctors that may have "missed" something in treatment,.... the list goes on, for some. Not all.  But we would work just PRN or as we desire. We REALLY want to make our quilt shop a success and want to even start small retreats for quilters to come to the cabin for a night or two and just kick their shoes off and eat, fellowship and get a project done on their own time!.....but I can also squeeze in a few IV visits too as they come, if it is Gods' leading and blessing!!.....we just want to be in Gods' will....not make His will....but BE before Him....so that is what we are up too.  Gary is setting up his Oliver Intellicarver or Digital Wood Carver too. Our family in Utah that was working with us on the plane has had many health issues for the past year, so his plane has most of the fabric on it and is waiting for the next steps.....PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE!!!.....James (the whole book)...
So,  the wood carving is fun with  lots to learn and lots of tweaking!....He is busy with his ER job and his shift can run over too, but that is good too, he has a job and God is supplying our needs...You can catch me at my blog right now..In The Sewing Basket....I will try to add more pictures here too......I do love my Gary.....he is my all in all.....the best man ever!!!  Blessings to your day!...... Karen

Time does fly by! in so many ways! It has been a year since our last post. We are now back in our cabin in northern Indiana. Our stay in Bloomington was 6 months; it was such a great time too. We were a couple miles away from the grandkids and son and daughter in law. We did so much together; even just running over to eat supper or watch a movie. We all do miss that and seeing the grandgals so often. But our cabin renters left and so we moved back to clean up that situation and then stay. My Hub got a ER job in a country hospital and I was able to restart Quilting. We have seen the Bloomington folks pretty regularly since we left. We had a great time before we left when all the kids; SC and Ohio. The grandkids came to Bloomington to see IU and enjoy the nature and sites of that area. It, of course, went too fast but it was so much fun to be together. We just spent Christmas with our daughter and one of her gals and our son, his wife and their two little Bloomington gals. We spent a Saturday in Chicago and got to go to the American Girl Store. It was nothing like I had pictured. I had it quaint and personal and it was a very, seriously marketed store for Moms' of the gals and the gals as they carried their well loved dolls throughout the store. My Grandgal had her 2 dolls ears pierced and had a hard decision as to what she would buy with her Christmas fund. Kevs' little gals also picked out their treasures. The store was full of hundreds of folks and daddys' and grandpas' carrying dolls (a first to see!) ....Chicago? well, it was packed on the streets also, so we all took special care of our sweet 3 little gals.....yes, we drank Starbucks and ate Chicago Pizza too....it was a great, windy, very cold day and the little girls walked over 60 city blocks by the time we got back to the parking garage. We had planned to take the Trains from SB to Downtown Chicago but a truck had lost part of a load of coils on the tracks near Gary In so we did not when or if the train would run. So, Kev offered to take us gals to the Big City and away we went! We got there before the stores were even open. That was great!! So, I am back. Gary and I are pursuing putting together his business of digital wood carving and me and my quilting. God is to be praised and we give HIM all the glory for giving us grace and going before us in our journey. God Bless!! and Quilted Blessings!! Kari