Blah, Blah, Blah!!!: Happy Birthday, Blah Blah Blah Houston!!!!

Monday, August 23, 2010

Happy Birthday, Blah Blah Blah Houston!!!!

Today my blog turns two! In anticipation of this special milestone, I took a trip down memory lane and re-read some of the old posts. It was fun to read some things that I completely
forgot about! It brought a smile to my face to re-live some fun moments that have happened over the last 730 days. And for all the frustrating, out-of-control days, it has been wonderful to see the MANY ways God has been faithful and unfailing in His provisions.

I'm thankful for this little window into my life. It started out as a therapeutic experiment that only a handful of friends and family followed. Most of my readers were from Michigan. I got excited if I had 15 people that read the blog.

Today, this little blog is read by people all over the world and averages eighty readers per day. That amazes me! I question why perfect strangers want to read about the average things that happen in my life. But I am thankful!!!

Thank you, faithful readers! And Happy Birthday to Blah Blah Blah Houston!

4 comments:

nancy said...: wow I can't believe it!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAH BLAH BLAH!!
Hope to see you around tons more years!; August 24, 2010 at 8:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Just a word of THANKS and a SPECIAL THANK YOU for taking the time to write about anything and everything that has occurred and will be occurring in the days ahead.I have enjoyed reading your blog and have gained much from your insight and perspectives.You are an amazing person who exhuberates her life with family,friends and other people and not having any doubts that even though things may go wrong the end result is always positive.It may test your patience but looking back you always seem to come out with a smile.At one time you were a bratty sister to one but you sure have outdone yourself.Congratulations .Keep writing your blog because without it would create an emptiness and a unfilled void.you have made your family a part of all your readers family also and your smiles and tears have become our smiles and tears too.You have impacted your readers lives beyond your imagination.Your too tight for tuesday jacket is now known the world over.And there is nothing you can do about it.So Happy Birthday BLAH BLAH BLAH HOUSTON.You will always be in our prayers and only God will answer most of them.
Henry; August 25, 2010 at 4:54 PM
Blah, Blah, Blah! said...: Thanks, Nanc...can't wait to see you!!!!!!! (And in the future, please don't use the word "tons" around me!!!); August 26, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Blah, Blah, Blah! said...: Awww...sweet Henry!!!!! Thanks so much for being one of my BEST comment givers!!!! (I would say you are THE best, but I know my sister would get jealous!) Thanks for your kind words...you're an awesome encourager!; August 26, 2010 at 12:11 AM

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--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
--Alan Redpath

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