…A tag.!.! We’ve been tagged by Mrs. Klause at Clothed With Scarlet. Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag sixish people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know he or she has been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
So, since this blog is maintained by all four of us, we decided to think of random things about eachother. Fun, huh? So, here goes! First, one random thing about each of us as individuals:
1) Melanie dances with Dirt, the imaginary nobody she twirls with when irresistably fun music is on and her sisters won’t oblige her eager feet. Felicity named him.
2) Sarah names horses she doesn’t even know.
3) Felicity makes the best scrambled eggs ever.
4) Josie strokes her chin when she’s in thought, as if she has a beard.
Now, two random things about us as a group:
5) We will listen to Christmas music in July or October or some other “off” month of the year.
6) We’re nuts about Nertz!! (Special thanks to the Hector’s for introducing us to it.)
That makes a total of 6 random things about us. Well, that’s all for now folks!
Tagged personages:
1) Sing me to Heaven
2) Renee’s Ramblings
3) Paul Hastings (and AAA)
4) Hastings Haven
5) Miss Monergist’s Blog
6) Redwall Abbey
Sneak Peek—-Our next post will feature highlights from Family Camp this Summer (for those who’ve asked about it)!
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October 4th, 2008
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I thought I might share something I posted on my blog last year with y’all. To every American out there, don’t, please don’t ever forget what happened on Semptember 11, 2001. Last Sunday our pastor exhorted fathers to tell their children the stories from the Bible, to remember God’s mighty hand in the events of history. I think the same goes for more recent events as well. Remember. I do. Do you?
I Remember
By: Melanie Hall
9/16/06
I remember the call. A friend of ours called after she found out from her husband about the first plane crash. My Mom immediately turned on the television even though we were in the middle of school.
I remember the shock on my Mom’s face when she saw what had happened and was happening before our very eyes. When the second tower was hit she called my Dad.
I remember the disbelief. My Dad did not have a television and couldn’t watch it on the computer at the time. When my Mom told him what had happened, he said afterwards, “I thought maybe it was just a doinky little private plane that had bumped into the building by accident.” Not only did he think that, when he heard that both towers had collapsed, he didn’t believe it. He couldn’t possibly imagine those two enormous buildings being huge rubbish piles in a matter of minutes.
I remember the terror when we realized what was actually going on. When we heard that the pentagon was also hit, we knew that this was no accident.
I remember the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93 who saved our nation’s capitol building and those in it from destruction as well.
I remember the tears that were shed by both of my parents and by so many in this nation. It was then that I realized what a truly terrible tragedy had occurred.
I remember the men who cleaned up the rubble and never gave up searching for survivors until they reached the bottom.
I remember the God of our Fathers who was there all through that sorrowful time, comforting and binding and building us so that we knew we would make it through. He is still with us “for He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5)
I remember September 11, 2001, and I will never forget.
Overall, this does describe how I will always remember that day. I was only 10 years old when it happened. I honestly had no clue what was going on, though the memory of it is still with me. Then, last year, on the 5th anniversary, something about those tragic events really hit home to me, and thus you see one of the results. Another result is that I have become more “patriotic”. I’ve always loved my home state of Texas, but I suddenly realized that I really love my country, the United States of America. And this country that I love so dearly breaks my heart nearly every which way I turn. We have degenerated at a horrifying rate over the past two and a half centuries, and I know why. We ask for God’s blessing on our nation in prayers, in song, in writing, in so many ways, and yet we have turned our faces from Him in defiance and hatred! We spew out His holy name as a curse word! We have even gone so far as to do whatever we can to try and get rid of Him altogether! And yet, we still, amidst all this, ask for His blessings. There’s something wrong with that, fearfully wrong.
I’d like to finish with the lyrics to a song that often brings me to tears when it is played in our home. And until then, fight the good fight, so one day we can say “God bless America!” without feeling shame.
Raise God’s Standard!
Then raise yours.
God Bless America Again
Sung by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (find it here)
God bless America again
You see all the trouble that she’s in
Wash her pretty face, dry her eyes and then
God bless America again
(Recitation)
Dear God, I sure do wish you could bless America again
Well, you know, just like they did way back when it all began
you know, you surely blessed it once and we just took it for granted
and never bothered to ask again
So just hold her hand God, that’s all
And if she should stumble,
Please don’t let her fall
God bless America again
You see all the trouble that she’s in
Wash her pretty face, dry her eyes and then
God bless America again
(Recitation)
You know God, Theres so much I don’t understand About what I read and hear is wrong in America
But I suppose if you don’t have a lot of learnin’
There’s so much you can’t undertand
Ahh but let me say this
God she’s like a mother to me
And everything I am or ever hope to be
I owe it to You and to her
(Abbreviated chorus)
Wash her pretty face, dry her eyes and then
God bless America again
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September 11th, 2008
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Here they are! Sorry I didn’t get around to them on Monday.
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August 28th, 2008
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The first picture, and of the man who made it possible!
Poof!
The eyes of Texas are upon you, all the live long day!
Detail.
You knew this cutie would show up eventually.
The Master always creates the best masterpieces.
One of my favorite activities: anazlyzing hymns.
Don’t forget, you can click on the images to make them larger.
Also, the pictures Felicity promised WILL come, as well as a post from one (or all) of us about Family Camp! Stay tuned and seek the Lord with all your being!
Sincerely, Melanie H.
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August 27th, 2008
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Me, my dad and Sarah went blackberry looking and we found some! We didn’t just find blackberries but we found wild apples! Me and Sarah picked apples and my dad picked blackberries. It was great fun! I’ll post a picture post on Monday.
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August 23rd, 2008
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Psalm 33:20-22
Our sould waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
Flies reading the Psalms.
I read and prayed through all 150 Psalms in the past 5 days. Praising our Father is so refreshing!
Psalm 119:97
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
-Melanie
*Note* Click on the image, it gets bigger.
!!Announcement!! More fabulous, and not so fabulous, pictures coming soon.
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August 8th, 2008
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I know that I’m naive.”
Well, I can be sometimes. But it’s true, yesterday, July 30th at 11:59 a.m. (CT) I officially turned 16 years old. I had a very uneventful and laid back birthday. Not knowing anyone quite well enough to have a party or gathering we enjoyed a lovely day with just us, and of course my great-grandparents and Grandma Linda (Mom’s mom) who flew in on Tuesday. Though I didn’t truly expect them I recieved several lovely gifts, and “the BIG one” is coming in the mail soon (I hope).
TADA!!!
Me camera!!!
Yes, my parents actually bought me a “nice camera” (as I call them), something I’ve been hankering for for quite some time now.
Before I leave you, I really must share another gift I recieved. My dear sister, Sarah, got her head together with Miss Renee’s and for my birthday put together some lovely buttons for our blog. Please, if you would like to link to us via a button use one of these. Didn’t Renee do an excellent job?
Thank you Renee, Sarah, Josie, Felicity, Mom, Dad, Grandparents, and everyone else who has blessed me so much over the years!
Sincerely, Melanie
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July 31st, 2008
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Running system wide upgrades. You may see random lines of code or other strange things such as little green dancing men. Hmm, well not that strange. 
Eric Novak
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July 29th, 2008
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Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping Thy presence my light |
If I could think of anything to add I would.
Blessings, Melanie
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July 21st, 2008
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