July and our 30th Wedding Anniversary

It is hard to believe my best friend and I will be married 30 years at the end of this month! Then again, it feels as though we have always been together. He is my mainstay, my companion as we travel this world together, and my dearest friend! We have had trials in our thirty years but they have always been us against the world, never us against each other and I know that is the only kind we will ever have...my friend, my love!

June is here!

We had an amazing Month of May! For Mother's Day we traveled up north to see our daughter in Duluth and had a fantastic time!

My Twitter following grew from a few people to 1,000! This was probably due to the amount of spare time I devoted to Twitter. I am enjoying it very much and meeting many interesting new people. I will have to write more about this phenomenon!

I am continuing to get stronger and am applying for new jobs because I am feeling so good that I really feel I need a new challenge. Not only have I not been sick since my healing from the stomach ailing, but I am stronger than ever and feeling better than I have in many years!

June should prove to be a very exciting month!

Celebrate!

Today I celebrate the healing of my stomach pains. I never had the surgery that was scheduled for April 16th. God healed me instead! I was prayed for by a pastor friend who I have known since I was a teenager. He came back into my life again through a mutual friend who had been praying for me and my upcoming surgery.

The minute he started to pray the pains began to subside...I was amazed. I had been in pain since before Thanksgiving of 2008. At the time he was praying, was in early April. I was really just hanging on until I could experience some relief following my surgery. I was not expecting God to heal me miraculously, yet He did. When my friend finished praying the pains were gone. I am celebrating a month of pain-free existence today and I am so thankful I have escaped a complex vascular surgery! I celebrate the fact that today all is well and that I serve a loving AND miracle-working God. Thank you, my Lord!

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever."

Valentine's Day Slideshow

Friendship

Great Oak Tree

Dedicated to my daughter Abby, the little squirrel I carried.

I am like a great oak tree housing a tiny squirrel
preparing for the winter.

She runs up and down my huge limbs and
jumps from branch to branch, eating
all the foliage.

She is a happy little squirrel.

When are you coming out to play little one?

When the sun is shining?

Libby Diane Baker Sweiger

Copyright ©2009 Libby Diane Baker Sweiger

This is a poem I wrote and dedicated to my daughter when I was carrying her. I was like a great tree and she was like a boisterous squirrel exercising in the winter. (Poetry.com)

God Created Trees

Grandpa Reads His Book to Abby

This was a fun moment Abby's birthday weekend, when Grandpa stopped by to read a bit of his new book and discuss it with her. It's called a "Letter to Lily" and he dedicated it to all the grandchildren. It's a geneaology sprinkled liberally with history taken from the time different family events were happening. Very well written! Abby was especially interested and Grandpa in showing it to her ~ because she began the geneology work online herself and began the process.

Amazing what can happen when the generations put their heads together!

Friendship and Family Show

The Prayer of a humble Prayer Warrior

Psalm 142:1-7
"I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord; I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.
I pour out my complaint before Him. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou didst know my path. In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me. Look to the right and see;
For there is no one who regards me; There is no escape for me; No one cares for my soul.
I cried out to Thee, O Lord;
I said 'Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
Give heed to my cry, For I am brought very low: Deliver me my persecutors, For they are too strong for me.
Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Thy name;
The righteous will surround me, For Thou wilt deal bountifully
with me.'"

Family Time

We had a luxurious, post Christmas, Abby's (our daughters) birthday in late January this year. She brought her beautiful black lab with the blue eyes, Spunky so we could have the sweetest dog soul on hand as well.

The four of us: Mike and I, Abby and her friend Teri, spent the afternoon and early evening together, shooting the breeze, snacking and finally eating. We had a low-key gift opening...fortunately Abby liked her gifts -- a MN Wild sweatshirt and a really nice windbreaker/jacket. We listened to music and had a very nice time of conversation. That is one of the nicest things about your children getting older -- all the great conversations you can now have about adult things like music and cell phones and cars! :)!

The evening was over too quickly and the girls had to go play hockey (their passion). The next day Abby stopped by to visit with her grandfather though, so I got to see her twice!

What a joyous weekend, how wonderful family is -- Thank you God! And how precious our times together.

God Created Trees!

God's Oceans Slideshow

Joy Inexpressible...I Peter 1:3-9

Women's brunch, long-time believers and friends, we give God the glory in our lives and in our friendships.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4) to obtain and inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
5) who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6) In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, 7) that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ: 8) and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9) obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls."

Romans 8:28 and More!

Our Victory In Christ: Romans 8: vs. 28 "And we know that God casuses all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose, vs. 37: But in all things we overwelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. vs.38: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, vs. 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Family and Friends Slideshow