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You an get your Fish Fry tickets ether by stopping by our house or ordering online. The tickets must be purchased by October 19th to reserve a plate. You can use one adult ticket or two children's plates. Thank you for your support. Quantity      1 Ticket $10.00 USD      2 Tickets $20.00 USD      3 Tickets $30.00 USD      4 Tickets $40.00 USD      5 Tickets $50.00 USD      6 Tickets $60.00 USD      7 Tickets $70.00 USD      8 Tickets $80.00 USD      9 Tickets $90.00 USD      10 Tickets $100.00 USD

Hello Friends of Gomer, how are you? We are enjoying our two week old baby girl and doing some nesting since we did not get to do it all summer. I am cleaning along and removing some old paint when I can. Denbigh has been working on the kitchen floor. We have also been entertaining guests that come to visit our new born.  Here is the underlayment that is under the cork floor. You can't tell, but it is a thick piece of cushy foam. It's funny what excites you when you have been walking around on dingy plywood for a long time. This excited me. I stepped on it and thought I was living in the lap of luxury. It is cushy, friends. Come bounce around. This is part of our yard after our neighbor lent us his John Deere lawnmower. I never cease to be amazed at how giving people are here. They find out we have a need and someone is at our house with in minutes to help us out. It truly is a community and not just a place you live. Kindness is such a powerful testimony. We are...

Press on in grace. Of course you don't want to condone sinful actions toward you or your family. You must stay calm and redirect it with honor and grace. Honor everyone around you regardless of their lack of kindness. Remind yourself of the man who was forgiven a great debt by a ruler and then went and imprisoned the man who owed him little. The ruler called the man who had been forgiven a huge debt the wicked one. In his wickedness, he refused to forgive as he had been forgiven. Extend your pardon to others. "I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name." 1 John 2:12 For more on this segment, see this post .

I have a favor to ask of you. Help us restore our house, feed our neighbors, and provide respite for pastors and missionaries. We are going to fry up some fish and all the sides. There will be tea brewing and a lemonade stand. Art will be for sale. Organic food will be available. Denbigh will be taking orders for pies and his other confections. Mark the date on your calendar. Our house will be open all day October 20th for visitors. Our local fall festival will be going on with live music, food booths, and antiques, parade, 5k, and more. There will also be an antique car show in front of Gomer's House. Mark your calendars and be on the look out for us to be asking you to help us see our vision of restoration to fruition.  *There are also kid's plates available for $5. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Thank you for your love and support.

Well, Friends of Gomer, I'm holding a baby in my left hand and typing to you with my right. What a miracle it is to give birth. Every time I am blessed with the opportunity to have a child, I am simply in awe of this miracle that we get to be a part of.  Last week, we didn't do any remodeling. We loved on a precious baby girl. Chayah Camille Cherry. She is a gift from God.  Here she is with our youngest, Yasha.  Love those fingers.   This is how she sleeps in my lap.  Our third day together. Here is Denbigh holding her wearing the Cherry Heirloom Dress.  This week, my man has been working on the ceiling in the kitchen. He painted the beams and put them up.  Here are more of them up. I love that soft white against the pale blue. If you remember, I was drawn to these colors because of their names. Stillness and Pale Bloom. I think it worked out nice.  This is our new fan. I had picked it out in May and it was o...

This book is available today, September 18th. Description from Publisher: “The River is a story that will transform how you see yourself and the world.” —Andy Andrews,  New York Times  best-selling author of  The Noticer ,  The Traveler’s Gift , and  How Do You Kill 11 Million People? “You were made for The River . . .” Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure. But something holds him back—the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old—something no child should ever see. Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the treasures of The River. He remains trapped, afraid to take hold of the life awaiting him. When he returns to The River after years away, his heart knows he is finally home....

Perhaps you remember the story of the fishermen from Mexico who were lost and floating across the ocean for 9 months. Two men died and they were eventually found around the coast of Australia. It went largely unnoticed in the American media because of the barrage of politics at the time. A friend of Joe Kissack's told him to look up the story at the time it happened. He was then drawn into the story as though he had lived it. In some ways, he had. He was a man fully adrift, his life as he knew it vanished, and the crashing waves and storms of drugs and alcohol were crashing down on him. You follow this story, which is impeccably written through Joe's Hollywood defeats and the tragedies of these fishermen and deliverance of these fishermen. The thing that survives 9 months at sea is the same thing that helped Joe survive his self-destructive lifestyle. One guy with a Bible. It was a different man in each circumstance, but it was a life-preserver for both of them. Joe find...

Do you like my awesome cooling system in the kitchen. If you are on facebook, you may know that I put a cooler full of ice behind it the other day to make homemade air conditioning. I know it may be bittersweet, but I bid adieu to the box fan. As soon as the beams are on the ceiling, Denbigh will be installing the new kitchen fan. The bead board look of the blades matches the kitchen. Are you all beside yourselves with envy? I don't know about the light kit. We will see if we like it. You may be wondering why we are enamored with beachy things around here. It all started with the gigantic palm trees out front. Then I thought the colors of water would be perfect for a respite.  Besides, if His grace is an ocean, I'm headed to the beach. I was all set to blog about Gomer yesterday and then tragedy of all tragedies struck. My one year old couldn't find her woobie to go to bed. For those of you who don't know, a woobie is the fluffly little blankie kids carry a...

Release to me the days gone by. Let go of the fears of yesterday repeating itself. Trust Me to begin and do a new thing today. I want to do a new thing. I want to do it. I have no need of your help in this situation. All I require is your trust that I will speak, I will convict, I will move. Rest. "Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:18-19 For more on this segment, see this post .

Description from Tyndale House: Set in the turbulent years just before one of the most horrendous events in Jewish history, The Last Temple concludes the trilogy of The Last Disciple and The Last Sacrifice. Vitas is reunited with his wife and retires to Alexandria, determined to live a quiet, domestic life. But he can’t avoid the debts that he owes to the men who saved him, and he becomes a key figure in the plot to rid the empire of Nero. It sweeps him into the “year of four emperors,” when the Roman Empire is nearly destroyed, and takes him back to Jerusalem as Titus lays siege to the great city. Only then, as the prophecy of Jesus begins to unfold, does Vitas discover the true mission set before him and the astounding conspiracy behind it. My Review: This is the last book of a trilogy series. It took me a while to get into due to the fact that there seemed to be quite a bit of info given and the conversation flow seemed choppy. On occasion, it felt like they were trying t...