The Story God Wrote For Me

R emember Stacey Remember........... Every having the feeling of just trying to survive? No, well then you are above perfection. When we are going through the trials of this life is when God is striving us to become more like him and less like us. Each day is a learning day. Each trial is the chance to become shiner or duller in our afflictions. Each affliction is a chance see what we are trying made of and who is really in control of our life. We have the chance to learn something about ourselves that we didn't know existed. We have a chance to see just how far we can stretch our limits without breaking ourselves. And when we are stretched to our limits in when we can see just how much further we can go with God's help. Life isn't about just being happy for ourselves. Life is about showing others how much God is Lord of our life, how much we can love others despite their imperfections and how we can worship and love the Lord despite what we are given to deal with in this l...

October 2016 was a crazy but good month. As a family we met some awesome Christian friends in North Carolina and even went to the beach for a Christian retreat but nothing could come close to the surprise we had in store. After Kai's traumatic birth, I had some issues with female organs, so after a year of using no birth control at all, I had given up getting pregnant again. I had always wanted a very large family, like 7 kids, but since I didn't become pregnant until I was 30 that kind wasn't optional any more. Summer of 2015 and beginning of 2016, I actually started selling my baby stuff. It had been awhile, circumstance changed and I didn't feel like a 4th child was a reality anymore. We moved and started to care for my grandmother. I had a full plate with 3 kids and my grandmother, plus the company paperwork, payroll and the accounting. It had been a stressful 8 months, so Mike arranged for us to go away to North Carolina to meet some people about a new awesome min...

So so much has changed the past year. Some things changed for good, some things changed for the bad but over all, everything changed for God's glory. When you are in a waiting time in your life and you see God use you in a way that you never thought imaginable, it is a strong encouragement. That is where I am right now. Last May, after multiple strep throat infections and exhaustion, my body just shut down. I could not even get out of bed. I was in the hospital for 8 days, and was finally diagnosed with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). Basically my heart races and I feel exhausted, having done nothing but sit or stand up. Everyone that knows me, knows I think of myself as Xena, the Princess Warrior, and that I have no limits. The truth is, especially with POTS, my body is more like Spongebob Squarepants. I have limits to my body and by learning these boundaries, and making some lifestyle changes, I have been able to come off medication and live with POTS. Prais...

Warning: These are the real emotions I felt. I am not holding anything back, why? So you can see and try to understand what I am trying to show through this.....reaching deep within myself, and opening up in hopes that someone somewhere will read this and realize they are not alone. Sometimes in life, things happen completely by surprise and it is devastating. Your whole world no longer matters, your insides are just cold and you just don't know what to do. You wanted to ask why and how but you can't, because there is no one to answer. You get angry at God. God, why? How could you take him? Why why why? I trusted you to protect Him, how could you do this? Why would you do this to my family? God why why why? I don't understand and it hurts so bad. Each moment throughout the day, you just feel like you are in a daze. Maybe it is a dream and you will wake up from it. The next morning comes and you realize no this did happen. The coldness in your body makes you realize it ...

This past week I have been going through alot of trials. I have had to keep my mouth shut, get on my face and pray, trust and believe. A couple of weeks ago I prayed God please draw me close to you, please put a desire in me to get back in your word daily and trust you. And here I am. But the best things about a trial is how you come to the place where you have to say God I can not do anything without you, and I can not fix this, so here is it I give it to you. Help me, Save Me, and Heal Me. And the peace that comes from giving your problems to Jesus is awesome. However, the fleshly side still sees no way out, has a couple of anxious moments. You have to stop and remind yourself. Jesus has this now it isn't yours. Trust God through everything. You can not fix anything. He made everything and rules over everything therefore he can fix everything. Sometimes not to your liking but we are merely servants. Our Father knows what is best in our lives. Does a servant tell a King what to do...

My baby girl has been having problems with sleeping for awhile now. She is restless all night long, flops around and jerks in her sleep which causes her to wake up crying multiple times throughout the night. We just switched to a new pediatrician two weeks ago (after everything we went through with Kai). I told the new pediatrician about this and they immediately referred me to a pediatric neurologist in Birmingham. This past summer I noticed that Elo favors one side more than the other and she runs kinda funny (on her toes and kinda teeters). I mentioned this to their previous dr but was told that it was tibial torsion and she would grow out of it. Anyways, today as I am telling the neurologist she asks if she can take Elo out to the hall and proceeds to throw a ball down the hall multiple times and tries to get her to throw it back. Elo is running up and down the hall and just giggling and have a blast. Then the dr. does some reflex tests on her and tries to get her to use her left h...

June 6, 2014 - The beginning of my day... Stacey Frank Africa Missions wrote on June 6: What a day...it is amazing what you think of to do when you realize this is the last business day you have before you go have your BABY BOY yeah!! Home bills paid; Business bills paid, checkbooks balanced, business checks wrote out, business receipts filed, emergency consent forms and insurance cards packed, bags packed in van, car seat cleaned and ready to go in van, office organized, insurance paid, house somewhat cleaned, medical appointments re-scheduled for Monday, girls bags packed, and now I am off to take a nap before starting again.....3 days 18 hours and 50 minutes till I kiss my sweet boy's face..... The Rest of the Day: After nap time was over, the girls and I went outside and played hard, I cut the grass and weedeated (is that a real word?) the front yard, mom came over with her two dogs and we sat and talked, I attempted to drive the lawn mower across the spill way to get it into...