Seven Parris Kids And Counting

Ask yourself as a Christian:
Do I go where my Master says I can go?
Do I talk as my Master wants me to talk?
Do I act like my Master wants me to?
Do I really have a Master??

Very respected pastor and author John MacArthur gives us some insight.

Blog Under Construction-New Things Ahead

In our spare time we have been doing new things to our blog. It is currently "under construction" and changing a little bit here and there. Morgan has been investing some of her free time learning the ins and outs of blog design. She enjoys learning new things and this one is definitely something that you can put a lot of time into. We hope to be updating our Family page soon also. Here are a few things we are planning to do when time allows. 1. Right now Morgan plays piano and is also instructing Josiah, Katie and Jacob on the piano. Sammy is teaching Josiah some beginning guitar and Josiah just got his own guitar to learn with. Morgan and Katie have become very interested in the Irish Whistle. Sarah loves to sing lots of songs and anything from the musical Sound of Music. Samuel mostly just likes to dance to the music. With all this music going on we hope to add pictures of them with their instruments and also let you hear some of it too on our Music page. 2.As far as our homeschooling page we want to expand on what we do and also post pictures to remind us of all we've done through the year. 3. For our What we believe page we want to clearly share our beliefs and also expand on our family worship time together. We also may throw in things about our church on this page and all the exciting things that are going on there. Thank you to all of you who visit with us and we hope that our family is a blessing to you. Now if we can just get all these things accomplished! We are excited to see what God has in store for us this year.

Missy

1000 Gifts

One Thousand Gifts Week Two...

10.Hiccups and Giggles from a two year old princess

11. Screams of excitement from Sam when he sees that daddy is home.

12. My oldest son becoming a young man and wanting to help his mama.

13. Games of chess being played over and over.

14. Sisters that laugh all the time.

15. Words of kindness and encouragement from wiser women.

16. Late night baby sounds I hear across the room.

17. This same baby that is finally sleeping through the night

18. A blue eyed boy that has the sweetest smile

...Be thankful to Him and bless His name.~Psalm100:4

Friends

Missy and I have been blessed with many friends through the years and my wife just experienced love yesterday from a very authentic friend in blogger world. Some amazing person out there sent my wife a copy of the book "One Thousand Gifts". What a blessing! It reminds me of the devotion my children and I did last night on love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 says: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
This gift of love was done unprovoked, and by an unidentified giver.
Clearly not parading itself.
Whoever you are, I commend you for being Christ-like. No, not because of the gift itself; because of the love you showed to my wife through the act of selflessly giving to bless her.

In an age where enemies abound, disguised as love-givers. Ones that un-authentically show unauthentic love and completely show their "love" to match up with the above verse; except removing all the not's when they are listed, and adding them when they are "not";
It is refreshing when someone comes along and shows their love is truly genuine.

One Thousand Gifts

I have been so encouraged by Ann Voskamp's blog. I didn't know how hugely well known she was until here lately. I thought she was just a regular Mom like me( and of course she is) but now I see her name all over the place. When I started reading her blog it was obvious to me that she had much wisdom for her young years Just the music alone will make you set back and relax. I hope to get her book soon. There are actually two books that I have been wanting to get. This one and Large Family Logistics by Amy Brenneman. Haven't decided on what book I will get first, either will be great I'm sure so probably the one with the better price but for now I have decided to join others on this journey of 1000 gifts. It's so fitting to have this on a Monday since Mondays are normally Very hard days at least for me!

1. God's Protection During Strong Storms
2. Newborn Baby Smiles
3. A Clean Kitchen
4. Guitar Music
5. Healthy Children
6. John 3:16
7. Piano Music
8. Children Who Love To Sing
9. Hugs From My Husband

Sarah, Sam and Stephen

Sarah and Sam are so sweet together. They are the closest in age in the Parris family at almost 13 months apart. While they may be close in age they are so different in their personality. Whenever a visitor comes to our home Sarah will run and say hi while Sam dives under the nearest pillow. They love to work in the kitchen (as you can tell in the picture). They love being big sister and brother to Stephen.

Hasn't he gotten so big? He is our black- haired blue-eyed baby doll.

Wordless Wednesday

The Delightful Biblical Opportunities Of Grandparenting by S. M. Davis - BiblePreaching.com

I Love SM Davis. Check Out One Of His Sermons.

The Delightful Biblical Opportunities Of Grandparenting by S. M. Davis - BiblePreaching.com

Defender- New favorite song

About two weeks ago Sammy had a new song for us to listen to. He told Morgan he wanted her to learn it so she could play for him when he introduced the new song. It's not odd for him to have a new song for us to listen to so I figured it would be pretty good and continued whatever I was doing as he played it. I was not prepared for just how good this song was and how much I would love it. I think we played it about 10 times in a row that night and I have probably listened to it 50 times since then (not counting listening to Morgan practice it on the piano). I enjoy it so much so I thought I would find it on the internet. I love how the choir really enjoys this song. The words are just amazing. At the end of the video it shows the young man who wrote it. God has blessed him with a great talent and Wow that hair is really something.