Sunshine!

Well. for the past Month or so I have been in Florida living with these old folks (as they refer to themselves)!

So I thought I should write about my experience here and there!


Today I was putting the garbage into a bag from the garbage can and I saw a huge cock roach in the bottom of the garbage can! Being a girl I screamed, or more like squealed! I think Grandma and Grandpa were laughing at me. I took the dish soap from the counter and sprayed it on the cock roach! Then I took some water and sprayed that on it! It was close to dead when I dumped it down the toilet! Haha! I had conquered and defeated the ROACH! The Garbage can got a good cleaning out of it, too!!


One funny thing about me being here is what my Grandparents call me.
Grandpa calls me the maid! Grandma calls me that girl! 
My Grandpa is going to be 90 on April 13th, and my Grandma will be 86 on April 20th!
So they have a reason for not always remembering what child's daughter I am and what my name it. It does not bother me. Just gives me something to laugh about!


I'm very blessed to have this opportunity to spend time with my Grandparents!
It's been hard at times but I'm still alive and I just have times I laugh it all out!


:)
Bye for now!


Auggie Dawn 

Mama's! Proverbs 22 -

I'm quite mad at myself right now... just kidding not really mad. Just thinking I should have done better at blogging! So here goes another try.. i guess even if it's just a couple lines from my day or thoughts. I'll try and post more! :) Anyways here goes.. 

Mama's

My Mama is awesome, selfless, hard worker, caring, thoughtful, loves Jesus, loves my Dad, is great with money (saving lots, but still letting herself give and spend on herself here and there.), and is amazing cause she carried me inside of her for 9 months! 


Sometimes I do forget all that my Mom has learned in here 51 years of life. I think I know more then her. I forget how much she has done for me, how much Dad and her have struggled to make ends meet to make sure I could eat when I was young! How much they really trust God, and did not have a choice but to trust in him! Anyways, today I just want to Honor my Mama! She is truly amazing! I struggle with having a bad attitude when she asks me to do things, and when she says something I think is just dumb but she knows allot more then me!!! So i'm really just working at asking God to change my heart and to help me to see my Mama with different eyes. I'm so blessed to have a Mama! I know some people that don't! So today don't forget to thank the Lord for your Mom and Dad! They helped pave the way for ya!




I'm also so very blessed to have been trained in a way so that now that I am older and now on my own I am not departing from my parents, and i'm not departing from their training. I'm chasing after God's heart! I'm so thankful for my parents disciplining me when I was little. I understand now how important it was. I look forward to training up my own children, and just to bring more children into the world that love Jesus, and have a good view on God!
6Train up a child in the way he should go,
         Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6




"Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise:
If you honor your father and mother, "things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth." Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.  Ephesians 6:2-4




On a side note! I like to remember to be happy so this song just really applies to my life! I hope this song blesses you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uP5AkskmE




Bye for now,


Auggie Dawn :)

If God is for us, Who Can be againts us??

Wow! It’s January! I’m in Florida right now. I came last weds the 5^th J it’s now January 11^th. I’m here watching Danny and Shana Orser’s Kids while they are on a cruise.
The last Couple of days have been rather tough for me. Me feeling very alone and just lonely.
Feeling almost like a failure. Not spending the time with God that I should, not obeying everything he was telling me. Last night I felt much better when going to sleep I was not sure what to do but I was just reading my bible and I decided to read from Romans cause there was a paper in my bible that I had from a women’s retreat I was at back in May. So… I came across and decided to read Romans 8:16.. Then I just decided to read up to 16. It was so good and life giving to me and so where I was at!! I felt very encouraged. Therefore, there is now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the spirit who gives life has set you free!!!!… From the law of sin and Death!! And it just talked about how we are not controlled by sinful nature But we are controlled by the Spirit, If Indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. The Enemy was trying so hard to discourage me and to put lies in my head and I think I was maybe starting to believe! But after I read this I felt it all fall off and I felt fine!! It was very encouraging.
　
　
So Today I was also feeling like that again. Just Lonely missing people back home maybe just a bit tired... To the point of almost crying… Feeling like I had not patience doing school with the Girls. (Rachel is 8 and Annika is 5)
I’m in the kitchen feeling a little bit better but still just struggling a bit making lunch and dinner…
A Friend calls me. She just had to ask me about something.. I almost get off the phone with her and decide I’m going to tell her what I’m feeling like and just ask her to pray for me! She prays for me right then. We then talked about my situation and that totally helped! God is so faithful and does cool stuff like that just has people in your life for a reason! I love it. So after Lunch I just decided I would listen to a Testimony by Jennifer Miller Toledo! It’s so amazing it’s about an hour long. I recommend you to take that hour and just take it all in. It’s so good and encouraging! So I listened to that felt really encouraged, and it gave me such ambition… just to seek after God’s heart! To seek after his will for my life. And just to truly continue giving him myself! Dieing to myself, offering myself to him as a living sacrifice! I then decided to continue reading in Romans 8:18 - 30 The Title for this part of the chapter is “Present Suffering and Future Glory” “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the Creation was subjected to frustration, not by it’s own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from it’s bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved but hope that is seen is no hope at all who hopes for what they already have? But we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us though wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God!!! And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the Firstborn among many brothers and sisters, And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified!”

The last part of the Chapter in Romans is Titled "More than Conquerors"

More Than Conquerors

 ³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:
   “For your sake we face death all day long;
   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[a]
 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
　
So that really encouraged me! Let it encourage you!
I’m really excited about Gods plan for my life. As his plans are unfolded and revealed to me…. And continue to unfold I will wait patiently. Until that all happens I will seek his face and continue to encourage others in him! And to be a light in this dark world… be a light for Jesus. I will go where he wants me to go, do what he asks of me! I won’t just stand and do nothing while I’m waiting, I will serve him! God has amazing things he want me to do!
So I’m just here in Florida for about another week. Then I’m home for about 3 weeks, then heading off to Tennessee for 2 months! I’m still just asking God what he wants and has for me when I get home in April! It’s an adventure, I’m excited to see what will happen. J
God bless you today, May you give him your all and serve him in everything you do!
August Dawn

Christmas.

Christmas Eve. 11ish Am : Everyone around the Christman household is getting ready for Christmas! Excitement is building, food is getting prepared and last minute presents to be wrapped! Grandma and Grandpa Arrive.

11:30 - Most everyone is ready... Still finishing up a few things :)

12: Everyone is in the living room opening Stockings - Lot of fun stuff! Candy.And Socks and what not!
We started giving presents. My Favorite Part. everyone gets their presents that they have to give to each other.... Put it by themselves. then from Oldest to youngest we take turns on who gets to give! :) It's pretty fun! I really enjoy the giving part of Christmas as I always have! It's such a blessing to have had money to buy stuff this year, I did not have to go in debt just to buy Christmas Presents! I got a Beautiful Turquoise Ring From Corwin!! I love it. so Beautiful!

1:30 - We Break for food!
A new Person/Addition to this years Christmas Arrives. We get some food... This food is all the kinds of food that everyone could ever want! It's all our favorite stuff. everyone (pretty much) chipped in and help make different stuff.

2:00Pm - We start giving out presents again. We do this for about 3 more hours... with lots of stuff going on lots of trips to the kitchen to get more food and such... I had to finish up some last minute Christmas Project for Dad! I had a Calender that I bought Daddy. It is a Whitetail deer Calender! It has room at the bottom of each month for notes. So I had my Family plus me each write him a note in all the months! :)
I believe he loves it. :) I got a Piano!! A really nice piano... like WOW! I'm so blessed!

I'm just thanking the Lord for Blessing me with such an awesome family. I'm really looking forward to the rest of my life. God has an awesome plan!

Life. What are you living for?

The Beautiful Snow is falling outside, Love just sitting by the window and watching it fall to the ground or fall into nothing!  What Beauty.

So excited about what God is doing in my life, and what he is going to do in my life in the next year!
I want my life to count for something, I don't just want to be a boring Christian that reads her bible once a day then moves on. I want to have a relationship that people will notice and they will say...  "Whoa.. What does that girl got?"  I want to give God the Glory in every way for my life! I want to reach out to people who are just searching for him. The Cry of my heart is to reach people and see peoples lives changed for good! Changed for Jesus, I want to see people's hearts on fire for Jesus... Serving him Daily.... all the time!

No one is perfect, we all fall short! But My God is a forgiving God and wants to see you whole and walking in his will... Do something today for someone else.

My life is going to be lived for God! Full out, totally, completely, living for my Daddy who made me!
Without him I am nothing! I need The Holy Spirit to guide me!

What are you living me?

Snow.....

Snow!! We have been getting lots of snow in the last week or so! I'm really enjoying it. Just looking outside and seeing the wonderful white stuff falling from the sky just makes me Joyful! It's kinda weird thought because it makes my Mom Feel Sad and she hates the snow.... Diff. People.

Last night was such a good night. I got to hang out with my sister Delite, who just got married To Jordan in July of this year. We went to Work out with Corwin at the gym. It was a really good work out! It felt great at the end. ofcouse not without a little pain ;) Then I got to take a nice shower that also felt good. I blow dried my hair.... I rarely blow dry my hair.... but it always feels so nice and soft I love it! I was going to go with Corwin (My Brother) to Delite and Jordan's house and spend the night last night... Then I just felt like I should stay home and do some music, spend some time with Jesus, and spend some time just being home with Mama and Daddy. So I did that! I just played piano and talked with them and Grandma and Grandpa stopped in and I got to spend some time with them also. After they all went to bed I got on the piano and just started doing some worship songs... It was kinda blah at first then I just felt the holy spirit over me and just played and sang to Jesus. And Jesus sang back tot me! I was great! Praise the Lord for speaking into my life and for me listening! -I hope this encourages you to take time out of your day to spend time with him!-

So today is a nice day. I'm pretty much just here at home chilling, sitting by the fire... Watching the snow fall! Loving it. Christmas time is a lovely time of the year! Thank you Jesus for coming into this world to save us!
I woke up this morning at 8, got dressed. Came down and read in Matthew 5... Good stuff there! Mom and I went to take Delite's car down to Tyson's shop to get snow tires put on, we also did the Recycle! Then I came back and ate some Life for Breakfast! So yummy.. now I'm just here until about 1ish then I'm heading to baby sit for a couple hours. So now I'm just sitting here telling you all about my life. I'm planning on just spending time with Mama for the rest of the morning... She just brought me in a half of Bagel with Butter and Orange Juice with  Ice Shavings in it... Sooo yummy!! She's so sweet.. :)
So yeah my Day should be fun. After baby sitting I'm heading to Burville Where I am house sitting for the week. At 6 Corwin and I have Worhsip practice, after that we have Drama then some Friends are coming over to hang out with us along with our siblings! :) I'm excited.

Quote - "If it's not hard for you to find time spend with your Best Friends or Boyfriend/Girlfriend... Then Spending time with Jesus should not be any different"  - By August Dawn Christman (That is totally for me, I have to remind myself)


I hope and pray you all have a blessed day in Jesus.

November 30th, 2010

Wow! It's November 30th already! Crazy how time flys.
It's Tuesday and I am at Tina and Randy Lehman's house baby sitting their kiddos.
They are 3 22 months and almost 11 months old! Reese, the 11 month old has just started walking in the last two weeks... Last Monday she was only taking like 4 steps and did not even wanna try it very much... But Yesterday when I came In She walked right over to me... So she is walking all over now. Praise the Lord for Miracles. Reese's Parents were not able to have kids. They tried for 8 years and could not conceive. In Nov. of 2008 They Adopted a one year old, Izabella from Guatemala. Two months later they adopted Jude, New born right from the hospital from this area! 3 months later they became pregnant with Reese! Praise the Lord, he is faithful!

So... today is a very exciting day because my brothers, Christian and Corwin Christman have been away for since November 8th! They went to do ministry in India for two weeks. They Led worhsip, Preached, and prayed for people. They also got to do some touring of India! It was quite exciting for them! The Lord worked and I can't wait to hear all about it. My Brother Christian has a friend Named Morris that he met and went to School of Ministry with in Toronto. Morris is a pastor at a church there so that is the connection!
This last week they have been visiting with friends in England and touring there In London and lots of places!  I'm a bit Jealous, but I'm happy that they got to have such a great opportunity! (Right now Reese is playing peek a boo with me behind my computer, and Were watching Veggie tails)

Anyways, after I get done here at 3ish I'm dropping my Car off at Tyro Auto Which is my Cousin Tyson Roggie's Auto Shop. He is going to put my snow tires on for me! We have snow now... I'm guessing it will melt but, it's pretty while it lasts. Mom and Dad are going to pick me up there and were going to head to Adams to meet Jordan and Delite who are going to ride with us to pick up the boys! they Land around 6:30 PM! I can hardly contain my excitement. Lets just say.. My Family is really close, We all have a great relationship as a family. I'm very blessed and Thankful. Corwin and I are especially Close at this time in our lives, because we have been going to the same church. It's in Watertown, it's a 30 to 40 minute ride and we go about 3 times a week. So we get to spend allot of time together! It's great fun. I'm really enjoying that church, getting to know lots of people and getting more and more involved. God is good! So after we pick the boys up from the Air port... Were going out to eat at the Outback Steakhouse! Fun times.
Well I guess it's good bye for now. God Bless your day!

Auggie Dawn ;)