Happy Valentines Day to My Beloved Hubby Ron
                            2014

You are my loving Valentine for eternity,
I have learned so many beautiful things from you,
Smiles, loving hugs and tenderness.
Priceless days of time spent together,
Reaching out to others,
Not alone, but with each other,
Learning patience and compassion
like no other,
Being blessed with Christ in our life,
and living with him in our life
like no other.

Happy Blessed Valentines Day to my Beloved
                      Ron

Happy times are here..

To our Family and Friends,

It's been a while since Ron and I have written in our spiritual marriage blog.  We have been living a wonderful life of getting to know each other. We have now been married 23 months.  Everyday is special and we thank our Heavenly Father for waking us up each morning and smiling in each others arms. We have learned to take time to listen to each other daily and putting ourselves into the heart of what our loved one may be experiencing.We try not to react in a negative way to each other, but try to respond with love, compassion and gentleness. We pray at every meal and read the bible or a devotional at night with each other. Our home is a place where we feel loved.

A new blessing in our family is Maggie, our new granddaughter who is now 2 months old. She is so sweet and her sister, Alyssa, loves to hold and take care of her with mom and dad's help.
Ron and I had our granddaughter's over a few weeks ago while their dad and mom went on a date. It was an honor to love on our grandchildren. I enjoyed every moment watching grandpa Ron color and play games with Alyssa. I got the best part...holding Maggie.

Ron had a surprise birthday party that the family gave him, and, oh yes he was surprised. Believe it or not I have been trying to give him a surprise birthday party for 2 years. It finally happened.We danced to "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night, and yes he can swing it. Ha. Ha. We had a contest on who could make the best whistling birds sounds. Alyssa won that contest. So much fun. A truly fun night with the family.

We continue doing our ministry, "Jesus without Borders", with  our friends  and we now we visit
a womens shelter.  
       Love in Christ
                   Ron and Lena

A LOVELY Valentine's Day

I want everyone to know how blessed I am to be married to my lovely wife, Lena. She is truly a miracle in my life. I love being with her because she adds so much love to my life. I have never been treated and loved by someone as much as she has

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                               A VALENTINE TO MY BELOVED LENA
                                        Lena
                                    My Valentine of
                                    Love, laughter
                                    Compassion, tenderness
                                    Kindness, attentiveness
                                   Prayfulness , faithfulness
                                    Lena, my beloved Gift
                                    From a Loving God                     
                                 
                                                                      
                                    
For Lena & I a Lovely Valentine's Day is one in which we celebrate the love that God has showered upon us !! For us it goes beyond the romantic and eoritic love that is commonly celebrated today into a much deeper & eternal spiritual love based on the love of Jesus. We pray with each other everyday , praying that God will watch over us and teach us to how to love each other as Christ loved us. It has helped us draw closer together inspite of our differances, and bumps on the way to eternal life in Christ. Christ has taught us that the reason we are together is to experience  love between each other. If we are not in our relationship to experience love, than we are living a life without God, and therefore living in sin and spiritual darkness.

What makes Valentine Day wonderful for us is the deepness of the sprititual love that God is blessing us with. We pray a prayer of blessing of Christ's abundant Love upon our children, families and friends

                   In Christ Eternal Love Ron & Lena

One Year Marriage Anniversary

Dear Family and Friends,

Can you believe it? We have been married for one complete year. No words can express

our love for each other. We love being married and learning new things each day about each other. We are not "I", we are "We." in everything we do. We always try to dress up in the same

colors each day. It is our way that bonds us together and makes us be one in our relationship of marriage.

On our special day we wore white. We went for a beautiful ride to Rancho Seco and exchanged our gifts of love to each other. I made red corsages for Ron and Me to wear. As we passed the gate into the park the lady said, " Where are you youngers going in your dressed up clothes?" We gave her a great big thank you and grinned at each other. We sat on a bench with 2 ducks in front of this romantic clear day. Ron pulled out his gift and I couldn't believe it. It was a license plate frame that says, "RON AND LENA" "FOREVER IN CHRIST"

It brought tears of joy and love to my heart. He also bought me a butterfly necklace.

We love butterflies. I gave my beloved a beautiful anniversary card topped with a kiss and a

Love plaque. I sang a song " The Most Beautiful Rose", but the words I sang in the song

were everything my Beloved Ron as taught me since we have known each other. We held hands and looked into our eyes and could see our true depth of spiritual love the Lord has given us.

We thank our Heavenly Father and his son Jesus every day for the gifts he has given us. We are

his gifts to each other. Taking time to listen and talk to each other really helps us in our marriage.

We were invited to Mel and D'lare's wedding on our anniversary day too.. It was at the Catheral center downtown across the Capital in Sacramento. It was a lovely outside wedding. It brought tears to my eyes to see Mel's son's in the wedding. They have all grown up so much. What a beautiful day. Thomas joined us as we celebrated this blessed day with them together.

Family Life

On May 24th Vanessa ,our granddaughter ,graduated from High School. It was a great celebration for all of us, including Junior, Fabie and our grandsons from Texas. We had a wonderful time enjoying each others company. We had dinner together at BJ'S Restaurant and than attended the graduation ceremony. Afterwards we went to a yogurt shop, and than went bowling.

The next day we took family pictures and had a surprise pre-graduation party for our son Thomas. He will graduate next December from Sac. State College. The highlight of the party for Thomas was our grandson Jalen break dancing. He never gets tired and just smiles and smiles. Smiles run in our family. Another highlight was letting Thomas know what we have learned from him in life. It was touching and amazing what each of us shared with him. What touched my heart was when Andy ,our ex-son-in-law said, that he sees the interaction that Thomas has with Alyssa and the interaction that Junior also has with his boys. He was looking at me and it meant alot. In this day and age so many parents never share these family skills. As a parents we must interact and demonstrate what a loving family shares with each other.We each have a gift to contribute to the family God has given us. To be safe and really cared about within the family is so important. Showing love at all times and being there for each other. God has truly shown us this.

We also sat down and started to talk about our family reunion within the next two years. We are getting everyones ideas. As we share with each other our family will learn to grow in love with Christ leading us. We want to stay in touch with with each other. God has shown us this in many ways. I learn more and more each day what a blessing it is to have each other.

We are reaching out to all of our family and friends and want you to know that we love being married to each other. We are learning from each other and continue to enjoy the spiritual love that God has for us. Ron makes me laugh and I make him laugh too. Our ministry continues to grow and we are blessed to do God's work. He has used us many times over. We give him all the glory and honor.

Married 5 months and celebrating Valentine's day

Hi family and friends,

Every day is Valentine's day for Ron and I. We are learning so many things about life as a

blessed married couple. I love my husband so much and he is so thoughtful and considerate in

every way a husband can be with God leading us to do his work.

We have been praying every night for our family and friends and have seen great miracles come about.When we pray, we know God brings us closer together and blesses us with his mighty power from the Spirit.

We now have a prayer family with our immediate children Sandy, Judy, Junior and Thomas,

their spouses and our grandchildren. They send us their prayer requests and each week we

support them by praying for their prayers. It brings God's true love that

our Jesus wants us to do for each other. In this life we need to receive love from our heavenly

Father and serve him by praying as a family that he has given us. By doing this our spiritual family will stay united with each other with God's mighty love. What a miracle this is to always be there for each other. Three of our children live in other states, so we really can stay connected this way. We always want to be a part of our children's life and set an example we are always there for them. We are planning to have a family reunion in 2011. Every two to three

years we will get together. We will plan lots of fun activities and enjoy each other to bring more

family unity that God wants us to have with each other.

Ron and I are still working on pictures from the wedding. We want to thank everyone

for all the pictures they took at the wedding like Maria, Erin, Lynda and Heddi. They made

us dvd's too. We have the best family and friends anyone could have.

Our "Jesus without Borders" ministry is going strong. We have touched many people lives doing it. We continue to make gift bags for the homeless. Judy our daughter has sent us

gloves and we will be loading up the bags with them. What a worthwhile reward it is to give

a gift bag and see their eyes light up. The other day a man named Dan saw the socks in the

bag and he was so happy. He showed us his shoes with no socks and was so humble to have

just some socks. What joy it brings to our hearts to see when people really are grateful.

In Christ's Love,

Ron & Lena

Our First Christmas together.

Dear family and friends,

You are all so special to Ron and I. We have been married now 3 months and loving every thing

about being married. We are learning from each other and marvel how much God has blessed us. We have just bought a new car. It is a 2006 Taurus. It is was the best deal anyone could get. The interior has a oak custom color around the radio and a sunroof. We know it is a gift from God and it will help us in our ministry and we will not drive crazy. We will only carry special cargo in it, our friends and family and they will enjoy it too. Ron can get in it a lot easier than the Honda.I am not sure if I told you, but on Thanksgiving the Honda got sick and the clutch had no power. Thanks to our wonderful son Thomas, he let us borrow his car (hot rod Acura). We were able to have the Honda towed to his friends shop and they fixed it for only $180.00.

Ron and I have promised to drive to work together, since we both work at J C Penny Arden.

We can talk together, enjoy the ride and save money on gas.

God has been so good to both of us. Business for me selling draperies and hard window treatments has been good at J C Penney. Ron does well too. So we are humble.

We have been attending the Friends Community Church twice a month since we were married. Than the other 2 weeks we visit other churches and reach out to them.

We are going to continue to blog about our marriage and what is happening in our life.

May we all draw near to Christ

Love

Ron & Lena