My friend Beth "the blessing"

God has really blessed me with wonderful friends and family. I know that if I ever needed them they would be right there.

Today, I would like to tell you about my dear friends The Spencer's Beth and Josh....I've known Beth forever.....She's the best, I used to want to be just like her she had pretty fingernails and drove a white Geo Storm, which was WAY Cool!!!!!!!! ;-)

And Red is a gorgeous color on her

And always has been ! ;-) She looks much happier with Josh than she did with Junior! he he ;-)
she sings at church and is just all around a wonderful person and a great mom, not to mention photographer ;-) She really is an inspiration to me, she has really been there for me the last year or so, I can always count on her to pray for me or give me words of inspiration ...She's married to a great guy that I have known just as long or maybe longer... his mom Connie and my mom were good friends.
This is a picture of Connie, Josh's mom holding Jackie when she was a baby..... that's josh on her lap... I know the picture quality is poor, but come on people it was 1984.. give me a break! ;-) Here is a picture of Connie, center, my mom, right, and Linda(cara's mom) left... There is something anbout that small child in the stripes up front! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!;-)

VBS @ Main Cross 1985... I think

Josh and I have never been close, but I have always considered him a good friend.. He is the type of guy that would stop and talk to you or say "hi" no matter what or who he was with. That was a big deal to me when I was in high school and even after high school, when I was out of church , going through my wild phase..... I ran into Josh at a baseball game he went out of his way to say HI and to see how I was doing. That meant a lot! Especially at that time.


When I heard that these two love birds were getting married, I thought, what a perfect couple!!!!!



Beth and her mom actually sang at my mom's funeral, so as you can imagine how dear these people are to me.

They have a blog , which got me started on this whole thing... and this is a story about how their Christian walk and their testimony blessed me and my life.


One Friday while I was at work, things were kinda slow and I was looking over Beth's blog, I found a post, that I had never seen before, I was amazed that I hadn't read EVERY one of her posts, I might be a little of a Blog STALKER!!!! sorry...;-) anyways, the post was about Josh telling Beth that he wished he had a pound cake with icing like his Nanny Geraldine used to make, about that time Beth heard a knock on her door... she went to answer it to find the little old lady that lived next door, josh had been cutting her side yard for her, she was holding a cake, she handed it to Beth and thanked them for being so gracious, when Beth brought it inside she noticed that it was a pound cake with icing!

~I know it gave me chills too... ;-) LOVE IT!!!!!!!

So I tell my friend and co-worker Andrea whose office was very close to mine all about the post . She is Catholic and I have been trying to get her to come to church with me .... she thought the story was awesome but asks me what God has ever done like that to prove himself to me..... I was stumped! I said, well, huh... let me get back to you on that, thank goodness, there was an issue that I needed to resolve and could not continue the conversation.

The next night, Cara and I were at dinner and I tell her the story, and say, "when she asked me when has he ever proven himself to me , I was stumped"... mind you, I am on Cara all the time to go to church and to get her kids involved in church, she is one of my biggest prayer requests.... Because I love her and want to see her in Heaven, anyway, she says to me..

"how can you say that?"
I looked at her very confused and said , say "what"?
She said, "Jessie ,your mom and sister were killed ( in the afternoon) 2 weeks after your mom switched you to P.M. Kindergarten, if she wouldn't have done that, you would have been there and then where would I be?"
"How do you explain that?"
"How do you explain that shortly before your mom died she explained to you what it meant to go to Heaven ?"
" When we told you that your mom was in Heaven you understood and knew that you would see her again one day."
" you were only 5, and that's not a normal conversation a mom has with her 5 year old", God had a hand in that."
Then she said " You are here, what more do you want him to prove?"
" you are the miracle"......
so as we cried and ate our grilled Mahi Mahi ;-) ....

I came to the conclusion, that Cara, and Beth and all my other Christian friends.. are my miracle. God didn't have to send someone to my door for me to know he's real, he sent me great friends. SO Beth, Josh, and Cara... you are my pound cakes! and I love you!

Suddenly..... I'm hungry !


I just had to throw this in because I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!