How is this?

Just checking with everyone...

Can you follow this OK?

It's become so difficult for me to remember who all I need to update and include on my posts on facebook, that I finally just gave up and decided to create a blog instead. For anyone who hasn't ever followed a blog before, you can select the RSS button (should be a little orange button on the top of your web browser with a white dot and two semi-circles around it) and select "subscribe to this feed.) Follow the given instructions from your browser, and you should be able to access this blog from your favorites pull-down menu, with a tab that says "feeds". You can also subscribe by the button on the left side of the page, below the archives. Then when you click on the Feeds button, if the name of this page is bolded, it means that I've updated the blog and you can click on it to see the updates.

I know I will get questions about the name of this page. In choir at FBC Lakeside, where Pete and I attended for the past 3 years, one of my favorite songs that we've sung is from The Crabb Family, and is called "Through the Fire." The Chorus says something like: "He never promised that the cross would not get heavy, and the hill would not be hard to climb. He never offered our vict'ry without fighting, but He said help would always come in time. So just remember that when you're standing in the valley of decision and the adversary says give in, just hold on. My Lord will show up, and he will take you through the fire again."

The choir director may not know it, but every time we sang this, God used it to soothe my heart. It's only been recently that I can actually sing it without crying the whole way through. Look it up, it's a powerful song.

Anyway, that's where I got the name for this blog. I felt it appropriate, what with all we've gone through this year.