Every day, I drive past HOME HAVEN and see great activity going on as the new owner of where I use to live has a crew of people working the place over. It has been with mixed emotions that I have dealt with as I CAN NO LONGER GO THERE TO CALL THE ROCK HOUSE OUR HOUSE THAT WE HAD A HOME IN.
I am feeling better about not living there anymore. It took months to feel better about not living there. Months. Quietly I pack the contents of the COTTAGE where we retrieved to after the house fire. I have slept well at the COTTAGE. Though there is much to do, the COTTAGE has been a quiet place for me to regain my strength. REST. Peaceful rest.
Sometimes we may feel like we have had the wind knocked out of us. Sometimes we need a quiet place to go to. I know JESUS did. He went into the mountains and prayed. JESUS got tired and sat by the well.
If there were a well that I could sit at, I think I would have done that today as I am hitting a wall in the energy department. So today after I went through some more boxes and did some laundry at the Laundro-mat, I drove to the COTTAGE and packed some more. I HAD TO SIT DOWN and breathe. Then I feel asleep in the chair. ha. Sleeping sitting up is easy to do when you're dead tired.
THINK that's where I am.
Lil Miss came over today as she had returned from CAMP. Good to see her. We'll have hamburgers from the GRILL as I am too tired to cook. One of my favorite hamburgers is from the GRILL. Root Beer as well with french fries dipped in Ketch-up.
I will go pack a few more books in boxes and wash some dishes. Move a few pieces of furniture then drive HOME across the county line. The weather is wonderful. Running the ceiling fan.
After I get more settled in the new location I hope to sew a quilt. Work on my wardrobe. Start a walking program and eat MO' SALAD. I need to hook up a radio as soon as possible. Let the music begin.
Creating a HOME takes effort. I came across an old book by Emilie Barnes about MORE HOURS IN MY DAY.
I saw her in person when I lived in Jenks, Oklahoma. A Church had her for their speaker and the Ladies had decorated each table with a Tea Party Theme. My eyes bugged out as I had never seen so many beautiful and creatively decorated round tables. It was something else.
She gave a gentle presentation that I was glad to witness.
Wonder where she is today.
CHECKED on her and she has gone to heaven. What a talented Lady she was. I must live each day the best way I know how. Life passes and we have an appointment with our Maker.
Barnes, Emilie (Klein)
1938 - 2016
Emilie Barnes went into the arms of Jesus on August 31, 2016. She had battled many illnesses over the past 19 years and is at peace with God in Heaven.
Emilie (Klein) Barnes (78) was born in Encino, California on April 12, 1938. She was born to Otto and Irene Klein. Her father was a renowned Viennese chef and prepared some of the finest meals for Fox Studios and many of the early Los Angeles restaurants. Her mother, Irene was a talented dress designer and seamstress at Fox Studios where they met.
,The family moved to Long Beach, California in her early schooling years. She attended Stevenson Elementary, Franklin Junior High and graduated from Long Beach Poly High School in 1956. While there she was involved with the TAJMA sorority, student government, was the lead in her school play, and played second chair Cello in the all-city orchestra. One of her top honors and one that couldn't be predicted more accurately, she was voted the future homemaker award.
During her senior year in high school, she met Bob Barnes who also graduated from Long Beach Poly. Bob was a schoolteacher and administrator in Garden Grove and Fountain Valley, California.
Emilie is survived by her two children, Jenny and Brad, their spouses Bill and Stephanie; her five grandchildren and their spouses, Christine (Patrick), Chad (Erica), Bevan (Erica), Bradley and Weston. Emilie was also blessed with three great grandchildren, Emi, Tripp and Lucy.
In 1971 the family moved to Riverside CA where they resided until 2000. For the first 30 years of her life she was a devoted wife and mother to her family. Later in her adult life she became a national speaker and author focused on various topics for Christian women.
Emilie and her husband Bob are the creators of the popular More Hours in My Day seminars, she instilled in women countless home-organization secrets and words of wisdom throughout her speaking and writing career. Appreciated for her creative and practical insights on everything in and surrounding the home and beyond, she became the go-to source for lifting the spirits of Christian women all through the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1980, she wrote what would go on to become her ministry namesake book, More Hours in My Day. In short order, her first book was released, and it is still in print today, with 250,000 copies sold.
In 1997, Emilie suddenly contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a life-threatening cancer that altered the course of her life. After four years of battling cancer, she received a bone marrow transplant from a young man in Toronto, Canada. Miraculously her life was extended for another 16 years.
During the years of sickness and uncertainty that followed, Emilie and Bob, who were married for more than 60 years, continued to carry on a significant ministry, writing book after book. In all, 13 of Emilie's books crested the 100,000-copy threshold, with total worldwide distribution of all titles in all languages now nearing seven million copies. Notably, all of the 80-plus books Emilie wrote were placed with Harvest House Publishers.
In 2000 she moved to Newport Beach, CA and attended Mariners Church in Irvine CA. Emilie would wake each morning and say, "I'm, so blessed to live in Newport Beach".
The family will not have a public memorial service, they will celebrate her passing on September 30, 2016, which would have been Emilie and Bob's 61 wedding anniversary.
The Emilie Barnes High School Scholarship Fund has been set up in support of her grandson, Chad Merrihew where he is the high school pastor at Grace Fellowship Church. Your tax-deductible donation can be sent to Grace Fellowship Church at 3170 Redhill Avenue, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
A Look into 50+ Years of Marriage: Glorifying God and Getting through the Hard Times
I can no longer go to the Rock House where I lived for nearly 10 years, but I can go to the ROCK which is the Lord Jesus and oh how I love going to the ROCK to talk and rest.
HUGS,
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