I'm Sorry Was That A Truck That Just Hit ME?

I love it when you are going along thinking life is great and all is well and then bam! In one moment everything changes. How come that happens? Why do we have to have ups in our lives and downs? I'm an even keel kind of person, well at least I think so. I don't like things going up and down for a lot of reason. I sure hope tomorrow is different. I know I'm being vage just don't want to go into it but man I had no idea that this thing was going to hit me so hard like a truck hitting a wall.

Denmark!

Well...in a few days I'm headed for Denmark! Like Denmark, Europe. My hubby is from there and his parents are celebrating their 50th anniversary! Yeah, for them! That's an accomplishment anyone should be proud of these days!

The flight is long and once we get there it will rain alot and be cold but one thing I can be sure of, we'll have great food. I love danish food. Other than fish there isn't much I don't like. One thing I like is Danish Hot Dogs! They are nothing like American Hot Dogs. They are so great! Hard rolls and liver pate'(yeah sorry for that) is one of my favorites too.

I'm singing over there. I've been requested for the party to sing something. I still haven't as of yet decided what that should be. I hope I can figure it out before I leave. LOL!

Next month I head out on tour. I'll be heading to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. If you are in those area's please let me know. I'd love to meet you.
Blessings to you all! LOL! That might just only be me the typer! LOL!

Lovin' These Templates!

I can't believe I finally found a template for Blogger. Man, this has been the process. There use to be hardly any choices and now I have the world to choose from. For all you people out there that don't care for purple much you are going to hate my site. LOL! It's ok! I hate green so I totally understand you! Just dropping by on this freezing cold bright sun shiney day to say HI!

Hubby sick! It's only a matter of time!

Man...this has been the year of sickness. From November to now both myself and my hubby have been sick. Now...he's really down and I'm counting the next couple of days down because it's only a matter of time before his bug will be my bug. We have a trip to Columbus planned and by the way he's reacting, there is no way I'll be leaving this house. LOL! Ok...off to take some stuff to beginning fighting this. Proactive! Is it possible? I sure hope so!

Don't Be Offended!

Well...as you can see it's 3:54 am and I am up. Hubby had a coughing fit and woke me up. Don't worry about him though because he's sound asleep and I am not. LOL! I finally found a blogger template. I guess it took me being up early in the morning to do that. But I noticed I lost all my links. I didn't have many but I did lose a couple of links to other blogger sites. So...if that was you please let me know and I'll put you back up. For now you are lost forever and I have no way of finding you. I'm sure that no one is reading this. I haven't been good at all keeping this up. I'm going to try harder this year. Hopefully, I'll have some great things to say. LOL! Let me know if you are reading. That will help me keep coming back and posting. Hope you all are having a great 2009. Blessings!

IT'S BEEN A PRETTY BIG YEAR!!!!!!

I haven't taken the time yet to count how many concerts I have done this year. I can say that I never ever expected to do what I've been doing in the last few year. I just wanted to be faithful. All I wanted to do was use the talent I was given. I knew I wasn't the best singer ever, I know I didn't fit a lot of things people tried to tell me I had to be. I knew I had passion and desire. I knew that all I ever wanted to do is reach people and use my talent to do that. So...today I was reflecting. God has been so good to me. I don't take what I do for granted. I'm humbled that he's allowing me to serve him. I've worked hard to get to this place along side him. I'm just so excited to be where I am and do what I do.

Last week on tour Beth and I spent lots of hours in the car. We wrote I believe 3 songs. Three GREAT songs. I know GREAT! I know the difference between ok, good and great. I don't push my songs because I know the difference. God placed Beth and I together for so many different reasons. We haven't figure them all out but you can see it in the writing, in the serving and in the heart of what we have been called to do. But more importantly you can FEEL it. You can feel God's arms around what we are doing. There is joy and peace and love all wrapped up in this journey.

So what am I saying? I love this place I'm at right now. It's peaceful!
Thank you God for investing in me and allowing me to serve you in the way I get to serve you.

I pray that all of you at some point in your life get to experience the closeness of serving your maker as I have. Invest yourself in people! When you do you'll see a return you can't explain.
leah

Verse for the Weekend!

I love this verse! You'll see me post it from time to time. It's a reminder to me that God doesn't just call us to do something he calls us to do it well. But not for anyone but him! A lot of problems could be solved with this verse in the world today.

"Whatever you do work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men"
Colossians 3:23

Why is this so hard?

I don't know why this is so hard! Why I start this blogging thing and then stop! Maybe it's because I can't find anything of any value to say. I don't know. Or maybe it's because I don't think I'm talking to anyone. But really...isn't a blog about your thoughts? Blogging started out as an online diary. Something you do to get your thoughts out and the bonus was people could read them. Well...here I am writing about blogging and why it's so hard to keep going. I'm not in a time in my life to go deep. It's been hectic. Strange stuff has happen this year and great stuff has happen. Life is moving fast and ministry is booming! Yet...I don't want to go deep! I'm afraid if I do to much would come out. So...for a time I'll stay shallow! LOL! Well...if anyone is reading please comment! Maybe that will keep my blogging! Blessings upon Blessings!

It's a lookin to PINK around here!

Well...I'm giving this blog spot here another chance. I really need to find a template that works for me because this pink isn't doing it. I have yet to find something that works for me though. They don't have enough templates here. I'm going to be on the look out though. If you happen to know where I can get some cool blog backgrounds give me a shout out. Have a great and wonderful Monday!

My little blog here on Facebook!

Well...I've added the Mirror Blog! Hope I can write here from time to time. We'll see. I've only been able to keep on blog going and you all know where that is. LOL! I think this is cool though that it's hooked into Blogger.

Facebook Mirror Blog!

Welcome to my first Facebook Mirror Blog post! I'm hoping this will work. I really need to start using my blog here on Blogger. Well...nothing exciting to write as of yet. leah

Hubby's Golfing With A Friend!

Yep...Jan just walked out the door to golf! He hasn't done this for a long while so this is what I'm going to expect when he get's back!

I stunk! LOL!
I'm almost sure he's not going to do well and he'll be unhappy with his swing or putting. But...why? It's not like he put time into it. It's not like he's a professional or goes out that much to really get better. But...for some reason he expects to be surprised with a good game.

We want results with little work! That's our society today. Show up and hope we look like the best! Now...in golf that's not going to work. In most things that's not going to work. So...why is it we keep aiming for that over and over with no change or time applied to making us better?

I want to be the BEST christian I can be! I'm sure you do too! Yet for many of us(me included at times) we show up for the day hoping someone will see us as the best christian without putting the work into it. Day in and Day out we show up for a day doing the same thing but not applying God's word to our life. If we don't take the time to read the word to see how God would have us grow for that day it's just as bad as my hubby showing up to play golf and expecting to do well.

Just a reminder to change a bad pattern that might be in your life. Starting off every day in the wrong way won't achieve the right goals.

The Bible!

Read it! :)

I'm going to be WRITING!

Yes...today I'm headed to my good friends house Amy and Kerry! I'm going to be spending sometime writing with Kerry. I'm excited about that! One because...in the last few days I've had some stuff I needed to work through. That stuff might be able to surface through the writing. Two...because we are writing for NO reason.
Usually...I'm sitting down at the last minute to write with someone. Which is great but...time is never our friend. So...today I'm hoping to walk away with a song, or idea or music. Too cool!

Rain! Rain? "Rain" !

Well...we missed another rain! Yeh...I'm not wanting a ton of rain because twice now our basement has flooded within the last 4 years. But...we are also trying to keep the new grass that was planted alive. All the rain is going either East of us or West of us. We can't seem to get any. Then next year...we will probably have more rain than what we really know what to do with.

Weather tends to be the one thing that God clearly can say to us "I'm still in control"! It doesn't matter if you believe in him or not you'll have to question his existence. You might not admit it, confess it or even believe but...you'll wonder! I know you will!

Givings A Pleasure!!!!!

Well...since my hubby is a radiologist and reading MRI's is what he does I thought this was kind of interesting!
So...what's your take on this?


Donating money to charity can feel good – and now there’s new evidence to prove it. The regions of the brain associated with pleasure light up when you give, according to researches at the University of Oregon. Details are in the journal Science. They say brain-imaging technologies like MRI’s may allow economists to uncover more unknown facts about human behavior and motivation that were previously hidden. These parts of the brain have previously associated with the brain's response to rewarding stimuli, such as taking street drugs or viewing pictures of loved ones.

I'm starting this over once again!

I'm thinking about moving my blog from there to here! For a lot of different reasons. No need getting into that but...I wanted to see if this was still working. Post a comment and let me know! I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow night! I can't wait! I'm more than ready! I'm excited and really looking forward to the down time.

Not really GOOD at this here!

I know that I'm probably writing this to myself but...I have tried to keep this thing going only to walk away from it a time or two. I blog over at Shoutlife which is an awesome Christian community for people. They also have an artists, organization,comedian and author area. I thought I would blog that I'm blogging there. LOL! You can check out "Shoutlife" By going to www.shoutlife.com . You can stop by my spot at www.shoutlife.com/leahmartensen . You can also hear my new music there as well if you are interest. I'm not shutting this down because I'm hoping to get back to it. I've just been doing a lot of touring and working on my ministry and it's just hard to do it all. It bothers me to know I have this place and can't keep it up. I'd love to build it up someday. Blessings to you all! Or...LOL! to me if I'm the only one reading this! leah

Blogger

Hey! I'm having problems with my site. If anyone is reading this can you help? I've just been told after trying to get my comments that "My site is closed due to term violations". What is that? I've not done anything. I had a spammer come on and it's been removed but I haven't violated anything? LOL!

COMING SOON!

Hey!!!!!!!

I'M STILL HERE!!!!! You just can't tell! LOL! I really stink at this blog thing! Have a GREAT NEW YEARS! 2007 has some great thing in store for everyone I'm sure. For me...I'm hoping it means less water and no flooding. That would be a great break! Blessings to you all! leah