Happy New Year Everyone... allow me to introduce myself!

Hello Everyone....here I am starting a new blog about my everyday simple life and my walk by faith. My name is Lori Gray and I am proudly married to Alec Gray. Today happens to be my 11th wedding anniversary. It amazes me how time just continues to fly by. I am blessed and I have the Lord to thank for all that I have each day. I guess I chose to write a daily blog because I want to express how grateful I am for life and share it with whoever wants to know about it. I know that the chances of having any followers is pretty darn slim, so I have to appreciate the fact that I know my father in the heavens is appreciating all that I have to say. I love you Jesus.

Today is the first day of 2012! Wow, I cannot believe that 2011 is gone. My husband and I are looking forward to another year of blessings. We work hard to appreciate everything that we have in life. It has not always been this way for us, but I have to say that it started to turn in this direction when we chose to open our hearts to Jesus. One great blessing that we work at together is our youth group. We are blessed to be the Youth Leaders for the Church of Shaver Lake. I just find this opportunity to be an honor and I look at every opportunity to be with our youth and teach them the Word of God to be an absolute blessing. Our kids are amazing and I love every single one of them. They have a tendency to make me laugh and continually smile at all that they are....a blessing from God! Our group is not a large group...we have consistent core of about six teens that make it regularly to our Wednesday night's youth group. Sporadically, we have more teens show up, but for the most part we have the same consistent core that really represents who our youth group strives to be and who they are.....we are ....The Fun Gang @ Shaver Lake! That is right...our teens are Fired Up Now....and we are God's Anointed New Generation!

We have so much in store for this coming year and we pray that God will guide us in our journey with His children! As for my everyday life, I am looking forward to starting this year off with a positive attitude! I want to work hard to recognize all the blessings in my life and not take them for granted. I know that God has so much more in store for me and my family this year. We have already started off our new year with a new addition to our family. We are proud to welcome our new puppy Xena into our family. By the grace of God we were led to this little furry bundle of joy. We did not search her out, but we were led to her. She given away free outside of our local grocery store on Christmas Eve. I loved her from the first time I laid eyes on her and could not let her go once she was in my arms. She is a blessing!

I have such an awesome holiday season and I look forward to sharing each day with whoever wants to listen....I leave you with this ....Happy New Year....and may God Bless You each and everyday of this brand new year! Love ya'll!

 This is Xena....Warrior Princess!