How are you today?

January 26th, 2010
Hello from the home of Joe and Stephanie Black and family. In the picture at right, we have
FR- John Paul- now 9, me-proud wife and mom of the crew, Joseph- proud husband and dad of the crew, and Benjamin-now 3.
BR- Joshua-now 13, Sara-now 15, and Matt- 19 . You may be wondering what's the deal with our blog title "Wonderful, Wonderful! Well....it goes like this. As most people know, Joseph(Joe) is the produce manager at the grocery store where he works(and has worked for thirty something years). Every day, as customers come in, if he's around, he is known for cheerfully greeting them with a big smile(he is well known for his smile and his "wonderful, wonderful") and a "hello, how are you doing today"? They will give a reply and then ask,
"How are you?" His reply? you guessed it! "Wonderful, wonderful".
The longer the Lord blesses us with another year of marriage(we will hit 22yrs. in July of 2010), the more I have people ask me, "Is his smile real? Is he really that happy all the time"?
The answer is "YES". We will post more about this on another blog.
We are a Christian family. We love the Lord with all our hearts and only want to serve Him.
We have prayerfully started this blog, in hopes that now and in the future, it will be used for the Lord to encourage Christians in their walk with the Lord. If it just happens to encourage those who do not know Christ, to want to know Him, that will be "wonderful, wonderful" too.
Just like my husband with a customer, we hope if your not smiling when you log on to this blog, we pray you will find something that leaves you smiling and/or laughing when you leave.

SMILE, JESUS LOVES YOU!

In Christ,
Joe & Stephanie(AKA Mrs. Joe)

" A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. "
Proverbs 17:22

(sorry, the family picture above is a year old. Since we have this blog now, we are going to try to do better with more updated pictures)