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Beauty can be found in the simplest things. Awakening on a lazy Saturday morning, I did my morning stretch on our bed and out of my mouth came the words, "Oh, my soul." Then, down the rabbit hole she went! Even if  it takes you two days, hang with this one, because it helps us in knowing how to answer the question "When I die, am I with Jesus?" First, I Googled to see if the "Oh, my soul" phrase was a song tucked into my brain and sure enough it was a goody! Check out these lyrics: "Oh, my soul.  Oh, how you worry.  Oh, how you're weary, from fearing you lost control. This was the one thing, you didn't see coming. And no one would blame you, though.  If you cried in private.  If you tried to hide it away, so no one knows.  No one will see, if you stop believing. Chorus: Oh, my soul.  You are not alone.  There's a place where fear has to face the God you know. One more day, He will make a way.  Let Him show you how, you can lay this down ...

A friend was giving a devotional on Psalm 23. She shared how she liked the CEV version which says God " let"  David rest, instead of " makes"  him rest. Psalm 23:1-2  CEV and then in the ESV You, Lord, are my shepherd. I will never be in need. You let me rest in fields of green grass.  or The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. Reading different translations can help meet us where we are.  At my age I relate to CEV, Thank You, Lord, for letting  me rest! The ESV takes me back to motherhood when, knowing what was best for my children, I often had to make  them rest. I appreciate the fatherly love of God who knows when we are on overload, going full steam and He steps in and makes us rest. Now, we could get into the differences of needs and wants  in those translations,  but instead, I am going to take a rest!  The Song "The 23rd Psalm" Phil Wickham and Tiffany Hudson https://www.youtube.com/watc...

  Photoa are of my usual getaway with Jesus spot.  It used to have a gas fireplace, so we could even meet in winter. Remember, these posts are real life, I'm couldn't make this stuff up. In 2019/2020 my in-laws both passed away.  My mother-in-law passed first and with my father-in-law's health not good, he did not want to have a service for her. Then he passed away during COVID and a service never happened.  Their remains were stored in a cabinet in our garage. My brother in law, who lives in NY,  has been making arrangements with a cemetery where other family members are buried here in VA to place their remains. M y husband went to retrieve the remains, but could find them nowhere.  Panic set in. What in the world could have happened?  I texted our daughter, "PRAY, long story, but we can't find your grandparents remains!"  Feeling like we'd searched everywhere, I moved the car out of the garage and stood in the middle and prayed. "Lord, please he...

If I had a do over in life, it would be to know God more deeply at an earlier age. There would have been more peace in my life and therefore I would have spread much more joy, because I would have pointed so many more people to the true source of that joy. A daily prayer for me these days when strife arises is "Show me what is really in my heart Father." Show me  where I need to change, so that there is only love in my heart like there is in Your's." "Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. " Psalm 139:23-24 "Be forewarned, praying the verse above has the potential to convict you. To correct you. To redirect your life. To change the way you see yourself. To change how others see you." Craig Groeschel   "There's only love in the heart of God." Zach Williams The Song “Heart Of God” Zach Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

                                    If my boyfriend reads these he is going to get even. Looking outside, I realized my main squeeze of 47 years this week, had left his clippers on the front steps and the dew and sprinkler system were going to get them by morning. He retrieved them, but instead of taking them to the garage he came in, sat on our living room couch, and proceeded to pretend he was clipping his toe nails. Today, I stop to think back on the years. Laughter, forgiveness and knowledge of the steadfast love of God are what continue to see us through.  1 year anniversary in 1979  He helped me dance my way back from a major stroke in 2015. We'e chosen to sing in the rain at times we really wanted to cry. We've embraced life at Shiloh on Smith Mt Lake the past 27 years, believing God has a purpose for each day we are here. Behind us is the tree where my husband ...

Our son and daughter in law in Olympic National Park Hoh Rainforest Is the weather bringing us a high of 60 or 85 today? Fall weather can be tricky. On the day of this writing the temps started out at 58 and peeked to 85 degrees.  It's hard to know what to wear. Colossians 3:12-17 tells us what to put on spiritually to survive the climate of our hearts. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in your richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your he...