Love the Lord

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Happy Birthday, Sully!

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Varying stages of childhood to teen life.  

Spontaneous & fun.  

Pensive & contemplative.  

Approaching adventure & ready to embark.

God has prepared us for every stage of life.  Trusting that He has:  is part of each and every stage.  

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5 posts!

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Buddies :)

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Ahhhhh. . . to warm my whiskers and sleep. . . by the wood stove.

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Picking Back Up

“Do not be afraid for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”  ~ Isaiah 41:10

How many times do we fail?  How many times do we fall down?  Do you wish you lived a life of no failures?  Do you wish things always went right?  

Honestly, I do wish I lived a life of no failures.  I do wish things went right all the time.  I do.  But, that is not how it is for me.  The ways I fail are countless.  Some of them just don’t matter so much to me.  I fail and always burning the last batch of cookies.  I fail at keeping my house perfectly spic and span.  I first have to leave these kind of failures behind.  If I can’t move on quickly from these, how will I deal with the bigger things that I fail at?  So, I have taught myself “not to cry over spilt milk.”  That is a start.

Now, when I fail in how I treat a fellow human being . . . that is something that can get me down.  That is something that I have to fight the good fight and lean into my God to pick me back up.  When I judge someone, when I get angry with someone, when I say something thoughtless and hurtful; these are the things that I have to pick back up from again.  Notice that I did not say, “I have to pick myself back up again.”  If I try to pick myself back up again, it feels incomplete.  it exhausts me.  But, if I ask my heavenly father to forgive me and to help me, then, I am filled.  Then, I can move forward, and have strength that I know I did not have.  Then, I can pour patience and understanding on others, because I have been the receiver of such mercy.

“Do not be afraid for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.”  ~ Isaiah 41:10

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Keep your mind on good things.

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” ~Phillipians 4:8

What wonderful advice is in the Bible!  Practical, real life advice.  People say that life didn’t come with a manual.  Well, I beg to differ.  Life does come with a manual and that manual is called The Holy Bible.  The word of God gives us endless amounts of advice on what to do day to day, minute to minute.  

I have had days where the worries creep in and the questions tumble one over the other and I don’t want to get out of bed.  Then, comes peace and clarity when I choose to be thankful, I choose to think on all that is good in my life.  I choose to realize that this day could be so very different.  This day could be full of despairing occurrences, horrific details.  And not that some days for some people will not be filled with those things.  It is possible that they might.  BUT, whether the day is dark or the day is just grey,  a practical and cleansing thing to do is to follow God’s instructions on thinking of good things.  It has the power to change my day; to change everyone’s day.  What a different world we would have if we all fixed our thoughts on good things. . . Let’s all begin, one minute at a time and have a little heaven on earth.

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The “view” of the St. James River. . . 

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Jesus solves everything

I am just learning to post, but want to make sure I make myself clear first.  I am new to tumbler.  

I am loved by the maker of heaven and earth.  You are loved by the maker of heaven and earth.