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Working on the Tulip Bulbs

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It was suppose to be 55 degrees and sunny BUT,

45 degrees met me with cold wind and clouds.

It is disappointing to dress for the chilly weather when expecting warmth of sunshine.

Getting outside I realize my body doesn’t really want to work. My beautiful husband is gracious and grabs the chair for me to sit when needed. During the first hour the chair does come in handy.

After a bit my body seems to warm up to the work and I am able to shovel from the ground while sitting on my pillow. It is just easier on my back muscles to work from the ground.

 

When I am sitting and digging there is much less movement in the up and down with less bending over. Sitting on the pillow I succeed in shoveling, planting and  covering the bulbs.

My plan was to separating the types of bulbs into tulip, hyacinth and daffodils to plant them in some order. It kinda worked last week, but this day it is about getting them in the ground.  This is the second half of what was planted last week. These all got into the ground but some of them dried up the months they waited to be planted. Most of them were in good condition.

 

I seem to have built up a hill sorting through the dirt to get all the roots left from weeding this summer.

 

 

 

 

I still have bulbs left to put in the ground hopefully they will get in the ground tomorrow.

But then, the snow starts and continues for a month!

The later it got in the year, the more I started to wonder where I was going to store the bulbs so they don’t freeze but get cold enough to grow in the spring. I started asking God what do I do? Cover them with dirt? Put them in the breezeway even tho it is freezing? I don’t know!

December 23, 2025 God gave me the ability to plant the rest of the bulbs. God gave us a sunny 50 degree day and two strips of thawed ground to plant the rest of the bulbs. When I tried to get extra dirt from a different area the ground was frozen.

God Cares about the little things we care about.

Be brave and ask for help in what is important in your life!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.

God and Struggles with Technology

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God provides the ability to trade for a needed new phone.

A door opens for my husband to trade in my iPhone 11 for a iPhone 17! The battery was giving up and won’t last much longer. At the end of my last phone I needed an extra battery to keep my phone going while running. I did not want to go back there.

The struggle with my new phone starts with transferring all my information from one phone to the next. It ends up taking 12 hours or more because it stalled a few times.

In case you are wondering, my husband provides me with a phone containing storage space. At this time, my phone has 175,894 pictures providing backup memory, for my brain.

All but one app works on the new phone so we turn in the old phone. Fitbit, the odd one out, didn’t work because we couldn’t get signed in. Google bought Fitbit and suggested strongly to connect to Google. This becomes the problem to figure out what I needed to sign into and where to go. The Fitbit sign in doesn’t work at all. There are 3 Google apps or more on my phone.

The runaround starts with setting up a new password for my email but it doesn’t work and looking for something else to try! We spent 2 hours trying to connect to Fitbit.

Finally Google said, “Pause for 6 hours for us to sort this out.”

Frustration building, I Remember God! This thing I have learned is to give it to Him and Trust Him with the answer.

I start Praising God for working it out and Thanking Him for working in this as I get ready to run. It is late enough I need to take the dogs to run and I call a friend to talk with.

After running, bath, and breakfast at 8:00 P.M., I sit down and rest. While in the tub I hear my phone ding. It is Google confirming it has been me setting up a new password.

My way of thinking, it will still take work to get signed into Fitbit, but thankful we have made the first step.

As I am getting ready for bed, which involves spending time writing, I thought of trying my Fitbit app and to my surprise it opens and all my information is there!

PRAISE GOD! THANK YOU JESUS! HE DID IT!

This is a supper power to change the atmosphere and live in Joy no matter what is going on out there.

Try it sometime!

When we give God the problem we have to leave it with Him!

This is how we learn to trust Him!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

Two days later the struggle continues.  My email needs a password and the one I used isn’t working. I am into Fitbit but not email. I found a Google email app which has current mail but it is not comfortable. I have no idea how to forward an email.

God will guide me as I tackle the new problem.

Today, I did need to pick up prescriptions and a new Carbon Dioxide detector at the end of a winter storm. Praying for God to keep everyone on the road safe as I drive below the speed limit.

It is so wonderful when I ask God for guidance, today He guided my steps to the exact row I needed to find and I turned at the exact spot the detectors were hanging.

God is exciting to live with!

God Bless us all with guidance through tough spots we face in life. Amen.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.

Be Strong and Courageous

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God Prepared me for what was about to happen!

The summer of 1983 God kept me reading Joshua 1:6-9 and the music I listened to was Michael W. Smith’s song, “Be Strong and Very Courageous.”

The first chapter of Joshua says, “Be Strong and Courageous” 4 times in verse 6, 7, 9, and 18. There is a 5th time in Deuteronomy 31:23 where Joshua is commissioned.

Our college church group is planning a camping trip into Manitoba, Canada the last weekend of July. The plan is for the men to drive motorcycles and the women pile into automobiles with food and tents.

In a group meeting the week before we leave the youth pastor teaches on not having insurance but trusting God.

But God as Wise as He is sends a friend of mine to me tell me about health insurance he bought for $25 which I am able to afford so I buy it.

The night we arrive is clear and the stars are bright as I’ve ever seen as we star gaze.

The next morning I am walking to my tent and God impresses upon me how powerful and dangerous motorcycles are.

              What arises in me is rebellion!

I go into my tent and tell God I am going to buy a motorcycle and go driving cross country. Showing this to a friend just before the guys suggest we tour the park on the bikes. Each woman jumps on the back of a motorcycle and we take off at a good speed.

The young man driving the bike I am on notices my fear as we take a blind curve, so on the return trip he is going slower for me. But then he is getting behind and tries to catch up just at the blind curve!

He is going to fast to stay in his lane and a station wagon filled with a family is approaching from the opposite direction. My driver wisely puts his bike down. He flies 40 feet and breaks his leg. The bike goes under the station wagon totaling both vehicles.

On the other hand I am sitting straight up on the bike because of the 18 inch Harrington rod holding up my spine, so my body hits the bumper with my left pelvic bone and my left ribs hit the windshield and bounce off.

God was prepared to help even in my rebellion!

There just happened to be an ambulance at the entrance of the park. I have 2 collapsed lungs loosing 32 pints of blood in the first 24 hours and the first hospital rejects me. They don’t believe I will live for the next 7 days as I continue to hemorrhage blood.

Thankfully on the day the pain is so great I am ready to give up Dad challenges me. He suggests I am giving up and I rebel against his statement making me fight to keep living!

Being 21 years old I notice that I didn’t break a fingernail! We all believe I didn’t break any bones and my problem is internal organs. How important can they be?

At the time they agree I am going to live, they take out the respirator. We soon find my jaw is broken because I cannot close my mouth! I wake up from surgery paranoid, so I put myself back to sleep. (They used cocaine  to numb my nose to feed respirator.) I wake up in my own room with my mouth wired shut and a pair of scissors taped to the head of the bed freaking Mom out.

Starting to eat with my mouth wired shut I drink milk and broth. In the beginning, Dad tries to make me drink more milk than my body is able to handle and it comes back up. This would be the point to cut the wires but I pushed the curdled milk out through my teeth and wires and keep the ability to breath. Thank Goodness.

Asking, “Mom, Why did the milk go down liquid and come up in chunks?”

The Canadian night nurses ask me to name the state they cannot remember. I struggle to name them all but cannot come up with it.

The doctors know I have 3 breaks in my left pelvic bone but believe it is healed enough to start walking. Then my brother is given permission to take me in a wheelchair outside. He chooses the broken sidewalk. As I go bumping along my broken pelvic bones move!

The solid bone that supports my pelvis is MOVING! I AM SCARED! I DON’T SAY ANYTHING!

The physical Therapist suggests I am in more pain than expected so they should x-ray my bones and they find they have moved. They need to put me in traction!

My parents make the Very Wise decision to move me to the States where I have friends to visit me for the next month.

First thing arriving in the states they drill into my leg bone and put a pin in it adding a weight and tell me to lift the weight many times a day. I cannot do it once. Then they decide that my jaw isn’t healing straight and they re-break my jaw and add rubber bands so I am able to throw up easily!

Getting out after another month in the hospital I owed $25! God Provided. My friend did say they immediately raised the price but he paid for me to keep me covered.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

HE BUILT ME UP TO BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS FOR THIS MOMENT!   

HE CARRIED ME THROUGH!

Power Outage

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Storm coming through Sunday evening about 6:00 P.M..

First I speak to the storm,

“Peace to the storm! God send Your angles to protect us here keep us safe and our daughter wherever she is.”

I am taken by surprise with the power shutting off. Something in my spirit knows it isn’t coming on anytime soon. I ask Bart,

“Can you get the frozen milk out of the downstairs freezer and put it in the fridge?”

I have one request for God,

“God, please save our food.”

We get a call from our daughter saying she is safe but was almost hit by the marathon awning.

Bart and I go for a walk in the dark noticing the places with generators and some with emergency lights. We can see street lights down the road and the McDonald’s restaurant has power.

Not seeing any danger I put on running clothes and head out the door. It is a little freaky how dark some places are while others are lit up as normal. We know since it is spotty power outages here that we won’t be the first place receiving power.

We find candles to help us walk from room to room and I am wishing my computer had been charged to give me something to do. Reading by flashlight or candle is not easy. Thankfully my iPad is charged and I have Joyce Meyer’s podcast downloaded for days like this.

In the morning we find out we might have power about midnight so I start thinking of places to charge batteries. Driving home from an appointment I am planing to buy ice to keep the fridge cold enough but I receive a phone call from Bart saying,

“The power is back on, we don’t need ice!”

Returning home I quickly check the temperature in the fridge and freezer, everything looks good and even the ice cream is still ice cream.

“Thank You Jesus!”

I started this story on April 1 and the storm was March 30, today is April 16. The people in Northern Michigan who had the ice storm still don’t have power.

I am thankful we have power and pray for those without.

Words have Power, Prayer is Powerful so Speak Life, ask God’s Angels for Protection, and most of all PRAY TO GOD OUR FATHER WHO LOVES US! AMEN!

 

 

The Power of Scripture

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Being Washed and Renewed in The Water of The Word

Yesterday we were listening to a sermon talking about The Power of Scripture in our lives when I turn to Bart and say,

“You wouldn’t want to be around me if I haven’t spend time with God, would you?”

Laughing he replies, “No way!”

I start to really learn this years ago about 1995, when we leave a small town and move to a big city. We do find a church to join. They ask me to teach music for Vacation Bible School.  The only way I know how is with a tape recorder and Amy Grant music. I am very nervous helping out for my very first time.

During a break I grab my Bible, walk outside, and sit on the steps to read a chapter in the Old Testament. I read about kings and don’t understand much but it is time with God.

When I go back inside and start to work with kids, everyone is able to tell something has changed! They want to know,

“What happened? You are so calm and peaceful?”

I said, “All I did was open my Bible and read a chapter out of the Old Testament!”

That was the first time I knew other people could see a difference in me by just reading my Bible.

Around the same time I ask Bart to watch Michelle who was one or maybe two. I NEED to spend time with God, I don’t want to be around me.

After an hour, Bart calls down the stairs, “Are you done yet? I want to watch sports.”

“No! I need more time!”

“OK, don’t worry.”

A few years ago in the 2020’s, my troubled soul wakes me and doesn’t allow me return to sleep.  So I drag myself out of bed on a cold night to spend time with God until I am at Peace!

I quickly learn it’s better to spend time with God before bed.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Does anyone think I’m crazy?

Does anyone else know the calming peace of spending time in God’s Word?

What I Know is,

When I write  all my worries and cares in my journal

and spend time in His Word,

Peace fills my soul and Joy Bubbles up inside me.

God Bless you.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

 

Intimate Love

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Have you ever had the desire to hold a memory?

One day in my fifties, I have desire to find a set of jacks, the old metal kind that I used when I was 8 years old.

It is just a thought in the back of my mind until I am asked to lead a Bible Study group.

For some reason I speak up at our first meeting.

“I am on the lookout for a set of metal jacks, could you let me know if you find some?”

The next week one of the women arrives with a pack of Jacks, just as I remember! She  just gives them to me.

Her story consists of a trip to a gift shop in an airport in the 1980’s. She sees the Jacks, thinks of a niece, and picks them up.

Little does she know, it is God guiding her to pick up Jacks and hold on to them for 35 years, knowing one day, years in the future, we will meet, and I will ask a very random question!

I did take them out of the package and play jacks on the ground. Surprised by the rules on the package that I have never heard of.

Isn’t it just like Jesus,

to know,

 I need to know

He is thinking of me and

I am LOVED!

 

 

 

Jesus Already Paid

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Today, I achieved 100 days of 10,000 steps, a miracle!

It is amazing how God helps me accomplish this.

Today, during choir practice, just holding  sheet-music sends my upper back muscles into crippling pain!

Yesterday, I run 3 miles, do lunges, log lifts, plank, and push-ups with no problem.

Today I can’t hold sheet music!

But God Provides!

My life changing lesson: In the year 2000 a new pain in my tailbone develops just as we are about to move.

I tell God, “You need to heal this because we are moving to a home with 2 acres of land and I need to work it.”

God replies, “Go to the radio station and ask them to pray for you.”

I obey!

They pray.

I leave saying, “God, What’s up? I do what You say and nothing happens!”

God answers, “JESUS ALREADY PAID! YOU DON’T HAVE TO!”

As this fills my soul, I remember a lie!

Age 25 a thought, “I suffer pain to pay for not listening to God!”

God takes the tailbone pain away as I received His message,

“Jesus Already Paid!”

 

Hello Body

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We would like to introduce ourselves;

Body, we are the nerves that have recently made contact with your spinal cord.

Being cut off from the spine in 1976, was cruel. Life has been boring just hanging around dormant for the last 40 years. We have been carried around not able to help out, wondering if we would ever be usefull again.

What a surprise to find ourselves awake in 2011. It was slow at first. The beginning was just a knowledge that we exist as body stood to her feet and walked. She felt us!

The feeling started to grow and the muscles became involved enough to alert the body’s doctor.

Doctor said, “I’m glad you started to exercise.”

Body said, “I didn’t do anything different.”

Alarm sounds, Doctor wants to know about the  muscle growth. She ponders this for a year and decides to do the intake, next year.

Doctor asked, “What makes the difference in your muscles if your exercise is the same?”

Body says, “Jesus answered the request for nerves to be connected.”

We nerves have been working and growing and sometimes breeding complaint.

A funny period we nerves all itch.

 

Today growth seems to cause pain.

Body we want to know, “Are we nerves worth the constant pain?”

Nerves provide the ability to run, lift arms, sit up, type, and lift head?

“Does the ability to move make pain acceptable?”

Body says, “Yes! Body is Thankful for pain.”

God is Good!

Joy

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Tonight 11/10/23:

Dinner with a group of friends!

After dinner we talk with no agenda for hours.

Sitting at the table with the conversation including me feels strange but good! LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE replace judgement.

Today, I speak many God stories. They question and receive my stories.

I have been included into their lives.

Forty years ago in College, I found  Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and acceptance. Before that I was eight years old at my gramma’s house on the farm, watching aunts and uncles discussing life with grandparents.

What differs between these examples and the rest of my life?

The yearly visit with parents includes the relaxing family time playing cards. But the words coming at me are not peaceful.

Changing the subject I say, “Do you know what God did today?”

I hear, “Don’t talk politics!”

On 5/16/10, God directs us to a beautiful church where I find acceptance and safety.

Life collects battle wounds until God brings people who know LOVE! In this safe place,  open wounds become healed scars.

God is using this church to transform me:

PEACE and JOY replace anxiety.

God Is Good! He will heal anyone who asks and follows His directions! So Ask for Healing It is Good! Amen!

Pain in Brokenness to Healing in Jesus

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I read a Facebook memory written when my daughter suggested, “You shouldn’t post what you do.”

A cherished friend added, “Facebook is a place to put family milestones or vacations.”

We don’t have family gatherings, not like other families.

The message I hear, “Stay away, your not normal.”

“You are 50 years old and still don’t know how to play with others. When are you going to learn?”

The tremendous pain of being left out and told to stay away has been in my life with a few exceptions. Facebook is my connection to the outside world. No friends in the state, no one to call and talk to especially after Mom died. TV and Radio are my constant companions.

My husband bought me an iPad to be able to connect on Facebook. God uses Facebook to connect me to people who rejoiced with me as God heals my body and I start running.

Years later, my life focuses on running with Jesus. I celebrate every milestones and  encourage others to do more. Every mile I run takes me further away from the cane and wheelchair that were calling.

Running has been a desire since high school, but scoliosis took the ability until God brought healing to my body.

Surprisingly, running builds confidence, regardless of my ability.

Today I am 61 and happier than anytime in my life save meeting my husband and daughter and people notice the work of God in me. A neighbor I see once a year says, “It is like you are in a cocoon and come out different every year!”

I am Thankful my friend list is growing and I have a friend who welcomes a phone call.

A few weeks ago I watched myself having a normal conversation: asking questions, listening, and adding things that connect to the conversation.

This was something I tried to do over and over without success. But God changes a person who asks for help; listen to His Voice, and act.

This thing God continues to do in me is available to everyone.  Ask God for help!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!