The Peace stealer, life is attacking:

I turn to my dear old friend, Praise and Worship!  Peace returns.

Today has been a good day, but my husband found out he needs more testing. The Blood test gave a reason but why is the other question.

My mind goes to the worst case possible. Then I choose to fight and turn on Michael W Smith’s Worship album, “Surrounded!” My soul is comforted and I am able to tackle my chores.

Depending on how needy I am, Worship is Filled with Passion! Worship is better when I need it! Life has been pretty calm lately and I haven’t needed it as deeply. I kinda missed needing to PRAISE with ALL MY MIGHT!

Of Course at the end of the day I find an email telling me I still owe a bill. I know it is taken care of, but the fear of a problem tries to steal my Peace!

I NEED to PRAISE AND WORSHIP WITH PASSION again!

Thank You Holy Spirit for the tools to fight the good fight and keep my Peace.

Thank You Jesus! God Is Very Good!

This was my Facebook post in 2020 saying:

“GOD IS WISE!”

Today, my abdominal muscles were screaming, so I curled up until the pain lessened.

Finally about 8:00 P.M., I was able to sit up. Putting on shoes with hope, I prepared to walk.

When my back muscles are tired, my walking compares to a sloth. Many days I get ready to walk and only go around the block, but some days I won’t even make the corner.

The craziness of my body is later in the evening my body will have recovered giving me the ability to walk or run miles.

Yesterday, when I felt able to sit up, I started to dress for walking.  But God suggest running. I ran 3 miles. Tonight I had no thought of running.

God’s Wisdom in giving me the back muscles first came with benefits, such as running and standing up straight.

Knowing this gives me patience with the pain. I know some great gain will be achieved with muscles in my abdomen.

I am so Blessed! God Is So Very Good!

 

 

 

 

I have been hearing from God and getting guidance on how to clean my house to running daily 2 miles.

What do I do when He isn’t doing what He used to do?

There have been He has been trying to Grow me and help me to push to do what I couldn’t do before.

Could there be something that He suggested and I didn’t actually do it?

Is He waiting for me?

Help Me Jesus!

Love You!

Jesus meets the man sick for 38 years He asks, “Do you wants to get well.”

The man gives excuses why he is not well. (John 5:1-7)

Jesus says, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”

The man had been laying around for 38 years, obviously someone was bringing him food and water to survive.

But now, he was going to need to learn a trade.

Because God gave me 5 new vertebrae taking away 28 years of constant pain and nerves to give me muscle: I am in the process of learning a new trade. It started little.

 I asked, “God,Teach me how to clean my house.”

This sounds like a funny request, but I had been a slave to pain for so long I didn’t know how to start.  My eyes focused on an item, I Knew, pick it up and put it away.

Message received.

I needed to step up and do what I couldn’t do before.

God Is Very Good!

I have been making meals for my family for 35 years. The gift of having everything ready at the same time has not been mine, but it has been okay.

Lately anxiety has made a claim on my dinner prep. I need the whole day to get my self together to make the meal.

Today I made fish, Rice, and asparagus. Frustration fills me, because the fish is (over) done and water still covers the rice. Turning off the oven but leaving the fish in it is my best option. The fish is dry and I am berating myself.

The stress grabs my attention. “God, What is going on?”

A care taking moment comes to mind. Dad gently says, “The potatoes were cold, the rest was good but, the potatoes were cold.”

This brought memories of my mom running hot water to heat the serving dishes and using the oven to keep food warm.

The question: How do I become set free from this anxiety? I know it might take time, But God Do Your Work! Love You! Thank You!

“Jesus Fill me with Your Peace and Confidence. Amen.”

God Is Very Good!

When I first found the Love of God, I camped out in Philippians and started memorizing it. That didn’t work well, but The Word planted Itself in my soul.

Reading and meditating on the book of Philippians started to wash the brokenness and bring healing to my soul. It is this process that has filled me with Joy most of my days. Over time it also makes a fruit inspector.

We are not to judge each other, but to look for the fruit of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Long-suffering, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Meekness, and Self-control.

In a church we belonged to for a time, the women were about punishing their husbands and women’s lib, not walking in Love and Forgiveness.

The person I was at that time didn’t understand. One morning after church I sat by myself listening and wondering why their words and actions didn’t match up with the Bible?

This person I have become now understands everyone has a choice to submit or rebel.

The glimpse of God’s LOVE I saw and felt 40 years years ago has given me desiring to grow closer daily, so I submit. I do get selfish some, but my Desire to KNOW GOD AND HIS LOVE draws me to Submitting  and Walking in Thankfulness!

God is Very Good!

The year started with the Y2K scare and preparing to leave Florida for 2 acres of land in Kentucky. I wanted to wait for the New Year to be in a familiar place if everything went wild.

All of a sudden new pain made itself known making it difficult to sit or stand.

“God, how will I be able to care for 2 acres of land with this pain?”

God answered, “When you take your daughter to the radio station to give her tithe, ask them to pray for you.”

At the radio station, we walk in and to talk with the announcer, “God told me to ask you to pray for my healing. Will you?”

She prays.

Stepping outside, I ask God, “What’s up? I did what You said and nothing happened!”

God impresses upon me, “Jesus already paid! You do not need to pay! It is already done!”

Healing Happened Immediately! 

I remembered 10 years earlier a thought dropped into my mind, “I deserve pain for not listening to God” But God says different!

This new revelation gave me hope that someday God will take my rod out of my back. The rod still holds my back up, but God continues to heal many other areas.

God is very Good!

My first year of College I drove 50 miles home every weekend. I was not ready to be on my own.

The next summer the family moved 1500 miles away and I joined them. It did not go well so I returned to school and truly moved out, becoming independent of my parents!

My one friend from freshman year at UND attended a folk group. The desire to sing filled me and I joined her. The leader asked us to think of what we wanted the group to accomplish and return with our thoughts next meeting.

The unexpected happened when we closed in prayer. The revelation that they have something that I don’t have! “God, I want what they have!”

Holy Spirit Filled me that moment with LOVE and JOY that I have never know in my life.

He also Filled me with a hunger to study and know the Word of God .

The Paper I wrote talked about the Joy and Love I received and I wanted to tell everyone which continues today.

If any of you want this Joy, Peace, and LOVE Tell Jesus,

“I want what she has!”

God is so Very Good!

It is 3:50 A.M. and I have been up just over 13 hours.

My body needed a good sleep to recover from carrying heavy wet rugs up the stairs to dry in the sun. Do you have any idea how heavy they can be?

Bart and I lifted one rug step by step setting it down most steps. I was calling on Jesus to help us get it up the stairs and out the door. The many rugs dripping made a sloppy wet path.

The reason I slept until 2:30 today has to do with the scoliosis and a Harrington rod which cause my body to quit at strange times.

Sitting up and typing stories used to take me out for days. My first story took a month to write partly because I would not be able to sit up for the next few day after working on the computer.

God has been doing this thing in my body the last 18 months. It started with getting 10,000 steps every day. That in it’s self was a miracle because it left no room for a day of complete rest.

After thirty days of 10,000 steps I started running every day making me stronger in my core. Then thirty days later I started sitting down at the computer every night and typed something. Mostly it was a journal type writing but sometimes I wrote a blog post.

The 10,000 steps stopped at 102 days which also stopped the continuous running, but the sitting at my computer and typing has continued and is approaching 18 months of not missing a day save the death of our father.

This will be day 5 of writing and posting a blog post, which I believe will turn into something new.

God is So Very Good!