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!

All night dreams of how to get good drinking water flood my mind.

Not long after waking I see someone from the electric company arrive to mark where not to dig. He said, “I received an emergency notice 45 minutes ago.”

“The last we heard was Friday or Monday!”

Suddenly trucks start arriving with equipment.

I ask the drilling team, “How much are you going to dig up? Do I have time to save my flowers?”

Someone asks, ” What exactly is it you want to save? He will pull the flowers first!”

I watch as this machine move so gently it could be picking up baby chicks, but it is my grandma’s Hollyhocks instead. These good hearted men even helped me look for tulip bulbs to pull out so I am able to replant them.

They only dig one hole. Then shoot a pipe through the ground to the house and pierce the wall!

Inside the house, they attached a mesh connecting the copper pipe to the drill and pull it through, like needle work.

I am grateful they didn’t need to destroy the brick flower bed that sits just above the broken pipe.

Just as I was thankful yesterday to have water to wash my hands, today I have water that doesn’t taste like garden hose.

It is just like God to set up a mess to bring about an important ending. He also created an opening to fix the mess!

The drilling company just happened to have an opening in the schedule to fix our water line sooner than we could have hoped for.

We had received notice of lead in the water line and how to fix the it! We bought water filters that take out the lead.

But God said, “Not good enough! I’ve got this!”

Bonus: The city paid for the waterline and we have a clean basement.

 

Sleep fought hard to stay away.

Bart arose from bed about the time I closed my eyes. It was not long before I cover my head with a pillow escaping the rising sun.

It feels like a week packed itself into the last two days.  When I woke after 3 hours sleep Bart told me all the people he talked with and the Serve Pro guy stopped by saying, “It looks like you are doing a very good job.”

Bart did go to the store while I slept for drinking water. Later someone from town brought buckets of water for flushing the toilet.  Finally we connected with our neighbor and water is flowing through a garden hose! Joy fills our hearts as water arrives to wash our hands.

It feels like God is saying, “Clean the basement!”

The city will pay to put in a new line, so we are not spending money for anything but water so far.

I did ask the water guy about the portability of the water.

He said, “I can’t tell you it is safe because it is going through a garden hose.”

As the conversation changed to the life we lived drinking out of garden hoses and playing on such dangerous toys as seesaw. The younger man who has young kids coveted those days.

I am drinking some of the water but with my refined taste buds the hose is not preferable. Maybe I will ask my neighbor to fill my pitcher in her house and bypass the hose for drinking water?

Thankfully we have not lost anything important, I did find a wet box of Christmas decorations we used this year but when I dumped it out everything inside was in good shape.

God is so very good. The mouse came in the mail today and it took a little finagling to get it to connect to my computer. What I notice the most is the ease of the keyboard of my desktop compared to the laptop. I am Thankful for both.

I am trying this writing everyday on my blog. The writing is a bit different. Do any of you have a preference? I do need to get to bed it is 3:36 A.M.

God Bless You with a wonderful night’s sleep and a day filled with Love! In Christ Jesus Name I Pray! Amen.

 

THIS morning started with the realization that my rechargeable mouse died, an easy fix to buy a new one.

On the other hand, just as I was making dinner, I heard water running.

Bart went downstairs to get a light bulb and found water pouring into the basement from between two bricks, it was covering most of the floor but there were some dry spots yet. We turned off the water to the house but the water keep pouring in.

Who do you call at 9:00 P.M. on Memorial Day?

Bart tried a few numbers and finally called the police.

They arrived in minutes and got to work trying to find a way to stop the water and helping to gather water in a bucket and put it down a drain. They brought some putty to try and it worked except the water started to push through in a different spot.

The Police did get a hold of the man in charge of the water. He arrived  and shut off the water line to the house. God Bless the Police in this town!

They all thought the water must have been leaking for a while, but there are no puddles of water anywhere but the basement.

I heard it when it started about 5:00 but it was such a little noise, by 8:00 I knew water was running somewhere. God Is Good!

God has a way of making things known early so the damage is minimal.