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Today, Saturday, October 25, 2025 became a true day of rest. 

It is a day of laying on the couch, watching TV, and falling asleep a few times.

Today, messing up, I did one thing  that was not following God.

Daily I ask God to guide me as I get my vitamins, but today I decided I wanted 2 pills of this ALA stuff that is suppose to help with nerve pain. God gave me one pill and I had to work to get the second pill out. Two pills is a dose but God was saying one.

It stuck in my throat for a while but finally cleared. Waking up from a nap God pointed out that I was not submitting my flesh!

Matthew 16:24 ESV Jesus told his disciples, if any one would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

I am learning to follow more quickly. Every morning and evening since 2019 God has given me the ability to lay prostrate on the ground. It was a miracle at that moment after spending 40 years bent forward with the rod in my spine, anytime I needed to lay on my abdomen a pillow or two was needed to let my legs hang down and keep that leaning forward form.

The fact that I am able to lay prostrate on the ground flat is a miracle and since then I have submitted every morning and evening saying,

“God fill me and make me who You need me to be!” 

Every once and a while I forget and God reminds me. I have gotten down in the grass outside of a doctor’s office or the church library, to obey.

Working to act more quickly instead of putting it off for a moment until I am ready takes submitting and giving up my will. It becomes easier the more I fall in LOVE with Jesus! Join me in falling in Love with Jesus!

Maybe tomorrow I will talk about the first time I knew it was God and not me in my head. Love You All! God Bless!

God Bless each one of you with The Joy of the LORD Bringing healing to every cell in your body! Amen.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD

Day of Rest?

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Sitting +computer = screaming back muscles!

Yesterday I woke and was at a counseling appointment within an hour. After my appointment, off to the grocery store spending 2 hours trying to buy needs and not spend more than I have. The thought of scanning while I go sounds good today, but I don’t know how.

God prompts me to go to the vitamin isle for cranberry pills.

“Why Do You want me to go check out the vitamins?”

It doesn’t take too long before I start to realize I haven’t drunk enough water today or yesterday and a UTI is setting up. By the time shopping is done I KNOW I NEED cranberry pills. Reaching the vehicle I rip open the package and down the water in my glass as fast as possible.

At home I fill my glass a few times while getting ready to run. Looking out the window while drinking water I see sun shining on the trees across the street and the dark rain clouds behind them.

Rising to take a picture or two I head outside and find the most beautiful rainbow so bright  turning into a double rain bow, almost making a big fat rainbow as they kinda connect.

They fade and then another one shows up!

 

 

 

 

 

Feeling Blessed I head out to run driving the vehicle in case of rain.

 

I also need to head back to the store to get money I missed.

 

 

 

 

Guess what I find while running? 

 

More beautiful sunset pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, 8:00 P.M. I am home and make myself breakfast and after that make my husband dinner. Feeling accomplished the couch and an interesting movie sound good to rest my back.

I am too exhausted to type about the day!

What  happens? My body feels everything  the next day.

 

Today, Friday my body starts screaming and waking me up!

It isn’t too surprising that I fall back asleep for a few hours after the pain leaves.

 

Obviously, tonight Friday night or Saturday morning God has taken enough pain giving me the ability to write this. I will probably post it and check it when I wake Saturday afternoon.

If you haven’t figured out I enjoy taking pictures of nature and sharing them. They are on my iPhone with no filters. It is just the ability to zoom in and take lots of pictures to get the good ones or the ones I really enjoy. Someday I need to sit down and delete the ones not so good.

Does anyone else enjoy the pictures?

 

 

 

 

 

The other thing that happened at the store was a God encounter and a young 20’s woman selling prizes.

I said, “No.” and walked off 

Something, (God) made me turn around and fill out the entry slip and start up a conversation with her. She is a new Christian and wanted everything I could tell her in this short time.

I need to find a way to make videos. I have been told by two different people I need to do this and it is probably time. People respond better to my speaking and I’m more encouraging than when I type.  Anyone know someone who would like to help me?

The knowledge gained being set free from the garbage I grew up with will help so many other people be set free!

God Bless each person reading this with THE LOVE OF GOD FILLING EVERY CELL IN YOUR BODY! Amen. 

GOD IS GOOD!

Even If

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Today I wake with the desire to run!

The sun is shining and everything is peaceful for a moment.

Soon the wind picks up and the rain pelts us with hail!

 

 

Does anyone appreciate my lemon tree? It is soon time to bring it in the house, we did cover it once this Autumn along with a few other plants. Thankfully we have not had a need to turn the heat on yet.

I start looking at the Weather App for a good time to run, there might be a break in the rain  and thunderstorms around 5-7 P.M.

It is one of those days it would feel good to sit under a blanket and watch TV. Looking out the window I see the mail-lady and decide to go check out the flowers. This is the beautiful sunshine as I walk to the mailbox in my slippers. My slippers get wet!

Deciding to fight the desire to stay under the covers I choose to walk the dogs. The sun is shining, perfect timing. Hoping Sam will run, I put on my old running shoes. It might be the only run I get. I don’t want to get my good running shoes wet.

We run the half mile around the block. Sam is done so I pick up Charlie. It starts to rain before I step outside again, so I grab my umbrella.

We walk at good pace for our elder dog Charlie and I am staying dry until…!

About 3/4 around the block the storm picks up! I hold my umbrella with both hands to keep it from being ripped apart! The rain is pelting us and there might be ice in the mix!

The wind picks up and almost blows me over!

I am trying to hurry home when I have a thought, “take vehicle!”

The thought drops into my mind to drive to the cemetery, giving me a safe place if it storms again.

I end up running for 2 miles and never getting rained on, but when I arrive home and enter the house the rain begins again!

 

The thought that drops into my mind is from God.

I have had enough experiences to recognize a God thought to differentiate it from my thoughts or evil thoughts. God Thoughts are meant to be obeyed for my best life.

The clouds are fascinating as they go from stormy to sunny and back again.

God Bless each of you with safety in your day! Amen!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!

The Importance of a Step

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Sunshine is a good motivator!

But last week there was a day God was drawing me outside to the warmth of the sun, but I stayed inside with my pain. It would have changed that day and the ones that followed.

Today, only takes an hour for the shining sun to draw me outside.

Walking around the flowerbed I chose a spot to pull grass in the sun.

The temperatures are dropping into more normal range of the 60’s. I choose to be brave and try my jeans from last year! Thankfully they fit comfortable enough to work in. The temperature is just too cool for shorts.

Do you think I have work? There is a hosta in the middle of the grass which I dig up and attempt to get all the grass roots separated from the hosta roots. I am not sure how well I did so we will see what happens when Spring arrives.

 

 

 

After working on the hosta, I see grass starting to grow from roots left in the dirt and dig to pull each root, then I continue to the grass behind the flowers.

Back in this area the dirt is holding the moisture from the last 2 days of rain making it more difficult, but I keep working.

 

 

Continuing to dig until the sun sets I do make an impact. Remembering years past this area used to be filled with hosta plants. Some of them probably left because of the change from shade to sunlight but mostly they were just crowed out by the grass that overtook everything.

Walking outside for sunshine transforms my day.

It helps me walks the dogs and puts a smile on my face. The better attitude helps me not get frustrated with the TV not connecting to WiFi.

Start each day, choose to move, one step at a time and shine.

God Bless Each of you with The Joy of The LORD Filling you daily! Amen.

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.

Energy from God

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Unusual hours!

Bed at 4:53 A.M.

Awake at 8:13 A.M.

Church at 9:15 for choir practice.

Church service 10:00 A.M.

This October we are showing episodes of The Chosen season 5 after church with discussion time and a meal afterwards, to discuss what we watched. I really enjoy watching and talking about The Chosen, it has changed my life for the better.

Home 2:00 P.M. and to bed. Yeah, I get 4 more hours of sleep!

Waking up at 6:45 P.M. It takes a bit for my body to switch from laying down to sitting up with scoliosis, especially after sitting at church for 4 hours.

At 9:00 P.M. I am deciding it would be good to make a salad with boiled eggs. It takes me an hour to make my salad most days and up to, two hours to eat it.

Do you appreciate one size over the other of the picture?

This one is medium and the other is large at the bottom of the page. It is a big difference to me. I wonder what small is?

The other question: Do you like my salad?

At 10:00 P.M. I started to eat this salad and needed to lay down so the salad went on hold.

Laying down 10:35 and waking up at midnight. Fitbit gave me another hour sleep, up to 8 total.

I finish eating the salad at 2 A.M. and feel exhausted. The need to lay down returns but this time I am asking God.

God, “I don’t know how I am going to write a story or do anything to get myself to bed.” 

Usually the salad wakes gives me energy but not tonight, I lay down to rest.

Suddenly I feel hungry

Realizing the hunger is for milk and a granola bar and nuts I get up and make my snack. What happens next is amazing!

Strength and energy are rising up in me!

I don’t understand it but often when God suggests something it doesn’t seem normal.

Here I am finishing this story at 5:30 A.M. and getting ready to go to bed.

Prayer meeting is at 10:00 A.M. Today I believe I will ask God to wake me if He wants me to go.

I believe God wants me to write daily because it is how I live my life talking to God all the way through it. Sometimes He gives me hunger for something like today or pictures in my mind as I ran yesterday.

It is a learning process to find how God will relate to us. He knows we all function uniquely.

It is a wonderful relationship when we take time and invest in it.  

God Bless You with The Peace of God in Jesus, Amen.

A Space in Time

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This morning/afternoon I woke thinking run.

My husband suggested it is suppose to rain all day.

God will provide the way if it is His idea.

After an hour of waking up I start to get dressed to run and head out doing my best to miss the puddles of water everywhere.

Every once and a while I see the sun trying to peak through to give me encouragement! It reminds me of walking in the dark cloudy nights and having the clouds parting to show me the Big Dipper. It always makes me feel like God is watching out for me to keep me safe.

I suppose this day with the sun peaking out God is telling me He is keeping me dry and giving me what I need to run safely.Today the first look of Autumn surprises me! 

When I am not at my strongest my eyes look down so I see the patch of leaves on the ground long before I see the tree they fell from.

This color of leaves gives me great JOY! I think of it as Beautiful! Do any of you enjoy the beauty of leaves on the ground? Or do you prefer them in the trees?

God gave me a whole hour to run 3 miles, DRY!

I am Thankful!

My run has moved from 20mm to 17mm. Most people will think it is slower than they walk and that is probably is true but I can only do what I can do.

I didn’t experience any rain falling the whole time I ran. It started up a few minutes after getting home. It was probably the only dry moment of the day! God is Good!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD.  

God is telling me to start typing every day so we will see what happens. I am noticing things to experiment with so we will see what I try and what works out.

So you like the pictures this big? Or do you want them smaller?

God Bless each and everyone with The Joy of the LORD FILLING your soul daily! Amen.

Continuing The Blessing of The Flowerbed

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GOD Gives and GOD Takes away


Job 1:21b The LORD gave and The LORD has taken away. Blessed Be the name of The LORD.

I think, “God doesn’t take, He gives and makes broken things whole, as He is doing in me.”

In life stuff happens. We have to deal with what is in front of us, but IN JESUS we are able to deal with life differently. We have a HOPE to KNOW that in the end that JESUS WON! We are walking it out but we know this is not all there is. Also we have the Joy of The LORD in us giving us an inner Hope to carry us through the stuff of life.

Over time I start realizing that sometimes God needs to take something we are holding on to, to do a good work in us.

The need to take the tree down breaks my heart. It would not be good for the a branch to fall on a person or our house but I love our tree. My husband decides to buy a wood insert to replace the gas fireplace that we have never used, a blessing? YES! A great Blessing!

Our neighbor takes the tree down int the Spring of  2014 and he allows me to sort through the wood to keep what I want and throw what is too small for burning. Lifting the wood is great for building muscle so I choose one log to lift for arm muscles and extra weight while doing lunges! It also does this thing when I lift it behind my head, it pulls me upright and settles my spine somehow. This is a scoliosis thing with a rod.

                     I am in awe of what I am able to do.

Two years earlier, God gave me the miracle of 5 brand new vertebrae and nerves connecting the muscles giving me the ability to gain muscle and start running. For perspective I was ready to get a cane to help me walk because I could no longer hold my body upright, But God moved.

I am sitting on the steps looking at the work, but my body isn’t ready to respond. It frustrates me that my body won’t function until 4:00 P.M.!

But God reminds me,

“Be Thankful and Patient with your body.” (growing strength and endurance  isn’t like the instant miracle of the new bone it is a much slower process.)”

It is easy to become greedy to want more than I am able to do at this time. When remembering just a few years ago my body could only do one hour of work for the day and maybe the week. But now I am able to work five hours lifting logs! One thing I tried is five hour energy and it did help me to do more for five hours.

Can you tell how much love there is for the tree?

Do you like what the tree has done to my beautiful flowerbed? There are tulips under the logs!

I am learning how to adjust things on my blog! Finally the pictures look as expected! Loosing more fear of computers and the blog!  They look better!If you look closely there are some tulips blooming under the tree limbs.

 

We loved the tree so much we put the trunk in our back yard and I do climb on it often! It brings joy even laying sideways in the back yard. Maybe I will have a good picture of that next time.

I learn to plant many different kind of flowers, no more shade plants!

God is teaching me, He is covering me even when I am in the wide open spaces, especially if I feel naked out in the open.

The strength gained by lifting logs has given me the ability to keep the flowerbed and yard in order, even adding a few more flowerbeds. I am in awe of what I am able to do!

My running grows to five miles a day and ten miles once and a while. I buy my skinniest pair of jeans a size six!

Wow, I am able to keep going for 10 days without my body shutting down and needing a day of rest. I am in Awe of What God is doing in me!

THEN MOM DIES! 

GOD IS STILL GOOD!

The Blessing of the Flower Garden, Part Two

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Water bubbling up in the flowerbed… trouble!

 

While weeding the flowerbed I find water that doesn’t belong. I’m not watering anything! The front of the flowers are getting flooded.

After contacting the city they inform us that they will need to dig in my flower garden to repair a broken pipe. They will shut off the water main so we should fill the tub for flushing the toilet and other containers with water to drink while the water is off.

We have lived here for 10 years and are thankful for the Maple tree with the flowers surrounding it. Thankfully we have time to save the a majority of the flowers. My wonderful husband helps save the flowers.

I watch the city workers take a backhoe to my flowerbed, and as they dig down to the broken pipe I hear him say,

“Oops, I hit the tap root!”

They way he said this made an impact! I had no idea what it meant but we soon find out.

This big massive tree is taken down by one little root being hit.

Big or small the root feeds the tree and the importance of that root shows up as our tree cries out in pain while dropping her limbs one at a time.

Thankfully all branches fall facing the street away from the house.

First on June 25, 2013, our daughter’s bug was smashed not long after she bought it.

 

 

 

 

Again in November 21, 2013 the neighbor’s vehicle was in the wrong spot as the branch came down and totaled the pickup.

Throughout the winter three more branches fall into our yard during a storm.

This shows us we have to take our tree down. First we call a professional to see if it can be saved, but we realize it has to come down.

Job 1:21b The LORD gave and The LORD has taken away. Blessed Be the name of The LORD.

We are thankful to have had the tree for as long as we did and now the process of taking it down starts.

God is Good no matter what is happening He is Always Good.

WORD in Action

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Feeling overwhelmed as if the end is approaching!

But God!

Devotions tonight started with Jeremiah 29:11 Amplified Bible

“For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,” says The LORD, “plans for peace and well-being, and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope!”

Reading this a few times it washed our souls bringing a healing balm.

The next verse Romans 8:28 New American Standard

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good, to those who Love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

2 Corinthians 4:16-17 New American Standard

Therefore we do not loose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

I usually read before and after the verses to get a more full understanding,

but tonight I kept going.

Romans 8:26 -And in the same way The Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but The Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

v28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for the good to those who love God, who are called according to His purpose, for whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren; and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

V31, What then shall we say to these things: If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God who also intercedes for us.

V36 Just as it is written, “FOR THY SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

V37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the Love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We both left this reading in Peace,

Knowing The LOVE OF GOD FOR US!

GOD IS SO VERY GOOD!