I have become the person that walks in LOVE, by spending time in The Word of God Daily.

Lifting people up, and seeing the ones who feel unseen is the passion for my life.

Talking  to God every day is my favorite pastime. He is my friend in the lonely times, my protector in the dangerous times, my provider when I don’t know where the money for tomorrow is coming from, my companion, and my guide all day every day!

John 15:7-8 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.

The archaic definition for abide is Live and Dwell.

The more I abide in the Word of God, it washes my soul. Abiding for me takes reading it out loud so I hear it also!

Meditating on a passage day and night erase the negative thought patterns and chase out  darkness filling the recesses of my mind. Seldom is the darkness able to enter my thoughts.

The more I meditate on the Word the more Joy bubbles up from the inside: It is Life.

Don’t allow depression and darkness to rule.

Choose Life and Live in Love! Amen!

Knowing we are sons and daughters of the Father, will transform our lives completely!

Twenty years ago we move to Kentucky and start a new church. They ask me to lead the children’s music.

For our first Easter Service we have wonderful music that includes the adult choir and the congregation. I am leading the children, the adult choir sings, and I raise my hands asking the congregation to stand and sing.

The side my family is sitting, stands! My side sits and frowns! I try again, they grudgingly rise and sing.

It was the most confusing thing I have ever encountered in church.

 Later I get a phone call from church, “We need you to come down and talk.”

“I really don’t want to.”

“If you don’t come then you can no longer teach Sunday school.”

My world crashes!

Twenty years earlier, I am 21 attending a church with a college youth group. My accident occurs during a trip with this youth group.

After church with people surrounding us, the pastor asks, “Are you having sex with your fiance?”

“Yes.”

“Then I cannot conduct your wedding.”

“Why not?”

“If you have sex before marriage then you will have sex with the mailman or the milkman or anyone else in your life.”

Humiliation fills me, I ride my bike back across town as fast as I can, so alone.

Over time I grow in knowledge of “Whose I am!”

When I am asked to meet because of a problem. I am able to go with no fear.

Walking in the Righteousness of  Jesus makes me the daughter of the Father! He fills me with SELF WORTH.

A leader of a group calls to have me come to meet. I am able to go with NO FEAR!

Again, I am being told, I am not allowed to continue!

I am not destroyed.

      Something has happened to me!

            I AM DIFFERENT!

                   JOY FILLS ME!

                          God IS So Very Good!

“The Sound of Freedom”

Have you seen the adds for it?

It is opening on July 4, 2023, and they are wanting people to pre-order tickets to open up more screens.

It was over five years ago when I first heard about it and it caught my heart back then.

Why do I care so much? It is just a movie, right?

The difference is the truth about it. So many kids are trafficked for sex, slavery or harvesting their organs. IT will soon be the biggest evil enterprise unless we work together to change it!

I connect to it because of my life. The seven year old girl in me cries out for someone to rescue her. Never let this happen to anyone else, ever again.

IT IS NOT a victimless crime. Children are people. Society suffers when this stuff goes on. When these children survive they are very broken people who need help.

The Good thing is God is Excellent at healing broken people.

God Shines His Light In the Dark and the dark has to flee!

Help us shine a light and change the world. Google it and get tickets.

God Is Very Good!

 

Waking with hope to start typing my book, but the day chips at the hope.

Pain causes me to lay down. I try everything I know but nothing is working. How wonderful it is to fall asleep and wake with no pain.

I start to make breakfast trying to rid the bad thoughts filling my mind when my phone rings.

A ministry calling, ” Happy Birthday, is there anything we can pray for.”

The phone call was perfect timing to remember God is still working in my life.

We take the dogs for a short walk but the smoke is bothersome. Wildfire smoke has made its presence here. There was a moment today when the sun came out and fresh air appeared. I walk outside. Finding peas and raspberries ready to be picked, I grab bowls and get busy.

Later in the evening I walk the dogs over a mile and most of it I cover my mouth with my shirt.  I do get my 10,000 steps.

I lay down again wait for the pain to leave trying to think of a way to move, and God says, “Take a bath!”

Hope grows and pain leaves. I start the dishwasher to heat the water. Sitting up I pray, read my Bible and Praise before getting into the tub.

No book writing today.

The feeling of God’s Grace fills me with Peace. He Knows my joy in gardening.

God Is Good!

Waking with energy and no pain I am excited for church. It should be good I have almost 5 hours sleep!

Amazingly, I’m out the door early, but the vehicle is trying to tell me something.

I clicked OK a few times and say, “God Keep everyone safe on the road!

Arriving early, I feel excited to worship and see people. I am blessed.

When I start the vehicle to drive home the warnings were going off again. Mostly what I saw was the crash protection not working. I have driven for 45 years without crash protection. I’m fine.

My husband is getting all the alerts on his phone and calls. The drive-train had an issue. The alert didn’t leave the screen. What am I suppose to do? I’m 15 miles from home?

I stop at Aldies, it shouldn’t cause a problem.

Returning to the vehicle with food I ask, “God can you have someone come take my cart? Pain arrived.”

Within a few steps of returning my cart, a man sticks his hand out his window with a quarter. It takes me a minute to understand.  He wants my cart.

“Thank You Jesus!”

“Before he left his vehicle he asked,  “Are you a God person?

“Yes.” That is an unexpected question.

We talk for a few minutes, and he becomes the first person to take my business card!

I pray, “God Bless this man and his wife with Peace.”

I start home praying, “God Keep everyone safe on the roads and get me home safe!”

Arriving home, I wonder if it is just a computer problem because the car felt fine.  Whatever the problem, we are hoping the the warranty covers.

“Jesus let this be like the water pipe braking that took time and energy but it didn’t cost us anything. Do not let it be like the oven we have paid for twice and it still isn’t working. Help Jesus! Help!”

God Is Good!

Have you heard of this TV program? They are taping the forth season at this time and I am waiting for it.

I first heard of it from Jerry Jenkins in his writing guild. His son, Dallas Jenkins was chosen by God to tell the story of Jesus through those who knew Him on earth.

The first time I saw his work was on Facebook, the short film of “The Shepherd.” When I saw it I cried and cried! I wanted to invest but we were out of a job at that time.

Jerry gave the information for the first four episodes and the first night I couldn’t log on, but I had access later and I watched them over and over.

This is the Jesus I Know!

The Jesus Who has taken me through all of everything and meets me where I am at. He knows when I am ready to grow and face the memories I protected myself from.

I do watch some of The Chosen nightly. Some nights it takes away my pain, and other times it just clears my mind of garbage. This program has been teaching me a better way to respond to situations.

If you haven’t checked it out I am begging you to! Look on your phone for “The Chosen App” and start watching for free! Let it change your life like it has changed mine.

God Is So Very Good.

 Jesus stayed three days in the temple when He was 12 years old. He listened and asked questions of the teachers, attaining information not available at home.

He needed to search the scriptures to know His Heavenly Father just as we need to do.

At His baptism The Holy Spirit rested upon Him and His Dad publicly announce, “You are My Son the Beloved; in You I have found My Delight.”

After He was filled with Holy Spirit and Knew Who He Was, Jesus was ready to fast 40 days in the desert and face the devil questioning Him, “If You are The Son of God?”

Jesus was filled up with everything He needed to stand firm.

My earthly fathers didn’t fill up my Love tank but God has done this. As I have learned of His LOVE for me and taken it into my soul then I have been able to stand up for what is True and Good and Acceptable, but when I was only partly filled I found myself backing down.

How does a person get filled up with the LOVE of GOD? Spend time with Him in His Word and prayer. Just talking about your day and asking Him about His day. Ask a question and listen for the answer.

He has answered all of my questions, I believe. Some of my answers arrived immediately but one came 30 years later. It was so interesting, I was eating breakfast and God said, “Yes.”

It was all I needed I knew what He was referring to. Why did He wait for so long? Maybe I wasn’t in the place to hear it before.

God is Good!

The prayer of our love abounding in real knowledge and discernment.

Philippians 1:9-10, 11

And this I pray, that our love will abound in real knowledge and all discernment,

How many people think of abounding in LOVE? And what do knowledge and discernment have to do with LOVE? Things to ponder.

Would having real knowledge and discernment expose the lie of twisted truth that pops into my mind?

so that each of us may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

Is God telling us that we cannot approve excellence without LOVE? Is the reason we are suppose to walk in LOVE to be sincere and blameless? Does that mean no shame or guilt?

having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

I know walking in The Righteousness of God in Jesus has transformed my life completely.

How will LOVE that leads us to BE SINCERE AND BLAMELESS change my life?