It's been a great weekend

Saturday it rained and rained and felt so wonderful. I played on my pc and slept. Ahhhh!

This morning I got up and went to church with my grandson Z and afterward, we picked up his mom and we went on a nature trail, beautiful just beautiful it made me feel so wonderful and relaxed. God sure knows what he's doing when He decorates!

I put up just a couple of pictures of what we saw on the trail to share.

We found mushrooms, white, pink, purple, red, yellow I couldn't believe it, honestly I thought mushrooms were just brown/yellow and drab and boy was I wrong.

Lord You make me feel so wonderful every time I look at what you created. I am in awe! over and over again and it will never stop making me feel that way to look at Your work.

I want to see people the same way, see their magnificence their individuality and their differences with the same eyes of my heart. I want to look at every person and be in awe of who You have created. Never seeing flaws, weaknesses or differences, seeing them without judgement or criticism., just seeing the power of You.

I love You Father

Thank You

Amen

Have a Blessed Week Everyone

Have a happy week! Here's a lollipop.

The post that was suppose to publish today did so yesterday.

Uh - apparently I used the wrong publish date!

OOPS!

Sisters

Two of my sisters, (minus Jean again) me and mom had our lunch day for June. We had a great time, ate at Subway yum, yum! And then we hit the thrift stores looking for great treasures (junk).

It was a little different because mom was with us and she usually isn't but it was still a real blessing.

We love our day a month together as each time we choose a different place to play and we rotate who pays. I think we need matching hats, something large and ridiculous - a statement about ourselves that shouts "we can just because we want to".

One of my big sisters, Jean said to me once "isn't it nice to be old enough to like yourself" and it is. That says so much about letting go of the expectations of perfection we are strangled by as we grow. Like beautiful vines in a garden that grow so rapidly and fill the area with gorgeous green leaves - they will strangle out everything else that lives there.

We as girls and women are strangled by the expectations of others as to what we should be, look like, how we dress, how we perform as wives and mothers, men's sexual expectations and oh my goodness! The list goes on.

She's right "Isn't it nice to be old enough to like ourselves" I love that, it's relaxing and fulfilling just to say it.

Thank You Lord for Big Sisters!

Your Good Ole Support Team!

If you were running a track race you would need:

trainer/encourager
education/knowledge
doctor
time piece
dietician
helping hand/a drink along the way
a scheduler - STOP! this is one of my obsessions, OK! a scheduler also.
And certainly a coach

Life is a race, and we need to run it the same way.

Winning is eternity in heaven the way I see it but, all those years before then need to be managed and since we are born a blank slate more or less, how we are trained is of the utmost importance.

I think the 'trainer' would be our parents, right? They show us the way, giving us rules and instruction, a very important job in the part of a child's life.

'Education', that comes from a lot of places. We have school where God should be presented to us daily, we have Church where God should be presented to us each time we meet, we have friends who should be involved with God also. These are all choices that should be made by our 'trainers' as we are developing our technique and style.

A 'doctor', our healer - The Lord God Almighty who offers us Salvation by way of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. The true spiritual healing, no matter what happens to this body.

The 'time piece', a stop watch in a race but in life it is the time God has granted us here on this earth to learn, love and share about Him. To offer others His way and we need to use every minute for Him.

A 'dietician' would see that the person training was being fed correctly every day, in order for his/her body to sustain itself during all of this activity of training and racing. God feeds us daily also, with His Holy Word. That's the diet we need as Christians and as the children we are training to be Christians and lead a Christ like life.

We certainly would need someone to be standing there handing us 'a drink along the way' when we are exhausted, burned out and thinking about quitting. Nope God gives us all a friendly hand from someone. You have to be willing to reach out and let them take yours and keep you going because the race isn't all good is it? God will provide someone to be there for you.

A 'SCHEDULER' this is not a word I like but, it's true. If we ran a-muck without guidance we would never find our way. Church every Sunday or we would never end up meeting at the same time, work day schedules or how would we provide for our families and fill our employers needs? We need family time, self time, God's time, prayer time. Pretty routine and boring sometimes but what if we didn't follow any schedule? How much would we accomplish?

And our 'Coach' God Himself, He picks us up when we fall, He sends us His best team mates (the Holy Spirit and His Son), He provided a lesson book for us, the Holy Bible and He will never give up on us or desert us. When we turn to Him, it will always be a big "Go Team Go" not judgement or criticism. Just an "OK get up and start again" I love it when I feel Him say that to me, after all I'm only human and God put me in this race for some reason!

That stop watch is going to go "click" eventually. Are you ready?

Someone said to me recently, we were disussing how serious things are in the United States with our new Government, "It looks like a lot of terrible things might happen now, in my time here. I asked God why now, why during my life and my families life?"

Why not? He has shielded you with salvation, he has handed you His armour - His Word, He has prepared you with your strengths and your will to survive and to protect others. He has given you the knowledge and heart to make the right choices, He gave you the strength you will need in your body and your mind and your heart. He handed you a wonderful support team, a loving Christian wife, Christian friends and a Christian mother who loves you dearly.

A lot of things you may not yet appreciate right now in your life have brought you to this place, made you this person, Why not?

...and my question was "have we prepared our children?"

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The Lady on the Corner

I was working a little job where which I would stand on a street corner and hold a sign, yeah, that was real exciting.

But as I have written before I finally gave that time (2 hrs) a day to God and spent the 2 hours as my alone time with Him praying for everyone and singing spiritual songs to myself and even making up a few - no I'm not a song writer, and believe me, I can't even sing. I learned quickly to love that time and enjoy it.

As I was singing my songs, praying and waving to everyone (it's in the job description) I didn't realize that others could see God in me. I prayed for it each time but I didn't know.

Two weeks ago a lady stopped at my corner on her bicycle and starting talking to me, she was talking about how nice it was to see me talking to God every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. She knew because my hands were in the air and apparently my mouth was moving and, because she saw Christ in my smile, EXACTLY WHAT I PRAYED FOR.

How wonderful God is not only to make that happen and be in control of it but to give me the gift of having this woman tell me, I knew that God had truly reached out and touched this woman through me. I've had other nice people stop and give me a bottle of ice cold water they picked up just to drop off to me, how sweet. I had a lot of people, regulars, waving and smiling and blowing their horns. I knew they saw me but, through this woman I knew that they also saw God in me. Yep, pretty wonderful of Him to let me know through her, the lady that stopped at my corner just before the job ended. God definitely sent her to me.

I love it so much when God can use worthless ole me, makes me feel touched.