Psalm 90 ~ May Your deeds be shown to Your servants, Your splendor to their children.

 

Wadi Muses (Moses) flows through Petra

Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses the man of God!

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place

throughout all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born

or you brought forth the whole world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You turn people back to dust,

saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

4 A thousand years in your sight

are like a day that has just gone by,

or like a watch in the night.

5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—

they are like the new grass of the morning:

6 In the morning it springs up new,

but by evening it is dry and withered.

7 We are consumed by your anger

and terrified by your indignation.

8 You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9 All our days pass away under your wrath;

we finish our years with a moan.

10 Our days may come to seventy years,

or eighty, if our strength endures;

yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,

for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11 If only we knew the power of your anger!

Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

12 Teach us to number our days,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be?

Have compassion on your servants.

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,

that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,

for as many years as we have seen trouble.

16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,

your splendor to their children.

17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;

establish the work of our hands for us—

yes, establish the work of our hands.

2015, I was traveling to Church when a car ran a red light and hit me very hard 3 times. Both cars were totaled. The EMT, the Police and the 15 volunteers and the witness were very, very kind to the woman driver going by ambulance to determine why she fainted and they were good to me. Especially the Aggie Police Officer who collected the insurance information as we walked away following the ambulance departure. Total wreck.

In 2025, we were traveling the opposite way at the same light and a car ran a red light and hit us very 2 or 3 times. Why is this light difficult. It is not.  Then the driver said she would claim fault and not to call police. 85% of our county is hit and run. So immediately, I called 911.  She glared as if to kill. Police showed up. She claimed we hit her. 3 witnesses stayed.  And showed the Police their dash cams of her running the red light. Still looking missiles. And we watched the Police hand her 4 tickets.  Then her insurance tried to weasel out and our insurance stepped in to never speak to her insurance. Paid. Total wreck.

Our neighbor, over 3 blocks, was hit at the same normal red light, 3 months earlier in 2025 and the insurance of the red light runner refused to pay. So mediation. They paid $12g in damages and waited over 6 months to be reimbursed by mediation.

All times we were well into the travel time of the green light.  Be Careful!


Cold weather can lead to the doldrums and complaining. 
Moses and the Children of Israel were very uncomfortable.

And this is a Prayer of Moses - Very Real and Complaining. His story was very considered even in the Iron Age as the Psalms were being written down. The 8 Qumran Caves almost always contain the works of Moses in Scripture, but not this particular Psalm.

Moses was complaining some. Very possible this Psalm is recorded from the 40 years of wandering in the desert. And Moses knew he had been blessed because he started out this journey at age 80. The Septuagint - 70 scribes recording the Scriptures in Alexandria - also point to the perfectly recorded Scriptures. And the archaeology. Moses was living a very unique life and We AreThe Generation Realizing This In Archaeology - this is true story.

Jeremiah thought about the recorded history of Moses. He said when a culture is falling to upheaval - like many divorces - there are signs in the culture. Like History is suddenly bravely reinterpreted to be enlightened instead of the way the people living the era and recorded.

Jeremiah 23

7“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, 

declares the Lord, 

when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’  but ‘

As the Lord lives who brought up 

and led the offspring of the House of Israel 

out of the north country

 and 

out of all the countries where He had driven them.’ 

Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

God says very little is new under the sun. Like being Politically Correct to say Holidays instead of Christmas. In order to accommodate whom? We don't even live in a country where people are jumping up and down about freedoms encroached by Christianity. Almost a mythical - "Why isn't this allowed anymore?"  Like a great huge it says - No - No to Nativity Scenes. No to a Bible carved in a Court House. No to prayer at football games. People usually and in a majority - want this to Continue not be eroded and still - why does this happen??? 
Father God in the Holy Spirit - help us. Amen.

There are complains the Ancient Greek Philosophers record about the indiscretions of youth. This is  different. What are we to say that is hopeful?

Jeremiah points out earnestly wanting to know Scriptures - as we are - is a sign of hope. When we admit we are not perfect people and need Jesus to be our righteousness. There is hope. When we see people have changed denominations looking for the Scripture to be preached as an Authoritative Word of God - this is wonderful and this is - This Generation.

Think about this as an idea - if we put all of this to a popular vote. 92% of Congress professes Jesus is Lord. What Changes we could bring to please God. Pray! Why doesn't more effective change happen. Good question. If you could secretly poll the brain of all the congress people - they would all like more positive changes to bring the lasting hope of God to the People of the United States.  They just don't want to be the squeaky geek to lead the charge. Looks ineffective. It's risky to stand up like that in front of your colleagues. Pray for us all to have personal courage. Because really there are good people willing. If they had the Shepherd to pull them together.

Lord Jesus is willing - help us to be willing. In His precious name. Amen.

Our country, has more adoptions per 100 births than any other country on earth. People want to love children. God tells us in the Gospel - this is a good and godly aspect.

When we say that marriage does matter. Loyalty and vows. Covenant is rare, but marriage is covenant. You are rarely asked in Church to stand up and vow your life before God. We put the interests of our Word and Promise to God as something needed. That is important! This is very basic structure to our framework of our existence as a People. People who need God.

We need to make sure we are the generation that doesn't shrug away what the Word of God says. Even as we understand that the Law of Jesus is Spirit to worship in our heart knowing what He says is Love. The Spirit of God is for Peace. The Spirit of God makes a Path to bring forward the way He gave each of us with His Plan and Gifts.

Isn't it great that Moses had a recorded prayer saying what it's like to live uncomfortably? Moses believed with depending on God like Billy Graham. He had seen the last Chapter and knew it was going to turn out ok. 

Let's turn out ok, ourselves, and bring this chapter to a Higher Path for Him. 

Love is going to be a peacemaker and a blessing for those who call upon Jesus, believe in their hearts and profess with their mouths. Jesus will be our righteousness. Jesus help us take our lives and others to a Higher Path.

So, I could do as I do verbally and draw the car accident into many words and emotions. Instead I will say what I have taken away as a life memory from this accident. As the policeman and Scripture say, 
" In the twinkling of an eye it will be changed."

The flash of color of the car impossibly coming towards me gave my mind a split second to deny what I was seeing. And then the impact. The noise. And I knew Death was near. In the car with me.  So I decided to hold on to the wheel and wrap my toes around the brake through my shoes. And as I Clung - I thought - "Father God, I believe You. I expect You. I go to You. I am Yours." And there was peace.

Even as the car was hit again. During the second hit as I swung over another lane into where oncoming cars or pedestrians could have been - it was clear. And as the car neatly parked over the sidewalk, the grass, resting comfortably next to the iron bar traffic signal - as if I had chosen to park next to it like a parking space. (Those traffic signals do kill people who hit them. I know, I once saw a fatality.)

I realized in my soul - again - God has more for me to do. And coming that close to understanding the impossible color and how it could be there - I got out shaken - but with a clear conviction. God Loves Me. When He wants me I will go. Peace. God is Love.

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul

Amos 5:15

Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Hebrews 13:18

Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

1 Peter 3:21

And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. 

It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to Love each other, for the one who Loves another has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 7:12

Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Thank You, Father God, 

The absolute gift of life. 

Help us to know the peace You provide in times of crisis. 

Move evil

to the Heavenly Kingdom

to meet Jesus.

Let us continue to call upon You and You are so Good to hear us. 

I want my life to please You. 

How Joyful to feel that it does please You. And welcome. 

Help me to make Life meaningful for me and the ones You have given me.

 Your love was there for all of our many conversations, Father God. 

I am still finding the Wonders in Life unfolding around me. 

Thank You for Your mercy and Your Love as an assurance.

 Thank You, Father God, for my blessings. Lord Jesus Christ!!! 

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

We are praying for 
NATIONS

to put

aside

Tyranny

and Cartels.

Pray with hope!

Ending

Bad weather experienced 

And

be good weather again.

Praying for safety and prosperity in these days.

Only 1 

Hurricane in the Gulf.

God help our Hawaii to be safe.

Please continue to pray for peace and the wishes of our parents and great

 and 

grandparents to be fulfilled in a peaceful and complete manner. 

This is Our Father and Jesus, 

comforts us 

enabling us, 

strengthening us,

able to comfort those in any affliction,

 Blessings of Grace 

Blessings of Peace,

we ourselves are comforted 

by God.

We pray the 

impossible 

more Heaven on earth and 

for the believers of God 

and 

the ones they pray for 

To Know Your Love 

and

See the weary world REJOICING in Christ Jesus.

Thank You

Father

for

Your

Mercy

and

Grace.

Forgiveness.

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

Thank You, Father God, for my blessings. 

Lord Jesus Christ!!! 

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!

Titus 2:1-8,11-14 ~ Beloved: You must say what is consistent with sound doctrine

 

Titus 2:1-8,11-14

Beloved:

You must say what is consistent with sound doctrine,

namely, that older men should be temperate, dignified,

self-controlled,

 sound in faith, 

Love, 

and 

endurance.

Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior,

not slanderers, not addicted to drink,

teaching what is good, so that they may train younger women

to Love their husbands and children,

to be self-controlled,

chaste, 

good homemakers,

under the control of their husbands,

so that 

The Word of God 

may not be discredited.

Urge the younger men, similarly, to control themselves,

showing yourself as a model of good deeds in every respect,

with integrity in your teaching, 

dignity, and sound speech

that cannot be criticized,

so that the opponent will be put to shame

without anything bad to say about us.

For the grace of God has appeared, 

saving

 all

and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires

and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly 

in this age,

as we await the Blessed Hope,

the appearance of the Glory of the Great God

and of our Savior Jesus Christ,

Who gave 

Himself for us 

to deliver us from all lawlessness

and

 to cleanse for Himself a

 people as His own,

eager to do 

what is good.

In a recent post, we talked about life collecting memories. One of the Posts I've kept on my social media, is the story of a woman who has loved creating a family to live in love.  All the baseball games, baseball practices and going to the Big Leagues with the family.  She wrote of the boys wanting to sit in their mother's lap at the Big Leagues.  The comfort of their small bodies she knew so well from infancy and illness and snuggles.  Then as life grew to future days, going home from taking her beloved sons to college. The emptiness of life without the making of meals, the constant talking, and no warm body known so well to plunk down in the lap forever. Life still has Love, but she said it feels like the pieces of the beloved puzzle have been taken when she never expected to see an emptiness in the picture of such joy.

And her expression of family left me with a place in the quilt of my heart. 

There are conversations we will live in to Eternity. 

And then there is gossip and then this balances with the lessons life will provide like a great picnic complete with messquites, mosquitos, ants, and someone is bored and wants to go home because there isn't a peanut butter sandwich and no one really likes chicken salad sandwiches.  And because of these life lessons, we have the Books of Chronicles and Kings.  

The Family of David and the generational divides.  My parents loved to cook and have a household of godparents and friends to cook for.  Saturdays going to the grocery 3 times to improve the menu. Constant discussions of comparisons and food magazines and recipes.  My father putting me on dining room chair after taking me, age 7, away from our neighborhood trampoline to explain the correct way to take a horse syringe and butter baste a turkey.

With this, I love to order groceries, have a quick meal and never discuss food for more than about 3 minutes.  And still long for someone to really love to cook fabulously for me and, in the dream, clean up too.  We won't go into what my parent's kitchen looked like from 7 pm to 10 pm.  Yes, my parents won an enormous amount of culinary prizes in our small county fair.  Yes, my father once baked a dozen pies, with our antique apple trees and hard green apples, with 12 recipes and 12 different crusts.  Then a damn verbal fight downtown from an adult to a teenager, when the adult, he did not win the Apple Pie Award.  And didn't believe me about the humidity in the bathrooms arranged for pie crusts.  My mother never shared her winning cornmeal recipe, but I think I can guess. I'm not sure my father knew it.  He never attempted Cornmeal. We had tried hush puppy recipes for an entire year. Still not fond of many hush puppies. Or try to eat one.  Our godparents and friends would remember the year they set out to outdo Colonel Sanders, and everyone liked every recipe. Which didn't please my parents and created 12 months of dialogue without research material to think upon.  And the Sangria. Just about perfection on earth. Borsch is good. Cow tongue is great. A wow, but someone has to slice it and then the rest can have the beef. 

I so understand how generations do not look like one another. 

Mother's mother did not drink. She really was upset we had lived in France and the children were allowed sips. Oh, Grandmother. A sip is a sip.  In fact, we had our own tiny sherry glasses at the table. "To remove the mystery and allure of drinking." One of my godfathers, a very profound Baptist, had a built in, shutter door, library shelf in the den that locked. So his mother Nevah knew he had liquor upon the premises.  His favorite was my father's Sangria. 

The Scriptures tell us, where the Lord is, there is freedom. 

This probably led to youth group on Sunday Night at the earliest and original Chili's Restaurant. Father B would go on home and those remaining would have a wonderful frozen Margarita. For a long time.  Until someone at the restaurant let on.  Being Episcopalian has a lot of Mercy. Thank The Lord.  Edward was there.  And our families thought this was marvelously funny.  Tate might not have thought this was as funny.  Decades later I could add, and a good time was had by all who heard this and thought it was a hilarious riot.  The drinking age wasn't really a thing in the Disco era. Or as I went to college and the age changed by law every year. 

We live in such a riotous time. The facts are sometimes completely ignored until the heart is moved to see the situation with need for Upright Hearts.  And so many hearts have grown definitely chill towards one another. 

We all know in our lives about 1 of 3 families have a disconnect with technology and the way Kings and Chronicles is part of life.  Entertainment or the Traditional Way of Life. The Denominations have flipped and some have just bolted. 

This week Titus's Gospel or well known as The Book of Titus, Chapter 2 shows me I have not properly attuned to being a willing helper.  I have had a visitor to the house that began with an eye to eye confrontation. To becoming a conversation between 2 or 3 generations that went well.  Until this man wanted to talk about the disconnect between a truly clan family. He wanted to explain with his heart about the disconnect. As he got to the details, I wanted to ride away. I stopped him twice to say, I really do know what you are saying.  And this hurt him.  I really should have listened, but I was concerned after going to a funeral and listening to people I have known since I was 15, telling me about their sadness with the just weirdness of the days.  I didn't think I could weep in front of someone in their 20s and 30s. I would have wept. I might have had to say, it's just weird, it's just weird. It hurts. 

And then the fervor of the Nations making decisions looking dangerous to me.

It hurts.

And today, for the first time, buying clothes for my grandchild we are so excited about and haven't met until this Season because Edward has had 5 debilitating eye surgeries and is half blind.  We are so very, very, very extraordinarily thrilled.  And Alexander called and asked me to live with them for a year to avoid the infant going to day care. I can't leave blind Edward to do this.  

And going into the shop today to find the precious tiny clothes,  and get into a conversation at the counter about children who refuse to answer a text.  And someone jumps in to say how awful it is her son won't reply. I cut her off. I could not listen. I couldn't say it's weird. It's weird. It hurts. I would not cry in public. And I hurt this woman to cut her off with a situation she really, by her face, needed to share and needed some love. I cut her off. And was much, completely more sorry than a deliberate calm could comfort.  Don't want to cry about hurt. 

Wouldn't you know the week of huge funeral is the week everyone decided to share emotions. And after the midterm.

I 'think' a lot of Church families also have a simmer going about the Lockdown. 

I saw at least a dozen Church Leaders Retire. I saw a famous one, burst into tears and say he couldn't pray for the Church anymore with the hurt their families put upon them and upon each other and was retiring to go live with his father and his older children. I heard one sermon about a church leadership going shipwreck.  And wasn't surprised. 

I 'think' we all are living at least one chorus of "Alice's Restaurant." 

I mean, I mean, you are at the tire store and the clerk wants to grill you as a shish kebob. And he proceeds to let you know he 'thinks' he is a high school friend part of my son's life decades along and understands something he really has no handle on. Like a pick up truck living in a whole other county.  But he is seriously annoyed. And that is going to stay that course, because there is absolutely no clue to that and that. And no desire is there to even put the sail to the wind. 

Man. We all need a big Soul Band-Aid. 

Another person was telling me he loves his tattoo and his mother-in-law questioned him if he joined a gang. Does anyone have immediate comfort? That one I could discuss. I won't cry over that.

People have been telling me their life stories for a long time. And quit.  Now. Now. Now.  This is the week we start again.  I know about furtive abortions and married abortions. And rooked him to marry me. And how my mother liked the next door neighbor to my grandmother, who probably was in organized 1930s trafficking crime.  And then my neighbor found out his parents were Seriously Not in Insurance. More like Jack Ruby.  And then bullets at his uncles house. People have always told me this and that and not had it repeated.  I know who the criminal was in my childhood neighborhood and how his daughter found out.  Oops. Hysteria can sometimes tell as story.  I helped our school trustee, who was my Doctor, fire the English Teacher. But her husband teacher was the actual thug. And that fixed up rather spectacularly.  We had an Edward Jones newbie get fired because he was invading backyards to get gardening ideas. And the Police watched him go in the backyards because he actually had a small group on the street hiding behind trees to watch the house burglar, but more stock broker.  Ex Stock Broker.  I'm the one at the family funeral who understood what Cousin Bob was saying about the county in Bolivar. And then had to tell my cousin Anne Cable. And mom.  (If you condense 6 decades into 1 paragraph, you could do this with your life too.)

So what are we going to do about all this sad weirdness?

That's spectacularly Easy.

Thank GOD.

Titus is the Long Game.

Titus according to those looking at Scripture was part of the 72 Disciples of Jesus. Not one who left when Jesus began speaking of transubstantiation.  Titus was from Greece and very probably sought to introduce the Greek Pilgrimage Dispersion who all wanted to save Jesus from Herod. And Rome.  The group Jesus dismissed saying Jesus had a Purpose here.  

Titus is an answered prayer.  

He went back to Greece and the Jewish dispersion to Crete and lived to be extremely old. Titus was the first Christian Bishop on Crete and lived a life of harmony and faith. 

If you don't do Titus' Gospel, The Book of Titus, Chapter 2 well. Well. God has a long game for all of us who Love Jesus Christ.  Because we have to give ALL of Creation our love for Jesus. However, God is God. And God is the one Author of Salvation. The Greatest Name is Jesus.  He is the One. 

God Identifies the Holy Spirit to us. Help. Helper. Comfort. Comforter.

We can certainly try. Really. God's Love is the Glory. Alleluia. 

Following the shining water through the hills and highways of Heaven to find the green throne of God.

The actual Path John the Disciple took to the top of His mountain on Patmos, 

where John chose to live

WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE

IN
JESUS CHRIST

THE LORD

Father God, Dear Father God,

WE PRAY 

BLESSINGS 

for those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Jesus Christ

Shine on us

ALL

Let evil and practicing evil

depart 

far 

from us

and our children.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

Peace and the Joy God gives us.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

We are praying for 
NATIONS

to put

aside

Tyranny

and Cartels.

Pray with hope!

Ending

Bad weather experienced 

And

be good weather again.

Praying for safety and prosperity in these days.

Only 1 

Hurricane in the Gulf.

God help our Hawaii to be safe.

Please continue to pray for peace and the wishes of our parents and great

 and 

grandparents to be fulfilled in a peaceful and complete manner. 

This is Our Father and Jesus, 

comforts us 

enabling us, 

strengthening us,

able to comfort those in any affliction,

 Blessings of Grace 

Blessings of Peace,

we ourselves are comforted 

by God.

We pray the 

impossible 

more Heaven on earth and 

for the believers of God 

and 

the ones they pray for 

To Know Your Love 

and

See the weary world REJOICING in Christ Jesus.

Thank You

Father

for

Your

Mercy

and

Grace.

Forgiveness.

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

And we will be blessed indeed. 

Jesus the Lord. Alleluia

and Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Bless the Lord Jesus

Thank You, Jesus

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose!