Psalm 150 ~ Praise Him with Trumpet Sound; praise Him with lute and harp! Praise Him with tambourine and dance; praise Him with strings and pipe! Praise Him with sounding cymbals; praise Him with loud clashing cymbals!

 

This is the Post I wrote when forgetting Ash Wednesday. His Mercies Renew Each Day!

Psalm 150

 

Praise the Lord!

Praise God in His Sanctuary;

    praise Him in His Mighty Heavens!

2 Praise Him for His Mighty Deeds;

    praise Him according to His Excellent Greatness!

3 Praise Him with Trumpet Sound;

    praise Him with lute and harp!

4 Praise Him with tambourine and dance;

    praise Him with strings and pipe!

5 Praise Him with sounding cymbals;

    praise Him with loud clashing cymbals!

6 Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord!

We have not a musical note, nor papyrus, to see the how the Psalms were actually played in the first Temple of Jerusalem. 

We do know the instruments and they are wild.  

In the Exodus, God spoke, the Children of Israel quaked with fear and had never heard anything so loud in their entire lives.  They begged Moses to let God speak to Moses instead.

So, we would have to assume with the list of wild musical instruments and perhaps the Music was aim was to be loud...like the Voice of God... points to wonder.

If only the Southern Steps

could speak

or

The Beautiful Gate

We can only

wonder

Job 37: 4-5

Then there comes a roaring sound; 

He thunders with His Majestic Voice. 

He does not restrain the lightning 

when His Voice 

Resounds. 

God thunders wondrously with His Voice

He does great things we cannot comprehend.

This work of 1969 Niagara Falls repairs

remind 

of

The Exodus

1 Corinthians 15:57 

Thanks be to God, 

Who gives us the Victory 

through 

our 

Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 18:13

 

The LORD thundered from Heaven; 

The Voice 

of the Most High 

Resounded.

Romans 11:36 

For from Him and through Him

 and 

to Him 

are all things. 

To Him be glory forever.

 Amen.

Abba, Father!

Father God as we pray for each other and ask all types of healing - we know in Your Word - the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

We ask Your help to be wise,
We ask Your help to be brave,
We ask Your help to be steadfast Love.

We ask Your Help to see and remain on Your Path.
We ask Your Guidance, Mercy and Forgiveness
when we do not do as You would Love 

to see our hearts do well.

We ask Your Tender Mercies 

upon us to remain with You.

And ask this for those we Love.
The People 

You have given us.
Our Nation.
Our endeavors each day.
The people around the Good Creation

 to have more Heaven on earth.

For our healing
and our hope
and our cares
to be lifted to You
and brought  the Good News.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

Thank You

for

our first grandbaby

Arriving this summer,

All Your Love

Blessings upon

this little one.

And in Jesus - This Hope.

Faith and Love - we will rise up Believing Jesus.

Amen!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus The Lord

† 

Psalm 18:13 ~ The LORD thundered from Heaven; The Voice of the Most High Resounded.

 

Having been out of the country for two weeks celebrating our 40th Anniversary and being cut off from blogger and reddit on the cruise, we came home to more household tasks than taking down Christmas. And Edward had scheduled us to be in Victoria, Texas in the midst of all the householder needs. Which is fine and joyful to have rest.

All that travel and coming home well and good is a Blessing of the Lord.

And all the dogs, cats, songbirds and flowers! Blooming! Camelias, Pentas, Azaleas, and a Hibiscus. 

Lots of Dog Love. Orange cat ran to us and began to chew us out. 

But with the covers and the lights for the week long freeze during the cruise, we came home to a Barn of a house. The dogs were home doing their dog assigned tasks in life. The tender pot plants rebelled at living in central heat and drought. They kicked up dirt and leaves in protest.

We had help from our 26 year neighbors and found real appreciation in their help. Weeks of dust. Poodles do shed some, dust is kicked up everywhere. 3 weeks of laundry and unpacking all the accoutrements. 

Massive yard work, removal of incandescent Christmas lights, covers, wet covers. Rocks and bricks to be placed from keeping the covers in place. Why? Houston is subtropical. If I keep my tender plants alive, I have no real dire need of plant funds in the spring. The joy of 6 and 15 year old plants instead of funds on plants that are less than a foot tall. Immediate results for work done for a culmination of years. Our Penta are woody shrubs instead of a plant ling. The joy of not trimming giant Liriope is profound, but it does not like being less than 26' and we had 19'. So, we put up temporary green houses with SUV car covers and incandescent Christmas lights. I am blessed, blessed, blessed with Edward who gets out there and helps. 

Then the freeze affected a properly prepared already dripping faucet, a jammed toilet improperly installed. And a water valve that needs to be replaced. Weeks of dusting.  Our first house did not have duct work returns. And it was pier and beam, so after living there for about 6 years with massive dust we realized the under the house dust was coming in. And I discovered using the yard blower to move the dust to corners, made work extremely efficient and less time taken. Having bought a bullseye smaller blower, I went back to my Makita. Barns require more labor. Moving the pet fencing out of the living room.

No groceries. And the need to have the house clean from Barn to livable. It was massively exhausting. Because if you leave town for Victoria, it needs to be clean when coming home for reasons of endurance, grit, joy and verve.  Check.  Who wants to take all the luggage to the attic and put away the now dry ish spare blankets!!!

Then take the 3 weeks of laundry and add in pet mistakes, the towels for the pets and the plants and us, then white vinegar for destruction of pet urine enzymes with the blankets and towels to avoid freezing. Move 100 pounds of rock and bricks. Power washing because it had to be moved and was on the list for 4 days plus. 

Dieting is not a time one feels filled, energetic. Dreary is the word. By 1 or 4 PM I feel dieting might just be the end of me. Ugh. Press on.

Add in communicating with some family who find us to be a rock to push, berate and chew out without a lot of meaningful relationship. Which used to be joy and love and adoration. And now revolves around careers. Making ends meet. And a big dark cloud hovering with internal lightning. The emotion is real. So, bully for honesty. And fortitude. With a day of sighs. 

We returned to find the neighbor couple with Alzheimer's, who found lung disease in the other, healthy spouse created dementia and had waved the white flag of immediate removal to assisted living. Sad.

I had sent them articles, and conversations on medical findings and Christmas gifts. And then a conversation with their new in-law who was now stressed to the hilt.  And I had successfully been getting out of paying their bills and later explaining that to their children. "No. I don't want to."

We need to do something as a Nation. 

It is not reasonable

To spend $12 grand a month and then double that for a married couple for years in a Dementia or Assisted Living Ward. Don't we all know these illnesses can be more than a decade?? There will be massive money spend on years of this unhappiness of being in a row with the dying. Calcutta.  This solution shouldn't happen. I had my dear cousin Maxine as my legal ward in a Dementia Ward for 12 years. This was her choice. Maxine was adamant. 23 Strokes from living alone and eating only ice cream while relatives brought her food. My mother in law was there for 6 years. Dementia and Alzheimer's isn't defined and does not mean immediate death. 

What is the solution? 

For my mother, there was a health care worker at retirement age who was pleased to live in my mother's pleasant house for $3g per month. Mother had a roommate. The roommate was living in a better place than her entire life. Both were not thrilled due to staying home too much, but still more thrilled than sitting in a row with the dying, looking like Calcutta.  My mother improved. Was happier in the home she made. Saw her neighbors. 

Live with Mother? No, I believe the verse here is, "Do not submit again to a yoke of slavery when Christ has set you free."  Mother didn't just visit, she took over. People ran very fast and very far. My brother had a strict only on Christmas Day visit policy for over 20 years.  

Mother was happier and the Estate saved $696,000 in medical expenses. For six years. And I had much to do with her life after she was in permanent retirement of responsibilities due to medical needs. So, she had plenty of child communication. And her house hadn't looked better in 35 years. Then, when my mother faced Hospice (she had paid for long term care insurance decades and way beyond what was needed.) But she wanted, "To have dying near super calm people with morphine and oxygen."

We forgot Ash Wednesday.

Good we watch the news.  Thanks to the Fox News team wearing Ash Wednesday ashes. Past time for Church Services. We had forgotten Ash Wednesday. In fact, the Post was more Maundy Thursday written for Ash Wednesday than Ash Wednesday.  Holy Spirit. Thank You. 

However,  I felt compelled all day to read the Bible. 

I felt very saddened. And was astonished to feel some chastisement in what I read. I had hurt feelings. And cried.  Compelling. To sit down. Pray. Ask forgiveness, explain, ask for God's enduring love. And listen. To hear the Joy of God's Plan.

His Word

is

always

Life

Psalm 18:13 

The LORD thundered from Heaven; 

The Voice of the Most High 

Resounded.

Lamentations 3:21-23

 I call this to mind, 

and therefore 

I have hope

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, 

for His mercies 

never fail. 

They are new every morning; 

Great is Your Faithfulness!

The steadfast Love of the LORD 

never 

ceases

His mercies 

never come to an end; 

they are new 

every morning

Great is Your Faithfulness.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus

† 

Mark 8:14-21 ~ they began discussing with one another

 

Mark 8:14-21

Now they had forgotten to bring bread,

 and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 

And He cautioned them, saying, 

“Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.

And Jesus, aware of this, said to them,

 

“Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”

They said to him, “Twelve.” 

“And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” 

And they said to Him, “Seven.” 

And He said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, 

for they are folly to him, 

and

 he is not able to understand them 

because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 13:12 

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, 

even as I have been fully known.

Acts 12: 5-16

5 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. 6 Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. 8 And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” 

9 And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 

10 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him. 

11 When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.” 

 12 When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 

13 And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 

14 Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 

15 They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” 

But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!” 

16 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.

Abba, Father,

Genesis 18:14 

 Is anything too hard for the Lord?

2 Corinthians 1 ~ New American Standard

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

The Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Who comforts us in all our affliction

so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction

with the comfort 

with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance,

so also our comfort 

is abundant through Christ.

Dwell in me,

Dwell in us,

Dwell in those we Love,

Help us to seek You first.

And we will finish well, 

in Jesus Christ. 

Help us seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And the 2026 birth

of our

first Grandchild.

Jesus Christ, please,

Your blessings of

Health, Peace,

Wisdom

and Prosperity

for His Glory!

And Thank You Edward

his eye heals

and me

to

sleep well

and feel strong all day long.

Thank You, Father, 

for Jesus Christ the Messiah. 

Lord of All.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus

†