2 Thessalonians 1:9b-12

The presence of the Lord 

and from the glory of His Might 

on the day He comes to be glorified 

in His holy people 

and to be marveled 

at among 

all those who have believed.

This includes you, 

because 

you believed our testimony to you. 

With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, 

that our God 

may make you worthy of His calling, 

and that by His power 

He may bring to fruition 

your every desire for goodness 

and your every deed 

prompted by faith.

We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus 

may be glorified in you, and you in Him, 

according to the grace of our God 

and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:9b-12

And we are still on the cusp of a New Year. Few of us will not wonder what the New Year holds. Even if we just passed the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Liturgically. Which is to say:

As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and participation in the sacred through activities reflecting praise, thanksgiving, remembrance, supplication, or repentance. It forms a basis for establishing a relationship with God. Technically speaking, liturgy forms a subset of ritual. The word liturgy, sometimes equated in English as "service", refers to a formal ritual enacted by those who understand themselves to be participating in an action with the divine.


There is One who has Plans. God. And not one of us, not one, is not part of the Plans of God. There is One of us who knows of this year and will, obviously, have all of His Plans come to fruition.



New Years. New plans.
A realistic plan for winning. A realistic plan for overcoming. The Scriptures have an entire book on Wisdom. Proverbs.  With 31 Chapters. Skiers have plans to get down the mountain for the thrill and there is a plan to get back to the top of the mountain.



Going with the winter weather -  then  - we will call this - the Bear Hunt of Life - and need - very much - His Help. And our gratitude for His help. We will need to do our words, our deeds with Love. Which is great. Valentines is next. Everything with Love. Wonderful. 

Particularly in theory. Just like skiers have a plan to get back up the mountain, The Lord tells us we are ok to be angry, just not to sin.

Recently, year and a half, we had a new neighbor. Different cultures within their household. They have false reported our home to the Water Authority, false reported to the Police when I had Covid, and false reported the Other Neighbor on the Other side, in getting a new pool. Fake reported our 2 doors down neighbor did allow them easement to allow bulldozers and diggers to put in the neighbor's pool through their own backyard.  Cut down the neighbor's tree and got a cease and desist order.  Refused to replant, the part was allowed to be cut down and replaced. Fussed when we asked their filled pool to have legal fencing instead of none, we back up to land owned by the State of Texas Park's Department. Sent us a letter using a fake address, in violation of Texas Penal Code 32.15. And the sadists admitted all this to the government official's face. Admitted this screaming at top voice. Fake reported almost all survey points to local government. Last year, we knew it was crazy time, they threatened to cut down our trees for solar panels, to discover my brother is an accomplished attorney.  And they racially harassed our yard man. Who told him to go back in the house. 

This year, they had local governing city authorities by inviting them to their house and then proceeded to yell about religion being false at top voice to me (hate crimes), and assaulted me to the point the city authority had to order them to let go of me. They have, a long time ago, been dinner guests in our home, and then assaulted the dog by grabbing it up into the air, by the tail, after running pellmell to yank the dog up... twice. Never invited again. Then, tried to befriend the 3rd neighbor who witnessed the dog assault at the dinner party and lives across the street. Routinely, they put up various car sales signs and sticks. Move large, lighted Christmas light ornaments around the yard.  Sadists set themselves up to be lost in life. Easily bored and without a winning plan in life. Sadists lose.

The city government employ visiting at our houses, then invited the other neighbor, the good one, to visit with city governance department heads for about an hour and a half. Which we did.

However, in Real Bear Hunts - there is frozen tundra, hunters, starvation, isolation and deep napping. Overabundance. Under abundance. We know alligators and the old problems with swamps. And given any particular day with grumpy bears, caves with other bears and bears with territories - we might find being a bear not as smart as the average bear. We might suddenly come to the realization. All the salmon we'd ever want, on a day where the sunshine never ends. It's all clanging gong without Love.

What will we do the day we feel without the fuel of Love? Too much bs. On the days we just feel chilly? With mankind, as in Human Employment, we could feel fear of burn out.

New beginnings can be enormously appealing - and then - have the threat of burn out.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man 

and makes flesh his strength, 

whose heart turns away from the Lord.”

Now, that is ominous to me and, probably, to all who have that day / we grit our teeth all day.

With the deep and abiding Love God has - we can take the days when the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad and trust the Lord God even in emptiness. We can call to Abba and say, "Sorry. Empty. All Empty. Sorry."

Romans 12:2

Testing you may discern what is the will of God, 

what is good and acceptable and perfect.

The Testing - might have test taking anxiety. We have failed what is good and acceptable and perfect - in the eyes of man and of God Himself.

When we are angry we are not outside the will of God, we can sit and tell the Lord Father God. We can present our failings. And in this honest conversation with God - find He has not left us.

He, Abba, our Father, who sees all our prayers,  is not sitting comfortably with a, "Pull the go to hell lever." The Light of mankind, the Light of Heaven, the Creator of All Things.

The Will of God?

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son,

 that everyone who believes in Him 

shall not perish but have eternal life.

Can we leap all the hurdles and say God loves the world - hurray - on these bear eat bear days?

Hebrews 1:3

Jesus is the radiance of the glory of God 

and the exact imprint of His nature,

and he upholds the universe 

by the Word of His power.

After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

That is Good News. We need purification for sins when we say hurray - save the world - what about me?

And this is exactly - what we need with Father God. Approaching Him - as if He - is always - approachable. Jesus does this for us - personally. Jesus frequently let the world wait. Jesus had the multitudes of thousands - all of Capernaum - immediately followed Jesus. Jesus frequently told the world to wait.

Matthew 6 

5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 

6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 

9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

We are deaf when we think Jesus abolished the Law to not bring us the Liberty of His Love. We are deaf to God's Love to not see Jesus brings us His love - personally.

We know Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee 3 times in one day - looking for one person. We can know Jesus would put aside all the earth - and be able - in the Power of the Holy Spirit - to hear me and hear you - personally. Jesus helped Jairus, his wife and daughter and the world waited outside.

And knowing Jesus is the exact nature of God - - -

John 3:16

For God so loved YOU that He gave His one and only Son, 

that YOU who believes in Him - shall not perish - but have eternal life.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus