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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Psalm 34:18 ~ The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.




 At the beginning of the Pandemic, a woman with a very ill small baby told what it was like to be one of the first families with Covid, due to hospitalization with the baby. Her story was very fascinating about coping with lack of volunteers and the family's need for basic necessities in the big city.

I thought we'd discuss what Covid is like in October of 2021 with a patient under care.

Here are the facts if you want to just skip to the other part:

My mother has had Alzheimer's, probably in some fashion, since her divorce she sought from my father with cause from him. The mother we had after the 25-year marriage ended didn't always look like my fun and interesting mother.  Her neighbors comforted me earlier this year as we had her almost 5-year constant home-care companion gave notice due to the difficulties of home stay with the elderly and the new Hospice changes in mother. They spoke of her 31-year career with Ebby and the fun she had dressing up, going out for luncheons with Ebby and evening banquets. My mother did have fun, again, and her neighbors said it was fun seeing her leave for this and that.

Mother's Alzheimer's wasn't pretty or gracious. She didn't have conversation skills. She became alone with her caregiver, me and her neighbors who have been gracious to her in all odd Alzheimer's situations. Saintly neighbors visiting her, even arriving to bring her flowers for her last August 88th Birthday in the Memory Care Facility, under Hospice Care as well. This last month saw her unable to stand, not recognize her child and become Aphasic.  Her care facility is 85% vaccinated, but break through Covid is happening. We went to Dallas earlier this week, but her floor had Covid and we visit Edward's mother in another Assisted Living and didn't want one virus to leap to another facility. We had chores in Dallas and went home. As we approached our home outside Houston, the phone from her Care Facility rang to say she had tested Positive for Covid after being particularly unresponsive.  The Head Nurse for the 5-story facility has 20 years experience in Mother's Building. She told us the Prognosis was about 3 days.



Passing on with Covid is different. Your family is supposed to fly in and sit Shiva with you. This new apart brings out so many responses within all of us.

Amos 8:10 ends with these words:
and the end of it, like a bitter day

After sitting through the passing of both my grandmothers, my father, my truly great father-in-law after 32 years, my dear Great Uncle in law, a joyful and larger than life Aunt of Edward's, I know about the joy of family, the solidarity and the bone crushing loss.  

The emotions that will be called out and, with some experience, how to surf the waves and end the comment. Well, being honest, ending a public comment is fairly reasonable, but the family ones continue at home.

Scripture is so helpful, connect to what is eternal and makes our lives meaningful. To connect to the wild winds of emotional life, realizing the Way, the Truth and The Life is Found To Encourage and Bring Hope. 



To what will we compare this? We will put forth two Scriptures, for emotional range, when we love someone passing on:

Ecclesiastes 7:1 

And the day you die is better than the day you are born. ... A good reputation at the time of death is better than loving care at the time of birth.



Job 3 
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said:

3 “Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness!
    May God above not seek it,
    nor light shine upon it.
5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds dwell upon it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
    Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
    let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren;
    let no joyful cry enter it.
8 Let those curse it who curse the day

Passing on, being apart from Covid, really just cranks this up.  How did we fill our years, did we make meaningful life. What to do with the inevitable messes and how to leave the Joy? Have we done meaningful life? What will we do in the future?

We all start thinking of the beginnings, living the passing and filling in the dots and iotas Jesus said He would fill with us and, truly, for us.



The better part of God Acting every 500 years
Has been something I saw painted on a Dallas sidewalk at Preston Royal today. "Be better Humans." We want to know we connect and make life better for us, no matter the zip code or dollars. Death is something we all experience. When Scriptures speak of being rich, this isn't all dollars. This is heart. Loss comes to the Joyful, the struggling. We unite in understanding, finding and knowing meaning in grief overcoming. 

 James 5:1 
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

 We all tend to lick our wounds in private. We want to avoid being seen wearing our heart on our sleeves like a glutton of emotion or to proclaim weakness. Unfortunately, we don't let wounds heal, not to gently air out our heart.
  
Isaiah 22:1
This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops
  
 Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops. 
  
Isaiah is 700 B.C, Matthew is 800 years later. Humans have human tenderness, human pride, human need to find the right voice to bring out our heart safely and with less drama and more tenderly for healing. Plus -  we really want to be in the normal range.

So, I will tell you what happened upon telling my family: the entire family dynamics we knew with my Mother leaving with an Alzheimer's patient set of problematic events, is now upon us. 

JOB FOUR!

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
    Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many,
    and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
    and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
    it touches you, and you are dismayed.

6 Is not your fear of God your confidence,
    and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?
    Or where were the upright cut off?
8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
    and sow trouble reap the same.

9 By the breath of God they perish,
    and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
    the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
    and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.  

And I had already determined for many, many months, departing, and the leaving after being gaspingly ill for a decade, is going to be different from, and than, the other 35 family deaths we can relate to as a family. When a brain isn't whole, things backfire, clog up and go steadily and solidly as the stock market. And in thinking during all the 20 years of care taking in different stages, I had established some rock steady guidelines.

Don't freak out, be moderate, be factual, be firm and don't freak out. Don't overreact.
Why? We have this. Fewer memories, to almost none, from some family of the good years. Damaged hopes. Guilt with more guilt with feeling like an emotional horror. Lashing out for asking for emotion. Guilt not to be nearby. Guilt for careers. Afraid of dying. No picnic. Don't add to the emotional trauma. 
No, it's all too wretched, no more, no more asking for sadness.

Ok, well by now, you'd think we'd all adjust to the new bad normal, right? No. Dallas, Texas isn't thought of as being closed up for Covid. But lemme tell you, they had half the Covid of Houston. And in April and even May, Dallas was shouting on in and on only in their very own housetops. At home. Malls, restaurants looked like the traffic on Christmas Day. Now we have Airport Violence. Speeding recklessly. Now, if you look at police blotters, police accident reports, you realize people are just now starting to be Upset. Sure, the Malls are now filled and the restaurants, but everyone looks rather determined to sit up straight and not moan. And the people speaking as if the time of their lives, is now, are all but Yelling in the Degree of Strength put out in their Voices. They Have To Convince You They Are Having Fun. 

Is this Post having fun yet? No, but we will get there, hang in there.

Job 4 is quite good.
  
  “Now a word was brought to me stealthily;
    my ear received the whisper of it.
13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night,
    when deep sleep falls on men,
14 dread came upon me, and trembling,
    which made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past my face;
    the hair of my flesh stood up.
16 It stood still,
    but I could not discern its appearance.

A form was before my eyes;
    there was silence, then I heard a voice:
17 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God?
    Can a man be pure before his Maker?

I listened, I heard the complaints, one person went into inappropriate laughter, then more calls, more complaints, the years back didn't happen nicely, and then the anger directed at the one who could still hear. And after listening, giving understanding, more facts and more understanding. I then said, “Sh.” And in these days, we can get off the phone and temporarily block to have tomorrow become unblocked. This is working. 'Sh' has been a magic word. And given us all the room to recover.


The Renaissance was another time of the 500-year Acts of God. 40% prostitution, even of the married. 1/3 died of starvation. Monasteries were working their tails off feeding the poor, providing food, doing beautiful worship, making the first-ever hospitals and diversifying into literacy teaching. Then, hey, the Reformation for taking Indulgences, probably for being tired and weary and worldly. And most Priests were secretly married. 

The Greatest Portion of Renaissance was looking to God for comfort. Signs. And the signs I saw today brought me comfort.

Job 6
“Teach me, and I will be silent;
    make me understand how I have gone astray.
25 How forceful are upright words!
    But what does reproof from you reprove?
26 Do you think that you can reprove words,
    when the speech of a despairing man is wind?


  

Psalm 34:18


  The Lord is near to the brokenhearted 
and saves the crushed in spirit.

  
We can expect God when we grieve. Even if the first step is anger. And forgive each other, if memory is found that is sweet, and we smile to remember goodness. 

We don't have to all be in the same step with grief. 


I remembered sitting together to grieve the passing. I remembered all gathering in 2016 so comfortably to mourn my mother's death in 2016, when she was far healthier and didn't pass on. And this season is very different.


We decided to return to Dallas, to sit Shiva at her house, even when we can't see my mom. And before we travelled back to Dallas this week, the idea arrived if we did what we could, then my mother's life and the wonderful years are honored.

We could send up Balloons with art work a well Mother would Well Remember.  

Art from hours and years of fun. Familiar colors and patterns. This particular art sparked a loved memory. The blue dots.... When I was about five years old, my mother and my godparents dressed up in formals, long dresses and went downtown to a Ball. Oh, the trying on and the this and that. My mother returned home from the Ball with a blue balloon the size of an armchair. It looked like a Junior Macy's Parade Balloon. It had red, white and blue stripes from crêpe paper. Same with Rosettes, and underneath were more normal-sized Balloons.

That week, the giant Balloon became like a pet animal. It went to School. Came out in carpool line. Saw the School Office for Show and Tell. Walked down the Street to draw out the neighbors. Visited family. Was told to remain in the car and Not the Grocery Store. Yes, she is serious. Stay.  By the end of the week, that Balloon was flat. Just by being tired, I'm certain. 

And the story continued, my godmother Anne, also an Anne, found out about the Balloon's awesomeness and said her two sons had said, “Meh.” Anne, my Godmother, gave us the giant Blue Balloon and this one was perfect. Another Balloon! Round two, this Balloon was as loved as the first one because my Godmother had given up her Balloon. Never had a Giant Balloon, given so much Joy.

The next week, Godmother Anne called Godmother Marion, and they laughed over the Balloon. Marion decided her Balloon would come to us. And this Balloon created more joy being Red. 

Just the blue dots on the page, and I remembered this all so well again.

The Balloons became what we Could Do. And off we went, back to Dallas again. We got out the phone and plotted what Grocery Store would be closest to my mother to find great Balloons.

GOD IS AMAZING!



I promise you, I haven't seen Balloons with little balloons again since I was 5 years old. I had to have a weep. God Remembers Too. Yes, color variety was needed to be a Happy Thing. Provided. Sized needed to be smaller to be carried and have more to see. Provided.


Last week, I attended a Luncheon at The Woodlands Methodist Church. Now 2nd Methodist Church in size in the Nation. And Dori wept to know so many nurses and doctors who are overwhelmed. We prayed for these Workers who are Heroic. And we prayed for the whole nation. 

This week, I am working with Mother's Care Facility and her Hospice, since February. What I am seeing is people who are leaving. No need to fire people who have put ALL on the Line for almost Two Years. They are Tired. Vacations are being asked. To survive.  The rest of the workers scramble to find something to make up. And they are.. braced... to be Chewed Out With Hysterics.

More is accomplished to remember Dori's crying Prayer.  We all have had ... less... more and overwhelming times. When the people find out you explain calmly, listen and respond, they try again to pick up weary knees and tired hands. This is a group who is caring to be in a caring field. They are TRYING. Be nice to them.

If we think it is Overwhelming to leave a loved one to die, they wonder about the world doing so. And bringing our emotion to them. When the Balloons came out, the weary looked up.

To find Human kindness and know Humans being Kind again. Is Everything.



Jesus first told any living Human Being
Who He was,
Jesus went to the Samaritans
in only the 4th Chapter of John's Gospel.
Early, Jesus was forthright.

And as Jesus told the Good News
to a mere woman,
He told her we would all worship
not in a physical location
but in Spirit and Truth.

We are perfectly capable of Sitting Shiva,
in unlikely and in public, as well as our housetops,
imperfectly, as the Scriptures explain,
and giving each other more to have Wonder
Joy
and Love.





19 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.


The best place for our cares is in the hands of Jesus, our hero.

Proverbs 3:26-28

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

Jesus is the Word of God fulfilled. Proverbs of Solomon is from 9 B.C. and, a millennium later, Jesus fulfills what Solomon explains.



Abba, Father

You have engraved our name in Your hand. 
You have remembered us with compassion. 
Your lives, our words, our heart is always in Your thoughts. Psalm 139 assures us. 

Your hand, Father God, is for good on all who seek You. Your right hand assures us not to fear You because You listen earnestly.

No one is able to take us from Your hand, Father. 
We always want to know, Father, Your hand is upon us.

Father, Your hand laid the foundation of the earth, and
 Your right hand spread out the heavens; 
when You call to them, they stand forth together.

We pray for Your Comfort, Jesus Christ,
Beauty from ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, 
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; 
that we may be called oaks of righteousness, 
the planting of the Lord, that our Father God may be glorified. 

We shall call upon You to build up the ancient ruins; 
and they shall raise up from former devastations!
 In You, Jesus Christ, we shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of generations.

We Will set You, Father God, always before us! 
Because You Are at my right hand, we shall not be shaken. 
Our hearts will be glad, and our whole being rejoices. 
We will dwell secure in Jesus Christ.

Father God will not abandon us, we will not see corruption. 
We will live. Father God in you are the paths of life. 
Because of You, Jesus, there is fullness of joy.
 Because being at Your right hand is always a pleasure. Thank You, Father God.

We pray for my mother, Anne, who has Alzheimer's and is in Hospice,
she is quite ill, unable to stand and feed herself.
Mother has been passing on for about five years and unable to communicate.
We pray the Mercy of Jesus and her comfort, Father.

My father, Daddy, always dreamed, about 80 times
he would be deceased fairly early in life and Jesus
would ask him to guide my mother into Heaven. 
So much of the detailed dream has happened and, soon,
the rest of this will occur.
We pray the comfort and mercy of Jesus.

We pray for the Nation,
the world interconnected and in need of Your Love and Mercy.

Abba, Father,

You gave us Jesus Christ
to save the world in Jesus Christ.

Dwell in us.
Help us to be the Delight of Your Heart.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to seek You first.
And with You, we will finish well.

May the Lord Bless us and Keep us
and
Make His Face to Shine upon us
be gracious to us.

May the Lord God 
Lift His Countenance upon us
and smile
give us peace,
put Your Name, Highest Name Jesus
upon us Your Beloved
and we will
be Blessed.

Amen in Jesus Christ.



Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.
Jesus, we pray Life and healing
Joy and Love in all of us.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.
Jesus, Hope and Future.
Jesus the Lord
saves the world
Amen.



♔ LORD JESUS SAVES 

















Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Luke 6:1-19 ~ touch Him, for power came

 




Luke 6:1-19




On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 


2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” 






3 And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” 

5 And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”



6 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, 
and a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him. 

8 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. 9 And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” 10 And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored. 

11 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.

12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

17 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, 18 who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.



19 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.


The best place for our cares is in the hands of Jesus, our hero.

Proverbs 3:26-28

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

Jesus is the Word of God fulfilled. Proverbs of Solomon is from 9 B.C. and, a millennium later, Jesus fulfills what Solomon explains.



Abba, Father

You have engraved our name in Your hand. 
You have remembered us with compassion. 
Your lives, our words, our heart is always in Your thoughts. Psalm 139 assures us. 

Your hand, Father God, is for good on all who seek You. Your right hand assures us not to fear You because You listen earnestly.

No one is able to take us from Your hand, Father. 
We always want to know, Father, Your hand is upon us.

Father, Your hand laid the foundation of the earth, and
 Your right hand spread out the heavens; 
when You call to them, they stand forth together.

We pray for Your Comfort, Jesus Christ,
Beauty from ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, 
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; 
that we may be called oaks of righteousness, 
the planting of the Lord, that our Father God may be glorified. 

We shall call upon You to build up the ancient ruins; 
and they shall raise up from former devastations!
 In You, Jesus Christ, we shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of generations.

We Will set You, Father God, always before us! 
Because You Are at my right hand, we shall not be shaken. 
Our hearts will be glad, and our whole being rejoices. 
We will dwell secure in Jesus Christ.

Father God will not abandon us, we will not see corruption. 
We will live. Father God in you are the paths of life. 
Because of You, Jesus, there is fullness of joy.
 Because being at Your right hand is always a pleasure. Thank You, Father God.

We pray for my mother, Anne, who has Alzheimer's and is in Hospice,
she is quite ill, unable to stand and feed herself.
Mother has been passing on for about five years and unable to communicate.
We pray the Mercy of Jesus and her comfort, Father.

My father, Daddy, always dreamed, about 80 times
he would be deceased fairly early in life and Jesus
would ask him to guide my mother into Heaven. 
So much of the detailed dream has happened and, soon,
the rest of this will occur.
We pray the comfort and mercy of Jesus.

We pray for the Nation,
the world interconnected and in need of Your Love and Mercy.

Abba, Father,

You gave us Jesus Christ
to save the world in Jesus Christ.

Dwell in us.
Help us to be the Delight of Your Heart.
Dwell in those we Love.
Help us to seek You first.
And with You, we will finish well.

May the Lord Bless us and Keep us
and
Make His Face to Shine upon us
be gracious to us.

May the Lord God 
Lift His Countenance upon us
and smile
give us peace,
put Your Name, Highest Name Jesus
upon us Your Beloved
and we will
be Blessed.

Amen in Jesus Christ.



Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.
Jesus, we pray Life and healing
Joy and Love in all of us.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.
Jesus, Hope and Future.
Jesus the Lord
saves the world
Amen.



♔ LORD JESUS SAVES 
















 



Tuesday, October 19, 2021

John 12:20-26 ~ worship




John 12:20-26




Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 

21 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 

22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 

23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 

24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 

25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 

26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.


Jesus, when we read of Him, we find, He did not want to break a bruised reed in mankind. And in early Church History, we find Titus was known to be part of Jesus' 72 early disciples. The larger group than the 12 Disciples, sent ahead.  Titus had let the Greek dispersion know about the lame can walk, the deaf hear, the blind can see, the leper is cleansed and the poor have good news preached to them. The Greek Dispersion in Greece had their majority, the largest population on the Isle of Crete.  These are the people, the Jewish Israel Dispersion Greeks, who came on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

If we don't seek and find the response of Jesus to the Greek Jews,  eager to meet Jesus, the answer seems depressed or sad. In fact, this is Jesus doing the Salvation His Father had sent Him to do.






Let's look again at Jesus replying:

1. You are late, I'm on the path to Jerusalem. 
Glory is about to occur. Jesus sends them the Gift of His Word. He recognizes they seek Him to find Him. He honors the work they have put in their faith and travel.

2. I'm not as alone as you think, God is present. 
The Pharisees had hoped Jesus would leave and go to the dispersion. They meant this unkindly, but Jesus knew the Jewish Greek Dispersion heart. And Jesus is saying the incredible Salvation has begun.

3. Jesus' point to us in John's Gospel Chapters from 14 to 17, Jesus finds our life on earth to be Joy. Jesus loves Life. He is saying, Jesus would love to travel with the Greeks. Jesus is making the decision to follow God and not the continued Life of Joy. We know the sacrifice of Jesus' own life was exceedingly sad to Jesus.

4. The hearts of the Dispersion asks Jesus to come and be served. Jesus is expecting them to continue to be part of Jesus' life. They have heard much, let them journey with Jesus. Not to end the seeking as Jesus tells them, no. Jesus is giving them the commission to serve Him. And in the Service of Jesus, for their kindness, Jesus is going to honor these men.











All photos of Crete




The Life recorded in Crete, by the Book of the Disciple Titus, is one of Peace. 


The Jews and the Christians did not fall out. Titus, like the Disciple John, lived to be remarkably old. Titus is one of the very few Disciples of the 72, where history records the Church community building a Church.  When we look at Patmos and Crete, we find the land of milk and honey. Something that ancient Judea was foretold, yet wasn't a daily part of the ancient world of Judea. 
















Patmos for John, Beloved of God, Book of Revelations and also the History of the Romans.



The Gif photo was told to be made from in front of John's dwelling.





 Luke 1
  
   you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways,
to give knowledge of salvation to His people
    in the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
    whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into the way of peace.




Does this seem to be the Word of the Lord?

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please Him, 
for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists 
and 
that He rewards those who seek Him.

We are daily invited to read the Word of God.

 Abide in God. Seek and ye shall find. 

With the Parable of the 10 talents, we find, 
God wants us to look to see Him working today and active, to find His mercies renew daily. 

The 1970s saw art displaying Jesus, even at Christmas, either like elementary, simple folk art or austere museum depictions. Jesus found Joy in life. We work to do this faith. 

Jesus tells us, "The work of mankind is to believe God." The father standing in front of Jesus with the son, so ill, cried out to Jesus he had faith, but he needed the help of Jesus to find more faith. The son was healed. Jesus hears us and knows us and says we will find God to be the corrupt Judge, and His reply to this is, "Always pray with Hope." Faith, Hope and Love. The Greatest is Love. Love the Lord God with all your mind, heart and soul.

Abide in God. His Living Word.






Abba, Father God,

Help me to be one of that number. In the Highest Name of Jesus. 

Dwell in us,  Reach past our brim, help Love flow shaken and running over!
Help us seek You first.
Dwell in those we Love, help them to brim with Your Love.
In this Way, Truth and Life
we will see more Heaven upon earth,
Your Good Creation.


Fill us with Hope and Love and Joy.
Bless our Nation in Jesus Christ.

Let us turn away,
not clickbait the things unappealing to You,
Turn us to Blessings and Building instead.
Our media statistics change, 
help us direct Your Love to our news.

Our Alleluia in Jesus Christ.
Amen


Our refuge is in You, Jesus, our Living Water.  Amen



Jesus

Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.
Jesus, we pray Life and healing
Joy and Love in all of us.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.
Jesus, Hope and Future.
Jesus the Lord
saves the world
Amen.



♔ LORD JESUS SAVES 



















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We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He has saved all who call upon His name and rely on Him for His Grace. The Scriptures are living & active and are for understanding the Lord Almighty. Biblical readings are chosen from the Ecumenical Christian Church and the Nicene Council, 325 A.D., approved Apocrypha. People remember not just from reading, but by sight and orally- an image has been added as well as audio readings. God tends to link the passages together with fascinates - this blogger, Anne-Laurel Gardere

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This blog is pretty simple, but for a reason. This blog isn't about agenda or me, it is for the joy and love to found by reading the Scriptures. Ultimately, it is you and the Lord.

The Scriptures are Father God's letter to you. He wanted you to know more, to know He loves you.

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Email registry at bottom.! “All Scripture is inspired by God” (2 Timothy 3:16). Men “moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God” (2 Peter 1:21). The Holy Spirit carried men along, moving and guiding them as they wrote in their own words what God wanted them to say. The Bible is unique; comprised of 80 separate books, & written over a period of thousands of years by more than 40 writers with one Author, spanning the centuries, different states of peace & war & different situations in life. The Bible answers the question: of who is God, who is man & what can their relationship can be. Although the Bible was written on perishable material and copied by hand for many centuries, its accuracy is not in doubt, proven by Dead Sea Scrolls and papyrus from 2,000 years. The Bible has survived persecution & criticism to be read with great interest in each generation. The Bible gives witness to the greatness of the Creator. A loving Father concerned for all of his creation. With each verse of the bible witnessing to God is love and the multitude & vastness of His attributes. The Bible was written for you. <><

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Who Jesus Is
1 Timothy 1:1-11 ~ God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
Matthew 16:13-20 ~ who do people say the Son of Man is?

Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
Animals are found in Heaven ~ 6 Prophets See Animals in Heaven

Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







Blessing our Father God

Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

Brothers
Christmas - His Word Upholds the Universe - December 25th


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
John 1:1-14, 16, 29-51 ~ He was in the world

Details - Putting it all together and discovering it is about God

Psalm 108 ~ In triumph I will parcel out Shechem

Determine your own path, just love Him

Judges 16 ~ like any other man
John 4:43-54 ~ Doing what Jesus says


Earthquake

Every Day, Still Today
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow


Exodus - History












Heavenly Hosts
His Messengers of Light












Elements of Nature Displaying HIS Glory
Exodus 40:16-38 ~ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

I Decide What is Right and Wrong - God noticed this in the Garden of Eden from Eve

Individualism and Groups

It's the End of the World as We Know it, And I Feel Fine. (One of our most read posts.)
Grandpa - The Bible is Really the Life Story of People and
their Abba









Gates of Heaven


Gifts of God, all of us


Giving - God certainly is





























Glory


God sees His Creation as Good!!!


Gravity






















Good Friday

Gossip

Gratitude

Greatest

Grief, Forgiveness, Homecoming


Hated Emotion - Fear




































History - Is There History Showing Jesus was Alive - VERY EXTENSIVE HISTORY

Holiness


Holy Spirit ~ Manifestations

Homeward Bound, still a sojourner

Honey, Do this

Invitation
John 3:31-36 ~ that God is true

Israel - Destroyed Completely and Rebuilt. A sign of Jesus. Existing today.

Jesus clearly put a Foundation for His Resurrection to be Believed by the Multitudes of all of Israel and the Nations

Jesus and His Childhood Privacy
Nazareth - What Jesus did See Growing Up

John the Beloved Disciple


The Journey of Joseph


























Live It
Psalm 117 ~ Praise the Lord
Psalm 82 ~ rescue the weak and the needy
2 Samuel 4:1-12 ~ David answered
Hebrews 12 ~ Thankful
Psalm 31:3-8,17-21 ~ Thou hast redeemed me
Isaiah 40:1-11 ~ His reward is with Him
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ the birds of the air come and perch in its branches
Matthew 6:25-34 ~ your heavenly Father knows that you need
Luke 11:29-32 ~ Rise up
Psalm 126 ~ shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves
Luke 14:15-24 ~ there is still room
Joshua 1:1-9 ~ I am giving
Acts 5 ~ speak in the name of Jesus
John 1 ~ the Light shines
John 3:5-8 ~ born again
~ they went on from there and passed through Galilee
Judges 20 ~ Israel

Losing a Loved One - Passing ON

Revelation 21:22-27 ~ those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life

Not Being Tossed Back and Forth with Emotion
Ephesians 4 ~ speaking the truth in Love

Marriage
Romans 7:1-12 ~ bear fruit for God
1 Corinthians 7 ~ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband
Genesis 37:12-24 ~ when Reuben
Psalm 143 ~ Your steadfast love
Psalm 86 ~ For great is your steadfast love

Media... taking it down the path
1 Corinthians 10 ~ Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God





Mercy, an Inseparable Component of Truth
Matthew 23:23-26 ~ clean
1 Samuel 12 ~ serve the Lord with all your heart
Matthew 22:34-40 ~ The great and first commandment. And a second is like it

Miscellaneous
Job 38 ~ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Psalm 19 ~ the heavens declare the glory of God
2 Kings 5:1-15 ~ a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper
1 Chronicles 13 ~ the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom










Peace




Pharisee ~ Religion
Luke 11:42-46 ~ Woe to you Pharisees!


Pictorial Images of the 12 Tribes of Israel








Picture It


















Overcoming, with God's help!


Positive Attitude in Trouble




Prophets - the Law and the Old Men in Robes or People who Love the Lord. Flaws and Virtues. What They Sought in the Lord and What Drew Them to Him.



Praise



























Prayer

Psalm 91 ~ Prayer is always heard, God has an open door policy



Prayer Needs




Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Promises

Prosperity Gospel











Repeat and Repeat







Rest

Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
there would be days like this
Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

Science - Blinded me - No - He Who Opens the Eyes of the Blind - With Science!!!

Second (3rd or 4th) Rate Seventh Level of Heaven

Seventh Level of Heaven







Shepherd

Smile!



Time Management





Life and Travels of Paul

Shroud

Transfiguration



True
The World Changed Rapidly after the first Easter



Trust Him

Uncomfortable Scripture

Video Game Player

Visual







Who is like our God?

Willingly

Works and Grace
Mark 1:4-11 ~ You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased

Worry

Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

Yahweh




Years - Thousands of Them are Yesterday in His Sight


80 Books of the Bible
Holy Spirit Approved by the First Council Nicaea and St. Nicholas
Included by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Today included by the Catholic Church
God wants to save the world.
The Apocrypha has Purpose; other cultures blend here.





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