2 Chronicles 20:15-17 ~ The Lord will be with you

Recently, Dori had an excellent prayer and I was particularly moved. I'd say it was the Covid 19 Prayer I'll always remember. Here is my best summary:

Dear Father God,

We lean into You to rest and draw Comfort from You. We realize we are fine. We are fine, and we are fine. 

And suddenly we realize we have been tense all day being fine. And we again know we need the Strength and encouragement we find in Jesus Christ. Let's draw close together. And in your Strength, we will rest assured.

We want Your Comfort to surround and protect those we Love. We know You are God and You make all things Possible.

We live in Jesus, renew us again in Jesus. Amen.

I've had all the symptoms of Covid 19 at least

three times a week. How 'bout achew?

Feeling intermittently (or constantly) on edge, worried or sleepless are normal ‘fight-or-flight’ reactions to this trauma. We are not going crazy. We are simply coping with a new reality — whether we are sick or not.
By Lucy McBride, M.D. and Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D


About mid-March, as I walked the dogs, I'd pass quite a few people looking like someone was in the room with a loaded gun. People were terrified. Now, people don't look so afraid and this is wonderful. And yet, there is a lot of emotion surrounding so many, many new opportunities for a solution. Ranging from Spiritual, Health, Finances, National, State, Local, Jobs, Safety, Isolation, Relationships, Reactions to the events with the people we love and interact with. We all look more normal, but it's a tough worried, concerned, downright angry time. Even the boredom does things.

If you aren't sleeping, you won't do well.  (Unless you are Michelangelo).
Melatonin in your right number, slow-release. Melatonin is a hormone made by the pineal gland. That's a pea-sized gland found just above the middle of your brain. It helps your body know it's time to sleep. I've found juggling the numbers and not always taking Melatonin makes my Pineal happier. I've found my Tinnitus is happier and calmer as well.

The other thing we have to examine is the comfort we require to sleep. This might be as easy as juggling the blankets in the house. I've found a cotton woven blanket will make the covers hug me and this feels like I have covers, not needing adjustment. And then we have a synthetic eiderdown comforter, with very smooth cotton. The real eiderdown bunched up. And in the winter, or in back pain, we sleep with a heating blanket under us to make tired shoulders and hips have comfort with a flick of a switch. Works very well. Edward and I have 3 down pillows each and constantly battle for the fluffy, on top, pillow. My sons swear by Tempurpedic pillows. Our mattress is Tempurpedic and it's constantly warm, so we have a ceiling fan and my grandmother Anita's c. 1935 iron fan pointed at us.

What would cause your nest to be more comfortable - this is for you to diligently experiment. Our quilt is great but it hurts my feet and I remove this from my feet. It's an effort of comfort, well worth the testing.

Limiting media exposure, avoiding mistruths, and practicing breathing, yoga or meditation. Prayer! And the Word of God. This is Easter and we are going to find our Road to Emmaus, not with convoluted suddenly arrived at new theories, but with the Solid Rock Foundation of God's Word.

What will you face? Exercise? Making phone calls to the less than enthusiastic? Going back to work? Having new fears? Exercise and music are going to help with Prayer. Maybe you will make time to please yourself. I've been having sugar free ice-cream with a diet soda. For a hundred calories, I'm beating pre-diabetes. With Exercise. And Prayer.

Here is my disclaimer:
Ad mores et ad usum, ut usus sit commercial, sive in natura, sive in nonprofit pro educational usus.
De natura iuris opus.
Et quantum ad usus, et sustineri ex parte comparari ad se ut totum opus iuris.

Saying, if you are older and have immunity health issues, take care. Or if you are in a Hot Spot. Don't.

I'm seeing people who are healthier and family meeting together in parking lots.
Coffee is being sipped. Restaurant take-out is being eaten. In Parking Lots. The cars take up two spots, leaving two empty spaces in between for four people in two car spaces. What is carried from home are foldable yard chairs. Everyone is 6 feet apart. The people look happier. And one warm, warm Texas day the parking lot featured two lounge chairs in the very warm concrete Parking Lot. It's not the beach, but Texas Concrete Parking Lots are bright and very warm!


When we feel overwhelmed, one day at a time. Consider the times this nation has seen in one lifetime:
I feel in God we Trust, we will prevail.

World War I
Spanish Flu
The rise of dictatorship
The Nuclear Age
World War II
The end of empires: decolonization
The Cold War
Korean War
Vietnam
Polio
The Great Depression of 1929–39
1950s: U.S. Army–McCarthy Hearings
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The OPEC Oil Price Shock of 1973
Black Monday 1987
The Asian Crisis of 1997
Information and communications technology
The Financial Crisis of 2008
911
Middle East Wars


You would think, looking at this list, no one would ever have hope again. And yet, lives went forth. Hope and Strength endured. Life Prevailed.

Matins (during the night, at about 2 a.m.); also called Vigil
Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at dawn, about 5 a.m., but earlier in summer, later in winter)
Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = approximately 6 a.m.)
Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = approximately 9 a.m.)

Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = approximately 12 noon)
The Lord's Prayer is said Nationwide for the Nation and your prayer requests. We ask the Blessing of seeking God first and His Kingdom here on earth and Heaven. We pray to Live Love, Peace and Joy.

Nones or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)
We pray for the ill to not have suffering. We pray the Virus to stop. We pray for Health Care to have hope, strength and relief. We pray for God's Miracles and His daily Love enfolding us.

Vespers or Evening Prayer ("at the lighting of the lamps", about 6 p.m.)
Compline or Night Prayer (before retiring)

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Judges 10:8-15 ~ served the Lord

Judges 10:8-15

For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

10 And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”

11 And the Lord said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand. 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more. 14 Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”

15 And the people of Israel said to the Lord, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.”

16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, 
and He became impatient over the misery of Israel.

Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Colossians 3:13
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive

Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

John 21:11

So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. 
And although there were so many, the net was not torn.

12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.”

When we have time on our hands, and worry, we can bring up old hurts and find anger.

When I think of our Father God providing me and giving me the Grace of His Forgiveness. And then feel the outflow of Mercy within me is waning to depletion, I've found visualizing unending Living Water pouring down. Is Sincere Help.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of 

The Gospel,

for it is the power of God

for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not My word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that smashes a rock?

Romans 1:16 

For I am not ashamed of The Gospel, 

for it is the power of God 

for salvation to everyone 

who believes

The Road to Emmaus. When we find the Comfort of Jesus, Christ of God. This generally isn't longer, or more difficult, than a verse of God's Living Word.

 Jesus told us Rivers of Living Water:

John 7:37-39

The great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, 

“If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 

‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 

Now this he said about the Spirit.

We are told of the abundance of Living Water. And in the Lord's Prayer, we learn, we need Daily Bread. Jesus is our Living Bread. We are will want to abide in His Word.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

The faith of our fathers, the continuance of Life. The Word of God. Life.




The Road to Emmaus was written by the Holy Spirit, in Moses.

Deuteronomy 11:18
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Proverbs 3:3
Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck,
write them 
on the tablet of your heart.

2 Samuel 22:23
For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

Psalm 37:31
The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not falter.

Abba,

"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."

For “‘In Him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed His offspring.’

Acts 17:11
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

To Seek You First. To find Your Kingdom Today.
And we Thrive in You.

Finding Peace, is the Scripture,
is finding the Word of God to hold onto Today.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort
President Donald Trump,
Vice President Pence,
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors.
The people working tirelessly to aid Father God's Good Creation in Health, in Peace, in Prosperity
and the Blessing of Jesus Christ Himself, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Amen Jesus, Amen.

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Psalm 150 ~ His Excellent Greatness

Psalm 150

Praise the Lord!

Praise God in His sanctuary;

praise Him in His mighty heavens!

 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!

Daniel says the Heavenly Host is arranged on the earth like Second Baptist does dividing up the huge metroplex of Houston to feed Katrina evacuees for a year. God is Orderly. He arranges His Kingdom we do not see to surround us.

When we have God invited to live in us, we have have our Father God's sanctuary within us.

We are part of God's Kingdom today. We walk His High Ways.

Abba,

The Joyful words of Matthew Henry

Praise God with strong faith;
praise Him with holy love and delight;
praise Him with entire confidence in Christ;
 praise Him with believing triumph over the powers of darkness;
praise Him by universal respect to all His commands;
praise Him by cheerful submission to all His disposals;
praise Him by rejoicing in His love, and comforting ourselves in His goodness;
praise Him by promoting the interests of the kingdom of His grace;
praise Him by lively hope
and expectation of the kingdom of His glory.

To Seek You First. To find Your Kingdom Today.
And we Thrive in You.

Finding Peace , is the Scripture,
is finding the Word of God to hold onto Today.

We ask for the virus to end and Joy in Recovery.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort
President Donald Trump
Vice President Pence
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors
The people working tirelessly to aid Father God's Good Creation in Health, in Peace, in Prosperity
and the Blessing of Jesus Christ Himself, on earth as it is in Heaven.

Amen Jesus, Amen.

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Psalm 97 ~ Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart

John 1:5

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Psalm 97

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;

let the many coastlands be glad!

2 Clouds and thick darkness are all around Him;

righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

3 Fire goes before Him

and burns up his adversaries all around.

4 His lightnings light up the world;

the earth sees and trembles.

5 The mountains melt like wax 
before the Lord,

before the Lord 
of All the earth.

6 The heavens proclaim His righteousness

And all the peoples see His glory.

7 All worshipers of images are put to shame,

who make their boast in worthless idols;

worship him, all you gods!

8 Zion hears and is glad,

and the daughters of Judah rejoice,

because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For You, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;

You are exalted far above all gods.

10 O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

He preserves the lives of His saints;

He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sown for the righteous,

and joy for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,

and give thanks to His Holy Name!

Psalm 34:10

10 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

We have all been the Lions suffering want this year.

Psalm 62:6-8
He only is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my salvation and my glory;
my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah

Deuteronomy 5:24
 Behold, the LORD our God
 has shown us His glory and greatness, 
and we have heard His voice out of the fire. 
Today we have seen that God can speak with a man, yet the man lives.

Isaiah 25:3-5

Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;

cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor,

a stronghold to the needy in his distress,

a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;

for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

5 like heat in a dry place.

You subdue the noise of the foreigners;

as heat by the shade of a cloud,

so the song of the ruthless is put down.

1 Kings 7:36

He engraved cherubim, lions and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and on the panels, in every available space, with wreaths all around.

1 Kings 10:19

The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.

1 Kings 10:20

Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.

On this Easter's Road to Emmaus, we have all suffered fear this year. And instead of denial, we have faced our fears. And in this strength, we will be encouraged and will overcome.

The Road to Emmaus is the still small voice of the Jesus Giving us the Holy Spirit to help us to have calm, to have strength and Joy and to Light our path. Matthew saw Jesus differently thank Mark, Luke or John and,  yet, this is God's Joy and Strength establishing our Journey He has given us.

Isaiah 32:2
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, 
a shelter from the storm, 
like streams of water in a dry place, 
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

Joshua 4:18
And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord 
came up from the midst of the Jordan, 
and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground,
the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.

Abba!

We had such an unusual Easter, This is Road to Emmaus time.

To Hold on to Words of Life.

To find Where You, God the Almighty will place us, daily.

We find today finding the High Way.

To Seek You First. To find Your Kingdom Today.

And we Thrive in You.

Finding Peace , is the Scripture, 
is finding the Word of God to hold onto Today.


God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort
President Donald Trump
Vice President Pence
Governor Abbott and these 50 United States Governors
the people working tirelessly to aid
God's Good Creation
in Health
in Peace
in Prosperty
and the Blessing of Jesus Christ Himself.
on earth as it is in Heaven.

Amen Jesus, Amen.

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