Matthew 5:6 ~ FILLED!

 

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst 

for 

righteousness, 
for they will be filled.

Jeremiah 31:25

 

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.

Psalm 107:9

For He satisfies the thirsty 

and 

fills the hungry with good things.

The Light shines, darkness has been overcome

The Light shines, 

darkness has been overcome.

Jesus has overcome the world.

Jeremiah 31:12

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; 

they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD

--the grain, new wine, and oil, 

and the young of the flocks and herds. 

Their life will be like a well-watered garden, 

and never again will they languish.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in Him at all times, 

O people; 

pour out your hearts before Him. 

God is our refuge. 

Selah

The last 2 Scriptures differ from each other. We get humdrum, especially in mid January. 

December is different, we have yo-yos and layers. 

It's like the weather, if you think layers keep us warm, and you wear spun polyester with lycra, you haven't experienced wearing wool.  Wool works. December has all kind of joys celebrating: Life kicking up into care and giving! And works to annoy and worship the birth of the savior, Jesus Christ.  It is exactly like having a baby. All the joy, all the planning, all the anticipation, and then the work, work, work. 

Like a relationship, this requires work.

One of my best Christmas memories of childhood, was walking in the snow in Emporium, PA. Beauty, Beauty, Beauty.  The town has a tradition of leaving on the LIGHT for Christmas Eve. Because all of the Churches have midnight Christmas Eve Service and many people would walk.

We all plan our Christmas decorations around things we loved as a child or things we wanted to do our parents would not. Still today, Christmas decorations are for bringing what is old and new together.

And because of those snowy Christmas Eve walks, I prefer lights in bushes. 

Even when they go out and I have to buy new LED and incandescent light bulbs as the month continues.

My Christmas tree this year has been a project since last year. 

Well, a project since 2021. I bought a beautiful faux, real touch, tree.  Because our last tree was faux and GORGEOUS GREEN, but it took 6 hours to build it like a Lego or Lincoln Log kit. Then the numbers fell off. And it took 12 hours to relabel it. The next year, the needles fell off.  Bummer.  And everyone just complained so much, I think the faux needles fell off in unhappiness. Sure.  It made the tree a 2 day project to decorate.

Now, I have to complain about lights. Ready. Set. GO. 

Sometimes on the Posts, I am much more carefree to discuss the real me.  

Let's go with Lights.

I dreamed 30 years ago, of a loved one who had died in supreme self-centeredness.  And this family, loved one, abandoned the entire family and, in truth, lived like the prodigal son the rest of his days as he aged and left a 25 year marriage.  The dream is still so real thirty years later, it was the day I spent with him in his house in the 7th level of Heaven. The sunlight was merciless desert. He was on the line of the boundary of Heaven. The visit was exceedingly loving.  He realized he had reached grace to be where he was.  A lovely house, a gigantic library, comfortable chairs, a cat (I recognized) and visitors. But the quality of the light was exceptional. Fry Light. An examination Light.  Self examination.

And then when LED came out, I really was Not Jazzed. 

Especially when Google used to recognize the ingredients were water and a hazmat cancer cleanup hazard.  Suddenly during Biden, that warning went away as the news became unreliable. I have had cataracts and 3 surgeries, and LED isn't the best and most suitable non-glare light. Not Jazzed.

And I wondered... if Light of the world. And LED had anything in common with the culture in crisis, pandemic and dishonest news. 

I freely acknowledge here  ... 

you did not have this dream, you haven't had cataracts or halos or beams from LEDs, and you don't see the light as LIGHT. These are my thoughts. Ok, granted. Fair enough. But could you wonder at the hazard, suddenly, being described as no big deal?  I wonder about that too. And dishonesty.  

Dishonesty and LED: If you spend $200 and $300 replacing your incandescent light bulbs, wow, are you going to save money! Big Lie. You are saving the planet, honey. And saving the grid. BUT... your electricity bill doesn't even go down $5.  Not a damn dime. You    have    been    lied   to.  I do not like a product that I am told is healthy and does not have one result. And then the car chargers are on fire, while all the household lights are LEDs. 

Think honesty and the hazard to the wastewater.  But the brilliant people tell us. That lead in gasoline will be fine. That microplastics are all ok. Huh. 

Honesty.

Back to the Christmas Tree. 

The LED lights from the Tree are so bright at night, 

my 40 years of crafting individual ornaments (Angels) make them look like beige blobs. 

 I have tried putting the colors in order in vertical patterns. Ok.  

I have tried groups of colored balls and ornaments and this works out best. I attach them all with high strength fishing line. Ok, with the tree glaring at me like headlights, I can make out a red and blue and green.  And blob ornaments.

Then I discovered I could put colored incandescent lights and dim the halo glow.

WHY MY CHRISTMAS TREE HAS TAKEN 3 DAYS TO DECORATE:

Because my new incandescent lights are LED. 

They are from Indonesia, and in Indonesia they do not speak English. 

NOW THIS IS A HAZARD.

WHY you ask.  Because I use my incandescent Christmas Tree String Lights as HEAT FIXTURES FOR ALL MY PLANTS DURING A FREEZE.

LED do not do one or a blessed thing for plants in freezing weather. 

I am so frustrated.

I put incandescent lights on, and they are the wrong size in length. 

And I buy more and then realize that there is no heat, 

this is 

NOT INCANDESCENT LIGHTS.

Let's talk about HONESTY AGAIN.

WHEN WAS AN INCANDESCENT LIGHT 

Ever ever ever ever ever

having a law passed against Technology 

with a purpose like

Incandescent Light Bulbs. 

And is the product with so much dishonesty about laws

wattage

effects and all of that

OK.  No.

Sincerity

THIS. IS. The Layers of Christmas. It is so annoying 

and in the doldrums of January. I will completely and totally miss the Joy of Christmas. 

Because if we don't search for our Blessings. They will take off like a Rocket and the flame won't even warm us. 

And if we stuff the emotions into our pressure cooker brain, it will make the tongue explode.  

Edward and I were listening to cheesy lounge music from the 1990s.  You don't want to swim in the drink there.  Just basically illness.  It's a relief to leave the tunes.  Enjoying Christmas, no matter the effort, is much more fulfilling to find Joy.  Love. Hope Faith. 

We have to deal honestly with the frustration. Speak in a loud tone. Utter Dire Events and go on down the path with some renewed enthusiasm for Christmas.

Choices to be made. Honesty and regaining the Christmas Blessing. 

Psalm 62:8

Trust in Him at all times, 

O people; 

pour out your hearts before Him. 

God is our refuge. 

Selah

We will, by help of God. Comfort, Comforter, Helper, Help OUR GOD

Find the Blessings.

Abba, Father!

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.

Amen Amen

Amen

Amen

And for our

first grandchild

in June

Good Health

and God's Blessings

For the Gift of Love

Jesus,

Amen

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You Jesus The Lord

Mark 2:23-28 ~ grainfields †

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Mark 2:23-28

One Sabbath He was going through the grainfields, 

and as they made their way, His Disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 

24 And the Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” 

25 And He said to them, 

“Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 26 how he entered the House of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” 

27 And He said to them,

 “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 

So the Son of Man 

is 

Lord 

even of the Sabbath.”

Need, faith, visible and invisible    our thoughts on God

In yesterday's Post, we discussed the Virgin Birth was a 70s hot topic, with many believeth  in the Virgin Birth without a lot of discussion.  And today Sermons and many will say December 25th is part of the calendar changes and not part of Jesus' real birthday.  And to this I'd like to say:

God is God

God is Love

and

Christmas is Loved

mostly!

I Love Christmas

and

we all put up with the

work

the frustrations

the fullness

and emptiness.

This is the work

of

working

Relationship.

1 Corinthians 15:12-19 

 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

The demons know God is God and He as Lord God Almighty can certainly produce December 25th as the Birth of Christ Celebrated. And shudder.

Why not boldly say December 25th is entirely possible as the Work of God. Ok, let's.

Here is one of my favorite and true salvation stories.

A woman, who was divorced early in life with 2 sons to raise, did so in rural Canada. She was an RN, and being in rural areas, the pay was not great, but good to have her home and her elderly car.  One of the challenges in her late 50s, living alone and driving an hour to different hospitals in the dark of morning or evening.  An hour of driving, going to rural snow areas of Canada where an RN is needed. 

One winter night, she was doing something atypical: listening to the Christian radio station. Because this was on her mind lately. Rural Canada is like the UK, the pub is a place of warmth and camaraderie. And the pub always pokes gently or loudly at Christians.  Which is generally a little funny, but the pub crowd considers Christians to look down on the pub crowd.  And yet, for this woman, she had spent her life as a pub goer but this had begun to conflict some with her career as a healer and RN.  She had always felt that God existed in the vast areas of the world and the universe. A Light on.   

And so, in this idea, she had flipped the Christian radio station on. For the first time in decades.  And was listening.  The weather came on and she had missed the fact this was going to be a serious snowstorm with lower than normal temperatures.  And just as she thought about her reliable old car, the car made a noise certain to cause large discomfort. No one would know if she was alone and stranded this night. And never had a cold night seemed more perilous.

And an idea came to her mind and frightened person, like a Light in a very dark night.  The idea that in the next almost sure to be closed tiny, little Canadian rural town with only a handful of houses, someone would be waiting for her in front of the closed convenience store and gas station.  She knew it had a streetlight, but also knew the chance of someone standing in the dark, stormy night was about to be nil. But suddenly prayer, like a foxhole prayer, burst from her that she really was in trouble and this was a miracle she needed.  And as the prayer ended, her car noise made her understand that a miracle was needed for survival.  Cell phones in rural Northern Canada areas are mostly cell phone capacity zero.  And now she wept. And remembered, you are supposed to BELIEVE when you ask in Prayer.  And thought about her Pub life. And knew she was never going to be good enough for God and felt now, not just panic, but sorrow. 

She saw the streetlight of the store and gas station that usually was closed as she drove by early mornings or late nights. And a man was standing where her idea had told her.  Her car rolled to a halt. And she got out. Then, blurted out a question, "Are you an angel?" The younger man looked at her and said he had never been asked that before, but certainly not.  He said he heard the car engine stop, and she obviously was not trying to pick him up but was in fact having serious car trouble. And she agreed, with some tears, she was in some serious weather and car trouble. 

The man said, you are in luck. My car made that noise last week, and it was an easy fix, just buy the plug-in part.  And he stared at her. And said, "I accidentally bought the wrong model part. And I was going to return it, but it is now in my car." And he reached into his car and brought out a tube connecting the air filter box to the engine's throttle body. They both examined the part and found it would not be returned but used in her elderly car. And the man said it was a very odd coincidence it would work.

At that point, the RN blurted out again about the pub, faith, her career, the Light of an idea, the prayer and the woeful aftermath prayer. The part easily snapped into her car.  And the man said her faith was the backdoor, backbone wish of rural Canada. And he felt the same way.  And her woeful prayer, afterward, was called contrition. Something his brushes with the Baptist Church taught him are wholly acceptable and even pleasing to God the Almighty.

They shared silence. And the man said, it's too much of a coincidence for your 20 or 30 year old car to have a man waiting in the streetlight of a closed store with the right part.  In a snowstorm. In a town with maybe 15 houses. And they both agreed they have lived an honest-to-God miracle. 

The RN asked, why are you standing here? The man replied, he lived alone and liked to get out and drive in the evening, and in the light of the store, it was the place he usually got out and bought something he needed. By habit, he had gotten out and decided to watch the heavy, quiet snow pouring down.

And he asked her if her faith had changed.  And the woman answered her faith had been a pushed-aside faith, a battered faith, a neglected faith and a mocked faith. But today, the Voice and Grace of God had revealed that God is a God of Love. And Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, fully God and fully Capable. Yes, God had changed her wonder to faith.

The man added, you have witnessed immediately to a man who is a doubter in the middle of an honest-to-God miracle. To find another soul who had found God is Fully Capable to Bring Forth All His Promises. 

They agreed it was a great way to have a life filled with Faith. Jesus Christ is God.

God is Fully Capable as God. 

All of our prayers for the ones we love. My grandmother Anita prayed for her son, Jimmy, the policeman brought her at age 2. Beaten badly by a failed adoption. To become Anita's son for the next 76 years. Saved by Jesus at age 72. Saved.  And Oh, God and all His fishes, my uncle was a great, tremendous lot of work.  Those prayers bounced off the proverbial ceiling for 70 years.  Fully and God-capably answered when Anita had been in Heaven for a decade.

 

God is Fully Capable and is God.

Our Father, God 

Please Bless and Heal 

National Guardsman 

Andy Wolf

His faithful family calling for

our National Prayers.

Forget not all His benefits -

Who forgives all your sins

and 

heals all your diseases,

Who redeems your life from the pit

and crowns you 

with love and compassion

Letting our

Dependable Past Blessings

Restore us again 

today

Stronger and Loving

Wise

and Capable.

Bless those, Father,

who have Blessed us.

In Heaven or earth.

With Your Help

We will act justly

 to love mercy

 and 

to walk humbly with You, our God.

In Only Your Mercy and Grace,

Jesus Christ gives us Salvation.

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. 

And the Nations of the world,

Your Good Creation,

Calling upon You.

Lord Jesus Christ,

Bless those working for

Post Pandemic Healing

and Care.

The healing and safety of Your people.

Blessings for those

helping the earth 

to heal.

Let evil and practicing evil

depart far from us

and our children.

Worldwide

Peace and Prosperity!

For Children in their Schools, 

all safety.

For those who protect and defend the USA

The National Guard especially during our Holidays.

Keep our food supply safe.

Those who protect

and defend

All The Word of God.

Freedom in our Churches.

Wholeness

Holy.

Goodness.

Thy Kingdom come

Thy will be done

on earth

as it is

in Heaven. 

And the June birth

of our

first Grandchild.

Jesus Christ, please,

Your blessings of

Health, Peace,

Wisdom

and Prosperity

for His Glory!

And for Edward's eyes

and 

his surgery on them to go 

very, very well.

An upcoming

Family Funeral

to please those in

Heaven.

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

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