Struggling To Find Ourselves

If God wants His best for His “children”, I find it hard to believe that sickness is part of His will for us.  Even though there are LOTS of different sicknesses, and new ones being discovered on a regular basis, I believe that God has something better in store for those who follow Him.  In Deuteronomy, it speaks of the covenant that God made between Himself and Abraham.  In this covenant, it names a bunch of diseases, and “all other diseases that AREN’T named”, such as asbestos cancer, thyroid imbalance and all others as part of the curse.

Have a blessed weekend!!

…my Mother’s birthday, and they are supposed to be taking a friend of mine off of life support about this afternoon.  It has been a long Summer for her, and her husband, as she has been in the hospital for a MOST of the last half of 2009.  Now she has an infection in her blood system that they haven’t been able to get under control yet, her blood pressure is low, her heart rate this morning is dangerously high and she needs the ventilator to help her get enough oxygen to survive…and here I sit at home.  We AREN’T stopping our prayers for a miracle just yet, but in the natural, it doesn’t look all that promising.  There seems to be a small possibility that her body will continue to function after they take her off life support, but the chances, in the natural realm, are EXTREMELY small.

More later….maybe….Blessings in 2010!!

Well, well….it seems that I remember what I was going to write about on my other site just after I logged out.  Oh well, such is life, I guess.  Gives me a topic to write about over the weekend or early next week, I guess!!!

Fall has come to our part of Kansas a bit earlier than normal.  I am having a difficult time believing that we’ve had the heat on for almost a week now!!!  It seems like we have been needing heat closer to November the last few years.  Oh well, we need a wet, cool, damp Fall and Winter, and a wet, warm Spring!!!  It is rough on farmers, though, because of all of the rain, as they haven’t all gotten their corn, soybeans, and milo harvested yet.  Maybe they can get some of it in this next week?

Got some bread in the oven.  Yeah, I know it’s a bit late to be doing things like baking, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time, and we needed bread.

You will NEVER guess what I saw coming home from picking my son up from school yesterday.  Take a guess and leave a note with your guess in it, and I’ll try to remember to answer this “quiz” in my next personal entry.  It was DEFINITELY something that I didn’t think I would ever see in Kansas!!!

Read up to Ezekiel 30 so far today, as well as reading Psalm 15 and Psalm 91.  Just a FEW more chapters and I will only have fairly short books of the Bible left to read before the New Testament!!!

Well, enough babbling in here for now, so take care and God Bless!!!

The days seem to be flying by as fast as the weather seems to be cooling off.  Seems like there is NEVER enough hours in the day to get everything done.  And, yes, it seems like, in certain areas of life, everything I touch takes me three times as long as it should.

Fall seems to have arrived earlier than normal this year.  Saw a small flock of geese flying South in a “V” formation this morning.  It’s only about a month earlier than normal.  There’s quite a few people that are convinced that we are going to have a long, hard Winter.  I, on the other hand, are not QUITE so sure.  I think this Fall and Winter COULD very possibly  be like this last Spring was…..wet and cool.  I guess we will see, won’t we?

Haven’t been to church much the last 3 or 4 months.  Between feeling like I’m burning both ends of the candle and running from one end of the country to the other, we just haven’t hit that “go-to-church-more” groove this Fall.  I HAVE been getting in some Bible reading here and there, though.  Not as regularly as I would like, but some is better than none, I think.

Well, about time for bed, me thinks, so we can get up tomorrow and do it all over again, so I will sign off for now.  You all take care, and claim those blessings from God that are rightfully yours!!!
Blessings in ABUNDANCE!!!

…When we say we can’t handle anymore?

I had a close friend ask me that a couple of hours ago.  Not only is this friend dealing with some MAJOR health issues and personal issues, but they found out last night that a member of the church that they were fairly close too was coming back from the doctor’s office when she told her husband that she didn’t feel good, and had what they are assuming was a heart attack and died.  I wasn’t sure what to tell my friend, other than I didn’t think that God got mad when we feel like we’ve reached the end of our ropes…..didn’t Job in the Bible?  Maybe Jonah had too?  I mean he was running from God for a little while.  What about the king that wasn’t eating while his child was sick, but when he received word that the child had died, he got up and was eating, MUCH to the astonishment of his servants.  I would have to say that not eating because your child is sick is POSSIBLY trying to tell God that you can’t handle anymore, don’t you think?  God is a loving God…and He understands our human weaknesses.  Sometimes we may wonder “Why Now, Lord?”, but someday, I believe it will all make sense.  Lord knows that I’ve been to the point myself when I have said that I couldn’t take anymore…..ALOT!!!

I’d be interested in your opinions…..do you think God gets mad when we’ve had enough?  If so, why?  If not, why not?

God Bless!!!

This is a little something that Dad found awhile back, and brought home because he thought I’d like it!!!  Enjoy!!!

Make a Right onto Believeth Blvd.

Keep straight and go through the Green Light, which is Jesus Christ.

There, you must turn onto the Bridge of Faith, which is over troubled water.

When you get off the bridge, make a Right turn and Keep Straight.

You are on the King’s Highway - Heaven-bound.

Keep going for three miles: One for the Father, One for the Son, and One for the Holy Ghost.

Then exit off onto Grace Blvd.

From there, make a Right turn on Gospel Lane.

Keep Straight and then make another Right on Prayer Road.

As you go on your way, yield not to the traffic on Temptation Avenue.

Also, avoid SIN STREET because it is a DEAD END.

Pass up Envy Drive and Hate Avenue.

Also, pass Hypocrisy Street, Gossiping Lane, and Backbiting Blvd.

However, you have to go down Long-suffering Lane, Persecution Blvd. and Trials & Tribulations Avenue.

But that’s all right, because VICTORY Street is straight ahead!!

My son and I have had some….interesting….discussions here lately.  Some of them have just been about whatever has been going on, others have been about books we’ve been reading, and still others have been about the Bible and religion.

One of our conversations about the Bible here about a month or so ago was about the verse in Matthew that says that you are supposed to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  When my son asked me what that meant, I told him that, normally, the ones that persecute you are your enemies, which basically meant that we are to pray for our enemies.  He thinks about it for just a minute, and then he says “That’s not right!”.  I explained to him that it was a VERY difficult thing to do sometimes, but that’s what Jesus wants us to do…pray for our enemies.  He repeated “That’s not right!”…I kind of chuckled at him and told him that we didn’t have to like it, but that’s what Jesus/God wants us to do here on Earth, and that’s what we should do.  He repeated again that that was not right, and I asked him if he was willing to tell God that that wasn’t right when he got to Heaven.  He didn’t even hesitate before he said “Yeah!!! ‘Cause that’s not right!!!”…*LOL*  I can see my son going up to God in Heaven and saying that they needed to have a discussion because “That’s not right!!!”…*L*

Oh, the joy that children bring into our houses!!!
God Bless!!!

I had a friend ask me several months ago when the last time was that I did something “spontaneous”.  I told her I felt like my life was “spontaneous”.  I rarely have any “set” plans…..I DON’T make too many plans that can’t be changed on the spur of the moment….We just kind of fly by the seat of our pants most days and pray God is in control and makes things turn out alright.  Well, I did something that I’m not sure would be classified “spontaneous” or not yesterday.  It was DEFINITELY something that I hadn’t done in a long time, though….ever actually.  I went to www.kcm.org and loaded up their “BVOV All Word Radio” and listened to service after service yesterday and most of the night last night.  I was feeling kind of…..shall we say….down? yesterday…I wasn’t feeling too hot because of a headache, and I just felt like I needed a word from God.  Can you imagine having the word of God preached to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?  After several hours of services, I was feeling better, at least in some ways!!!  And, I HAVE to say that the services they were running were EXACTLY what I needed to hear!!!  I NEED to see about getting a copy of them, so I can listen to them again!!!  It was VERY uplifting, spiritually, and I thank God for the internet and the ability to be able to do stuff like that!!!

God Bless!!!

…that maybe I’m not doing too bad on my Bible reading, so far this year.  I finished reading II Kings to my son last night when he was going to bed.  I haven’t been reading every day with everything going on, but I haven’t been doing too bad, I don’t think, and I’m trying to get more regular again with my reading.

I also think that maybe, JUST maybe, the Pastor for the church across the street from us has been reading the current chapter of my life.  He has been doing sermons on getting Satan to flee from you, and waiting on God when it seems like you’ve already waited too long and are tired.  Interesting, ain’t it?

More later….God Bless!!!

…Another dollar….or so the saying goes!!!

I’ve got something that is SUPPOSED to resemble dinner in the crockpot, though whether it’s edible or not is ANYONE’S guess at this point.  It’s one of those “I have some of this and this, so let’s throw them in the crockpot and see what happens” type things.  No, actually, it’s SUPPOSED to be a soup-type thing, but we’ll see how it turns out before I say that it’s DEFINITELY a soup.  Have you ever done that?  Thing you are fixing a soup, and have it turn out more like a stew or something?

My boy is at school, at the moment.  He’s doing pretty good in most areas, and the one’s he’s having difficulties in, we have been working on at home when we’ve got the time and feel like it.

I’ve done SOME Bible reading already this morning.  I don’t know if I’m done for the day or not, though.  We’ll have to see what happens, and what my mood is later.

More later on our not-so-exciting life, maybe…God Bless!!!