Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Tagged


k , I don' t like getting tagged , but I have the time and this looked a little bit like fun. I was tagged by Mimi at http://listentogrammie.blogspot.com/ .
4 MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER:
1. The Court Jester
2. Bringing up Baby
3. White Christmas
4. The Muppet Christmas Carol
4 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. Somers, CT.
2. Warren, VT.
3. Caldwell, NJ
4. Sand Springs, OK
4 SHOWS I WATCH
1. The weather
2. The news
3. Home and Garden TV (different shows when I Iron)
4. Monk
4 PLACES I HAVE BEEN
1. Japan
2. Italy
3. Canada
4. Alaska (just on a plan stop--ha, ha)
4 PEOPLE WHO EMAIL ME
1. MY daughter
2. My oldest son
3. My youngest son
4. A friend from church who loves spam!
4 FAVORITE THINGS I LOVE TO EAT
1. Cheesecake
2. Salmon
3. Chocolate (dove)
4. Nuts
4 PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE
1. Here
2. Home here
3. Home sweet home
4. Do you get it--I love where I am (hmm, I wouldn't mind being in the Mts when it gets warmer!)
4 THINGS LOOK FORWARD TO THIS YEAR
1. Taking care of my Granddaughter
2. Seeing the new grandbaby that is due in July
3. Visiting my oldest son in Seattle
4. My 31st anniversary
4 PEOPLE TO TAG

Another God Wink

Well I experienced another God Wink on Tuesday. Some of you know I visited a lady at the nursing home the other week and when I did, I found out she grew up in the town next to mine up in CT. She also went to the same high school as my mom! This lady lives here in SC and so do I ---it was the hand of God putting us together. I have never met anyone that went to the high school my mom did!

Any ways! I had some flowers from the church to take to her and I was not able to get the time to go over on Monday. So Tuesday I had some time in the morning. God just so timed this that I got there shortly after her son-in-law had come in to tell her that her daughter had died. She was handling it so well---she is such a blessing and has such a wonderful attitude of counting her blessings; I am so glad God timed it so I could be there with her. If you read this, pray a prayer that God would continue to comfort her in this loss---she said it hadn't really sunk in yet.

In my devotions today--meditated on Exodus 2:24-25 where the following phrases can be found -"God heard their groaning" "God remembered his covenant" "God saw" "and God knew"-- I love this--God hears, remembers, sees and knows----and these bring comfort because, as I know, these statements are not apart from his love and comfort!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

lifting the blues

Well when I am feeling blue I get happy if I move furniture---I don't know why? Mondays sometimes are blue days, but moving things always thrills me ;-) . I decided to put a nice windowy area for my laptop and desk area. It made me very happy--plus with the corny old clock I got from my Daughter's ole house---it puts a smile on my face!
There is a picture here that didn't load--so ignore the x box if there is one--well after posting it posted the picture!! who knows if it will continue to show!! I think I have 2 of the same--ah well! Here is a close up of my little treat of an area--I can sit at my lap top and look out both of the windows!


I put my bird next and two of the bird houses together --and that brings a smile too!



Last of all my pansies enliven the dull winter browns. We have had some grey days---I definitely am affected by the weather!

I also found a little old book with short stories called, The Little Gold Ring. It was written in the 1920's and is really entertaining---sometimes I need a break from all the seriousness, and sadness , and suffering in life and in the lives around me----not sure if that is spiritually the correct thing, but the Bible does talk of laughter as a good medicine and studies have proven that to be true. Not that the Bible needs proving! So a little moving of furniture, and a few short stories and a more contented outlook. Why? Because , it gives refreshment Posted by Picasa

Saturday, January 26, 2008

GUIDANCE

In God's providence, I received this email with the following attached:

" Dancing With God --When I meditated on the word , Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word, Guidance. When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "i" dance." God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead. My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life. "

Then I opened up my readings for my daily Bible time and this is part of what I read:

11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

I thought again how much dancing expresses what I feel about God--when I think of all He has done for me , my response is the feeling in my mind of dancing. So there are many aspects that the dance expresses of my walk in God---Love Him!!

THE DANCE

Dancing With God When I meditated on the word , Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word, Guidance. When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "i" dance." God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead. My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life.
If God has done anything for you in your life, please share this message with someone else. Interceding in prayer is one of the best gifts we can receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards, so let's continue to pray for one another. And I Hope You Dance!

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Let's all dance like no one is watching
ta ta for now Sherri

G U I D A N C E
Dancing With God When I meditated on the word , Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word, Guidance. When I saw "G": I thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "i" dance." God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life.
Once again, I became willing to let God lead. My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday.

May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life.
If God has done anything for you in your life, please share this message with someone else. Interceding in prayer is one of the best gifts we can receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards, so let's continue to pray for one another. And I Hope You Dance!

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Hey--thanks so much --it expressed or expresses exactly--EXACTLY --- (if you didn't get it --EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!) how I oh so often!!!!!!!!!!!!FEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL!



ANd then I read this right after reading your letter --in my daily readings!



Psalm 30:


11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever



Dancing describes so much of what I feel---not only his guidance , but my response to his Glory---thanks!! KIM


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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Living Water

As a Christian there are some passages in the Bible that become so familiar that I tend to not really pay attention , at times, when I read them. John 4 and the woman at the well is one of them.... I read it this morning and of course it lead me to a chain of other scriptures as I began thinking about the richness of what Christ was saying.


10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water



It is good for me to think about the beauty of the fact that Jesus gives us a "spring of water welling up to eternal life" He speaks again of this in John 7:


37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified



The beauty of the gift of God to us of his Spirit within us--I like how this guy describes it:- The contrast here is fundamental and all comprehensive. "This water" plainly means "this natural water and all satisfactions of a like earthly and perishable nature." Coming to us from without, and reaching only the superficial parts of our nature, they are soon spent, and need to be anew supplied as much as if we had never experienced them before, while the deeper wants of our being are not reached by them at all; whereas the "water" that Christ gives - spiritual life - is struck out of the very depths of our being, making the soul not a cistern, for holding water poured into it from without, but a fountain (the word had been better so rendered, to distinguish it from the word rendered "well" in John 4:11), springing, gushing, bubbling up and flowing forth within us, ever fresh, ever living. The indwelling of the Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Christ is the secret of this life with all its enduring energies and satisfactions, as is expressly said (John 7:37-39). "Never thirsting," then, means simply that such souls have the supplies at home.

As a Christian I sometimes take the beauty of this for granted. But what a great and awesome thing Christ has done for us in sending His Spirit into our hearts~ and this is never ending~we will never thirst~I will never be thirsty forever. As John 14 says,


16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.


And His Spirit is the great Helper and Comforter:


John 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me


John 16:7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you



I like to think about the word "Helper"--Greek=parakletos--as one commentary says,

"It means a lawyer or assistant in a legal question. In a wider context it means a person who provides encouragement, counsel, and strength. Jesus will send 'another' Helper, One like Himself who will carry on after Him the teaching and testimony that HE began (John 16:7-15).

I love the fact that He has touched my inner most being--the day I came to know God and was born anew was like that commentator said-- and like the Bible says~ a satisfaction of the thirst!~~~I shouldn't take this wonder for granted. This is such a precious gift to have my God touch me, change me, in the inner depths. I love the fact also that Jesus took the time to explain this to a Samaritan and to a woman.