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 I love taking pictures. Another Caribbean picture I took too many of! Good morning this fine day! Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is   Your name in all the earth! O Lord, we praise Your name O Lord, we magnify Your name Prince of peace, mighty God O Lord, God Almighty O, Lord, our Lord How majestic is Your name in all the earth! O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your  name in all the earth, Who have displayed  Your splendor above the heavens! Psalm 8:1 Here is the song in case you haven't heard it in forever like me: http://youtu.be/Nig-WNo0YE8   This is so true. Our Lord is majestic and mighty and we do, at least I try to, magnify His name. I haven't heard or sung this song in a very long time. But oh how I love it! And oh how I love to praise the Lord. I hope and pray that you love it as much as I do. Because He is worthy and worth it! Praise the Lord and have an awesome day! Lesbear

When I took this picture in the Caribbean Sea in 2009 or  so, I took about 50 of them. I thought it was so amazing.  And my husband told me I was crazy to take so many of the same thing. Hello! Didn't get to this this morning. So, here I am. And now I am ready to fall asleep in the chair. And I did fall asleep a couple of times.  But I want you to know that Jesus loves you. And He was tempted before you and I were even thought of. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into  the desert to be tempted by the devil. Matthew 4:1 If Jesus was tempted by the devil, how much more do you think that the devil will tempt us? He tempted Jesus who already was the Son of God from the very beginning. We were born into a sinful life, so the devil is going to try hard to take us away from Jesus, when we know Him as our Savior and Lord, to make us doubt Jesus, to make us sin against God. That is why these verses are so important: I have hidden your ...

Beach on our way to Key West in 2012 Good morning! How are you on this blessed Monday? I pray that you were also blessed yesterday. The sermon at our church was about how Thomas doubted that Jesus was alive and had to see Him and see His nail scarred hands in order to believe. And "Jesus said to him, Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed  are those who have not seen and yet have believed." John 20:29 Have you not believed because you have not seen? Do you need proof that Jesus is alive? Do you not believe in Jesus because you have not seen Him? That is where faith comes in. Now faith is the substance of things hoped  for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 So, we must believe without seeing. What an attribute that is! And I do. I believe exactly what the Bible says, literally. I wish we all believed like that. It would make the whole world a better place. Now I know that you believe that a salt shaker has salt in...

  Lake Wylie, NC  Went here with my sister and family.   Good morning to you! May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you  through and through. May your whole spirit,  soul and body be kept blameless at the  coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Oh, what an awesome God we serve! Our home church had a fundraiser spaghetti dinner last night to raise money for our mission trip. God is so good! There wasn't a lot of people there unfortunately but the money raised for the trip is always awesome. And I thank each and every person who came, and prepared, and helped in any way. It really means a lot to us. But that is why God is good. He always provides for us. And I don't necessarily mean for the mission trip, which He does. But I am talking about our personal lives. He provides for us in every way. If we follow Him as we should, He will provide for us in every way. If we need money to pay our bills, He prov...

Good morning on this great Saturday! Hope you had a great week. Mine was pretty good just very busy since I was gone for 3 days of it. Which was a definite blessing! R & R is always a way to peace. (But Jesus is the real way.) So, there was lots to do on the last two days and today is set to be very busy also. I am going to share my devotion from the Upper Room for today. It was really good. Wiped Clean              Read Colossians 2:9-15 Repent, . . . and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out. - Acts 3:19 (NIV) Today's Devotional Offensive words — big, stark, and depressing — had been scrawled on the wall of the building. Someone came along with a can of paint and painted over the words. The result was a clean, attractive wall. I had inscribed across my life words, behaviors, and attitudes that were offensive to God. They often appeared in my mind, especially when I b...

Parksville Lake on Easter Sunday Good morning to you! Blessings to you and to your families. God is an awesome God! May He fill you with His mercy and grace because those are gifts He gives us. And then we can be merciful and grace-filled to others. Remember we need to love our neighbors as ourselves and in doing that we need these attributes in our lives also. "Mercy and grace are often confused. While the terms have similar meanings, grace and mercy are not the same. To summarize the difference: mercy is God not punishing us as our sins deserve, and grace is God blessing us despite the fact that we do not deserve it. Mercy is deliverance from judgment. Grace is extending kindness to the unworthy." (gotquestions.org) That is a great explanation of those two words. And so we should also extend those to others. Sometimes it is very hard for us to do it, therefore we don't. Shame on us. Look what Jesus did for us on the cross, and we can't even ...

Easter Sunday along the Ocoee River Good morning to you! Blessings abound from God! What a beautiful spring day! The birds are chirping and the sun is shining and God gave us another day of life! Praise Him!!! Oh, Lord, how can we ever doubt Your love? It abounds to no end! Your love us unconditionally! And here are some awesome scriptures about His love. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his  only Son, that whoever believes in him  should not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 But God shows his love for us in that while  we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:8 So we have come to know and to believe the love  that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides  in love abides in God, and God abides in him.    1 John 4:16 So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through  faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may have strength to comprehend wit...

Good morning to you on this fine Wednesday! May God bless you and keep you. May His face shine upon you. May He give you peace. (from Numbers 6:24-26) I hope you can see God's blessings in this day that He has made. I can. Right here and right now. He has given me a good night's sleep. He has given me a bed to sleep in. I have awoken to another day. The sun is shining. I can see the beautiful trees. The sky is gorgeous and blue. I can see the mountains. God has given us air to breathe. He has given us families and friends. He loves us no matter what! He has given us a Savior to save us from our sins. A Savior to worship! Most of these things could be taken away from us in an instant. We could be living in a war-torn country. We could be living on the streets with no pillow to cushion our heads. And no mattress to lay our bodies. We could live in darkness with no light. We could live in a dreary world around us with nothing to praise God about. Although that wo...

Good morning on this great Tuesday! What a great day yesterday was. I started out with a cup of coffee, a square of dark chocolate, and a hot tub. Now if that isn't great, I don't know what is except the love of Jesus. The love of Jesus is neverending. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;  his faithfulness continues through all generations. Psalm 100:5 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous;  love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not  act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not  provoked, does not take into account a wrong  suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but  rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all  things, hopes all things, endures all  things. Love never fails; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;      his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning;    ...

  Sometime last summer somewhere! Hello on this great Monday afternoon! I am sitting on a deck at a cabin in the mountains outside Blue Ridge, GA. What a beautiful day which the Lord has made. It is so peaceful and quiet. Except for our yawns and the birds. Three of us are sitting outside reading, well, I am not reading I am doing this. And the yawns are going around. Sounds like it is time for a nap. And I think I will.  Praise God from Whom all blessings flow! Praise God for hard work because then we can praise God for a little bit of rest and relaxation. And today is another day of rest for some of us. A time to get away with friends and have fun laughing and shopping and eating and eating some more. Sometimes when you are away from home it seems like all you do is eat. Help us Jesus to be pleasing in your sight. equip you in every good thing to do His will, working  in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ,  t...

    Good morning! Happy Easter! He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.  Come and see the place where he lay. Matthew 28:6 HE IS RISEN!!  I cannot tell you what this means. It means so much.  Jesus loves you and He died a horrible death so that  our sins would be forgiven and He rose again so that  we would have everlasting life with our  Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Praise you Jesus!   Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the Lord! Have an awesome Easter worshipping Him! Lesbear

  Good morning! What a great and blessed Saturday! Are you resting today or preparing for Easter Sunday? We have been preparing for a week sort of. I can't wait for the services tomorrow. Our Sunrise Service tomorrow is at 6:45 AM on the hill at the cemetery down the street from our church. That should be awesome. Sunrise is at 7:03 AM. And it is supposed to be clear and 78* tomorrow. We are doing a cantata called Footsteps of Jesus . And I am excited about that also. It should be a very worshipful and awesome day to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. I did the special bulletin for tomorrow. I made my husbands Easter basket. I do wish that we could dye eggs and do an egg hunt with our grandchildren. I just wish we could see them. I have much, much more to do before tomorrow because we are having a couple day hiatus from work etc. Praise the Lord! Jesus loves us so much that: He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and ...

Lake Junaluska, NC Good morning! How are you this great and awesome day? Very well, I pray! It is the day that the Lord has made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it! I had trouble getting into this website this morning and last night I couldn't get into my Firefox web browser. It won't open when you click on it. Nothing happens. (So, glad that I also have Safari which is what Apple gives you on their computers. But I choose to use Firefox.) Now when and how did that happen? It worked just a few hours previous. Those things really baffle me.  Well, I am sure that a lot of things baffle us in our day to day lives. But God, our Creator, is right there to help us and take us through. He loves us and would do anything for us. You see He sent His One and Only Son here to earth, the sinful place that it is, to spread the Word of the gospel and teach His disciples about Him and His ways. Then, Jesus died a most terrible death on the cross so that our sins would be ...