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  Good morning to you! How are you doing? I pray very well. Today is homecoming at our church. We were told to bring lots of food. So, I cooked some yesterday and will do some more this morning. Thank God for a husband who likes to cook and is much better than me. I am so excited to see what the Lord will do today. He is so awesome and great and miraculous and gracious! I also thank God for the fact that it has been almost a year since He had me start this blog. It is hard to believe that it has been that long. But I praise His Holy Name for helping me do it. I know that there are some days that it doesn't minister to you and some days it does. It is just like a sermon from our preacher. Some days the sermon gets to your heart and some days it was meant for someone else. But I can still worship Jesus no matter what. There is always something said that touches my heart. And the same with this blog. God is speaking to me just as much or more than He is speaking to you. He...

Fall leaves, Athens, TN Good morning on this great, cool morning! This is the coolest morning so far this fall but it is going to get frosty this coming week. Hallelujah! I had a really hard time falling asleep last night. I prayed and sang and counted and recited and finally I went to sleep. And I didn't even have any caffeine yesterday. Well, maybe a couple of mg. in my little square of chocolate in the early morning. But I do that every day and it isn't enough to bother me. I don't like being sensitive to caffeine one little bit. It puts such a damper on what I can drink. I love to drink fresh brewed restaurant unsweet tea but haven't had it in a year maybe because of what it does to me. At home I drink decaf. Caffeine affects my sleep and we can't have that. I need my sleep to live my life like I should. I try anyway! Oh Lord, help me not to have to deal with that but it is not about me and it is all about you. Help me to a...

Good morning on this awesome, cool day! Fall is truly here. I haven't seen the beautiful fall colors that I thought would be here. Since we have had so much rain this year and it wasn't so hot, I thought maybe the fall colors would be spectacular. But so far they haven't been. But maybe it is too early yet or maybe the summer wasn't hot enough. Although I can't believe the end of October is almost here. Boy, the months sure fly by fast. That also means it is almost November and Thanksgiving and then Christmas will be here before you know it. Ugh! The ugh is not for the actual holidays, it is for the shopping season and the busyness of it all.  It has gotten harder and harder to shop for my family. The thought and time that I put into it is not appreciated. I hate to say that but I believe that it is true. I don't want to quit shopping for everyone because there is always the joy in giving. I loved to see the faces of people when we give them gifts. ...

Good morning on this fine Thursday! Praise the Lord that the government shutdown is over. At least for now. People like my son will go back to work today. They just don't realize the impact these kinds of things have on the people who live paycheck to paycheck. People still need to eat and bills still have to be paid. Unfortunately, this will come up again in Feb. or March. Ugh!! I was reading some things in my Bible study (we are using it for our Sunday School lessons) by Beth Moore that really had me thinking. We see and hear so much about finding the will of God and knowing the calling and task that He has for our lives. And yes we do want to know what God wants us to do all our days as we live for Him.  Not everyone who says to me,  "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom  of heaven, but only he who does the  will of my Father who is in heaven.  Matthew 7:21 God's will is usually considered a special mission or task for our lives...

Good morning to you! I tried to be good this morning. I got up at 5:30 am and put clothes and shoes away from my suitcase that I should have done already. Some days I wake up wanting to do things and other days I do not. But I do them anyway because I just don't want to get farther behind on my day to day duties. And this is a: Great day to follow the Lord! One of the many, many definitions of follow is this: To accept the guidance, command, or leadership of. So, in this case we would accept the guidance or commands or the leadership of Jesus Christ, if we choose to follow Him. Faith in Jesus is to follow. Faith means to follow.  And he said to them all, If any man will  come after me, let him deny himself, and  take up his cross daily, and follow me.   Luke 9:23 That is what I want to do, to truly follow Jesus. That means giving up my life for His. He gave up His life for you, for me, for all of us. So, now we need to deny ourselve...

  Good morning to you this fine day! I pray that you had a blessed and awesome day yesterday. I didn't do much. I did a little laundry from our trip and worked on the pictures I took and some catching up on communication with some people and I celebrated my birthday. I had a great day. My husband fixed me an awesome salmon dinner and I opened a gift from a friend. It was just kind of a lazy day. My husband told me to lay around and read all day but I just can't seem to let myself do that. I feel guilty for some reason when I do that. I guess it is because when I was working and had summers off, I did it one summer. One day turned into two. And two turned into three and so on. I ended up doing that all summer. And then I vowed I would never do it again. I felt as though the summer passed me by and that I had been very lazy and unproductive. I did do laundry and the things that I needed to do but other than that I didn't do much. And it really bothered me for ...

Hilton Head Island, SC Good morning on this great day of my birth and Columbus Day! I pray that all is well with you this fine day. My sister told me this morning that she sent a card on time this year hoping it would be here when we got home from vacation but our mail wasn't here. I am hoping that the friends next door got it when they fed the animals. Going on vacation is awesome but I never want to come home. I want to stay in paradise. But my husband told me that I could stay if it wouldn't cost me a dime. Ha! Oh well. Maybe another time.  The ride home yesterday was wonderful. The weather was perfect. The outlet mall was great south of Atlanta. I have never seen so many people. We go on vacation in October so that there would not be such a crowd. Oh my! It was like summer on Hilton Head Island. There were so many people. The only thing that I can think of was it fall break week. It was for my son and family. They have two weeks off. And my son works...