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Hello! It has taken me awhile to start on a new post. Life has been extremely busy lately. A lot of exhaustion. But it is very hard to sleep for long. When I began this blog in 2012, I wrote a new post every day for quite some time, actually almost every day for 2 years. As time went on and I got busier and busier, it was hard to do that. So, now I try to write when the Lord prompts me. The Lord has been prompting me on and off since August when I started this post. And here I finally am finishing on the 31st! Since God has prompted me and I haven't listened, here it is now time to write a new post, so here we are on New Year's Eve.  Have you ever asked yourself this question: Am I really devoted to God? Or am I just trying to make the motions so it looks like I am? This is a great topic for a new year! Well, God says this: 1 Kings 8:61 HCSB-- Let your heart be completely devoted to the LORD our God to walk in His statutes and to keep His commands, as it is today.”   Colossian...

Good morning! Today is the day the Lord is leading me to write a new post.  Today is also the day the Lord has made, and I choose to rejoice and be glad in it!  This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 HCSB This is also one of those days where I am doing little quirky things. One of my blood pressure med bottles dropped out of cabinet, landed on little cup of meds to take, and popped them all over the kitchen. Then, when I couldn't find one of meds, I got another one, and putting the bottle back in cabinet, I knocked another bottle out on little cup of meds and spilled them again. Oh my! There was more. But I won't get into that. Some days are just like that! But you know what? As I said, some days are just like that! But God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. Life is full of frustrations. Sometimes every moment. We go on and we praise God no matter the situation, whether good or bad, and He is faithful, and loving, tr...

Hello! Happy Easter this Sunday! I just received and read a letter from the director of the ministry, One Million Moms. I belong to it. It is one of the ministries of the American Family Association. Anyway, I am going to share this letter with you because it is right and true. He is Risen!     Dear Leslye, A dear friend sent me these words, and I want to share them with you. They are not her words, but these words – or a variation of them – are posted all over the internet. The ones below are taken directly from a Facebook post in which the author is anonymous: An old and beautiful legend says that, at the time of the crucifixion, the dogwood was comparable in size to the oak tree and other large trees of the forest. Because of its firmness and strength, it was selected as the timber for the cross.  But to be put to such a cruel use greatly distressed the tree. Sensing this, the crucified Jesus, in his gentle pity for the sorrow and suffering of all, said to it:  'B...

I took this very short video this  morning of the snow but for some  reason I couldn't get it to  download. This is what I got. I  believe it works, though! Good morning! It is snowing! As I sit here in my son's room, now my sewing room, I sit straight across the room from the window. The snow is awesome as always! It reminds me of purity, the purity of Jesus Christ! This is a new day. A new week. A new month. And each day that God gives us brings new beginnings. And the snow means a clean slate to me. The saying comes to mind, "As pure as the wind driven snow". Can we make a clean slate of our lives? Oh, yes, we can! Or should I say that Jesus can!  Here is an article:  Lesson 19: The Cleansing Power of Jesus (Luke 5:12-16) .                                   This is a long article but very interesting and could answer a lot of questions we may have. We read this in these ...

You will seek me and find me, when  you seek me with all your heart.  Jeremiah 29:13 NIV Good morning! I have written my blog many times before about seeking God. But this morning I wanted to read more about how to seek God. So I googled it (actually I use the duckduckgo search engine because it doesn't steal your personal info) and I read an article in Road to Glory . It was a great article. But then I clicked on  Seek the Lord   on Bible Knowledge.com. Anyway, the article is extremely long but wow. It is a definite must-read. Even if you need to bookmark it and read a little bit everyday. However you do it, it is really eye opening. Even when you think you know the Lord intimately already, there is always a lot more to learn. This particular part of the article that made me want to share is this because it is all part of seeking God: "I f there is one major, whopper, profound, can’t shout-it-out-loud enough thing that God is looking for from each one of us – it has...

Hello! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and have a very Happy New Year! It is about time I did another post. As you know this past year has been wild and crazy, and scary and hard for so many people, well, most of us. And even though I had plenty of time to post a message, it just didn't happen. The news people have tried to scare everyone to death. So, we have those who will not leave their homes, and haven't since March. We have those who leave a little to buy groceries only. We also have those who leave a lot but wear masks and have stock in hand sanitizer and hand soap. Then last but not least we have those who very seldom wear a mask and do get away with it. It definitely has been very trying times. I am not saying any one way is best or wrong! We have to do what is right for us. This has actually been a stress on us. If we do go out the door we have to make sure we have a mask and hand sanitizer with us. We do our best to stay away from others as best we can. And som...

Good morning my readers! I praise God for you! If it wasn't for someone reading this blog, there would be no point in writing it! Even if only one person reads it and comes closer to Jesus because of it, then I praise the Lord and am thrilled. Grace to you and peace from God our  Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 1:2 As I was sitting outside a little while ago in this beautiful, cooler morning, I was reading my devotion. I was struck by the notion that we really don't know Jesus. Or do we? We may have become a Christian years ago. We pray. We do our morning devotion, but do we really know Jesus, and understand Him, and seek Him.  Do we really know Him? Do we think we do? Do we read His Word every single day. But before we read His Word do we ask Him to fill us with the understanding He wants us to have? It is the Holy Spirit that teaches us and explains spiritual things to us. 13  This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom bu...