my absence...

I have been absent for awhile now. Primarily due to health issues. I was in the hospital for a week about a month ago, and have had one health issue after another since then.

But GOD IS FAITHFUL...

to give me strength, healing and peace!!

Strength to make it through work days when I have no energy to move.... Healing when my test came back negative (no cancer)PTL!!

and Peace to know that through it all I am never alone!!!

That's my shout out to JESUS!!! Love you Lord!!

have you ever??

I am having a "have you ever moment"! I am wondering if anyone has ever ever felt this way? Have you felt like no one understands or perhaps cares about what I am going through? Am I alone in my "have you ever moment"?!? Honestly, I cannot believe that I am...

My HYE(have you ever) moment, has been mentioned in some of my blog pasts in the past. Being single, I tend to think that those around me do not understand my feelings, situation or whatever I am going through. Having never had a husband around to air my problems, I tend to share them with some family and to those whom I trust. Being the analytical person that I am, I wonder are they really getting me or just being polite in their understanding "uhhmms or yes I hear ya".

Visiting a new blogging friend's site ( http://rejoicinginhishope.blogspot.com/ ), there was a song playing and one of the lyrics was trust the Lord. How many times have I heard that from a dear saint in the Lord, a minister or from the word of God in my 30 something years on this earth? Too many times, obviously not enough times; for I am not TRUSTING in the Lord! Because when you are trusting Him, then you do not need to analyze His response to your frustrated thoughts and fears. Because He always has my best interest at His Heart, for He cares for me. Matthew 6 tells us how he cares for the birds in the air to feed them and how much more will he care for us. We should not give worry or fear for these for HE KNOWS and supplies. Thank you Lord for knowing our FEARS and supplying us with what we need.

²⁵Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

²⁶Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

²⁷Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

²⁸And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

²⁹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

³⁰Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

³¹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

³²(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

³⁴Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

(Matthew'>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=KJV&src=embed">Matthew 6:25-34, King'>http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/?src=embed">King James Version)

Pictures from the THOUSAND ISLANDS trip

One of the lighthouses that is on the waters.

One of the castles built of another castle.

My sister took this for me as I am known as the "Bird Lady" in my family and the seagulls are my babies. Each day I am getting closer to that old maid with her cats---say it aint so!! Truth be told my landlord doesn't allow cats! My sister and I took a boat trip on the thousand islands to a place called Boldt Castle. This was a sign posted at the dock when we reached the castle.


OK not the best pic of me.. but I like the fact that is shows the wind a blowin' and my favorite attachment --- MY CAMERA!!!!

??? Why go to church ???

Why Go To Church?

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and
complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today.

Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be
spiritually dead today!" When you are DOWN to nothing..... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!


I wish I could say that I wrote this, but alas I did not. A friend of mine forwarded this to me and it was powerful even in it's simplicity. For the last few years, I had struggled to find a church to call home and attended sporadically as I searched for churches to visit. I still was striving to live a christian life and believe I was still a christian, but I was not a Growing christian. I did not realize that I was stifling my walk with God. I was forsaking the fellowship of other believers (in a church fellowship). I have been faithfully attending a church now for about six months. I am finding that by my faithfulness to church, God is being faithful in his teaching and molding me into a stronger Christian (though I have so much more to learn).

~~God is in Control~~

As I am writing this the words of that song came to my head, "God is in Control." Look at this part of the song belong, it tells us why we believe that God is in control. Because we will not be forsaken or shaken and why is that? Because there is no power above, below , beside or in front of us that is more powerful than OUR GOD!

God is in control

We believe that His children will not be forsaken

God is in control

We will choose to remember and never be shaken

There is no power above or beside Him,

we know God is in control,

oh God is in control

As I am recovering from an unknown illness and hospital stay, I am trying to focus on the notion that "I am not in control." All I need to do is keep pressing onward and looking upward to my controller-Jesus Christ.

djdeb's entertainment reporting

I was a twittering tonight (my newest Internet addiction--I'm djdeb7) and came across some interesting blog posts I want to share and comment on.

The first is about Michael Jackson and how he became a christian a few weeks before his death.

here's a link to the blog- http://ilovemarymary.blogspot.com/

I pray that it is true. As I was watching the television coverage this weekend, I was saddened to see how lost he really was. They had played back a comment he made about his life. It basically was saying that he wanted to leave his soul in his work for it to be there when he passes on. He ended it with saying something like Isn't' that what it's all about? to me an open ended statement.

The second is about Jon and Kate Gosslin from the television show on TLC. here is a link to the blog- http://triciagoyer.blogspot.com/

Tricia Goyer's posted convicted me that I should be praying for a reconciliation for them. But instead I have been commenting on my opinion on the whole thing. It should have been the first thing I did, but how de-sensitised we become when we watch television.

PRAYER:

Dear Lord, I come before you now and pray that something good may come out of Michael Jackson's life. May others see that all the money, fame and fortune can not bring you peace or satisfaction. For the only peace-- true peace--lasting peace comes from Salvation in Christ!!

Lord I also pray for Jon and Kate that they will not only reconcile their relationship with each other but I pray for reconciliation with you Lord. Have your way in their hearts Lord I pray!

In the precious name of my Lord and Saviour JESUS, AMEN

Have you had your JEN moment today?

Lately, it seems as if inspirational thoughts are always coming to mind. Now I don't know if it's because I need it (well I always need it) or it's truly inspiration. Today at work a thought came to me ZEN... Have you heard anyone say "That's so ZEN" or "it's a ZEN moment"? Or better yet we need to have ZEN in this room?

Well why not have a JEN moment? I mean when folks are seeking a "ZEN" moment, they are usually frustrated or in a confused place. So stop and remember JEN!!

J-- JESUS E-- EVER N--NEAR

What a better way to bring peace, serenity to your life --- than the PRINCE OF PEACE----JESUS!

~~my new FAVORITE song~~

Oh my, I have heard it before but it just hit me today and I had to look up the singer online and just share the awesome lyrics to "my new FAVORITE song". The song is called Empty Me and is song by Chris Sligh. (oh he sings great too... being a writer sometimes the lyrics hit me more)

Empty Me

I’ve had just enough

Of the spotlight when it burns bright

To see how it gets in the blood

I’ve tasted my share

Of the sweet life and the wild ride

And found a little is not quite enough

I know how I can stray

And how fast my heart could change

Empty me of the selfishness inside

Every vain ambition and the poison of my pride

And any foolish thing my heart holds onto

Lord, empty me of me so I can be filled with you

I’ve seen just enough

Of the quick buys of the best lies

To know how prodigals can be drawn away

pre-chorus * chorus‘Cause everything is a lesser thing

Compared to you, compared to you‘

Cause everything is a lesser thing

Compared to you, so I surrender all

I especially like the words in blue... what powerful lyrics.. wish I had wrote them! But I am blessed never the less. I will attach his web site and am going to attempt to post a video of it. It's worth a listen..

What a way to pray each day...... LORD EMPTY ME OF ME SO I CAN BE FILLED WITH YOU.... Let it be so..

http://www.chrissligh.com/ ----- Chris Sligh website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnycyGi7bTg you tube performance of the song.