in Edmond…I grew up at this park…I LOVED this park, I LOVED going to this park with my mom…a few decades have passed…
I LOVED climbing up high in this cool rocket slide….
(Jacob climbs the outside of it…I never did this…it never would have entered my head)
We stopped by in Edmond and I took my children…
we enjoyed it…
I can’t get enough of this song…or the truth of this song…
His love is great…His affection is great…no man could have come up with the story of redemption of Jesus Christ, what man would write of God becoming man, to come show us Himself and then die for us…
This would never enter our selfish, empty heads….
For you know who and you know why…smile….
Here’s the lyrics…
This is the start
This is your heart
This is the day you were born
This is the sun
These are your lungs
This is the day you were bornAnd I am always yours
These are the scars
Deep in your heart
This is the place you were born
This is the hole
Where most of your soul
Comes ripping out
From the places you’ve been tornAnd it is always yours
But I am always yoursHallelujah!
I’m caving in
Hallelujah!
I’m in love again
Hallelujah!
I’m a wretched man
Hallelujah!
Every breath is a second chanceAnd it is always yours
And I am always yours
Lord, thank you for all your mercies, thank you for the gift of Yourself…sigh…
is Young Explorer Series’ Exploring Creation with Zoology: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day
We…yes we, are learning so much about birds…their diversity…here is the latest youtube we watched to augment what we read about weaver birds…
God’s creatures are amazing!
May our homes be knit together with knots of answered prayer…we need you so much, Lord!
And look at this, the White Tern doesn’t even build nest, it lays its egg on a branch and sits on it….such diversity in the nest builders!
and this other non nest builder, the female lays the egg and the male has it on the tops of its feet but under its fat until it hatches…this video grossed us out and made us giggle, their courting walk is too funny!
graduates this year…she is a senior….
She has had several health issues over the last year…with a laparoscopy and ultrasound showing she has endometriosis and adenomyosis…she is daily in pain…she has not been given painkillers and the doctor is suggesting alternatives to help her deal with the pain…
So oldest sister, who was a staff photographer at NSU offers to take her sr. pictures…
Grace who also enjoys photography tags along…here are some of the results:
Jumping for Joy!
What do you think?
They are planning on taking some spring photos next year!
Here is the testimony she wrote up for her applications to college…be blessed…sniff, sniff….I sure was…
I have been raised in a Christ centered home, and always been taught that God sent his only son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for me. That He has cleansed me of all my sin and that I can come to Him with anything and always be forgiven. I first came to believe this when I was 6 years old.
My mom and I were making things with playdough and she asked me if I could breathe life into one of my creatures like God did with Adam. I said “of course” confident in myself. As I tried my hardest to make my little creature breathe I realized that I couldn’t do it and that it took someone very powerful and important to do that. Since that first peek at what God can do and did I have continued to grow in Christ.The last few years I have really struggled with trusting God completely with my life and what He has in store for me. I have had some health problems and since my life hasn’t been absolutely perfect and easy the trials have really helped me to have a stronger relationship with God and really rely on Him. This verse has really helped me,2 Corinthians 12:9-10,”My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.God is doing this now to help me in the future. So that I can be prepared for anything that comes my way. God is leading me closer to himself, and farther away from the world and all of its stumbling blocks. I am happy to be on this crazy for God ride.
I have to add this song…we love it so! Yes, carry us on Your back!
“God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”
James 1:12
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:
Greetings.Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
The brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his high position. But the one who is rich should take pride in his low position, because he will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will fade away even while he goes about his business.Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial,
because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life
that God has promised to those who love him.
Thank You for this promise….please perform it in me, mine…those close to mine…for Your pleasure.
Have you ever experienced angry worship?
Have you ever been hurt? Have you every been forgotten, neglected or put on the back burner? Or downright abused?
Well, one of my besties and I both experienced this around the same time but with totally different scenarios…which I will have to leave obscure as to not “hurt” or offend anyone…afterall…that is what we are both trying to evade…avoid…keep away from…
we both did the same thing…totally apart and not knowing we both were going through the same thing the same weekend….we put on this song by Leeland on his new C.D. which we both love and obviously need to learn more of…..we blasted it loud, we sang it with outright abandon…
What do we both need to learn?
Humility…
Will we ever attain it? Probably not until we die!
But worshipping God when you are angry…helps straighten out those bad kinks you are experiencing…it helps you realize that you need to forgive…and QUICKLY!
Afterall, what did Christ do for us?
Over and over again…let’s look at some of the list of Christloves accomplishments:
We need to forgive quickly…and joyfully….I am sure it pleases Him…
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This is a repost from December of last year…feeling this way again…if I don’t like leftovers, then neither does He…help me be mindful Lord…to put you first…not as an afterthought….help me to forgive quickly…no…joyfully!
“”Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors; waiting at my doorway.”"
Proverbs 8:34, NLT
I am reading an awesome book Evidence Not Seen, A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose.
You can not go fast enough to the store to get this book…or reread it if it is sitting on your bookshelf getting dusty…
I have been musing on leftovers…leftover love, leftover food, leftover passion, leftover generosity…
Do leftovers appeal to anyone? Come on, really…the stale, crusty casserole that does not get better with age, the unresolved misunderstanding with a friend that taints the relationships and makes it mouldy, the misplaced passion poured out into a hobby instead of into loved ones in our lives…regifted items that weren’t great gifts in the first place…like a loaf of year old fruitcake found in the bottom of the freezer…
Please….
We don’t like thoughtless love, food, passion or friendship…we like true love, wholesome food, pure passion and friendship that puts the other first…
What does our Lord and Master want from us…nothing less….
In this book, Darlene Deibler Rose on several occasions has her faith wrung out, dried up and left hanging lonely in the wind, and each time with childlike faith she asks her Papa….what? why? and each time He answers her clearly, gently and embraces her with His peace and security….
“I will not leave you, nor forsake you” whispered to her when she was taken to a prison to be interrogated…this was after losing her husband, this was after enduring a prison camp, this was after watching someone get beat to death…
time and again, she trusts…He loves…with pure trust, with pure love.
okay this was just too cool not to post…
Science is beautiful!
How did He come up with this stuff? He is awesome!
I would like to propose a new element…Christlove, I would classify it as a biological element…that has living properties as well as chemical properties…
Interesting observations about Christlove:
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