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Just a normal morning here in my little town -
As you know I live in a small town in small towns things don’t change much at least not that much.
One thing that changed over the years is a street intersection. When I was a kid the other end of these streets flowed traffic in both directions but now in flows in one way traffic and so you have to know which way to go which way to come back.
I’ve come to understand that life can be a little bit more complicated as there are not road signs along the way to help you with your directions. I look to the past choices to see which road that they lead down but I want to walk forward in life not backwards.
I thank the Lord that He provides in His word clear precise directions for choosing which road to take for the course of my life.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight ( proverbs 3:4-5).”
Do I get the right turn each time ?
Unfortunately no… as I’m still human.
Thank you God that you correct as my loving Father and that You forgive me each time my miss the signs you have put before me and that You place my feet back on the right path for what You have laid out for my life.
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Like all people I like a nice glass of cold ice water, usually I take mine no ice and a slice of lime. There is that rare occasion like you see in the photo when they do serve it with ice, I drink it anyway.
The only catch is your thirst for a little bit and then you have to drink again, and again, and again.
But then God’s word comes clear through to my heart and my soul, with all its power and truth.
“ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14)
The verse comes from the Book of John where Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at the well, he tells her her life story and she is the first one He proclaims His Divinity to.
She too is possibly the one of the first disciples as she goes into town and tells everyone who she’s met and the verses that follow says that many of the Samaritans were saved that day.
All started by Jesus asking her for a drink of water.
Meeting Jesus face-to-face will change your life forever, I’m living proof of what His love, grace and mercy can do!
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For those of you who know me well, you know is it can be a very hands-on person when it comes to accomplishing the task at hand.
Be they projects from my previous career, to chores around the house, projects in the yard; I like to be involved and get my hands dirty and be part of the process.
It just a part of who I am, how I was created to be, I used to be very task oriented.
I did say, “used to be.”
Then five year ago I found out I had Parkinson’s and there was a challenge in my life I had no ability what so ever to be a hands-on to remedy, for there is no cure.
There as always where I have reached my end, God begins and speaks His reassuring promises and truths;
“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10).
So when I am at my end I know God His Hand on my life I can rest without fear or worry, and I know in my weakest moments, He is my strength and when I feel low He set my feet on firm ground.
Trust me those those moments are normal in typical everyday life, yet are multiplied by Parkinson’s.
Lord, teach me to remember that Your mighty right hand is ever present and thank you for your enduring love and care for me.
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Good morning !!! -
I admit it, I am a single white American male and an empty nester, living in the small Florida coastal town I end up eating alone on occasion.
Trust me I do not prefer eating alone it is just where I’m at in life right now.
There’s few things finer than a good meal, with good company and good conversation makes evening that much more enjoyable.
And you must remember that in the city I live in, “you’re either a newlywed or nearly dead” I am neither of those two!
Yet I am never alone, for the Lord goes before me, watches over my journey and meets me anywhere I go; as His still and quiet voice reminds me,
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I riser you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ( psalm 139: 1-12 niv).
Lord I pray that you remind me that when the chair is empty across from me at dinner that You are there offer the finest relationship and dinner companion that a heart can imagine.
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“ even the rocks cry out you glory O’ Lord “ -
Friend…
I have them, you have them, we all them those that we call our friends that exist in our live’s.
That word has a new connotation, especially in social media where it applies to people we don’t even really know, who in reality you couldn’t even call them acquaintances.
For a friend true is someone that you trust, someone that you confide in , it is someone who’s going to come along side us in time of need, and always for our best interest.
And of course a friend is someone who does the same for you as you would do for them… no one way friendships.
Doesn’t sound much like a social media friend huh?!?!?!
I’ve come to understand that there’s an even greater meaning for friend when Jesus describes to us when he says,” I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
And there in that passage is what He says a friend really is; everything that they have come to know and understand of God’s love for us is shared… not just somethings but everything.
No walls exist between them
They live in a transparent friendship each one knows other one intimately and personally.
Then you can add this passage as well,” just as I have loved you so shall you love one another “.
There Jesus clearly defines how we are to love our friends… unconditionally; just how He loves us for there is nothing we can do to earn His love. He gives it truly without reason or condition… it is a free gift from God.
There I stop and I ask myself, “ do I love my friends, all time without reason, without cause, not because it’s something they’ve done for me?”
And of course the answer is no.
But by God’s grace and mercy and the work of His spirit living in me He teaches me every day how to love more those that I love, that I call friend… the way He love each one of us.
Lord, teach me daily, minute by minute how to be a friend true as you are a friend true to me.
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It’s time to take a walk through the world, as I see it, through the lens of the camera, filtered through the truth that lives within my heart, nothing more and certainly nothing less.
Hope you enjoy the journey…
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