Naming the year...

Seems like everyone is doing it! Giving this new year, 2012, a name....hmmmmm! Seems like you usually tag a name on a year after the year is over, when you've mulled the events of the passing moments around on your tongue and then suddenly out pops a title for you to then recall those moments. Well, I think that this year shall be called Frugality. For no reason other than I'd like to be more responsible with all that God has bequeathed to me! 

Welcome 2012....

Happy New Year and may the Lord bless His people with  peace!

Tidings of great joy!

May the JOY of Jesus' birth be in your heart as we prepare to welcome in a New Year...2012!

Take Him at His word and ASK!

      A quote from Jesus........."So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Luke 11: 9-10 NIV

Why Didn't I Think Of That...

      "Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us, it is true we have lost opportunities which will never return, But God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future.  Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. ----- Oswald Chambers-----

No Quick Fixes....

 If it were possible, I would like to take a moment to "fix" all of the things wrong with this picture of life right now.  I'd start by mending all of the broken hearts---hearts cracked from the loss of loved ones, dreams crushed from the "never wills", plans made and left unfinished, ideas blurred due to another trial---an unplanned trial, relationships severed due to circumstances BEYOND my control.  
     When I'd done all I can(which certainly isn't much because I can't fix any of the hurts listed above) and reality returns,  I remember-------there is God------- He is here and there, He knows and cares and He is silently (for the most part) working all of these things in and out! Open my eyes to see O Lord, the wonderful things that You do and are doing and will bring to completion, when the timing is right---Your timing!  Inspire me, Heavenly Father, in the meantime.  Enable me to pray, in faith and with belief that You are a God of promise, A Finisher of tasks, a Binder of soul wounds and a Lover of broken hearts.                          Oswald Chambers said: "It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. If we learn to worship God in the trying circumstances, He will alter them in two seconds when He chooses."    As I make the choice to worship and not fear and remember that God IS indeed in control, I will remember: Romans 8:28  "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purposes."

A few wise words on daily living.....

Helen Lowrie Marshall (1904-1975) penned this poem:

      "Isn't life glorious! Isn't it grand!
       Here---take it---hold it tight in your hand;
       Squeeze every drop of it into your soul,
        Drink of the joy of it, sun-sweet and whole!
        Laugh with the love of it, burst into song!
        Scatter its richness as you stride along!
        Isn't life splendid--- and isn't it great
        We can always start living---it's never too late!"