ABC Award – Learning The Alphabet Again!

The ABC Award also known as the Awesome Blog Content Award was presented to my by Caddo Veil - thank you dear sister for this delightful challenge.  I admit, at first the notion of following the  rules by providing you all with a list of 26 tidbits about myself and in alphabetical order seemed wild.  I wasn’t sure I had 26 secrets left, much less one for each letter, but once I got going I loved this challenge and took it a step further and challenged myself to come up with 26 statements or words related to my personal walk with Christ as that is the most important thing in my life – my relationship with Him. 

The second part of the challenge is to find folks to nominate.  I can think of countless folks who have awesome blog content but am still working on finding ones who either have not already received this honor or who would enjoy the challenge of a nomination.  Help me out, friends.  If you are drawn to the  challenge, pop me  a comment and let me know.  I’ll be editing this post to add the links to all of my nominees, but meanwhile here is a list of not so secrets related to my heart for Him. 

A is for Abba whom I love so very much

B is for His Beautiful Face which I seek in all that lives and breathes

C is for Christ crucified for me

D is for the debt He paid

E is for everlasting life which He won for me

F is for His favor shown to all who accept Him as Lord

G is for God in whom I trust and follow through the Trinity

H is for heaven and a place for me there

I is for infinite grace and love which is mine even when I lose focus

J is for Jesus, my Jesus who is with me always

K is for the King of Kings and I am His child

L is for my Lord to whom I sing praises

M is for His majesty over heaven and earth

N is for no worries needed – He is always with me (I’m working on giving up my worries

O is for His opening the gates of heaven for us by His death

P is for penitence for it is Lent as I write this

Q is for “qavah” which is Hebrew hope and joyous anticipation

R is for resurrection – Christ’s from the dead at Easter

S is for singing Hallelujah to Him who loved me too much to live in heaven without me

T is for the Trinity in whom all my hope lies

U is for unity as one body of Christ

V is for His victory over death – won for me

W is for tbe wonder of a Christ-centered life

X is for Yahweh – the Hebrew name for God in the Bible

Y is for saying “yes Lord” and the wonderful new life I immediately had

Z is for Zion – city of God

 

THE NOMINEES ARE:

soon to be added – stay tuned!

Saint of the Day – February 23

Today, February 23 is the feast day of St Polycarp of Smyrna, a martyr burned at the stake.  A Christian in the early church, he was bishop of Smyrna in the second century AD.  His objective was to imitate Christ in his life and did it well. 

It is written that the fire failed to touch him and thus he was then stabbed as well.  He is believed to have been a disciple of the Apostle John. 

 

What Are You Looking At?

“Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.” Proverbs 14:22 NIV

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.  – William Blake -

Whether it’s the quote from Proverbs or from Blake, love is the vehicle for change.  The question becomes, does it change “things” around us? Not necessarily.  It changes US. 

With Christ as our center we see through His eyes and our choices, plans, and outlook reflect His love if we maintain our focus on Him.   So, I ask you – what are you looking at? 

 

My Girlfriend Wendy Just Had A Heart Attack

Reblogged from Apples Of Gold:

Dear Friends, At about 8 pm tonight, my girlfriend Wendy had a heart attack.  I was there with her when it happened.  It just happened out of the blue.  I am still in shock as I write this I think. She has been life flighted to Ft Wayne Hospital.  She is in a coma right now.  The doctors are saying the next 24 hours are crucial. Wendy died 4 times tonight.  The first time was with me.  911 Told me what to do and I had her breathing again when the EMS people got there.  Then she died 3 more times …

Please pray for Wendy and check his blog for updates. She is still critical.

Children’s Book Publishing

Fellow writers, I am asking you to share your experience on the publishing scene for children’s books.  I have written a story which I envision as a children’s picture book/easy reader potentially. I have had a lot of people read the story with good responses. 

I teach creative writing and story telling to children ages 3 to 10 and the story has been well received when I told them the story in class. 

I am unpublished, have no agent and am seeking traditional publishing rather than self publishing. 

I would love to hear of your experiences and believe that many others here would enjoy and benefit from our shared experiences as well.

Thanks for participating in this discussion.

Stormy Weather

What season are you in?  Is there some spiritually stormy weather there?  The Lord just reminded me of something and I am going to share it with all of you.  We all know He is with us in the “storm.”  Somehow, that wonderful and amazing knowledge doesn’t always make its way from my heart and soul to my mind on a stormy day, and if you are like me then perhaps you can relate.  What I just heard Him remind me of is that He walked on water. 

At first, this seemed unremarkable as He said it to me just now.  I adore Him and believe He can do all things, so why tell me this?  Know what?  He could walk on water whenever He chose to, but He didn’t go for a stroll on a lovely spring or summer day with blue skies and sunshine and a gentle breeze cooling His human sweat . . . 

His chosen were battling a wind storm and it was on this occasion that He revealed Himself in this profound way.  He got up and charged into the storm and the seas became calm.  Notice, when He walked toward them on the wind driven rough waters, they were full of fear and unaware that He was near.  They thought He was a ghost.  He is close by us at all times, and in particular when we face rough seas.  He still walks on the stormy seas of our life just as He did then and He still commands the storm to pass.

It’s About The Relationship

Reblogged from crustybreadblog:

Christ and his Church is really what it’s all about. Christ is the head and we are his body of believers. The relationship we have with one another should reflect the relationship Christ has with his Church. Within each other we should strive to see Christ. While at the same time, within one another we should strive to see a valued part of Christ’s body. We are both anointed to lead and redeemed to serve. No matter who we are, where we’ve come from, or where we believe our selves to be going, it …

CHANGED and CHANGING

Reblogged from MEETING IN THE CLOUDS:

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A poor peasant girl admired the statue of a maiden in a small park area in her town. The maiden had a beautiful face and a graceful figure clothed with a robe. The girl stood and admired the maiden, gazing into her face. …

Amen!

Altar-ing

Reblogged from jonathan stone's blog:

One of my favorite definitions of worship comes from the famous Hasidic Jewish Rabbi, philosopher, and mystic, Abraham Joshua Heschel. He defined it this way: Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. I come from a faith tradition that places a lot of emphasis on outward, passionate expressions of worship. And so naturally I have learned to love it when I can sense God’s presence in powerful ways in the context of corporate worship. However, the other side of the coin is that I have too …

Incredible post. Please read it and it will bless you.

Poetry and Prayer

If you are reading my blog, then I am thinking you like poetry, devotionals, and prayer time!  I invite you the visit Betty’s blog and check out her book shown there.  There is always room on the shelf  for one more, right?