YOU’RE JOKING, RIGHT?

You challenge me

to write about a plop,

yet in my view

the topic is a flop!

Astonished With Delight – YOUR STORIES!

WHO among us does not want to be astonished with delight!?

 

I recently challenged you to share a story about  time you were ASTONISHED WITH DELIGHT then, in the comment section, provide a link so we can share our blogs to new folks as they read the delightful example!   To Participate, click here for the original post.  I will add your post/blog link to this list!  These moments are sometimes earth shattering, but are often a small act of kindness.  Share your joy!

A great example comes from SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS who shows us that the flood from a hurricane can become a flood of joy in the following story!

 We went to NC one year right after Hurricane Katrina. The following Hurricane was still lingering. The hotel we booked was flooded, were told to drive inland 7 miles before attempting to find a hotel. All the diver shops didn’t take reservation. But a group of marine was passing by and wanted to dive. My husband was happy and lucky to have this group coming by. He had the deepest dive in that trip.  Be sure to read  SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS  for more uplifting writings, as well as any of the following:

 

WE WERE ASTONISHED WITH DELIGHT!

Read these great POSITIVE and UPLIFTING  blog posts!

• WHEN IT RAINS – Martha Jane Orlando
• SENIOR SALON – HADDON MUSINGS
•  LARGEST AMERICAN FLAG – KRIST ANN’S HAVEN
• I am astonished with delight! – SHOWERS OF BLESSING
• I AM WILLING  – ANOTHER RED LETTER DAY
• I WOKE UP – SACRED TOUCHES
• CLEAR BLUE SKIES AWAIT – SPARKLE
• THE BLESSING OF CHANGE –  WENDELL  A BROWN
• A Surprise! Delighted? Yes! – Kindergarten Knowledge
• BEE-DAZZLING – FOLLOWING HIM BESIDE STILL WATERS

 

 

 

 

LINK UP OPPORTUNITY- NEW FOLLOWER POTENTIAL

I just posted a  piece which, at the end, contains an easy, fun, challenge anyone can do!  Click here to see the details!  PLEASE spread the word so we can see how long a list of positive delightful posts we can write together!

I AM ASTONISHED WITH DELIGHT! CHALLENGE!

I was reading an article on the upcoming celebration of the FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, which is when  Jesus goes up on the mountain with Peter, James, and John, and he is transfigured for them.  The word dazzle was used and instinctively I made a face . . . picture scrunched nose!

 

 

I never use that word and associate it with those plastic toys which are used to put glittery embellishments onfabric . . . no, I am not a fan.  lol   Me, being a-word -a- holic . . . I looked further and the dictionary defined dazzle including the phrase “to astonish with delight.”  WOW!  Silly me!  That so perfectly describes Jesus’ love for me, as I so often feel it!

CHALLENGE

 

PLEASE write a blog post describing a time or experience in which you were  ASTONISHED WITH DELIGHT and post a link to it in the comments so I can share your story with my readers and perhaps introduce new friends  to your blog!

 

I’m Sorry, Lord

I’m Sorry, Lord!

If I had looked

Into the eyes

Of the visitor I turned away,

I would have seen

Jesus looking back at me.

I realized what I had done,

But too late.

I wept.

By Martha L Shaw – © 2016

I just discovered the  “MiracleChallenge Week – 7” dated 26th July – 1st August, 2016 and I don’t know how I missed it!  Clink the link and join the fun!  Here is my poem!

 

Oh, How He Loves Me!

Okay, if you thought this was an article about a  romanic and passionate experience I had to share, you’ve stumbled upon the wrong blog . . .

Passionate it is, though!  I’m hearing a line from a favorite praise song in my heart and head just now.  I must say it’s delightful when my heart and head are on the same “team.”  It’s not always the way.  I was not exactly “high on life” earlier today and remarkably – rather than stew for a while and eventually think of praying, I prayed right away and then got involved in doing some things that needed doing.  Wish I could say that this Christian is just so focused on the Lord that this is simply a common occurance, but being human brings with it a host of imperfections and yup, I’ve got ’em.  Like a broken watch, though, I must say I get it right twice a day anyway . . . at least that .  . . I hope . . .

When we surrender ourselves to the Lord and say “use me . . . fill me” we’d better be ready to receive our “honey do” list fast.  He hears a willing heart and He says “sign  up!  Here’s your first job!  Go to it!”   It’s funny, but shortly after I prayed the words  I prayed, I found myself blessed not once but three times!  First with a lovely conversation with a stranger, then with finding myself say to someone “you need to let it go.  It’s not yours to worry about.  Give it to the Lord.  He’ll handle it and enable you.”  Then I heard myself telling someone else “It just takes a willing heart.  God will provide the ability.”

These things took place in under an hour from the time I felt “off” and prayed about it and are all direct answers to that prayer.  Just further proof, if any is needed, that He loves us totally and completely and He so desires us to “get close and personal” with Him. .  Our Lord does not call the enabled – He enables the called!  Thanks be to God!

 

John 4:11

¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

FORTELLING OF JOY

The thunder still rumbles

And raindrops rapidly pound the now drenched earth

But a bright spot appears in the midst of clouds!

A prophesy assuring us that

Our hope in not in vain!

By Martha L Shaw – © 2016