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2021, A Quick Hello, For What It's Worth To You, Just Chatty Today

Perhaps I’m not the only One

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Perhaps I am not the only one grieving what was as it is sinking in that what was shall not return.
The days of ease, the days of creature comforts for the common man, the days of plenty, freedom to go and come and just be – these days are waning. Quickly.

Perhaps I took them for granted.
Perhaps I wasted them.
I do have regrets.

Perhaps I’m not the only one.

The world has been driven mad – forming at the mouth mad – like a rabid dog. 
What I think I am seeing, spiritually speaking, is hordes of rabid dogs off-leash.
How do I protect myself from a rabid dog, Spiritually speaking?

Perhaps I’m not the only one.

May I soon cease to grieve what was and embrace what IS with eyes of faith and the arms of His Love and provision in this Land of Lack.

Perhaps I’m not the only one.

1 Peter, 2021, A Quick Hello

The Urge to Panic

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Don’t Panic. 

That counsel keeps boarding my thought train today. 
Don’t panic.
Whatever the crisis is at this moment. Whatever the present assault on the soul, don’t panic. 

It’s great counsel to give; not as easy to keep faithfully. 

So when we find ourselves in a panic – It is in our best interest and others, to step back and allow Holy Spirit to bring us to peace. 
Refusing to panic doesn’t mean we love them less; it doesn’t mean we don’t care.
It means we believe GOD more than what is slapping us in the face at the moment. 

1 Peter 5:8 Stay sober, stay alert! Your enemy, the Adversary, stalks about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
9 Stand against him, firm in your trust, knowing that your brothers throughout the world are going through the same kinds of suffering.
10 You will have to suffer only a little while; after that, God, who is full of grace, the one who called you to his eternal glory in union with the Messiah, will himself restore, establish and strengthen you and make you firm.
11 To him be the power forever and ever. Amen.  source 

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2021, A Quick Hello, Just Chatty Today

Squash to Cook

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I am rambling this morning. Actually, I have been rambling for a few or is that several days now. Not necessarily with unpleasant things you know good things pile in too.  Okay. On with this.

Have you ever been asking the Father about something and then after it came out you realized what you said and that it was for you quite profound and needed to be asked? 
Me too.
Here’s today’s profound: 

What am I doing to stay Your Hand rather than move Your Hand in this situation? 

I’m waiting on an answer.

And yesterday I wrote a little spiel and I want an outlet. Are you game? 

Kneading bread gives time for thoughts to roll around, not just the dough. 😊

The professionals say and in this case, I believe they are correct.

 

Little humans learn by repetition but that’s not the most effective way they learn.
They learn what they SEE and what they FEEL. (By the way, adults learn this way too.)
They learn what they WITNESS.

That which is done to others in their presence and to themselves.

 

So if we want our little ones to be KIND, they must witness adults in their lives being kind to others and to them.

 

If we want our toddlers and preschoolers to SHARE they must witness the adults in their lives sharing. They must witness their adults practicing “what I have I gladly give to you” (if they need it and it’s healthy for them. And if it’s not, perhaps we don’t need it either.)

 

If we want our little ones to be neat and orderly – what must they witness? You got it. The adults in their lives practicing neatness and order.

 

If we want our little ones to read well – They need to witness the adults in their lives reading – a lot. And be read to even while still in the womb and thereafter; even while nursing and until —–.

 

If we want our children to speak well, communicate well with dignity and respect – that’s right. This is what they must witness in and from the adults in their lives.

 

In summary, we must consistently model desirable behavior even when we don’t know they are watching.

What our children become is LARGELY what we teach them to do/be, not by our words BUT by our being.

 

I do wish I had read this when I was 21.

My children would like reading more than they do today. 🥰

End of rambling. I have squash to cook. 

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2021, A Quick Hello, Genesis

Huh?

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Nothing big. 
Nothing pressing.
Nothing urgent, I suppose.
I just wanted to say hi. Just put something on the screen today.

Today is Saturday here in LA – that’s Lower Alabama. :)

We’ve had rain, rain, and rain. Which is okay with me — the tomatoes needed it and the watermelon too. 
No. Our garden plants are few but we have enjoyed watching them break through the soil and reach for the sun from tiny seeds.  Yes. Heritage, Non-GMO, Organic seeds.  I think that about covers it.

It’s quiet today. 
JT is studying to teach his Sunday School lesson in the morning and I am pondering what to go with the chicken later on today. 

Mail delivery. 
I wonder what we have today. 
I told you this was nothing — just something to put on the screen. 

Hey now!
I see sunshine out my library window. 
Ooops that didn’t last long — but I have a picture. 
Wanna see?

That’s probably enough of this, huh? 

genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”   source 

Nice promise, isn’t it? I think some folks don’t know this. 

Happy Weekend!

 

 

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