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A Quick Hello, Celebrations, Guests

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If my earlier post did not give you quite enough to read try Kimberly’s Post for today. Click HERE.  It’s entitled Day Four: The God of More than Just My Pajamas  Interesting title, huh?

And Oh My Goodness!! Let me share with you what I stumbled upon this morning at Kimberly’s Blog!  It gives me reason to Take Heart!! There is a Blog World brimming with women who love JESUS. That encourages me!! How about you?

And special blogging is going on this month, all 31 days of October. Please click HERE and check out one page listing 721 blogs offering us wonderful reading and encouragement and helpful hints and ideas for living, parenting, beauty, all things woman, the holidays, baking and much more! No, I have not visited each one but there must be something for everyone! I don’t know about you, but I think this is wildly great!!

And so, if you find something that blesses you at one or more of these 721 blog locations, would you be willing to share that with me (via email) and allow me to post it for all of us to enjoy? That would be so fun!

Keep up the good doings,
Braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello, Assurance - Promise, Christian Living

Compost Pineapples

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Well, it’s been Monday all day long! That’s catch up day from the weekend. And just so you will know — I’m not caught up.

I visited my compost bin today, most often for a long while now my beloved has been the one to take our contributions, but today I made the trek out back and you know what I found?

Life.

Life in a bin of decaying food scraps. Actually Jerry previously told me they were out there and today I went to see for myself. Not that I did not believe him, just wanted to see for myself, you know. And in truth there are four of them out there growing with no effort from us other than dumping into the bin the tops we whacked off four pineapples (at various times, not all at once) we brought home from our local food establishment.

Life in a dump. Who’d thought it? Goes to show if there’s a spark of life even in stinky surroundings something new can grow. That’ll preach don’t you think?

Isaiah 43:19 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
19 “Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.
via Isaiah 43:19 NASB – Behold I will do something new Now it – Bible Gateway.

Here are some pics. Three pictures are worth three thousand words. :)

So tell me, God doing something new in your life even amid some stinky stuff? Keep looking for those pineapples. You know the HOLY SPIRIT is all about producing fruit. :)

Click HERE and do some praying, please. It will help you –

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello, Prayer Requests

Sunday to Monday

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It has been a full weekend for the Thompsons. Two dear men who loved JESUS were remembered on Saturday with Memorial Services. I was reminded again that leaving a legacy that points others to JESUS is all that ultimately matters. Whatever we accomplish in this life if when we leave here folks cannot say we loved JESUS and we loved others — well, we’ve wasted a trip! A life lived outside the will of JESUS CHRIST is a life wasted.

Matthew 16:26 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
via Matthew 16:26 NASB – For what will it profit a man if he – Bible Gateway.

Determine to be kind to every person you meet today. :)

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello, Christian Living, Wednesdays - praying for IDOKs by name

Barnyard Talk

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Proverbs 14:4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
4 Where no oxen are, the manger is clean, But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.
via Prov 14:4 NASB – Where no oxen are the manger is clean – Bible Gateway.

I am a simple-minded, long removed from the country-girl woman. However as I share what I see in today’s verse it will confirm to you that getting the country out of the girl is a long process. :)

Obviously, in a barn (manger) without oxen (cows, horses, or mules, same principle) there is no poop, no hold your nose smell and no messy clean up.But that is not all there isn’t in a barn without oxen. Neither is there fertilizer – a much-needed commodity to grow rich, healthy foods and neither is there strength to pull the plow to till the ground to grow the crops.

Babies.
Babies are messy. They too poop and smell up the place but love makes them worth every smelly diaper, two o’clock feedings, all night floor pacing and the list goes on and on.

People – family – friends.
Sometimes they are messy too. They stink up our lives sometimes with the things they do and say.

So what am I saying? A life lived in love gets messy and sometimes it just down right stinks! BUT the rewards are worth it!  Enriching the lives of others, seeing the Holy Spirit ‘fertilize’, water and cultivate the seeds you have sown in the heart of a messy soul is worth it all when the fruit of holiness begins to peek its glorious head.

Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the manger is clean, But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.

Barnyard animals and Messy People — how you handle them just might make you rich.  :)

HOLY SPIRIT,  I pray the ‘humor’ of this piece of writing will be useful and will be a tool fit for teaching Your Truth to receptive hearts. I pray we will apply ourselves to knowing Your Word and allow Your Word to equip us to love wisely the messy people in our lives; to love them so much they come looking for You. Amen and amen.

Please click HERE and pray.

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

WEDNESDAYS are Praying for IDOKs by name days. If you have specific matters that you’d like for me to pray about with you, click HERE and let me know.