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Birthdays

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Day 7 – Birthdays

I am thankful for birthdays.
November birthdays.
Any months’ birthdays.

Birthdays are milestones. Strange about these milestones. To the young, the stretch between them seems a longer trek than ‘Christmas’. To us with some mileage on us – well, the span seems hardly more than a blink until another one rolls around.

Perhaps this difference is all about the perspective of the young and the older. The adolescent is just waiting for the day he or she will be 13. An official teenager. And then it’s 16 and driver’s license and then it’s 25 so the insurance on that beloved vehicle will be more manageable. And after that? Well arriving at middle age is a blink, maybe two.  :) And then those milestones really begin to zip. Albeit sometimes skirts don’t – I’ll leave that right there. Aren’t you glad??

Today my Baby Girl is thirty-five and I tell you it’s been quick. She has packed a lot of living in that span of years. And every birthday marks another year of celebration she brings to me.

Yes. I am thankful for birthdays. Children’s, Grands’, Brothers’, Sisters’, Friends’. Birthdays mark journeys, living, growing, changing years. The one passed and the one to come. And the one that has passed? Whatever number attached, let it pass. Let it go. The good of it, the bad of it, the sad of it, the happy of it, all of it. And begin again. Determined by the Grace and Mercy of God the coming one will have celebration written all over it. That’s really what JESUS wants for you, you know.

John 10:10 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
10 The thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
via John 10:10 KJ21 – The thief cometh not but to steal and – Bible Gateway.

Just in case you missed previous days of thanksgiving:
Day 1 – clean clothes
Day 2 – candles, highly fragrant and made in the USA ones.
Day 3 – Online Helpers like the Fly Lady.  Click Here.
Day 4 – space heaters
Day 5 – Judgment
Day 6 – An Extra Hour – Fall back from Daylight Savings Time

Keep braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Celebrations, Christian Living, Forgiveness, Giving Thanks, Repentance, Salvation

Judgment

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Day 1 – clean clothes
Day 2 – candles, highly fragrant and made in the USA ones.
Day 3 – Online Helpers like the Fly Lady.  Click Here.
Day 4 – space heaters
Day 5 – Judgment

Yes. You read it right. Judgment. I am happy dance grateful for judgment.  I have come to understand that when a man or woman says ‘don’t judge me’ they are really saying ‘don’t tell me I did wrong’.

I would so like to say Dear One perish the thought! There is no need for me to judge, nor can I.
GOD already has.
It is recorded in His Word – the judgment is written there for us to read and believe for ourselves.

But that’s not what I am happy dance grateful about. Would you like to know?
Good.
Cause I really want to share it.
I am happy dance grateful that I am no longer afraid of judgment. Moreover, I am delighted to look my sins square in the face and hear them declared worthy of judgment. Why?
Because the next thing I hear is that JESUS PAID IT ALL for me and because I have accepted His sacrifice, I am free of guilt and condemnation.

I am happy dance grateful that nothing I think, say, or do is hidden from Father and He, the HOLY SPIRIT, is ever-present to nudge me, prod me, remind me, whatever it takes to get me to agree, and lay that unholy thought or deed at the foot of JESUS’ cross and be fully clean and un-condemned.

Oh yes! I’ll gladly take moments of horrendous painful judgment to receive the full pardon offered by JESUS CHRIST!!
Yes! Yes! HOLY SPIRIT tell me, convince me when I am wrong when I have sinned against You.  I invite You to judge my thoughts and my deeds continuously. And, if You use the mouth of one of my brothers or sisters to speak that correction, thank You, LORD. Thank You that they and You love me enough to tell me. Amen and Amen in JESUS’ Name.

Romans 8: Amplified Bible (AMP)
1THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
via Romans 8:1-3 AMP – THEREFORE there is now no condemnation – Bible Gateway.

Hebrews 12:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all].
via Hebrews 12:8 AMP – Now if you are exempt from correction – Bible Gateway.

John 5:23-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)
23 So that all men may give honor (reverence, homage) to the Son just as they give honor to the Father. [In fact] whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, Who has sent Him.
24 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.
25 Believe Me when I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the time is coming and is here now when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear it shall live.
via John 5:23-25 AMP – So that all men may give honor – Bible Gateway.

So now do you see why I am happy dance grateful for JUDGMENT? Now, aren’t you too?

Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

Assurance - Promise, Celebrations, Giving Thanks

Online Helpers

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Day 1 – clean clothes
Day 2 – candles, highly fragrant and made in the USA ones.

Day 3 – Online Helpers like the Fly Lady.  Click Here.

We were not designed by our Heavenly Father to go it alone. We all need help. We all need accountability. We all need encouragement and wise counsel.

So is there an area in your living experience that needs help?
Wise Counsel?
Accountability?
Do you need a plan for getting the chaos out of your life and peace in?

God has already set things in place for you to get all the help you need — just ask.

Luke 11:9 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
9 “So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking,  and the door will be opened to you.
via Luke 11:9 HCSB – So I say to you keep asking and it will – Bible Gateway.

Proverbs 19: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
20 Hear counsel and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
via Proverbs 19:20 KJ21 – Hear counsel and receive instruction – Bible Gateway.

Proverbs 24: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
6 For by wise counsel thou shalt wage thy war, and in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
via Proverbs 24:6 KJ21 – For by wise counsel thou shalt wage thy – Bible Gateway.

Proverbs 12:  21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
via Proverbs 12:15 KJ21 – The way of a fool is right in his own – Bible Gateway.

Psalm 30: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me; LORD, be Thou my helper!”
11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, via Psalm 30:9-11 KJ21 – What profit is there in my blood when I – Bible Gateway.

Psalm 54:4  New Century Version (NCV)
4 See, God will help me; the Lord will support me.
via Psalm 54:4 NCV – See God will help me the Lord will – Bible Gateway.

Psalm 72: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also and him that hath no helper.
via Psalm 72:12 KJ21 – For he shall deliver the needy when he – Bible Gateway.

Corinthians 1: 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
24 not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers for your joy. For by faith ye stand.
via 2 Corinthians 1:24 KJ21 – not that we have dominion over your – Bible Gateway.

John 14:26 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
via John 14:26 NASB – But the Helper the Holy Spirit whom the – Bible Gateway.

It’s World Evangelism Prayer Day.  I’m still praying for the Crozet Islands.

Brave the Dark with the LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello, Celebrations, Giving Thanks

Clean Clothes

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Ephesians 1:18 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
18 My prayer is that light will flood your hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will be yours together with all of God’s people.
via Eph 1:18 CEV – My prayer is that light will flood your – Bible Gateway.

We are women (and men) of hope.

And because of that hope, today is the perfect day to begin a month of Thanksgiving. So go ahead. Name one thing you are thankful for today.

I’m thankful for clean clothes.

Isaiah 61:10 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
10 I celebrate and shout because of my LORD God. His saving power and justice are the very clothes I wear. They are more beautiful than the jewelry worn by a bride or a groom.
via Isaiah 61:10 CEV – Celebrate and Shout – I celebrate and – Bible Gateway.

Keep Braving the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie