Category Archives: Christian Living

Family

A brief word this morning; I am back in my familiar place after a long for me absence. img_7012My reading text this morning was the Gospel According to Mark and I am here with this word for families, even if your family is just two. 

This particular scene in the Text is a nasty one. The Torah teachers have accused JESUS of being a devil. He attempts to reason with them, but they want no part of it. His warning is this:  25 and if a household is divided against itself, that household can’t survive. [source]

Let us heed the warning Families! Large or small or very small be NOT divided one against another. Come together, reason together. Talk out those disagreements in love and kindness with one another; be not divided!  Eat together. Cook together. Laugh together. Play together – catch in the front yard – with prayer you CAN find together activities for the WHOLE family! Tackle obstacles together and if you have been doing it alone for a while, give yourselves a needed learning curve. Rome was not built in a day and getting your house in order won’t be either. :)

Walk together even when you are in your respective out of the home places. 

And for J and me today it’s taxes! :)

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Day 105
261 days remaining after today.

Friday – A Good One!

 Borrowing this – would give credit if I knew the origin but I do not. Even so appreciate it and am grateful for it. Make NO claim to it myself. 

One more of my favorites for this Resurrection Celebration weekend!

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Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Day 85
281 days remaining after today.

Daily Grind

Probably not a lot to write today; just some I’ve been thinking stuff.

This daily grind also known as this day-to-day stuff we do when we drag (or jump) ourselves out of bed to do breakfast (or not), out the door to work or not (but work at home); gas in the vehicle, a few things from the store, on and on you know the drill: life! The stuff we do because we live here on planet earth – it’s for our survival, yours mine and ours. Is that it? Is there more to this it, than that?

Yep. There is! For sure there is for those who have entered the family of GOD. It occurred to me again yesterday that when the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD convicted me and I agreed with Him that I needed a Savior and that JESUS the Christ (YESHUA) was the only Savior and I said yes, that there was no reason after that for Him to leave me here to do this daily grind. I mean it was a done deal. I said yes. Heaven was home. Lets go. But that did not happen. And after these what, 4 decades plus since then, I’m still here.

Why? What’s the point? I believe I got it!

Obviously, this human experience has requirements. See paragraph 2.

The daily grind.

But what if. What if our daily grind  and even our play time and our play time toys; what if all that is designed and provided to be tools? Tools to connect us with people. People looking for answers. People wondering is this it! People needing a Savior but not sure there is One or how to connect with Him.

Our daily grinds are the perfect springboard connectors. Our daily grinds are the way DADDY GOD intends for us to share His Good News. That’s the only reason He has left us here. I’m convinced He’d much rather have us at home with Him!

But . . .

18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” [source] Matthew 28: 18-20 NLT 

Heaven is a big place . . . there needs to be lots and lots of people there.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. [source]

1 Corinthians 3:9 (CJB) For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. [source]

I was wordier than I expected. :)

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed

Day 76
290 days remaining after today.

Not a Suggestion

Day 75
291 days remaining after today.

This is in my face.  I dare not take it as a suggestion.

27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, . . . standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in
anything by your opponents. Philippians 1:27-28 ESV [source]

ABBA, my soul is troubled, I’ve not seen this world as messed up as it is now. I pray for mercy; please grant to us the holy gift of repentance. I pray for each one who comes to this page that You will speak and I pray we will pleasingly respond to You. I ask You to heal the sick, and raise those dead in trespasses and sins to new life in YESHUA. 

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
Your Prayer requests welcomed