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Reminiscing

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Good Morning, Friends and Family,

Yesterday’s post being a repost has spurred me to reminisce a bit. 

My post log here at The White Stone records that we have published 2, 957 posts (not including this one) since March of 2007.
That’s a lot of words — even for me!  

I wrote my first devotion for public consumption in 2003.
I don’t remember the month.
I do remember enjoying an especially enlightening devotional time that morning before going to the law office (paralegal, never made it to law school :) ), so much so I was prompted to share it via email with I think about five (5) girlfriends/sisters of Faith.

From that morning on, on a regular basis, I wrote and emailed them. In time the email list grew. So much so it was necessary for me to divide the email addresses into groups, emailing 4 sets with each devotional writing.

Circa 2007, I discovered Blogspot. With this, the distribution of the devotionals was greatly simplified. 
It was not without cost though — change is often resisted and this venture was no exception as not all the email recipients followed to the blog. It was new. Even so, we persevered and here we are today. 

If memory serves I wrote at Blogspot from about 2007 until circa 2011 when we moved to WordPress.
Many of the logged 2,957 posts were imported from Blogspot to WordPress. 
And to be as transparent as memory allows me to be, 98 are copy and paste posts — so not all are first-run originals. 

Bottom line — it’s been 18 years of devotional writing!  I am grateful! 

A quick check confirmed Blogspot is still live. Not mine, of course, but others are still writing there. 

I do not recall the reasons that brought me to WordPress but I am grateful to be here. 
There have been changes here at WordPress as to how blogs are crafted and how they function. Some changes I have appreciated, some I have accepted. Such is life, isn’t it? 

What are the total numbers on our readership?
I don’t know. But I am grateful for each and every one of you. 

Thank you for reading and thank you for every return visit you make here. 

Over the years, we have added Pages and deleted Pages — there’s a lot to read (and videos to watch) here at The White Stone. 
In it all I hope to help, encourage, enlighten; to be a voice that Holy Spirit can work through to edify sisters and brothers, AND to plant a seed in the hearts of those seeking GOD.  

Again, thanks for reading. You are welcome here. And if you want someone to pray with you — we are here. Just let us know. 

Father GOD, may not always answer the way we want, but He will always answer better than we asked. 

Psalm 5: 2 (1) Give ear to my words, Adonai, consider my inmost thoughts.
3 (2) Listen to my cry for help, my king and my God, for I pray to you.
4 (3) Adonai, in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I lay my needs before you and wait expectantly.  source

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A Tree and Fall

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Good Saturday morning!

Another week has zipped through our hands. I am wondering how much slipped by without its due notice. No doubt some. From my view vantage this morning I am noticing my parasol tree’s leaves have turned, mostly yellow now. 

The sun is shy this morning and the temps are cooler. I think Fall is finally in the air here in LA.

Mainly, I’m just touching base and saying hello. I think I don’t have a lot to say these days.
This world is a mess but GOD is still good.
As beautiful as is my view from this desk I know life is hard and getting more — more what? What is life here? Oh yes — a vapor.

James 4:14 New King James Version
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.  source

 

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The Mouths that Speak

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Here just to share some thoughts with fellow saints of GOD.

It seems to me as best we are enabled by Holy Spirit we need to make NOT another decision based on the fear we are daily fed.
As best we are enabled by Holy Spirit, I pray we quickly learn to
ascertain the better places to go, and not to go;
what to do, what not to do,
what to say, what not to say,
what to buy, what not to buy,
what to read, what not to read,
what to watch, what not to watch,
what to allow ourselves to hear, and not to hear,
who to place confidence in, who to NOT place confidence in, 
based on what The Scripture and Holy Spirit within us instructs us. 

This does not mean we do not listen to counsel but it does mean that EVERY counsel that does not line up with that KNOWING in our GUT from Holy Spirit backed up by Holy Writ, we immediately reject and go in the opposite direction.
Let us carefully consider the character and the lifestyle of the mouth speaking to us. 

Based on what we have experienced, what we are experiencing, and what the Bible reveals, I suspect the evil one and those with skin on their faces he has deceived into doing his bidding are not going to stop until they have destroyed every last ounce of goodness, freedom, and human dignity on this planet. 
We might as well bend our knees to GOD alone, hold up our heads and go forth in wisdom to embrace every opportunity to live right in this wrong world, live well with what Father provides, love one another and share the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST until we open our eyes in Heaven.

10 “And now, O our God, what can we say after all of this? For once again we have abandoned your commands!
11 Your servants the prophets warned us when they said, ‘The land you are entering to possess is totally defiled by the detestable practices of the people living there. From one end to the other, the land is filled with corruption.
12 Don’t let your daughters marry their sons! Don’t take their daughters as wives for your sons. Don’t ever promote the peace and prosperity of those nations. If you follow these instructions, you will be strong and will enjoy the good things the land produces, and you will leave this prosperity to your children forever.’

13 “Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
14 But even so, we are again breaking your commands and intermarrying with people who do these detestable things. Won’t your anger be enough to destroy us, so that even this little remnant no longer survives?
15 O Lord, God of Israel, you are just. We come before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence.”  source 

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We have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to do RIGHT in this WRONG world,

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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.