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2021, Just Chatty Today, Romans

Same Difference

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Quiet. Cool. Rainy. 
There’s something pleasant about a day like today — if your life experiences are mine.
And if not, a day like today just might be gloomy.
(Too many of them day after day, would be to me too :)  )
No two lives are alike. No two witnesses report the same event exactly the same. 
Does that make one account false?
If one was flat-out lying and did not report what they actually experienced; yes.

The Gospels of Scripture. 
Matthew. Mark. Luke and John.

Are their accounts exactly the same?
If you have read the whole of them you know each is different even when recording the same event; or one leaving a happening out altogether. 
Is either of them wrong? 
If they are (and they are not) that means the Bible cannot be trusted. 
IF they had recorded exactly the same about every single event THEN their recordings would be suspect.

Life experiences shape or perhaps disfigure us individually and uniquely. 
BUT GOD heals us all the same by the Same means – The Blood of JESUS and His Scripture applied by Holy Spirit. 

So gloomy or pleasant, we who have believed, know the SON is always interceding for us, always with us whether the sun is hiding or shining; whether the wind is gentle or howling; HE is always with us and His Face shines upon us. 

Romans 8: 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. source

2021, Just Chatty Today, Psalms

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

2021, A Quick Hello, James, Just Chatty Today, Pictures

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