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My Message for This Season

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The beautiful thought I am here to share with you came yesterday, and today, I typed this message, and now I am posting it here for anyone who has ears to hear — family, friends, acquaintances, and those I’ve yet to meet. 

It’s that time again. The Christmas Season. I would like a new name to call this season, but so far, I have not settled on anything.

You see, I am fully confident that JESUS was not laid in that manger in December, late September, or October, maybe. Now, I can believe that around the time of the Festival of Lights (Hanukkah) is when the Angel Gabriel visited Mary, and she received the SEED of GOD within her womb. Luke 1: 26-38

The LIGHT of the WORLD coming to earth (to the womb of Mary) on Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Yep. I can believe that.  John 10

But that’s not something to squabble over – HE came!

There is something beautiful that came to me yesterday that I want to share with you.

Mary. We think of her this time of year. Songs are sung, and passages of Scripture tell us what happened about 2000 years ago. But back to what I came to write here.

For nine months, Mary carried the growing, developing body the LORD JESUS lived in for more than 33 ½ earthly years. (Actually, I believe He is still in that body, resurrected and glorified).  For nine months, He was close to her heart just like each of us was to our respective mothers’ hearts, and then He came forth from her womb to her arms.  She watched him learn to speak, to crawl, to walk, to run, to read, to pray, to worship, all the things good little Jewish boys do, with one exception — 1 Peter 2:22. He didn’t sin like the rest of the family did, like all families do. And she loved Him. More than her next breath, she loved Him.

Then the time came, and He stepped into the mission for which He was born. It was short, just about 3 ½ years, and then they (her own people) killed Him.
She stood, no, I think, collapsed at the cross on which He was crucified.  John 19:25-29 When His body was taken down, it was placed in a borrowed tomb. Matthew 27:57-61 Borrowed – He wouldn’t need it for long because in 3 days HE AROSE, Alive again! Never to die again! For the next 40 days, He visited folks, the disciples, people who loved Him, people who needed to see Him alive and well. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
And then just outside Bethany, He ascended into heaven right before their very eyes! Acts 1:6-11 THEN, just 10 days later, HOLY SPIRIT arrived. He was/is the GIFT JESUS had promised, and He came upon and within all those who believed JESUS. Acts 1:1-5 and Acts 2. Now I am getting to the beautiful thought that came to me yesterday (November 30, 2025).

Mary received by faith and carried JESUS in her body for 9 months. Now let’s again advance 33 ½ years (give or take), to the day of Pentecost, when He (that same JESUS she carried in her body) by His Spirit, the HOLY SPIRIT, entered her body again, to never leave her again; to be her Savior, her LORD, her Guide, and her GOD.
Do you believe this?
Likewise, do you believe that you can have JESUS live in you? That we (you and I) can bear/bring JESUS to the world? Is this of any interest to you?  Has HOLY SPIRIT confirmed to you that these things are true?

May it be that this December you experience the REAL JESUS. 

Holy Hugs, Kathie 

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An Open Letter

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To my beloved family, friends, and readers who come to this page.

Why do I do some of the odd things I do?
Why am I quirkish about more than a couple of norms in this world?
Like coming up quickly what most call Easter.
I try to call it otherwise. It has taken some practice.

I prefer Resurrection Sunday.
I prefer Passover.
Why do I have no fondness or appreciation for easter eggs, hunts, and bunnies?
Chocolate — well, yes I like that a lot, but not bunnies, please.

Why?
Because – well because these are of NO benefit to the Kingdom of GOD and of no godly use to mankind, especially little boys and girls. Their lives are not enriched by baskets or eggs, hunts, or any such things. Children (people) need to be told the whole truth and nothing but the truth at all age-appropriate times.

The same with what has developed into Christmas. The Bible does not tell us to celebrate His Birth – we are told to celebrate His Resurrection and to look with hope and rejoicing for His Second Coming.

This is what our children must be taught or they are in grave danger of perishing forever.

Not that remembering and telling, again and again, the story of His birth is not important and needful – it is, but there is no holy reason for what goes on each year for three to four months.

What holidays do I like?

Thanksgiving.
Although the stories we are told about the first Thanksgiving are just that, stories; even so, gathering to give thanks to GOD is excellent and should be a big day with family and friends, I think.
Feasting on good food, sharing funny stories, praying, laughing, and loving family and friends — oh yes let’s celebrate this big!

New Years
Yes! I enjoy it so much! It’s a time for prayer and hope for new beginnings, letting go of hurts, grudges, and failings, and moving on with JESUS to better living.
Oh, yes! I’m about that and the eating of wholesome, simple foods – that too!
Not for luck or any such pagan idea but for thanks to the Father for providing all our needs and even some of our wants in the coming year.

And some of the others . . . Except for Halloween!
What a damnable thing to celebrate – satan and his underworld of trickery, death, and destruction. How heinous can we get?
It has no place in me, no place in my life.

No place in Scripture have I seen a command from GOD for us to attempt to sanitize and redeem these pagan festivals.
On the contrary, Scripture contains plenty of celebrations, gatherings, and festivals for us to honor and enjoy; but those we as a people have ignored.
What a shame!

Yes, I am aware of the culture in which we live.

I am also mindful of this: We are indeed in this world but this world must NOT be in us!
Yet here in The West, I see the ways of the world in many people who profess that JESUS is their Savior.
These things ought not to be so!

So in a nutshell why am I odd, quirky, old-fashioned, straight-laced, and my favorite peculiar — just to name a few?

Well, my heart is just not into being anything but peculiar. 1 Peter 2:9

I hope you see it’s not a condescending stance.
It’s just me doing the best I know how to humble myself before GOD so He can transform me from a wretched sinner to a saint who can live with Him forever.

And in Light of all this, how could I be different?
I dare not for your sake and the Gospel, be different.

And why is it my constant plea that you daily read your Bible, chapter after chapter, book by book?
Because you cannot KNOW GOD without digesting The Word of GOD, The Bible, for yourself; and if you do not KNOW GOD you will surely perish.

So my beloveds, KNOW GOD so when I depart this earthly life, you may in time come to where I will be then.

KNOW GOD – it’s why I am here: to know GOD and to make Him known (to you).  Some Scripture Verses 

Are you 100% sure you KNOW HIM?
Not what people (or even I) have told you but what the Bible says?!

I think that’s it.
I think that’s what I wanted to say – so now you know I am not quirky and odd for any other reason than trying to please GOD before I please anyone else.
When I can please HIM and you at the same time, I am elated!  pleaseGOD

Love, Kathie
(and all those other names I am known as)

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Firsts

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We are now about 2,000 years since that First Resurrection Sunday.

That Resurrection Sunday was vastly different from what any of us will experience here in 2022.
We read in John 20  some of the happenings of that day. 

May I say, I am confident Mary Magdalene and all of the Apostles, if they were with us today, would decline to participate in the many planned festivities for April 17, 2022?
By and large, Resurrection Sunday celebrations are so far from Scripture, that it behooves us to repent and return to our First Love.

Easter eggs, easter baskets, easter rabbits, egg hunts,– shall I go on? 
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do, JESUS would say. He has said. 

I have a question.

Why is JESUS, and JESUS alone, not enough to celebrate this Resurrection Sunday 2022?