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We have been remembering today. And not just here in America; other Nations have remembered and paid tribute as well. I thank them!

Memorials are good. Tangible places we can go; objects we can hold in our hands and remember. Remembering can be good, very good.

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Let us not forget.

The Maker of Heaven and Earth.
Let us not forget. Let us not forsake.

Memorials are appropriate in remembering Him too. Ask Him for a few for you and yours.

Numbers 15:38-40 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels  for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at [each] corner.
39 These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the LORD’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.
40 This way you will remember and obey all My commands and be holy to your God. via Numbers 15:38-40 HCSB – Speak to the Israelites and tell them – Bible Gateway.

And this. Lest we forget and lest they, the children, not know! Hear, O Church! Hear!

Deuteronomy 6:
4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
6 These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.
7 You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. via Deuteronomy 6 NASB – Obey God and Prosper Now this is the – Bible Gateway.

I hope you all are continuing to pray for Lily and her family. I received word today that her surgeons have replaced her skull and she is ready to go to Birmingham for therapy. This is good news but no time to let up on our praying.

Dori was in Sunday School and worship this morning!! Praise JESUS!!

Thank You, ABBA. Thank You for memorials. Help us remember and in all our remembering help us remember You First in JESUS name and for His sake and the sake of the children. Amen and amen.
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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A Quick Hello

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So good to be home!

Jerry has cashed in on some much need sleep since getting home from the hospital this afternoon. We have received delightful phone calls, I’ve handled a few loads of laundry, and have eaten too many cookies and wonderfully moist banana bread; and now I am about spent but wanted to say hello and wish you a blessed weekend and thank you for your love and prayers.

I’ll plan to check in with you again soon and in the mean time

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)  Hebrews 12
1 Therefore since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses  surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, and run with endurance  the race that lies before us,
2 keeping our eyes on Jesus,  the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame,  and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart. via Hebrews 12:1-3 HCSB – The Call to Endurance Therefore since – Bible Gateway.

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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

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A Red Jacket

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Juicing done, a cup of coffee, my beloved and Guidepost — want to come along? Good. Here’s today’s reading.

“To counteract the rainy, gloomy afternoon,I put on my red blazer to meet an architect friend, Jeff Wierenga, for lunch. As we sat near a window at the mall entrance, I watched damp shoppers scurrying in. “What awful weather, ” I said.

Jeff, who is an award-winning photographer, replied, “When I was traveling, I used to be disappointed when I reached a great spot to take pictures and the weather was bad. Then one day I saw a photographer in England standing in the pouring rain without an umbrella.

“I had to ask him why he was shooting in such a downpour.  He said, ‘Look at the shine on those slate roofs. It will make beautiful photos–the kind visitors to England want to buy.’

“After that,” Jeff told me, “I didn’t complain again about bad weather on my trips, because I found I could get really good photos on rainy days. Sometimes they were better than the ones I took when the sun was so bright it washed everything out.”

“What does the camera capture that we don’t ordinarily see?” I asked.

“In the rain,” he explained, “colors are more saturated. The best time to photograph brilliant fall foliage is on an overcast day because the colors stand out so much better. I’ve found that flowers are better to photograph on a rainy day. You just have to turn your lens wide open.”

I looked  over the shoppers emerging from the mall into the grayness, and I was suddenly startled to see what Jeff meant. The little girl wearing the bright orange sweatshirt seemed to glow like a torch; the lady carrying the yellow, red, green, and blue umbrella looked like a walking carousel. The gloomy landscape was a neutral canvas that made colors come alive.

I looked down at the red jacket I was wearing. Funny, I had put it on in an attempt to brighten up a gloomy day. Now I saw that it was really the gloominess of the day that had brightened my jacket.

*Father, open wide the lens of my spirit  to see the beauty brought by the rain.  — Karen Barber “

I get it!!  Any body for a red jacket today?

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Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie

A blessed long weekend to you all — Tee off time is 8:30  :)

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The Meeting (again, again)

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The Meeting
I didn’t realize it had been written so long ago.  Still good though. :)

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John chapter 4 is another one of the places in Holy Writ that I enjoy visiting and so I stopped by this morning to sit a spell there. If you are familiar with the passage, Jesus was sitting for a spell too. The disciples had gone into town to the local Sonic and Jesus was waiting at the well. Yes, He was tired and yes He was resting but He was also, I believe, waiting for a certain woman who was coming to the well at noon — Not when the other women would come to the well; shall we say she was not well-liked by the women of the city of Samaria. So there He sits and she comes to fill her water pot and knowing her heart and knowing her need, He asked her for a drink. Let’s look in on them.
John 4
7 Presently, when a woman of Samaria came along to draw water, Jesus said to her, Give Me a drink.
He knew how to get her attention, didn’t He? He knows how to get the attention of those loved ones for whom we are praying too and He knows just when they will be at the well. And they do have to get to the well BEFORE He says “Give Me a drink”.
8 For His disciples had gone off into the town to buy food.
See I told you they went to the local Sonic for a strawberry cheesecake milkshake and an order of fries.
9 The Samaritan woman said to Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan [and a] woman, for a drink?–For the Jews have nothing to do with the Samaritans.
You see our Jesus talks to those who others will not give the time of day… Aren’t you glad? I am!
10 Jesus answered her, If you had only known and had recognized God’s gift and Who this is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him [instead] and He would have given you living water.
11 She said to Him, Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no drawing bucket] and the well is deep; how then can You provide living water? [Where do You get Your living water?]
And look at this! She said You have no bucket … How are you going to get water out of this well? How many times have we done that? How many times have we looked at our situation and said, just how are you going to fix this? You have nothing to work with! Nothing to even start with!
12 Are You greater than and superior to our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?
And sometimes we even go on with our questions. And He lets us but He does have the Answer. Will we listen?
13 Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again.
So He talks to her about a common need. We can do that with those we meet today.
14 But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty any more. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life.
15 The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never get thirsty nor have to come [continually all the way] here to draw.
16 At this, Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come back here.
This was not pleasant for her but it was necessary, and He was gentle but her sins she had to face.
17 The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have spoken truly in saying, I have no husband.
You know what I like here? She told the truth. That is the KEY to meeting Jesus — TELL THE TRUTH; agree with HIM.
18 For you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.
19 The woman said to Him, Sir, I see and understand that You are a prophet.
A little light is dawning here! And so He explains, now that she is READY to listen.
20 Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary and proper to worship.
21 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither [merely] in this mountain nor [merely] in Jerusalem.
22 You [Samaritans] do not know what you are worshiping [you worship what you do not comprehend]. We do know what we are worshiping [we worship what we have knowledge of and understand], for [after all] salvation comes from [among] the Jews.
23 A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
24 God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).
25 The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, He Who is called the Christ (the Anointed One); and when He arrives, He will tell us everything we need to know and make it clear to us.
This I really like — this tells me without a doubt that she had been prepared for this day. She KNEW the Messiah was coming; she had the background information she needed; the groundwork had been done BEFORE she came to the well. HE STILL WORKS THIS WAY!!
26 Jesus said to her, I Who now speak with you am He.
27 Just then His disciples came and they wondered (were surprised, astonished) to find Him talking with a woman [a married woman]. However, not one of them asked Him, What are You inquiring about? or What do You want? or, Why do You speak with her?
28 Then the woman left her water jar and went away to the town. And she began telling the people,
She hit the ground running, telling others that she had met the Messiah. She had fallen in love with JESUS — the greatest Man of her life — The God-Man! I love it!!
29 Come, see a Man Who has told me everything that I ever did! Can this be [is not this] the Christ? [Must not this be the Messiah, the Anointed One?]
30 So the people left the town and set out to go to Him. And because of her witness others came to see Him for themselves and they believed too!!
Oh, yes, I love chapter 4 — I know about that well and He who waited for me at that well. Oh, what a Savior He is… MY SAVIOR!
Yours, too?

Oh, Father, I love this; thank You; thank You. Thank You for meeting me at the well and for knowing all I had done and loving me anyway; thank You. And thank You that You do the same for all of us; You know us all and You love us still. What a Savior You are. Thank You. Thank You that You are blessing my people today; that you are preparing others who are on their way to the well and thank You that You allow us the privilege of helping in this work and we pray for a clear vision of the work You have called us to do and we pray for accurate timing… that we will seize upon Your timing and go with You. Thank You; thank You for what You have in store for us today; for it is all good and for Jesus’ sake.
Brave the Dark with The LIGHT,
Kathie