Well today is the 30th of  May.....I've recuperated somewhat from the busy week before and now am ready to get with it.....whatever it is!!!

Tomorrow is Friday, my day off.....of course not really a day off....for there's a million things to do around the house, yard etc....but still a change from the work days.

Since I've been off than blog deal I have become very interested in watching GLC....or Gods' Learning Channel,that comes out of Midland/Odessa, Texas area.  I've learned so much over the last 3 years just listening to all the excellent Bible scholars they have on the air.  Personally,I have never gone along with the idea that the Old Testament is no longer relevant to us Gentiles....after all the Bible does say that we have been grafted in........What happens when you graft in a rose bush or a tree.....it still lives and thrives, however the root stock is still what nourishes the new and different life that you are starting in the process.   Many years ago, the home we first purchased was on an acre, and we had lots of room around the house to grow fruit trees, rose bushes etc.  I became enchanted with hibred rose bushes....I planted the Tropicana, the Lincoln etc and had about10 different rose bushes surrounding around the back yard fence..  They were beautiful and thrived.  However one day, when I was at work not too far from our house, I was looking out of my second story office in the direction of our home and saw a fire just about where our house was.....being concerned I got in the car and drove up the road to our home and sure enough the fire was on our property.  My son John had decided to burn some weeds behind the fenced in area....and as is very possible for a fire to get out of control in these New Mexico days when a wind can come up from out of nowhere.  He was desperately trying to stomp it out  and so with additional help and water hoses we were able to get it controlled.  HOWEVER....the fire got through the fence where my lovely rose bushes made their  home.  Lo and behold when some began to shoot out some leaves after awhile....they went back to the parent bush to which they had been grafted into.  Of course I was sad to see that.  As I have thought'
about that I considered the grafting in to the olive branch the Father did with us Gentiles. Yes we were different.....different nationality, different language, different life altogether than the parent stock .however we still have our new life with Christ still dependent upon the parent root .  Our nourishment , strength, behaviour, directions etc. still come through the original stock and gives us life.  Therefore, even though we are not Jews....we have been granted the same relationship with our Father God and His Son Jesus Christ.   What a wonderful privilidge....a wonderful gift!!! I'm still learning all I can along the way.  It is an exciting journey and I encourage you to investigate it for yourself.  You'll be glad you did.    There is a lot of meaning spiritually in the different feasts God put into the place for His children to benefit from.  Although we may not be able to perform them to the degree the Hebrews do still today.,...we still can glean much wisdom and insight as to how they demonstrate and instruct  in a wonderful way as to how we can have a closer and richer relationship with our Father God and how they help us to honor Him in a deeper way. 

 

Well here it is May 28,2013 and I'm finally able to post something on my blog.  Many thanks to my super smart and capable daughter , Mary Ellen.  I'm just not that savvy about all this computer stuff.
At any rate this past week I worked my 4 days at LOVE INC, and attended two graduations . One on Friday evening in Roswell, NM  where my grandson Anthony graduated and then Saturday afternoon at 2:00 PM at Cloudcroft High School where my twin grandaughterss, Stacie and Stephanie attended.
What a week......I was and still am trying to get back to feeling like I might make it after all. I walked more in two days than I had all year I think.....but it was such a blessing.  The Lord has certainly blessed me with wonderful children and grandchildren....and I anticipate that the great grand children will be equally as smart, loving, caring and interested in knowing the Lord as those who have gone before them.  This little writing is only to begin again and try to blog on a regular basis.  Hope to someday see that someone out there will one day possible read some of my blogs......some not so great,  but I'm going to get better....I HOPE!!!!

Today is January 5, 2011...It has been 6 months since my last posting. I can't begin to even share all that has happened in this past 6 months.....but suffice it to say.....Yahweh is moving so fast in my life my head is beginning to spin. The Bible bookstore I worked for parttime closed its doors December 18th. I am left with only my social security and I will turn 75 in February. We tend to go into fighting off worry during these times because in real tim it looks impossible that we could make it. But GOD is so faithful......As of about 8 days ago I am now deeply involved in getting a coffeeshop off the ground in our local Christain Television Station . Two teachers in our school system are on fire to rebuild the walls in our young peoples lives.....they are remodeling the theater part and will show movies approved by Focus on the Family, and have guest speakers and musicians come in from time to time. We want to help raise funds to help make this ministry be a huge blessing for our community. I will be donating my time to that endeavor and look forward to that.....also the door just opened yesterday for another ministy possibility for me part time. At my age, this is all I want right now.....to pour myself into just doing what my heavenly Father desires. I say I can't believe it...but all my life the Lord has taken such wonderful care of me. I am blessed. I just got put back on internet about four minutes ago....and just had to sing His praises . Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thou hands have made......Then sings my soul my God How great Thou art. I shall return soon. Be Blessed..;....You are loved with the greatest love one could ever hope to know. Find out what it is He would love to share with you to do during these times, then put your whole heart into it.

Yesterday was Sunday, and we know that even God Himself rested after 6 days of creating this absolutely incomprehensible, magnificient universe. He advised no....really commanded us to rest as well. Last year I started going to a smaller church in a small mountain community. Somehow after attending a much larger congregation for over 30 years, I found myself really no longer "useful". For many years I decorated the church, (with the help of others), cooked for a couple of hundred people on Wednesday nights before prayer meeting, did weddings, whatever. Also in the last year or two was a facilitator for Beth Moore studies. However, which I think is the case world over, when you go beyond your 70th year, you begin to see long time friends and acquaintances go in other directions. Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, childrens' homes etc. find them no longer near. The most devastating of all occurences at times is a long time friend remarrying and moving away. AAAHHH, OOHHHH, the agonies of age. Anyway, I felt disconnected somehow and began complaining and griping and crying out to the Lord.....I need fellowship.....You said not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together.....You call us family....but somehow I'm needing, wanting more. One of my sisters, Suzanne, and her husband bought a summer home in this little mountain community some years ago and their "summers" amount to approximately two to three weeks during the whole year. But better some than NADA. One Sunday , while visiting with them over a weekend, my sister and I were going to attend the super little Methodist church right down the road from them. Upon driving up to park, we noticed everyone leaving....they had changed the time on one Sunday a month to meet one hour earlier. What to do???? Too late to drive down the hill.....I said...let's go over to the little Baptist Church right up the road. We did.....and I was almost "hooked" the first time around. Mountain people are unusually geniune and friendly....very refreshing. But the "fish hook for me was the pastor. I had heard him once before while he conducted a funeral , and knew him slightly from just exchanges in the normal course of small town living. Well I'm convinced the Lord not only heard my vocal grumblings....but deep inside my heart ....knowing me as He only can...saw just what my heart was hungry for. This servant of the Lord has been teaching from the book of Romans for the past year that I've been attending....a verse or two or four ...at a time.....But he's been teaching from Romans way before I arrived. At any rate , the way He reverences the Word of God and feeds it with definitions of Greek words, humor, even breaking out in song from time to time, well,there's just no way to adequately portray his eloquence, sensitivity, humor, love and sincerity, not only behind the pulpit...but on a one to one basis. His wife .... well....she may exceed him in her ways....but then I've never heard her preach. :>) Probably never will. All this to say this....I can't wait to see Sundays....what an uplifting time of being with FAMILY. I've also joined the choir....not being able to read a note of music. What a different approach to everything .....This Sunday the choir sang a special...I had not gone to practice (or church) last Sunday evening , which is when we practice after church. A choir member came up and said....we're singing a song you know so come on up and sing with us.
At choir practice that evening , the choir director....a simply precious , in love with the Lord and shares it person....got all choked up just reading some of the words of a new song we were going to try. I can't repeat the exact words, but it went something like, "Jesus didn't ask me to come remove the nails from His body that were tormenting Him".... I don't know how to even explain it adequately, but there's such a blessing in the absence of PERFORMANCE, and the most talented voices singing, the genuine caring and praying for those struggling with illness and other difficult circumstances. There's a song that goes something like this condensed a bit...
Where do I go.....Who do Irun to.....I go to the rock of my salvation, I go to the stone that the builder rejected, I go the MOUNTAIN and the mountain stands by me....When all around me is sinking sand, on Christ the solid ROCK I stand, when I need a shelter, when I need a friend, I RUN TO THE ROCK." I thank the Lord for sending me to the mountain........may you have or find that wonderful community of believers that truly receive you as family. God bless.

Sunday morning.......Today the day of rest. Father, we praise You for keeping us safe and out of harms way this past week. You have provided all our needs and continue to reassure us of Your love and protection. Father, in the blessed name of Jesus let us rise to the privilige of being Your children. Help us to put our flesh and the world on hold and walk by the power of Your Holy Spirit not just today but every day You allow us to rise from our sleep and serve You in our physical world. Lord Jesus, how can we ever thank you for rescuing us from ourselves. For making the way clear and precise in Your Word. We let so many things keep us from really giving Your Word our full attention.....knowing full well that just as the Word was made flesh in Your Son Jesus Christ.....that is Your aim for us as well. The Word made flesh in us. Operative, alive, producing fruit. "TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS ....JUST TO TAKE YOU AT YOUR WORD....JUST TO KNOW THAT

2010 post At last... the end of the work week

At last....the end of the work week. Hip , Hip . Hooray. I have four days to do so many things that need done. Spring looks like it is looming on the horizon. I always get too anxious to plant things, and invaribly a frost will hit before spring really arrives. We have had so much rain here and the mountains tons of snow. Spring will undoubtedly be beautifully green on the foothills, which is seldom the case. I only work three and 1/2 days at the bookstore now , so I really enjoy doing some of the other things I enjoy. Cleaning out closets, pulling weeds, bathing my adorable schnauzer( I must get a picture of him put on here soon. Just jesting about enjoying those things....but they need attention. Please visit my Little Foxes as I posted my musings there tonight. One thing I am looking forward to this next week is doing some baking. Until we meet again......If you want a good laugh you must visit Mary's Meanderings Snake spot. It's hilarious.

THis was my very first post on my blog in2010

Good morning.....this will be my very first post. Hope I can make some sense to anyone brave enough to enter in. Yesterday I had my haircut....my daughters got together and bought me a gift certificate to have George Atencio(a great hair stylist here) "fix me up." At 74, I am having some loss of hair....thyroid problems all my life haven't helped, and I have the privilige of having the finest,straightest hair ever. But.....don't take me wrong.....I'm delighted to have some at least. Anyway...George always did my hair when I was in real estate, but after Social Security and other events I am cutting back these days like so may others. We had a great "reunion visit" and caught up on all the really interesting things we've encountered over the past years...operations, aches,pains,children,grandchildren...etc.etc. Then I came home....feeling much better about my self until I reached in the mailbox and got the new info they're putting on credit cards these days. My Citi card informed me that if I continued to pay the minimum monthly payment, I would pay off the balance in 24 years and have paid 17,980 dollars. All of a sudden....I wasn't feeling quite so chipper! Yes....you guessed it....I'm one one of those real smart people who made some not so smart decisions. I always have thought I was reasonably intelligent but the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes go askew. Anyway...I want to encourage us this morning....if you're having some , what you conceive to be an insurmountable problem.....look up.....Our God knows we're not the smartest people in the world sometimes and when we realize it and call upon Him for help...guess what.....He always makes a way.. Ilove that song that goes like this....God will make a way,where there seems to be no way, He works in ways we cannot see, He will make a way for me. He will be my guide , hold me closely to HIs side, His love and grace are fresh each day.....HE WILL MAKE A WAY! !! God bless!!!


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