Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... June, 2009

May 31, 2009 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

[JustAmy]

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[MEG33]

Good Morning ;Billie

I was able to crop the picture..It had a frame on it that
did not match..Hate that!
Thank you for the sweet compliments
Have a blessed Lord's Day

[The Mayor]

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June 28, 2009

Are You Ready?

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READ: Acts 13:1-5

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work.” —Acts 13:2

Three months before a planned missions trip, a friend and I were talking about the upcoming event. He said to me, “If anyone can’t go, I’d be willing to step in and join you.” This was not going to be an easy 8 days, for we would be painting, repairing, and fixing stuff in the July heat of Jamaica. Yet my friend seemed eager to go.

About 6 weeks before we were scheduled to leave, there was an opening. I e-mailed my friend—whom I hadn’t seen in the interim—and asked if he was still interested. He immediately responded, “Sure! And I got a passport just in case you asked.” He had made sure he was ready—just in case he got the call to go.

My friend’s preparation reminds me of what happened back in the first century at Antioch. Paul and Barnabas were among a number of people getting themselves ready spiritually for whatever God might ask them to do, or wherever He might send them. They didn’t prepare by getting a passport, but they “ministered to the Lord and fasted” (Acts 13:2). And when the Holy Spirit said, “Separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work” (v.2), they were all set for the journey.

Are you preparing for what God might want you to do? When the Spirit says, “Go,” will you be ready?

Available for God to use me,
Available, if God should choose me;
Should it be here or there, it doesn’t matter where;
My waiting heart prepare. —Anthony
© 1971, Dick Anthony.

Keep your tools ready—God will find work for you.
Bible in One Year: Job 11-13; Acts 9:1-21

[MEG33]

Good Morning. Mayor

Thank you for this wonderful lesson in being prepared for
God's work.
Have a blessed Lord's Day

[jaycee]

Thank you so much, Billie, I sorta thought that ‘dusty blue’ matched a little! So sweet of you to notice and mention! But you do those things....

[luvie]

Rus...thanks for our beautiful lesson in God’s Word!

Just saw your segment with Glen Beck on TiVo and you did an
AWESOME job of taking the NY congress to task. I hope you
guys DO take them to court and get some of the “do-nothings”
put in jail or fired!

You are the NY go-to guy for Beck and I wish you would be
a regular on his show. The corruption in NY is an incapsulated
example of what is going on at the federal level. You were
very informative and doggone...it was good to see ya! :D

Keep their feet to the fire....and please ping me if you are
on the show again!

[jaycee]

Thank you for the lovely Daily Bread message this morning, Mr. Mayor. Have a beautiful and Blessed Sunday.

[Kitty Mittens]

Your Post is So Beautiful, Meg!
Blessings to All FRiends.

Until that Final Day

~Flowers on the King's Ranch~

The Lord is thy Keeper: the Lord is thy Shadow at thy Right Hand.
The Sun Shall not Smite thee by Day, nor the Moon by Night.
The Lord Shall Preserve thee from All Evil: He Shall Keep thy Soul.
The Lord Shall Preserve thy Going Out, and thy Coming in
From Henceforth and Forever.
(Ps.121:5-8)

~A Beautiful Lord's Day to Amy's Place~

[MEG33]

Good Morning. Kitty

Thank you for your lovely wildflowers from King's Ranch,
song and wonderful Psalm
I am happy you liked the opening..I enjoyed doing it.
Wishing you a blessed Lord's Day.

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS!

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Dear God, who suffered
torment, agony and death upon the Cross
to free our souls from the chains of iniquity;
protect and defend our troops.
Guide them in the performance of
their Duties.
Strengthen them to endure hardship,
danger, and deprivation in
Your service.
Let their efforts free the people
of Iraq from the chains of terror
and slavery, foster a lasting peace
in the region, and bring all to a
greater share in Your mercy.
Amen.

[ConorMacNessa]

GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS!

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Amazing Grace

by John Newton

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, .
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
.
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
.
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.
.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Lady Jag]

Have a wonderful Sunday all!

[ConorMacNessa]

THE NAVY HYMN

Eternal Father, Strong to Save

The Marine Corps Verse:

Eternal Father, grant we pray
To all Marines both night and day,
The Courage, Honor, Strength and Skill
Their Land to serve, Thy Law Fulfill.
Be Thou the Shield forevermore
From every peril to the Corps!

This is the day which the LORD hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalms 118:24(KJV)

Have a Blessed Lord’s Day!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[MEG33]

Good Afternoon, Conor

Thank you for Amazing Grace and Prayer for our troops
Wishing you a blessed Lord's Day

[MEG33]

Good Afternoon, Lady Jag

Thank you for the lovely sunny graphic and quote.
Wishing you a beautiful Lord's Day

[ConorMacNessa]

A Blessed Lord's Day to you, MEG!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[MEG33]

Thank you, Conor..and for the Navy Hymn, too.

[Lady Jag]

Pray for America

Freedom

And an orator said, 'Speak to us of Freedom.' And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment. You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour? In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes. And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free? If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them. And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride? And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you. And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared. Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape. These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling. And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light. And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. Kahlil Gibran

[Lady Jag]

[ConorMacNessa]

Good afternoon, Lady J.! Hope you are having a Blessed Lord's Day!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[MEG33]

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

I love Kahlil Gibran’s poetry..Thank you, Lady, for posting this