Thank you always for your lovely music, LUV.

I love your sweeet Santa kitty and pup goodnights.
Thank you for your blessings, prayers and hugs, (((Kitty))).

Thank you for coming by and sharing part of this blessed season
with us. I wish you warm houses, a lovely evening and restful night.

May God Keep Safe All Who Serve Our Country

Thank you Meg!
I sure hope your back is better

Lovely!

Thank you for the Beautiful Sunday Posts, Dear FRiends.
(((((Hugs from the Heart, and God Bless)))))

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Enemy Love

December 19, 2016

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Luke 6:32

When war broke out in 1950, fifteen-year-old Kim Chin-Kyung joined the South Korean army to defend his homeland. He soon found, however, that he wasn’t ready for the horrors of combat. As young friends died around him, he begged God for his life and promised that, if allowed to live, he would learn to love his enemies.

Sixty-five years later, Dr. Kim reflected on that answered prayer. Through decades of caring for orphans and assisting in the education of North Korean and Chinese young people, he has won many friends among those he once regarded as enemies. Today he shuns political labels. Instead he calls himself a loveist as an expression of his faith in Jesus.

The prophet Jonah left a different kind of legacy. Even a dramatic rescue from the belly of a big fish didn’t transform his heart. Although he eventually obeyed God, Jonah said he’d rather die than watch the Lord show mercy to his enemies (Jonah 4:1–2, 8).

We can only guess as to whether Jonah ever learned to care for the people of Nineveh. Instead we are left to wonder about ourselves. Will we settle for his attitude toward those we fear and hate? Or will we ask God for the ability to love our enemies as He has shown mercy to us?

Father in heaven, like Your reluctant prophet, we are inclined to love only those who love us. Yet You loved us even when we cared only for ourselves. Please give us the grace to be more like Jesus than Jonah.

Love conquers all.

~Good Morning To Amy' Place~

Happy Monday Everyone
The electors vote today and the media will have to
hunt for a new story.
:o)
As we prepare to celebrate Our Savior's birth
May Joy And Blessings Flow

The back is still angry...The house shows it, too.
;o)

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Spreading Joy

December 20, 2016

The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.” Luke 2:10

When Janet went to teach English in a school overseas, she found the atmosphere gloomy and depressing. People did their jobs, but no one seemed happy. They didn't help or encourage one another. But Janet, grateful for all that God had done for her, expressed it in everything she did. She smiled. She was friendly. She went out of her way to help people. She hummed songs and hymns.

Little by little, as Janet shared her joy, the atmosphere at the school changed. One by one people began to smile and help each other. When a visiting administrator asked the principal why his school was so different, the principal, who was not a believer, responded, “Jesus brings joy.” Janet was filled to overflowing with the joy of the Lord and it spilled over to those around her.

The gospel of Luke tells us that God sent an angel to ordinary shepherds to deliver an extraordinary birth announcement. The angel made the surprising proclamation that the newborn baby “will cause great joy for all the people” (Luke 2:10), which indeed He did.

Since then this message has spread through the centuries to us, and now we are Christ's messengers of joy to the world. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we continue the practice of spreading the joy of Jesus as we follow His example and serve others.

How might you spread the joy of Jesus to others today?

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Take the joy of Christmas with you every day.

INSIGHT:

Just as the angel appeared in the night sky to give shepherds reason for joy, Jesus also used a dark moment to offer His disciples reason for hope on the other side of His suffering and their confusion. What they didn’t yet know would only be revealed in time. Christ’s death was a loving Father’s way of reconciling a rebel world to Himself. The despair of that night was necessary so that, three days later, a reason for hope now, and fullness of joy later, could be offered to all (v. 33).

Good Morning Everyone
Happy GratiTuesday

I am so grateful for this beautiful season of God's Love

I Wish You A Blessed Grateful Day

I Wish You A Blessed Trip With Your Family!
Enjoy!

Good Morning Meg! It will be 30 degrees later today, and for that I am truly grateful!

Just to let you all know,my grandmother, who I mentioned quite a bit here, almost got to her 99th birthday. She passed away last Friday at one in the morning, so really it was Thursday night. She was able to pass away at home with in home hospice care and round the clock teams of us relatives tending to her the last week of her life. She passed peacefully, and for that I am also very grateful. She had a full life, 4 kids and a devoted husband, many grandchildren, greats and 2 recent great great granddaughters were born this fall.

We are all at peace about it and are glad Gram is in Heaven.

Dear TCP, prayers are on the way.
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

Mitch Albom

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My Thoughts and Prayers
Are With You And The Family

May Your Grandmother Rest In God's Arms, TCP

Beautiful, MEG!

Bethlehem of Judea
A little child,
A shining star.
A stable rude,
The door ajar.

Yet in that place,
So crude, forlorn,
The Hope of all The world was born.

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A Happy GratiTuesday to you MEG,
and to everyone here at Amy's Place.

Lovely words and scene...Amen

We Three "Kings"

Wish You A Very Merry Gratituesday!

(((HUGS)))

ML/LTOS

So cute! :)