:)

Exactly right!

Awesome! You should go with them! What a great promotion!

Thank you! The back won’t tolerate a trip or I would be making reservations!
I’ll be there in spirit.

I’m sure you will. Wish you could be there in person, but sometimes the back is boss. sigh

I was ready to stop taking care of horses. The place we found to buy was not set up for horses. That made up my mind that I would not spend stupid amounts of money to build a barn. It was time to end this phase and do other stuff. As long as I had my old barn and pastures it was cheap to have them only needed hay in winter. Miss the little mini horse she is a cutie.

I can rent a horse for a day at a place near here when I really miss horses.

Really busy getting the house in order now. Very grateful for this new house and new perspective. I live close to my siblings and parents now.

Cheers

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Help from Heaven

August 12, 2018

Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel! Joshua 10:14

SOS, the Morse code signal, was created in 1905 because sailors needed a way to indicate extreme distress. The signal gained notoriety in 1910 when used by the sinking ship Steamship Kentucky, saving all forty-six people aboard.

While SOS may be a more recent invention, the urgent cry for help is as old as humanity. We hear it often in the Old Testament story of Joshua, who faced opposition from fellow Israelites (Joshua 9:18) and challenging terrain (3:15–17) for more than fourteen years as the Israelites slowly conquered and settled the land God had promised them. During this struggle “the Lord was with Joshua” (6:27).

In Joshua 10, the Israelites go to the aid of the Gibeonites, allies of Israel who were being attacked by five kings. Joshua knew that he needed the Lord’s help to defeat so many powerful enemies (v. 12). God responded with a hailstorm, even stopping the sun in the middle of the sky to give Israel more time to defeat the enemy. Joshua 10:14 recounts, “Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!”

If you are in the midst of a challenging situation, you can send out an SOS to God. Although help will look different than the assistance Joshua received, perhaps help comes through an unexpected job, an understanding doctor, or peace in the midst of grief. Be encouraged that these are ways He is responding to your call for help and fighting for you.

Thank You, Father, for walking with me on this difficult journey and hearing me when I cry out to You.

As we cry out to God for help, we can trust that He will be with us.

INSIGHT

The Gibeonites feared Israel’s God, so they tricked Joshua and the Israelites into becoming their allies (Joshua 9). So when Gibeon called Israel for help (10:6), they were ultimately calling on God.

Do we wait for a crisis to turn to Him?

Jim Brickman~How Great Thou Art

Daniel O'Donnel~Church In The Wildwood

The Trevecca Madragalians~It Is Well With My Soul

Dallas Christian Sound~My God And I

St. Olaf Choir~Beautiful Savior

Providence~I'm Telling The World About His Love

Vocal Majority~Deep River

Have a blessed Sunday
God bless our troops!

~Good Sunday Morning To Amy's Place~

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“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble”
2 Cor. 1:3-4

~I Wish You A Beautiful, Blessed Lord's Day~

Happy Sunday!

Have a Blessed Day!

Hallelujah and Amen

ML/LTOS

Thank you for the Beautiful Sunday and Caturday Pings, Dear FRiends.
(((((Love, and God Bless)))))

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The Gift of Time

August 13, 2018

A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25

I headed into the post office in a big hurry. I had a number of things on my to-do list, but as I entered I was frustrated to find a long line backing up all the way to the door. “Hurry up and wait,” I muttered, glancing at my watch.

My hand was still on the door when an elderly stranger approached me. “I can’t get this copier to work,” he said, pointing to the machine behind us. “It took my money and I don’t know what to do.” Immediately I knew what God wanted me to do. I stepped out of line and was able to fix the problem in ten minutes.

The man thanked me and then left. As I turned to get back in line, it was gone. I walked straight to the service counter.

My experience that day reminds me of Jesus’s words: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Luke 6:38).

My wait seemed shorter because God interrupted my hurry. By turning my eyes to others’ needs and helping me give of my time, He gave me a gift. It’s a lesson I hope to remember, next time I look at my watch.

Heavenly Father, all of the time I have is in Your hands, a gift from You. Please show me how to use it to bring glory and honor to You.

Sometimes our to-do list needs to wait.

INSIGHT

Time is a precious commodity that we can waste, spend, or invest. Moses prayed, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). In a sense, nothing more clearly requires—or displays—a heart of wisdom than the way we use our time. This may be why Jesus—pressed by the crowds, confronted by the needs around Him, and threatened by the religious establishment—is never described in the Gospels as being in a hurry. Instead, He saw time as having a part in the Father’s purposes. At the wedding feast in Galilee, He said to His mother, “My hour has not yet come” (John 2:4). As He drew ever closer to the cross, however, He saw that time coming to culmination. In John 12:27 He affirmed, “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.” Living wisely is rooted in understanding that our loving Father has a purpose behind our seconds, minutes, hours, and days.

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree
Another - on the Roof
A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves
And made the Gables laugh

A few went out to help the Brook
That went to help the Sea
Myself Conjectured were they Pearls
What Necklaces could be

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads
The Birds jocoser sung
The Sunshine threw his Hat away
The Bushes - spangles flung

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes
And bathed them in the Glee
The Orient showed a single Flag,
And signed the fête away

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

Happy Monday, Everyone!

Welcome to
Monday Madness!

Monday Madness

By Grabthar's hammer by the sons of Worvan I shall be avenged.

(((HUGS)))

ML/LTOS

We have been blessed with rain ….not a lot on my yard but it has rained a bit since Thursday...The last diamond drops are now disappearing from Sundays light rain. ...The poem is perfect!
We are in severe drought and this rain is a blessing!

ROFL!!

You win! :)

;o) Love your posts!
~Happy Monday To Amy's Place~

Excellent! We’ve been having torrential rain here, but better that than wildfires any day.

:)