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Posted on 04/30/2021 10:23:24 PM PDT by JustAmy
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| …for all you have done throughout the years to make Amy’s Place a serene and thoughtful environment. I pray that your health remains as strong as possible.We’ll carry on as usual until we’re told differently. God bless you and all these who participate. |
How pretty! Thank you.
>In July
Enjoyed that. Thanks.
Thanks for the new thread, Happy July!
I also see yearly reductions in my ability to do things.
I bet in 10 years, I won’t be able to get up on a horse ( although the mounting block stairs make that OK now ) or get down ( nothing helps with that).
I can garden 2 hours in 90 degrees now and today did 4 hours in 80 nice degrees. That was too much excercise today though.
Have a good night
🌙💫⭐️✨
Dearest Amy,
WE LOVE YOU!
(((HUGS)))
Mary-Lou
Sorry to hear this. Prayers for you.
Very Dear.
(((((Love, Hugs, and Blessings, Dearest Amy)))))
Good morning!
Heading off to work in an hour. The fastest hour on Earth, followed by the slowest 6 hours. 😅
Will be 90 degrees on July 4th. Outdoor family celebration....🔥🌞🔥
It’s raining right now, but the last couple of days have been Triple Digits.
The rain is such a blessing.
Although Penny and Blue both hate it.
To the faithful you show yourself faithful.
They settle in the countryside, but Masha becomes bored with her surroundings. Sergey, who adores her, arranges a trip to St. Petersburg. There, Masha’s beauty and charm bring her instant popularity. Just as the couple is about to return home, a prince arrives in town, wanting to meet her. Sergey knows he can force Masha to leave with him, but he lets her make the decision. She chooses to stay, and her betrayal breaks his heart.
Like Sergey, God will never force us to be faithful to Him. Because He loves us, He lets us choose for or against Him. Our first choice for Him happens when we receive His Son, Jesus Christ, as the sacrifice for our sin (1 John 4:9–10). After that, we have a lifetime of decisions to make.
Will we choose faithfulness to God as His Spirit guides us or let the world entice us? David’s life wasn’t perfect, but he often wrote about keeping “the ways of the Lord” and the good outcomes that came from doing so (Psalm 18:21–24). When our choices honor God, we can experience the blessing David described: to the faithful, God shows Himself faithful.
Reflect & Pray
When was the last time you made a difficult decision that honored God? How did it affect your relationship with Him?
Dear God, help me to honor You with the choices I make. Thank You for loving me faithfully throughout my life.
Thank you for all these years of friendship.
Over the years we have all slowed down our activity here
and are focused on our lives and our own health.
Do what you have to do Amy, take care of you.
God Bless my FRiend
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Thank you.
😅 That is exactly what I am doing. Quality recliner time. ☺️
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.
At the sink, two little children cheerfully sing the “Happy Birthday” song—two times each—while washing their hands. “It takes that long to wash away the germs,” their mother tells them. So even before the COVID-19 pandemic, they’d learned to take time to clean dirt from their hands.
Keeping things clean can be a tedious process, as we learned in the pandemic. Scrubbing away sin, however, means following focused steps back to God.
James urged believers in Jesus scattered throughout the Roman Empire to turn their focus back to God. Beset by quarrels and fights, their battles for one-upmanship, possessions, worldly pleasures, money, and recognition made them an enemy of God. He warned them, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. . . . Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:7–8). But how?
“Come near to God and he will come near to you” (v. 8). These are sanitizing words describing the necessity of turning to God to scour away the soil of sin from our lives. James then further explained the cleaning method: “Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up” (vv. 9–10).
Dealing with our sin is humbling. But, hallelujah, God is faithful to turn our “washing” into worship.
Reflect & Pray
Where in your life does sin persist? Have you turned back to God to let Him clean you up?
Holy God, thank You that Your cleaning methods for purifying sin draw me back to You. Wash my hands and purify my heart as I return.
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