God Showing Off

     Because He is always with me and always at work, for me it isn't really an issue of God showing up or not.  He always shows up for me (He is in me and promises to never leave nor forsake me).  The challenge is to have eyes to see Him at work and ears to hear what He is saying as He is working.  And so I cry "show off, God, for Your Name and Renown that everyone will see Your glory and will know Your lovingkindness."  Graham Cooke suggests asking a question that is something like: "who are you for me right now, God?"  I understand that to mean "what part of who You are is it that You are putting on display and revealing to me right now in this situation?" 

Merry Christmas Eve Theme Song Thursday

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Theme Song Thursday

Not sure why, but this is one of my favorite Christmas carols, and I LOVE Johnny Cash singing it.  (Sorry Mom)

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Tech Week 2015, Wednesday

 Peacefulness and order seem to be reigning so far this week.  The costume crew has worked hard to be prepared and has found themselves ahead of the plan.  Tonight is the first dress rehearsal, which will birth new projects.  It will continue to be a GREAT week.

 While labeling and sorting through my thread spools in preparation for their appearance at the theater today, I found myself reflecting upon the various projects associated with those thread colors.  I felt warm, happy and comfortable as I pondered, despite my knowledge that none of those projects were accomplished without mistakes and frustration.  Is it maturity and wisdom that empowers us to remember the entirety of the experience, including the messy and painful bits, and yet still find it a satisfying and even comforting memory?  Perhaps the added bit of knowledge that everyone struggles, makes mistakes and gets frustrated in the process is the "vitamin" that keeps this kind of jumbled rumination healthy?

 And then mix in the wonderful revelation that though now we see dimly, one day we will SEE clearly because we are face-to-face with KINGDOM REALITY.

 When dim seeing is this satisfying, how much more incredibly is what lies ahead?!

  What threads, colors, revelations are you seeing these days?


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Theme Song Thursday

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Walking out of the valley of the shadow

BLAM!  BIFF!! BOFF!!!

 That's what I'm "hearing" today, or at the least what I am imagining is happening in the unseen realm.  Why would a solid person like me be imagining such things?  Tee-hee, if that's what you thought, then you don't know me.  Imagining is a way of life for me, and the more I attend to my imagination the more I realize it is a part of who I am.

 Some things are falling away and diminishing, while I feel strengthened and supported.   In my wrestle with fear, I am learning that what I need is boldness and courage to move forward when fear shows up.  Fearlessness is not the desired quality I once thought it was.  I like that Papa has been adjusting my perspective.

 I'm alive!  I'm on fire!  And my spirit burns with desire.  You set me alight, bright eyed and with no way to hold it inside!

I am so very thankful.

Minding the Minutia

 This week is to be a week of overnight guests, shopping for summer camp needs and tying up of loose ends before the summer camping season kicks into high gear.  Son #2 and I arrived home minutes ago from procuring another work permit, picking up some much needed breakfast groceries and dropping off paperwork & empty egg cartons to camp. {I must say that I love Camp Tecumseh and very much miss my life there -- the one I had and the one I should have lived.  A friend and long-time camp director commented to me recently that hubbie and I needed to get back into camping where we belonged.  At the time, I heard him, but wasn't sure that I agreed.  Today, I feel like I would absolutely LOVE being back at Camp Tecumseh, (said with starry-eyed-adoration-colored glasses on my face).  Perhaps this is to be a season of truly mourning that loss, but perhaps it's the beginning of something new and the remaking of something old.}

 Two other thoughts are rumbling around in me today:

 1)  Without hope you cannot have faith because faith is the substance of things hoped for, (Kris Vallotton and not a direct quote).

 2) You must have time to think, to dream, to pray and to write if you are going to discover you passion in life, (read it on a blog post).  This I have been saying to myself for some time now!

 What's rumbling around inside of you today?  What are you finding time to dream about?

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She reported that she had responded, "you can never say those words again."

Much later those words echoed in my being, as he was speaking about God's greatest trust gift.

Guiltily I silently resolved to end my verbal and written wrestling.  It would not do.

Davidically I will only pour out my silent complaint to God.   

And, also...change my heart, O God.  Make it ever true.  Change my heart, O God.  May I be like You.

Sunshine is bursting upon me spiritually, physically, mentally and emotionally.

Spring is full of promise.

Hope seeds are transforming into shoots, busting through the slightly parched heart sod and exploding into vibrant color.

Somehow, some way things will work together for good.

Peace river attends my soul.

***today***

 I haven't cried or felt like crying this often since the 11-ish years of my life in which I was either pregnant or nursing a baby.   At times when I have felt like this, I have looked ahead to some event and been encouraged.  Glancing over at the next two weeks as represented by our 'fridge calendar, I know that said tactic is NOT going to help.  Why, oh why is it bothering me so much?!

 On the up side of it, it makes me run to Jesus all the more:-).  "So fly to Jesus..."  It works for me and in me, transforming me.  Perhaps the light of understanding is glimmering.

 Cracking on...

 What's up with you today?


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One in a Hundred

 Trudging over the threshold, I exhale heavily, pulling off the stocking cap with the attached ninja-like face mask with one hand and my purple sunglasses with the other.  Smiling I remember hearing "when the snow lay on the ground, cool and crisp and even," from THE still small voice, while surveying the frozen prairie landscape.  Forcing myself out the door for the morning run was a great plan; despite the below freezing temperatures, I received HIS peace.

Tidings of Comfort and Joy+

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 Not many days left now until Christmas 2012!  Celebrating Christ's birth is one of my very favorite engagements of each year.  At present our world pines for the comfort, joy, peace and

knee-jerk

:  reacting in a readily predictable way

     I'm beginning to recognize my knee-jerk thoughts in certain seasons, and while they still swirl around in my head, I find that I do battle with my sword of truth more readily and more steadily each time said season arrives.  God's peace eventually arrives, after we have together conquered the "jerks."  I often have questions that linger without answers, but choose to trust and to wait patiently for those.  Quite honestly, I am usually so worn out from the battle, that resting is not difficult.  I am so thankful for God's en-courage-ment; He puts courage in me!

What do you do to combat the "jerks"?

And on a random note, I love Microsoft's OneNote program, and use it daily to keep track of multitudes of information.  

If you use OneNote, what are your favorite uses for it?

 

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January 30, 2012

Elpis (el-pece’)

(Warning:  The following is my own perspective and inspired thought about that Greek word.)

I think Jehovah sneaky, with His sense of humor, is reminding us where true hope is found.  To me “el” points to Elohim, the one true God, and “pis” sounds like the word “peace.”   Get it?  “God’s peace” in Greek is translated to “hope” in English in the following:

May the God who gives hope fill you with great joy. May you have perfect peace as you trust in him. May the power of the Holy Spirit fill you with hope. i

Yes, I’ll have some of that hope, joy, peace, trust and power of the Holy Spirit, please, today!

What’s your word for today?

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i Romans 15:13, New International Reader’s Version

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"Jump off the Hormone Swing" Notes so far

Originally I titled this as a book report, however I am not going to be that organized or put that much time into this post.  I have some other projects that are actually a higher priority in terms of work; this is a higher priority in terms of feeding my spirit. 

The following are notes I jotted while reading because they resonated with me.  I hope they will help someone else, also.

v  Brain Foods (p. 56)

Ø  Blueberries

Ø  Yogurt

Ø  Nuts

Ø  Meat

Ø  Whole Wheat & oats

Ø  Spinach

Ø  Tomatoes

Ø  Broccoli

Ø  Olive Oil

v  Brain workout ideas (pp. 57 – 62)

Ø  Brush teeth with opposite hand

Ø  Listen to music (http://www.vth.biz/driver/imusic/sample)

Ø  Read aloud

Ø  Nap

Ø  Write PMS poetry or hormonal haiku, including limericks

Ø  Laugh

Ø  Do crossword puzzles

Ø  Pray

v  Top  Ten Picks for Physical Relief

Ø  Take a nap

Ø  Snuggle with a heating pad

Ø  Take a naproxen product

Ø  Restrict salt

Ø  Cut caffeine for the week

Ø  Sip warm tea, like chamomile

Ø  Take supplements

     Calcium – yogurt

     Magnesium – spinach, sunflower seeds & almonds

     Vitamin D – tuna, sunlight, beef liver, egg yolks

     Vitamin E – nuts, broccoli, whole grains

     B-6 – meats, avocados, fish

Ø  Drink water

Ø  Cut the sugar

Ø  Eat 5 small protein-packed meals daily

Other notes:

Wait 3 days to make major decisions

Chart Symptoms

Check out www.pms.org.uk

More notes to follow as I am almost finished reading the spiritual chapters. 


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Than Tongue or Pen can ever Tell

God is rich in mercy and loves mankind with a great love.  It is His kindness that draws us to Him.  God made/provided the peace, the conflict resolution before the conflict so that every person can be His Son and share in the Heavenly inheritance.  Each person is God's workmanship, uniquely created to reflect God and created for good works.  Each person has gold hidden inside of them which is meant for their own good/benefit and for the benefit of others. 

Earnestly seek, find and encourage that gold in every person with whom you come into contact. 

What are you willing to fight for in that person? 

Who championed you?  How did that affect you? 

Who seemed to bring only correction to you?  How did that affect you? 

What are you going to do now?

I didn't know I needed to clean the fish before I caught them ~ John Wimber

"The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Oh, the love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.”

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