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Morning Devotional...



Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. --Psalm 29:2

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. That is why we are born and that is why we are born again from above. That is why we were created and that is why we have been recreated. That is why there was a genesis at the beginning, and that is why there is a re-genesis, called regeneration.

That is also why there is a church. The Christian church exists to worship God first of all. Everything else must come second or third or fourth or fifth....

Sad, sad indeed, are the cries of so many today who have never discovered why they were born. It brings to mind the poet Milton's description of the pathetic lostness and loneliness of our first parents. Driven from the garden, he says, "they took hand in hand and through the valley made their solitary way.
Dr. Tozer in " Whatever Happened to Worship?, 56-57.

"Oh Lord, we live in a world that has so totally lost its way! How few have any concept at all of their reason for existence. How sad to see so many all around us who 'took hand in hand and through the valley made their solitary way.' Use me today to direct at least one to the right path. Amen."

Sorry that this is being posted late.  I was so busy with family due to my birthday so doing it early Monday morning.

I pray you have a wonderful week.

It's Monday again.  Bernard is at work, he's going to try and make it most, if not all, of the day today.  He said a few minutes ago that his chest bone is hurting though.

Now, if I can keep kristi and travis from fighting all day, I'll be a happy camper.  They love to pick and provoke eachother.  If it didn't get old, it would be funny.

Have a great day everyone!

We have a lovely day up here.  The sun is shining and a wonderful breeze taking away the intensity of the heat.  I have to finish mowing, ran out of gas so I will be back at it today.

Keep Kassie in prayer.  She is sick yet again.

Small group has been switched to tomorrow, the leader has something with family on today.  That is the greatness of our group.  They are so versitile.  Looks like our next study will be the book of Romans.  I am looking forward to that, as it is so foundational.

Well I will be back
Love y'all

Good morning.  Pat!  I am so sorry!!  Happy Belated Birthday to You!!

I got a new crown this morning.  And a check from the dentist for when I overpaid.  That was a surprise that will help a lot!  So I went to the bank and then the Dollar General for a few items.  Then to Subway for my lunch. 

Kitty called and she may stop by and we will go to Kohl's for her to get a new pair of pants.  And Kitty nor her SIL, Cherie, will be going to Photo Guild tonight so I am staying home instead of spending that money for gas. 

I got a call from the surgery center about my surgery tomorrow.  No food or drink after midnight.  I can take my blood pressure pill in the morning and be at the surgery center by 10am.  I am ready to get it over with. 

Etta Sue:  Rest well tonight and best wishes for your surgery tomorrow.

Colin:  Nice to read your post.

Larry:  You are so right - into every group there is someone who just has to be heard.  It is annoying to the others because one is newly widowed and others have fought cancer, widowed, and one is dealing with husband's Alzheimer's Disease.  These are strong women and I admire their passion for this one hobby of quilting and their generous contributions to anyone who needs help.  A couple of the women are going to pull weeds one day at the new widow's house - just a for instance.  Yes, good to break bread with friends and I need to do that more. 

Carol

Good Afternoon all,
:-[Happy Belated Birthday Pat!
things have been a little busy here. hubby is not doing as he should, may end up in the hospital with dehydration, radiation is done though. If he is not careful, he will kill himself.

Michael is fine. Will do summer school again this summer. Hard to believe he is considered a 5th grader.

I go thursday for pre-op for surgery on June 28. Will finally get the shoulder taken care of.

Been stopping in and reading and praying. Just a lot of the same stuff going on in my corner of the world so have kept quiet with the coffee and working on our website. May you all have a God filled and blessed day!

Still Trusting in Him,
><>Jeannine

There is a Canadian lady named Pat Scott
On her birthday boiled Irish Stew in a pot
And thought for her dinner it would be goody
She awoke from a doze in the afternoon
Came to the table with a dish and a spoon
And discovered all the stew had been eaten by her sister Judy.


There you are Pat...I did write you a little poem!


Hi Judy...you are six years younger than Pat...you dont look your age either!

Hello Everyone.  Not much new here, I couldn't get on the Internet again this morning. Must still be problems with that fiber optic cable . I am getting fed up with the cable company anyway.

Cute poem Colin we have missed you and your lovely poems..

I took the dogs for their walks already, it is kinda windy here today but it is so pretty out side. I love listening to the  wind blowing through the trees. However  I have little green plums all over my one side of my back yard. Last year I didn't get very many plums to eat they blew off before they got ripe.

TTYL

Hello, everyone! I finally remembered to pop in here on Monday!

Happy Belated Birthday, Pat!!

We got some rain this weekend - spread out over a couple of days, I think we had about an 1/8 of an inch! But at least it was some. It's just so hot out there now - my "boomerang" son made the comment today that he might just coat himself "with some lemon-pepper and bake awhile!"

Tim started back to work today - he's been off since March because we went to CA for a conference, and then he had foot surgery when we got back. I also went to work fulltime today. I work at home (YAY!) but it's still fulltime. Haven't done that in many years, but since I haven't had any projects since January, we didn't have a choice.

I'll try to check in here more often. It's nice getting to know all of you.

Blessings,
Tracy

Hey Colin!  Thanks!  I'm going to keep that special--just from you!

Love

pat

Oh, Jeannine, it's so nice to see you here.  I'm sorry about your dear hubby.  Glad Michael is going to attend summer school though.  I always look for news of him.


Tracy, so happy to see you.  Are you anywhere near to Newcastle?  Frogsplinta55 send me a video of a huge ship that got beached in that storm.  She had no power or electricity for over 4 days with roads washed out, etc. 

Hi to Marilyn, Karma and Judy and Larry!

Hi to you too, Carol.

Thanks Etta Sue for the birthday greeting.

Hooray! I won't be "out of hand time" any more. The surgeon says use the left hand as much as I wish.

Etta Sue, God bless you. I'll be praying for you tonight and tomorrow.

It's really good to hear from everyone today.

Y'all have a good day.

Ruth Ann

Hello!  I'm finally back online.  When I got home on Friday, Darrel said our internet had been out since Wednesday, when the wind blew a gale.  They said our router is out again, so hooked my computer in direct and he can't get online until we buy another router.  That makes at least three of them that have gone bad. 

I had a great week painting, and completed three nice paintings.  But on Friday I had a call from Diane (daughter) saying that grandson Mark had gotten badly burned at work, was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.  Today he had skin grafts on his ear and his arm.  He says the leg where they  took the skin for the grafts hurts a lot worse than the burns do.  Poor guy, he looked really awful when they brought him from surgery.  He was burning trash and it exploded, blowing fire in his face, so of course he threw up his arm to protect his face.  He got burned on most of his face, especially the right side, and the right ear, and right arm.  It set his hair on fire, and he knew he was on fire, so he rolled in the wet grass to put himself out, then went into the house to splash cold water on it and call his boss back to take him to the hospital.  His boss had just taken off in his spray plane but came right back.

Diane has been there with Mark most of the time, and he is a trooper.

I had to take Beth to the same hospital Mark is in today for another MRI, so was glad I could be with Diane while Mark was in surgery, and see him when he got out.  By the time I got home I was exhausted, Beth is so hard to take places, and she wanted to get some new clothes, some other things and a few grocery items.  I am going to bed in a few minutes.

See you later, and prayers for Mark will, of course, be greatly appreciated.  I have a neat story in connection with that, will share it later.

Hi, Ruth Ann--that's good news!  We were posting at the same time.

Hi, checking in.  Kitty asked me over for pizza.  Her daughter and two grandchildren from Ohio was there.  Her daughter's friend and her three kids...they went to the Indianapolis Zoo today.  Also Bob's brother, his wife, daughter and granddaughter was there.  It was real cute.  The two little ones are 16months and 15 months old.  One quiet...the other a tornado!  But they did warm up to each other and they got pictures of them sitting on the swing together....just one and the tornado was off again! 

So I am eating pizza at 10pm!!  No food or drink after midnight.  I was going to have Ivalou come over for pizza but thought it was a little late for us young uns to have a pizza party! 

Janet ~ So glad you are back.  Sorry about the internet connections.  And prayers will be for Mark. 

Pixnpen ~ I see you are from Alabama.  Beautiful country down there.  My husband was raised in Anniston. 

Colin ~ My birthday is Sept 8.  You have almost three months to compose a poem for me!!  Make it a good one!  (as if any of your poems are bad )

One more piece of pizza and I am heading for bed with my book!

Thanks for all your concerns and prayers for my surgery tomorrow.  You will never know how much both are appreciated!  Thanks!

Praying here in California Etta Sue. I am up early so will be prayng  early.

  Hi everyone, just got back from a mini vacation in Gulf Shores, Alabama.  Had 4 lovely days at the beach, and now I'm tired but tan!  Kids had a ball, as usual.  Found lots and lots of shells for our collection, and even saw a dolphin or two, coming out of the water!  Tried to take a picture, but they are so hard to get.

I got to visit with my older brother while down there, he lives in Saraland, Al. (Just moved last year) It was the first time to see him in at least 3 yrs!

I've gotten caught up on all the posts I've missed, and will be praying for all of the needs mentioned. 

So glad to be back home.

Happy Belated Birthday Pat!

Later,
Samantha

I remember a saying "It never rains but it pours" and it seems that is the case here as well.  Just one thing after another but we all know that our Heavenly Rather is totally in charge!  I am most certainly praying for all the needs that have been mentioned recently as well as for the ones from previous posts.

Janet, I did miss you and am praying for both Mark and Beth, as well as for you and Darrel ... may you be strengthened and kept in perfect peace through all this.

Etta Sue you know I'll be in prayer for you.   

Ruth Ann that is really good news of improvement and increased "hand time" for you.... God is good -- all the time!

I'm off to take care of other things and stuff but y'all need to know that I'm here and I'm remembering all y'all in prayer.......

Goodmorning from Ulster...Norn Iron......thats right isnt it Pat. Sorry I did not compose you a better poem but I still remember you and the baking bowl! Hi Marilyn...dont you hate it when all the plums blow off the tree. I have been keeping an eye on my plum tree....it is laden with fruit. Take care. Etta Sue...I will be praying for you..three months to write you a poem...my..whatever will I say about you!
Hi to everyone else. God bless.

Hi everyone.

We had no phone service for almost the entire day yesterday.  This met that I had no Internet all day either.  The whole area was out and the stores could not process credit cards or debit cards.  Pat also went to the library and the automatic scanner didn't work.  Around  3pm our phone service came back on but our next door neighbor's didn't.  Strange.

I saw my heart doctor that put in the ICD.  All is well with it and it hasn't fired one time.  However, it is pacing my heart about 94% of the time because the heart rate gets too slow.  I had to drive to almost downtown.

We spoke with our daughter and her job ended on Friday.  She knew this was coming so is back in the job market.  Hopefully she won't have such a difficult time getting a job this time since she has been working.  She seems to be feeling pretty well.

Janet, so sorry to hear about your grandson getting burned.  That was certainly not the way you wanted to end up the nice week you had painting.  I hope he has a quick recovery but burns are really tough. 

Good to see everyone posting. 

Pat, a belated Happy Birthday.  I saw the announcement on SeniorNet and then forgot to mention it here.  It sounds like you had a nice day with family in attendance.

Etta Sue, I will be thinking of you today as you have your surgery.

Not going to address many here today but have read all the postings.  Will give you all a break with a shorter posting. 

I have some pics posted of the Race Road...dont know how to get them on here! Take care everyone.

Absolutely beautiful Colin!

Special prayers going heavenward for our Etta Sue today.  Also for Stacey, and all the other needs mentioned here.  I haven't yet had time to go back and catch up on the postings I missed while I was away, and after I got home but the internet wasn't working (really it was our router, but same effect!)

Colin, my birthday is next week!  So you can start thinking of a poem for me, too!  I think you started something with that.   

I called to check on Mark, he was feeling better last night---ate his supper, then a whole pizza, so he is on the road to recovery.  Still a lot of pain, but we pray that will lessen each day.  If his pain is controlled, he will come home today, but be confined to the house for at least a week--NO SUN!!

Darrel needs my help with some alarm work and he is ready to go, so I must get going!

  /Colin and Jeannine:       What a beautiful site you have made.  Loved the songs....and poetry, pictures and all.  Very nice.

Janet:  My prayers for Mark and a painless recovery.  That day was much too stressful for you.  Did Beth get some new and colorful clothes? 

Pat:  What could be nicer than a poem from Colin composed just for you!  Congrats

A beautiful soft rain here today, always thankful for a soaking rain. 

Carol

Hi Janet.... it was Pat who started about the poems! Think I know one that will do you all...it starts...Happy birthday to you....happy birthday...etc

Hi Carol....thank you for your lovely comments about our site. We are pleased with the way it has turned out. May I recommend another one to you...it belongs to a fantastic Irishman..ahem!    www.colinsfaith.serving-christ.com/                 God bless.

But Colin!  Sniff.  That one's been done so many times already.  May I not have a new one? 

Yes, Carol, Beth got some new clothes.  So many that I told her "You don't need to buy a whole new wardrobe at once!"  Her clothes keep disappearing t the Care Home.  It's a mystery.

We are home again, still so much to do, but wanted to check in.  Later!

Good Afternoon. I am wondering how Etta Sue is doing? I had a very short note from Pinkie yesterday in response to one I wrote her. She said she  doesn't feel up to messing around trying to remember her log-in info. those are not her words but my interpretation of them. I am sure she would love to hear from all y-all. She is at home with hospice keeping her pain at a tolerable level.

Janet the only solution to the problem of mysteriously  disappearing clothes I have found is to not let the home do the laundry. How is Mark doing? I am so sorry to hear about his burns.

Great poem Colin.

I have to eat early and go to Ruth's early so I can leave just before 4:30 to get to a ballgame. Forest's team is in the 2nd game of a tournament. Gilbert called me this morning. Saturday is Savannah's 11th birthday and she wants some stuff of Bed Bath and Beyond for her bedroom at their new house. I got her a $50. gift card to get her started.

TTYL

Hi, friends,

It's kinda late, and I have lots of things to do.

I've prayed on and off all day as I worked for various needs mentioned here. Do hope Etta Sue's surgery went well, and that Janet's grandson will improve - burns really are tough.

Y'all have a good evening.

Ruth Ann

Hi everyone. 

We had a second evening with some significant rain last night.  Each storm that goes through seems to be accompanied with a lot of lightning and winds and there were several houses hit in our county and elsewhere in the metro area as well as many trees falling because the roots have bveen weakened by the drought.

I have another busy day, at least for me.  After coffee we have Bible study at the church with our minister.  We are studying the book of Isaiah.  Following that I have a ultra-sound of the aorta this afternoon.  I am fasting until after the ultra-sound.  Then this evening is choir.  We are fast approaching our summer month off from the choir so our practices are getting a little shorter each week.  That will be plenty for one day.

Janet, I hope today finds your grandson feeling better.  I understand that burn pains are very severe.  On your router, you might try hitting the reset button.  Sometimes they lose their memory and appear to be broken when they are not.  My friend Rod, who is a computer expert, just had this experience over the weekend and initially thought his router was bad or his Comcast service was down.  He finally pushed the reset button and he was back online. 

I hope Etta Sue is doing well and will be back home shortly to start her recovery.  Two weeks in a short period of time without being able to speak seems like "cruel and unusual punishment".  However, now, Etta Sue has experience from the first time.


Thanks everyone for your prayers for our daughter and for Pat and I.  See seems to be doing good with her heart situation and is to see the chiropractor today as her feet are so numb from the neuropathy.  She is also looking for a new job.

Marilyn, I know you enjoyed the ballgame last evening.  Your gift to your granddaughter is very nice. Thanks for the report from Pinkee.  So sorry to hear of her health situation.

Colin, another very nice poem.  It is nice to see you postings some poetry again.

Hi Carol, Ruth Ann, Jeannine and all who visit here today.  Let's enjoy this day that God has granted us.

Morning all,

Still reading and praying for all here. Try to remember names but don't always, just know I pray as I read and stay quiet.

With Father's day coming thought I'd post a poem. Sorry Colin, not trying to steal your thunder...lol But I thought this would be good to post because we need to remember every day we have is because of our heavenly Father and everyday is His. I hope you like it.


May you all have a God filled and blessed day!
Still Trusting In Him
Jeannine