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 "A dark hour makes Jesus bright."
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Some News We Should Know About...

• Howard Dean: Give Homosexuals Full Marital Rights Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean yesterday said that if elected he would press every state to recognize the rights of American homosexual couples who "marry" in Canada. This is terrible!

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Morning Devotional...



I formed thee...I knew thee...I sanctified thee...I ordained thee.
Jeremiah 1:5


Many feel that others don't know them. Sometimes it seems that we hardly know ourselves.

But there is Someone who does know us perfectly!

Before we were born He knew us. We were born because He formed us.

He has a plan and a purpose for our lives.

Are we trusting our own understanding, trying to convince God to let us do what we think best, or seeking to live the life that God desires for us? He knows best.

Ask Him. Trust Him!
                                                                           --Carl Knott


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I sure hope I didn't make anyone lose their post!

I hope that there are lots of message to read when I get up in the morning!  I especially am so looking forward to Iain's.

I followed you through the door, PAT!  

I'll be looking around for a while and you can catch up with me tomorrow (today?) when you get home, okay?

Y'all take care...

'Because he lives I can face tomorow...'

A beautiful Hymn with beautiful words and a wonderful message.

How easy it it for our spirits to drop, especially when the unexpected happens. We plod on from day to day, sometimes without a care in the world then WHAM! Our confidence is shaken and our vision goes from the vertical to the horizonal!

It may be a letter, an email or a phone call with disturbing news. Our experience can be so like Peter's. One minute he was confidently walking on water heading towards his Saviour the next he is sinking and scared stiff!

Because He lives, He is with us in our todays as well as our tomorrows. Our Lord and Saviour is with us each step of the way. We may view our providence as being dark and gloomy, however if you live in the Western Isles you will be used to dark, gloomy skies above, but that does not mean to say that the sun has stopped shining!

God works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure. This does not mean that He works in us every now and then. It means that every moment of every day God is at work in our lives.

Take heart my friend, especially if you are facing unknown difficulties. Why? Because He lives!

Whatever it is that seems to be turning your world upside down, listen to His words to you today. It is I be not afraid!

Today I read about the women heading to the sepulchre. One huge worry was hanging over them. 'Who shall roll us away the stone?'

Hardly a day goes past when we do not think of a 'stone' or obstacle that may be lying in our path. Many may be genuine, yet how often have we lost sleep worrying about things that never actually happened? Does worry ever fix the problem? Be anxious for nothing.

The Lord knows the way that we take and He delights to make straight our paths as we lean upon Him.

That 'stone' that you fear so much this morning may be removed by the Lord by the time you reach it!

LOL

Your brother in Christ

Iain

And, Iaian, because he lives, we can often gaze back into our history to see how His hand was on us.

In the happy days.
In the sad days.
In the most difficult days of our lives.
In our planning.
In our interactions with others.

What a tapestry He weaves in our lives when we trust Him. As with tapestries, the pattern is sometimes woven laboriously over a long, long time, but eventually, when we peek around to the right side of that tapestry, we can see the plan he made  for us unfolding in our lives.

Thanks be to God - He LIVES!!!

Ruth Ann

I true word Ruth. He knoweth the way that I take. Goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life. It is all of grace and He has done all things well.

Pat and Iain thank you for the devotionals, they both speak to me this morning. Our Lord knows everything there is to know about each one of us. Those unspoken prayer requests we and others have, God knows the needs of His children and we do not need to know. He knows our hearts if we are happy or sad. He knows the problems we will face in life before we even get to the place in our lives that there are problems, He has the solution. I am so thankful that He does know what is ahead for me that it is all part of His plan for me.

I am so thankful that He lives and He lives within each one of us. I love that hymn. We don't sing it as often as we should. Because He lives he is walking by our side all the time. I often think of the poem "Footprints" which I have on my wall,, He carries us and uphold us during the "down" times and is beside us during the good times.

I'll be back.

Marilyn

Play it safe:  Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20 percent of all fatal accidents.  Do not stay home because 17 percent of all accidents occur in the home.  Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14 percent of all accidents occur to pedestrians.  Avoid traveling by air, rail or water because 16 percent of all accidents involve these forms of transportations.  You will be pleased to learn that    only .001 percent of all deaths ocur in worship serrvice at church, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders.

Therefore, logic tellsw us that the safest place for you to be at any given point in time is at church.  Bible study is safe too.  The percentage of deaths during Bible study is even less.  For safety's sake, attend church and read your Bible (from Brother Maurus Zoeller.  OS.B., St. Meinrad Archabbey

I thought that this was a gem to be shared - taken from the Sitka, Alaska Lutheran Church newsletter.  Carol

Good Morning to all.  I have added you to my morning prayers especially when you are passing through a time of trial.  Carol

Thanks to everyone for your lovely remarks about my A+ mark at by my Urologist.  I tend to forget about this cancer until a day or two before my check ups.  I thank God for that.  I thank Him every day that since I do have cancer, it is a cancer that is 100% controllable with check ups and surgery.  

Good to see Mary Frances stopping in with a word or two.  Come back more often, Mary.  We miss you.

Pinkie, we would be blessed to see pictures of your missions.  It would be wonderful to travel like you do.  Since I won't be doing that, I would like to see those parts of the world you have been in through your photos.

Karma, it is your prints on DPC site!  You did good!!!

Good Morning, Jane!  Or was that Good Night, Jane?

Pat and Iain, thank you for the morning devotionals.  It is comforting to know he never leaves us.  He is there through good times and bad times.  He knows our needs without our even knowing them.  I like the thought about the tapestry.  The back side looks all jumbled and mixed up.  Turn it over and it is the beautiful finished product.  

Carol ~ The safety in churches is because God is there!!!

I think today will be a leisure day.  Nothing planned.  

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"Since I've been backing into middle age, I don't have any idea where I'm going."

Thanks for the comments on "Because He lives..."  I thought of Paul's words:

Gal 2:20-21  I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"  (NIV)

We are going to a funeral today.  He was a fine Christian man who served as an elder for many years, a former member of Congress.  His wife died a few months ago and now he goes to join her.

I hope you all have a nice day today.

--- Papa John              <)))><<

 

Hi everyone.  Just a brief stop this morning as shortly have to leave to go downtown for my treatment.  I think I overdid yesterday morning and am still paying for it today as am tired.  However, overall I know that I am better in that people are commenting that my color is better and I am having much less angina.  

Good devotionals again today and Pat, I look forward to tomorrow for the final writing by Jack on the 23rd Psalm.  

Carol, I told my wife about your comment on mending and that you just wanted to quilt.  She is a quilter and said you can buy a sign that says "I quilt I don't mend" so something like that.  She agrees with you completely.  She just finished up a quilt for me to use as a light cover when I rest in the afternoons and has already started another one.  In fact, she just left a few minutes ago to go to the quilt store.

See you all later.

What a lovely drive it was today to Hamilton.  We don't take the main highway where all of the large trucks are rumbling along but rather we take the byways and drive past little ponds and farms and cows and into glens and up hills.  It's really a pleasant drive through only two small towns.

Now, I have to busy myself with various duties and then I'll be back later.

It's so nice to see you all.

Thinking especially of you, Larry, and you, Papa John along with Cornelia.

Also, Iain, thanks so much for the lovely devotion.  I think we should maybe sing that hymn.

I won't name each today as I'm rushing around here.

But I'll return!

Hello to all of you today.  The devotional thoughts are special to me today.  Sometimes I do feel alone, but I know He is always with me.  Being one who felt unloved for most of my life, I have really struggled with the love of God.  For years, when I thought of God and the fact that HE loves me, all I could do was cry.  I never understood that, and now it doesn't happen often, but I know He was trying to get me to open my heart, to receive and to BELIEVE His love.  Perhaps this was because my mother was harsh, cruel and unloving, and I thought "If my own mother can't love me, how can anyone else?  Even God?"

I thank God every day for a loving husband.  Darrel is a very kind man, a trait that I cherish.  And I know that he loves me, wants the best for me, and would never intentionally hurt me.  This has helped me so much.

My goodness!!!  This confession was the LAST thing I intended to do today.......so it must be God's prompting.  "An honest confession is good for the soul."

Anyway, I wish you all a beautiful and God-filled day of love!  Be back later..............

Good morning to everyone.  Pat, I liked your
Quote of the Day..."A dark hour makes Jesus bright."~Robert Murray McCheyne~
It brightened up my day.

Iain, your message was also wonderful.
And a bright hello to Jane, Ruth, Marilyn,Carol, Etta Sue, Papa John, and Larry.

We will be having a sunny, hot day here in Ohio.  So, I'll be staying in today to stay cool.
I don't have any particular plans for today, but should find something to keep busy, I hope.

May be back later after I visit the prayer area.  

  What wonderful words to share with everyone Ms Janet. I love you too, and i will try hard to be kind too.  

I thank you Mr Iain for your words on the worry today. I worry about everything. I try hard not to do it, but then I worry about my try not to worry.  

I Do worry that I am a bother at times. I like to talk to everyone and I do not often get to do it. So i write to everyone and I say hello and wish them a good day. It is my wonder sometimes if I make everyone crazy and annoy.   I think sometimes it is a why God take my words away so i can not talk so much and bother the ones I love. I hope you all know if I do not talk, it is only because i do not wish to annoy. or I will talk all day with you and make you crazy.  

Oh, please annoy and make me ceazy, dear Mieka!  I love you talking to me!

Or CRAZY, either!!  HEHEHEHEHEE!

  ceazy?        

I think I am gobsmacked  

Mieka and Janet!  

Mieka: you certainly do not annoy me, I love your posts and you questions. Really? Gobsmacked? lol    

  OH Ms Mary Frances, what a wonderful picture of you. You look just as I think of you.

Pinkie - I reall AM glad you're here.  Better late than never.
Mary Frances - I'm really glad you're here too.
Well, I'll just have to keep up better in the future.

  And I am glad YOU are here too Mr Moak.

             (I am)

It is a VERY big party here today and I still have much to do for it. I hope it is a WONDERFUL day for everyone.  
I will come in to read some today.

"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" Ms Jeanne Lee, Why ever will you wish for this?  

Hi all,

Just stopping by to play "catch up".

Really wish I can get here more often; I know that I miss a lot of wonderful devotionals.

I really need them.

Hope all that are "on the mend" are feeling better by now.

Wish all newcomers a BIG hello.

Someday, the good LORD willing, I will be able to stay and chat a longer time than I have been.

Seems like I have "a full plate" these days.
Everytime I turn around; I am saying O.K. Lord what do you want me to see in this situation.
Sometimes it takes a while for me to see HIS blessings in my situations; but ALL the time I feel HIS presence and the peace that comes without understanding.

I do not know where I would be without my faith in the good LORD above....

Don't even want to try or even think about it.

Take care,

Love in Christ,
Joyce

Meika your questions and comments are good and cause all of us to think.  That is a good thing !

We all love you and cherish you.

Janet it is sad that parents do this to us when we are children.  A dear friend of mine had the same problem.  Let this be a reminder to us to Love on our kids, grand kids and all the kids in our lives, and let them know how special they are.  

There is amother special Gaither song.  I am a promise, I am a possibility, I am a great big bundle of potentiality.  And if I listen Iwill hear God's voice and if I try Him I will make the right choice. That is all I remember at this point.  Perhaps Pat could post the words and music for us to sing?

Have a good day folks

It's great to see you all online at the moment...

joyce robson, JudyB, Mieka, Elizabeth, Marilyn
...especially Elizabeth!

And it is ESPECIALLY good to see you PAT.

Keep up the good work; God's work in our lives.

You are a dear.

Love in CHrist,
Joyce

Hi Elizabeth: How are you? How nice to see you here. welcome Back.
Love Marilyn

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Pinkie, we would be blessed to see pictures of your missions.  It would be wonderful to travel like you do.  Since I won't be doing that, I would like to see those parts of the world you have been in through your photos.

"Since I've been backing into middle age, I don't have any idea where I'm going."

Hahah...I had to laugh out loud with this last sentence!
I'll see what I can do about getting those pics posted!

Well it is nice to see so many in here today.  Mieka, I think we have all voted that you are loved and that we welcome what you say and what you ask.  I would say I liked the pictures of you rather than the little pig-tail girl.

As I sat today at the funeral of our friend I thought how sad it is when people who are not Christians die and they live and die without the promise of God and the hope of heaven.

Rev 14:13  Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them." (NIV)

- - - Papa John