each day is new

Most days I am Martha, busy, busy, busy.  I run around trying to get things done.  So many things to get done and not enough time. I think of the story in the Bible of Martha and Mary and how Martha was running around the house to get things done. By nature I am my names sake, I am a Mary. I want to just sit at the feet of Jesus and soak up his goodness. There are times, I am studying or just living life and I have absorbed some of God's goodness or in the moment I think I need to blog about that, I need to write more about the goodness of my Lord and Savior and I need the world to know about it, but it's fleeting and my Martha self comes through and tasks need to be done and accomplished, so blogging and journaling goes undone.  My Martha tasks...... We are trying to plant this church, I feel completely compelled to do a good job. To outreach, to do the books, to support my husband and keep up the blog, the Facebook, and the Twitter account.  I want to do mo...

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(ICor 13:4-7) As we study God's love this month at church, I am reminded of this scripture as well. It is often read at weddings.  I personally have read it many times and I think of Jesus Christ when I read it. I think wow, if I could only love like that. If only my heart was so pure . If only others loved even half as much,  what a better world we would live in, but sin is here to stay and well that is just how it is. Sin will always fill the world with anguish and pain and what can we do but overcome it through the love of Jesus Christ. So much easier said than done, that word over come… How do...

As I am sitting here in the quite of the morning, meditating on God's word, and God's promises. I pray for the coming year, but first I give God my disappointments and failures of 2013. I pray and I ask God to reveal to me what I am to do in 2014 and I pray for guidance. "I stand between the years.The light of  God's Presence is flung across the year to come, the radiance of the Son of Righteousness.   Backward over the past year, is a Shadow thrown, hiding trouble and sorrow and disappointment."AJ Russell  I wish I had all the answers but I don't. I do know that I am sold out for God. That material things don't matter as much as they used to, that my ambition and career don't even matter like they used to. What matters to me is working for our Lord and Savior, People matter, and right under God,  my family matters most to me. I am resolved to the fact that it is all God's and I am just a vessel he uses, and I am grateful that he uses me. ...

Have you ever thought about the animals in the forest when there is a forest fire and how they run from danger. When there is a forest fire or danger?  God has given them a very sensitive sense to detect danger. Birds fly South in the winter, why to survive.  God has given them all these survival abilities how much more do you think he has given you? When I think about that innate ability animals have, I am in awe when I think about how wonderfully God orchestrates things. If he gave the animals that how much more did he give us? How much more does he want us to survive and thrive. God is a just God, but such a loving Father as well. He says:   25  “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?   26  Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’...

"14  So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.   15  This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16  So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most." Hebrews 4:14-16 I was reminded by Satan the other day of some of my faults just like probably a lot of us are often. I often want to be more positive, but am often more of a realist or even negative at times and that is something I strive to replace with good thoughts and positive thoughts. I have studied Norman Vincent Peal's stuff that he writes of positivity. I also often go to the Bible where you can find good stuff too. There is a fine line there.... that point where you accept your faults and try to improve and then those days where you drown in the fa...

..he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. (Isaiah 53:4)..... I concentrated on the silence of the morning and the sound of acorns dropping from the trees to the porch... the porch that he worked so hard to build, to create an enjoyable area for his family... There are people all around to visit, but I don't feel like socializing, I don't feel like laughing but they are here to show us they care..... I move about the house to continue to do the things that have to be done, but things go undone and sorrow and grief fog my mind. Once again a great man plucked from this earth, a man that many depended on and needed but God needed him more. God was ready for him and God has no respect of person. When it is time, it is time. There is a great respect there for God, but still a deep sorrow...... A deep sorrow to try and pick up the pieces that are left, and go on. Sadness floods my heart, but peace and hope is there as well. Peace that surpasses all understand...

   Danny has been teaching/preaching on God's commands to us.  I have heard this spoken before but I awoke this morning with it on my mind. I woke up thinking of my mom and how I wish I could do more for her and I wish I was closer and my mind started thinking about her neighbor.  She calls on this neighbor often for any immediate need she may have and I began to thank God for this neighbor and I prayed for her.     Who is my neighbor.... It's the woman around the way that dosn't drive and asks for help It's the widow man down the street who has no one to cook for him, so he dosn't eat It's the girl at the cash register who dosn't smile because she is having a bad day It's the man on the corner who looks in disarray It's the person who stole your parking place, It's the child who is at your school who looks lonely and sad It's the person next to you in the check out line that might need a smile So your neighbor isn't your neigh...