Our God is good all the time, not just some of the time but every single second of your life.

I often stop and think of the blessing He graciously gives me everyday.  It is true that there is not enough time in a single day to thank Him for everything He has blessed us with.

I don't just mean me either, I mean you and you and you as well.  

All too often we tend to think of a blessing as being a "huge" gift, no, no no.  A blessing is the air you breathe, watching a hummingbird dart about.  Listening to the Cardinal doing his peeping in the evenings.  

Start now recognizing every blessing that your day holds for you.  Then, give thanks to the one who gave you those gifts.  Watch the change in your life, your day and mainly your attitude.

Thanking God

Giving God Praise and Thanksgiving

I have taken up the challenge of writing down things that I am thankful for during each day.  I first read about this challenge on a journal blog entitled Holy Experiencee written by Ann Voskamp. 

Ann Voskamp wrote the book titled One Thousand Gifts.  I recently purchased the e-book and have been so blessed with each page.  Ann Voskamp has a very unique writing technique and I am a big fan. 

I would encourage anyone that hasn't read or doesn't own the book, rent it, buy it or borrow it.  Just read this book for a wonderful blessing.





God created fruit too!

Oh, how I love fruit.  I thank God for creating fruit.  It is healthy, good and comforting.  Did you realize that fruit was comforting?  Well, it is!  Especially apples. 

Maybe apples are comforting to me because they make me think of Christmas time.  When I was young (long time ago) we only had 2 fruits that we could afford at Christmas; apples and oranges. 

Honestly, I can pick up a orange or apple, close my eyes and smell either of them and they take me back to the days of my childhood when my mother was still living.  My mother died when I was very young, so I enjoy smells that take me back to the days of comfort when my mother was there to "mother" me.  Our sense of smell is connected really well to our memory.

We made a trip to Ellijay, GA today.  Ellijay is the Apple Capital of Georgia, or so they say.  I LOVE going to the apple houses.  I try to stop at everyone of them when we make the trip up to buy apples.  Actually, we only buy apples from a couple of them but still, I enjoy stopping by each one and walking around and smelling the apples, apple pies and apple cakes.  Of course, there is always apple cider to taste test.  And no apple house is worth it's salt if it doesn't have apple butter and apple sauce to be tested as well.

We had a wonderful day.  Enjoyed the beautiful sites of changing leaves that God had on display for us.  The beauty that our eyes beheld only enhanced the trip.

My husband and I had a long conversation on the trip up about the many, many blessings that God heaps on us everyday.  You might think, with the cancer diagnosis we are living with in our lives now that we would not find it easy to see so many blessings.  However, we can even see the cancer as a blessing in a very unusual way.  My husband faith in God has grown from a seed to a huge redwood tree.  Praise God, that is a huge blessing.  My faith has grown stronger. 

Take whatever comes to you in life and turn it into a blessing.  That can be done, we are living proof.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others.

Storms With Rainbows

GOD PUT A RAINBOW IN THE SKY, WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE THE SUN WOULDN'T SHINE ANYMORE, GOD PUT A RAINBOW IN THE SKY

My last post was one of a woman that was in awe of the miracles of my Lord and Savior.  This post is from a woman who is STILL in awe of my Lord and Savior.

The Pathologist as well as the Surgeon felt sure there was cancer in the mass, so he continued to dissect the one lymp node as well as the growth removed from my husband and he FOUND the cancer.  Naturally, when the Surgeon talked with us on Monday I can honestly say that "shock" came no where close to describing how we felt.  I could not wrap my mind around what I was hearing.  I called a dear sweet friend and let her pray me through it.  She talked with me until I could get calmed down and start to look at things objectively.

There was so many blessings in this Rainbow that God put in the middle of my storm.  THEY found this cancer before my husband was sent home from the hospital, had they not found it; I shutter to think of what might have happened in the coming months. 

Surgery for the 2nd time was performed on Tuesday.  They took out 12" more of the colon and all the lymp nodes.  Final reports on Friday revealed that 3 of 38 lymp nodes had cancer and the growth had cancer in it as well.  There is no cancer in the liver nor in the lungs and with the surgery, the cancer is no longer in the colon.  However, he will have to take Chemo to raise his chances of the cancer not re-occuring in the colon from 50% to 80%. 

At the end of the Chemotherapy treatments (6 months) then the Seeds of Radiation will be implanted into the prostate. 

God is so good, all the time He is so good.  He put us in a place at this time in our lives where there are wonderful Doctors, Nurses, Hospital and Cancer Treatment Centers.  How blessed we are.







Peace

Sweet Words of Peace from Jesus!

Return, then unto thy rest, O my soul! Let the sweet cadence of this “word of Jesus” steal on thee amid the disquietudes of earth. Sheltered in Him, thou art safe for time, safe for eternity! There may be, and will be, temporary tossings, fears, and misgivings,—manifestations of inward corruption; but these will only be like the surface-heavings of the ocean, while underneath there is a deep settled calm. “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace” (lit. peace, peace) “whose mind is stayed on Thee.” In the world it is care on care, trouble on trouble, sin on sin; but every wave that breaks on the believers soul seems sweetly to murmur, “Peace, peace!” And if the foretaste of this rest be precious, what must be the glorious

Humbled

I am always humbled by the way that God loves me and provides for me and my spouse.  He can be counted on to come through everytime.  Maybe not in my preferred timing, but always in His perfect timing.

Everyday gives us new hope on our financial situation.  God started a mighty work in helping us to recover and He is not finished. 

I pray that I will be receptive to His promptings to "stop circling this mountain and walk straight away".

Some time ago I posted on this blog that I was at the lowerest point I have ever been at, let me tell you something!!!!....that is when you cry out to God and He reaches down and lifts you slowly and gently from the deepest crevice of your pit.  I am not solid yet but this Rock that I stand on is solid through and through.

When I say I am nothing without Him, please know that is exactly what I mean.  Maybe I had become guilty of being full of "myself" and full of "my own strength" but Praise God, He brought me back to a place I need to be.  The journey has been bruising and hard to take sometime but He brought me through it alive and healed.

God does not allow me a language that would adequately describe my love for Him and my praises to Him.  That is why He gave us the Holy Spirit to make moaning and groanings when we could not find the words that we need to communicate our feelings to our Abba Father.  

Many times a day I can feel my heart swell and overflow with my love for Him.  Have you ever seen a child that squeals and claps their hands while jumping up and down with excitement????   that child is me and that happens to me when I think about my loving, forgiving, providing Father.  I love that feeling and the fact that I am 66 years old doesn't make any difference to my Father, He still sees me as a small child of His.  Thank you Jesus! 

Blessed

Blessed!!  What a wonderful word.  I am not blessed in the same ways others may be blessed, matter of fact, most people would say that I am anything BUT blessed. 

They just do not know how richly God has blessed me.  I have a wonderful, fairly healthy husband, 2 wonderful healthy children, 2 beautiful healthy stepdaughters (both like my own) 6 grandchildren 1 great grandaughter & 1 (soon to be) great grandaughter.

I am saved, I was redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ.  His blood washed me clean from so much sin.  He forgave me, set me free from the bondage of sin.  He has promised me that I will live with Him eternally in the New Jerusalem.

You see my blessings are not material blessings, of those, I have almost none.  My blessings are the important blessings.  Death can not steal my blessings because actually death will usher me into the greatest of these blessings....my eternal life with my Lord and Savior.  No, death will have no sting for me.

You probably say I am confident and I am, after all, my confidence comes from God, He told me that if I submit my life to Him that all these promises would be mine.  Have you submited your life to God yet?  What ever are you waiting for?

“The LORD says, ‘I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you’” (Psalm 32:8, NLT).