Dedicated to all my brothers and sisters in Christ, the faithful few, in these crazy, uncertain times:
Listen to the words. Hear the message. And hang in there. It's gonna be okay.
A glimpse into life at my place. My thoughts on gardening, living, family life, faith, and health.
Dedicated to all my brothers and sisters in Christ, the faithful few, in these crazy, uncertain times:
Listen to the words. Hear the message. And hang in there. It's gonna be okay.
Every great story needs a great ending. Here's one of the best end-of-movie songs from one of the greatest movies ever made: Storybook Love from The Princess Bride. (You know it's true!) The lyrics have nothing to do with my story or my blog, I just really, really love this song and movie. (And I just watched it last night, so it's fresh in my mind.) :)
And now it's time to say goodbye!
Seriously, let's not stretch it out. It only makes it harder. Let's just get it over with. So ...
Merry Christmas, Everyone! May God bless you today and this next year. May He show Himself to you in new ways, to encourage you, to help you along the hard paths, to restore your faith in Him (or draw you to Him for the first time), to lift you up when your heart is broken.
Such a great sermon, one we can all learn a lot from and be encouraged by:
Encountering God's Process by Tony Evans
(And here's a great 10-minute video from his daughter, Priscilla Shirer: "We're Desensitized to our Blessings." It just seemed to speak so well to the crazy world we're living in right now, maybe because now seems like the perfect time to dig through all the distractions around us to find Jesus.)
I am sending this "Through the Refining Fire" workbook to my relative who's in jail because she shares the Bible things I send her with other people on her floor. I figure it's one way I can try to help turn this whole bad situation (her arrest) around for good, at least for someone. She might not want what I send her, but maybe a fellow prisoner will get something out of it. Who knows? But it helps me to know that I'm not just wallowing in despair, but that maybe I can help some eternal good come out of this bad situation for someone, even if it's not her.
A favorite song of mine from Newsboys: We Believe
"He's coming back again!"
This song also plays at the end of my all-time favorite Christian movie, "Do You Believe?" Watch it, with tissues nearby.
To make it easier to find, I compiled the links to all the posts in the "Things My Calvinist Pastor Said: We Left Our Church Because of Calvinism" series. (That's right ... I'm not letting him or Calvinism off easy, not with the damage they do to God's Truth!)
Okay, so we all know that Grandma got run over by a reindeer ... but guess what happened next?
Grandpa's gonna sue the pants off of Santa
Who knew!?! I sure didn't, not till just a few years ago.
(I'm warning you now: This one will get stuck in your head.)
This song pops into my mind a lot (which drives my son nuts because then I'm always singing it out loud). But how could I not? In fact, I've found that singing, even when - especially when - I don't want to, uplifts my spirit and my mood like nothing else can.
So go ahead ... Sing a Song! Sing it out loud and sing it out strong.
Not for anyone else, but just for you. Just because it's fun!
(And what a cute video to go with it. Totally made me smile!)
Just putting this out there for you all to read and consider and make your own mind up about: Have The Globalists Overplayed Their Hand?
[Update from February 15, 2021: I am adding this note here because I don't know where else to put it. I just wanted to share this story which I believe confirms my idea that our online devices are indeed listening to us all the time, even when we don't know it. Our online service is used for our few tablets, phones, and laptops, but we don't have smart TV's or one of those always-on units that listens and responds when you ask it questions. Well, yesterday we had some friends over, and we got to talking about the movie "Return to Oz" from 1985, about how creepy it was. We talked about it for just a couple minutes, maybe 2-3. Well, a couple hours after they left, I turned on a tablet, looked at the home "news page" (through the search engine that starts with "goo" and ends with "gle") and - lo an behold! - there was an article about why Return to Oz wasn't a bad movie. I think there's NO WAY on earth that could be a coincidence, not when that's such an old, obscure movie. I think "they" are listening. Always listening. Even when we don't know it and didn't set it up that way. Creepy and disturbing!]