Light...looking at the super moon...

Tonight at my kitchen table I caught sight of the moon...I believe they are saying super moon...whichever the case...an amazing moon...I look it up and read at this link... Supermoon story

 "Supermoon” is a non-technical term for a moon that turns full at the same time it hits perigee — the point on its orbit when it is closest to Earth. The moon’s path around our planet is shaped more like an oval than a circle, so there are times when it is closer to us (perigee) and times when it is farther  away."

So I caught some pics of it...one I included a poem that seemed to come as I watched...that old moon trying to hide from me...and the words to the poem below come to me and I think of my moon verse...If you seek Me...you will find Me when you search with all of your heart..."  Jeremiah 29:13

 

 

I upon spotting the moon decided to go capture...often I struggle in catching shots of the moon...but it just amazing and as I returned to my kitchen table...my Bible opened to Luke 11...which I had written there..."Hide it under a bushel NO I'm gonna let it shine."   I go to see if I can find this song...and I come across this one and it just makes me smile...

 

 

 

The verses in Luke reads...

 

The Lamp of the Body

³³ “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light. ³⁴ The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. ³⁵ Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. ³⁶ If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”   Luke 11:33-36 NKJV

 

And I go from there to seeing a prayer where Franklin Graham includes Matthew 5:13-16

 

“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. ¹⁵ Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

 

 The prayer talks of being salt and light in our schools, communities, businesses, and even our government...

 

I think of things going around us...and pray that Light would overcome darkness...Love overcome hate...Hope overcome despair...

 

So I throw in a few of my pics from the moon...and they say it is supposed to be best viewed at 6:52 a.m. in the morning I believe...but I throw in a couple more shots and say sweet dreams...may your light shine...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

God bless! 

lyp

Friendship...a perfect gift indeed!

And some days you just get special hugs...I call them hugs from heaven.   I had such a day the other day when in the mail I received a package...covered with the words fragile and a return label with a red, white, and blue bow from Mary Lou Holman...Aunt Mary Lou...and so today...Aunt Mary Lou at my kitchen table...

A woman who I suppose some might argue was not my aunt...though try and say it to my face...this woman as dear a sister to my mom...a sister to me.   An amazing woman...an amazing friend...a person who I have admired my whole life and is one of the women I would choose to pattern after...

So I get back to my gift...a heart...how appropriate...this woman who was given to us many extra years because of a heart...a gift my mom had given her and she giving it to me...so I snap a picture of it in a chair by the window by my kitchen table...a gift of great thought from the letter...to the box with the year she born...to of course the heart...and the love of this gift...

And when I read it...tears streamed as I knew the love my mom and Aunt Mary Lou shared...the friendship...memories of fun...tears...family...and the words talk of Friendship is God's most perfect gift...

The Miracle of Friendship

There's a Miracle of Friendship that dwells within the heart,

And you don't know how it happens or where it gets its start...

But the happiness it brings you always gives a special lift,

And you realize that Friendship

is God's most perfect gift.



I decide to look for a picture of this special lady...and know I have some somewhere...but for now I take one off of facebook...one of the places I have got to stay in touch with this special friend!   So thank you Jennifer Walsh Porter for sharing...I love this pic...but cropped it up a bit...

So just wanted to say thank you Aunt Mary Lou for always sharing your heart to so many of us...you giving me a special connection to my mom...for being such a role model to me...You are in my thoughts and prayers always!

I search for songs on friends and one comes up that I know you will enjoy...of the most perfect Friendship...

And then this other comes up filled with hearts...and I think of you and mom...how even after she gone...a connection...a friendship...and no matter the distance between us...friends are friends forever...thank you for being one of those friends!!     Love you lots my friend!!!

And there above John 15:13.. (a Veterans Day verse perhaps)...I read these words...fitting for the day...

 

"This is My Commandment, that you love one another

 as I have loved you."

John 15:12

lyp