More...More

That's what Firecracker has said for a long time and before she could get the words out her Aunt Autumn had showed her sign language for More More...And so when one is under the influence of blooming elm trees, and whatever else is out there, winds, and the parts of spring I forget about until the new year comes around...and add some meds...please excuse the parts of this that makes no sense at all!   (hush some of you--I know what you are thinking!!)

Anyway this past weekend was a good one.   My kids came home Friday night after P-Pa and I had got to hang with Izzy.   I had a meeting and so left for part of it...but P-Pa and the Iz did just fine.  Only 3 pants changes...they had to feed goats...water flowers...and then take a big long nap.

P-Pa and Firecracker...off to take care of the goats...but the song later makes me think of their hands...

And I had thought this would be about something completely different from what it seems to be taking on...so the other one will have to come at another time...

So like I said I am not feeling so hot today...and I take a break from here and go into my kitchen table.   I read the devotions and take pieces from them.   God Calling by Two Listeners and edited by A.J. Russell which I have mentioned before is words that two women listeners seem to take as hearing from God...but I find comfort when it says:

April 12 - Golden Opportunity

I am your Guide. Strength and help will come to you; just trust Me wholly.

Fear not. I am evermore ready to hear than you to ask. Walk in My ways, and know that help will come.

Man's need is God's chance to help. I love to help and save. Man's need is God's golden opportunity for him of letting his faith find expression. That expression of faith is all that God needs to manifest His Power. Faith is the Key that unlocks the storehouse of God's resources.

My faithful servants, you long for perfection and see your bitter failures. I see faithfulness, and as a mother takes the soiled, imperfect work of her child and invests it with perfection because of the sweet love, so I take your poor faithfulness and crown it with perfection.

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us." Ephesians 3:20

And I write...Let my faith find expression.  Help me to find my faith!   So I go to "My Utmost" devotional and it talks of "We have to keep letting go and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part."   But it has a scripture from Romans vi.9-11.   I love how he references using Roman numerals...those of you that are after the Roman numeral age...that is vi=6.  But it says:

"Death hath no more dominion over Him...in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.   Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God."

So I feel called to go to Romans...and I open my Living Bible to Romans 8 that seems to have plenty underlined.  But first I see in Romans 8:23:

"We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as His children, including the new bodies He has promised us--bodies that will never be sick again and will never die."

I don't know about you but today the way I am feeling I think can I get an AMEN on that one!!   I just keep searching for the Why's?   The What should I?   Anything that will give me answers...and I seem to find MORE MORE...Right above this says in Romans 8:18-21:

"Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will give us later.   For all creation is waiting patiently and hopefully for that future day when God will resurrect His children.  For on that day thorns and thistles, sin, death, and decay--the things that overcame the world against its will at God's command--will all disappear, and the world around us will share in the glorious freedom from sin which God's children enjoy."

I have such a visual with that...perhaps being in an area that is now filled with thistles that these winds keep blowing...and that one alone gives me hope for a new day not even considering the thistles, sin, death, and decay part!   And I breathe in these words and cling to them in hope.   But as always there is MORE for me so I read on to the part that is underlined.   And this one speaks to me as it has so many times before and I am sure it will speak to many others!  Romans 8:26-28:

"And in the same way--by our faith--the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems in our praying.  For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how to pray as we should; but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.  And the Father who knows all hearts knows of course, what the Spirit is saying as he pleads for us in harmony with God's own will.  And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into His plans."

 And you know me...of course I question as I see GOOD.  I wonder how can good happen but it doesn't say that all that happens is good...but I still struggle with this and so read on...but while I am writing this I put on music as I sometimes do and of course like so many times there is a song that so touches my heart.  I have put a link to this song...but the words just touch me so in this song "Your Hands" sung by JJ Heller:

Your Hands By JJ Heller

I have unanswered prayers
I have trouble I wish wasn't there
And I have asked a thousand ways
That You would take my pain away
That You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand
How to walk this weary land
Make straight the paths that crookedly lie
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine
Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking
Heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave Your hands

When You walked upon the Earth
You healed the broken, lost, and hurt
I know You hate to see me cry
One day You will set all things right
Yea, one day You will set all things right

When my world is shaking
Heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave Your hands

Your hands
Your hands that shape the world
Are holding me, they hold me still
Your hands that shape the world
Are holding me, they hold me still

When my world is shaking
Heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave You when...

When my world is shaking
Heaven stands
When my heart is breaking
I never leave...
I never leave Your hands

So I come to the end of my reading and of course it catches my eye with the sheep and all...but Romans 8:36-39:

"No, for the Scriptures tell us that for His sake we must be ready to face death at every moment of the day--we are like sheep awaiting slaughter; but despite all this, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us.  For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from His love.  Death can't, and life can't.  The angels won't, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God's love away.  Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, or where we are--high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean--nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when He died for us."

And though I have always felt this as my faith...I realize the urgency...that none of us know how many days we have.   I think that those who are facing cancer, those who are in law enforcement as Jay was, soldiers, firemen, they all are faced daily with this truth...but when it comes down to it...do any of us really know the moment of the day.   On that "Wednesday" during the day with no idea of what awaited me that night, I had a discussion with my friend Mary and it was a very deep discussion for a lunch time chat.   But I remember getting overtaken with emotion in thinking that I felt this need to share Jesus with others.  That I did not want any of those I loved to have to face the pits of hell.  That I did not want them to look at me and say "why didn't you tell me!"    And so I share that now and I know not why...but as I said this blog was taken over a long time ago....so I just write!    But now instead of thistles I think of...grass greening up, of flowers blooming, of EASTER and the true meaning that though Christ died on the cross He rose again and that there is light and hope and of course LOVE!  

So know that all that I say comes from Love and I thank you for your listening.   God be with you and give you MORE...MORE!

(And as I leave...say a pray for me...because NO MY TAXES ARE NOT DONE!!!)

lyp