Seniors?

Jesus Loves Me (For Seniors) While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a Church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the Church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age. After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gate to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak.... "When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50 odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heart break and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me................the only thing that would comfort was this verse......... "Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, we are weak but He is strong..... Yes, Jesus loves me... The Bible tells me so." When he finished, the church was quiet. You actually could hear his footsteps as he shuffled back to his chair. I don't believe I will ever forget it. A pastor once stated……………. "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best." "Senior version of Jesus Loves Me" Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me. JESUS LOVES ME Jesus loves me, this I know, Though my hair is white as snow Though my sight is growing dim, Still He bids me trust in Him. (CHORUS) YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO. Though my steps are oh, so slow, With my hand in His I'll go On through life, let come what may, He'll be there to lead the way. (CHORUS) When the nights are dark and long, In my heart He puts a song. Telling me in words so clear, "Have no fear, for I am near." (CHORUS) When my work on earth is done, And life's victories have been won. He will take me home above, Then I'll understand His love (CHORUS) I love Jesus, does He know? Have I ever told Him so? Jesus loves to hear me say, That I love Him every day. (CHORUS) God Bless Us All !!! Every day is a gift .. that's why it's called the Present

Almost the end of February

   Now that we are getting towards spring, it is  finally deciding to act more like winter. It has been snowing for 24 hours now. I think we have caught up with them amount we had last year. This is that nice heavy wet snow, the kind that make nice snowmen.
  I was actually giving some thought to going out and building one. But it was kind of windy out there and I have so much to finish and the time to finish it all is getting short. So I skipped it.
  Tomorrow I will probably have to go out in it whether I want to or not. We are out of a few necessary things like food for one thing.
  Always around this time of the year, I get my snowmen decorations put away, and the last of the Christmas ones that somehow escaped my notice when I was putting the bulk of them away.
   This year I did congratulate myself though for getting the Christmas lights taken down in the enclosed porch before the trees start to leaf out.
   One year I just left them up, one less thing to do at Christmas. I did happen to notice that I have forgotten to take the mini wreaths off the windows so still have that to do...
   It seems like it is always something.

Mindless repetition or focused thought?

Ever stop to think of all the things we learned as children that we can now
recite with out any thought to their content, or what they really mean, and how they
can enhance our lives. One of those things in my opinion is the Lord's Prayer. Oh, we can say it without any hesitation, but do we ever really stop to consider what it means?
I was part of a discussion this past week, on what it really means. And how it is an excellent
prayer to say upon arising every morning, and really focusing on it's message.


                           The Lord's Prayer
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us.
 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the the kingdom ,and the glory, for ever. Amen

Proverbs 29:25

　

　

　

　

Prov. 29:25

　

You never know

when God is going to bless you!

Good things happen when

you least expect them to !!!

　
　

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,

I thank You for my being able to see

and to hear this morning.

I'm blessed because You are

a forgiving God and

an understanding God.

You have done so much for me

and You keep on blessing me.

Forgive me this day for everything

I have done, said or thought

that was not pleasing to you.

I ask now for Your forgiveness.

Please keep me safe

from all danger and harm.

Help me to start this day

with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.

Let me make the best of each and every day

to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Please broaden my mind

that I can accept all things.

Let me not whine and whimper

over things I have no control over.

And give me the best response

when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

I know that when I can't pray,

You listen to my heart.

Continue to use me to do Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be

a blessing to others.

Keep me strong that I may help the weak...

Keep me uplifted that I may have

words of encouragement for others.

I pray for those that are lost

and can't find their way.

I pray for those that are misjudged

and misunderstood.

I pray for those who

don't know You intimately.


I pray for those that don't believe.

But I thank You that I believe

that God changes people and

God changes things.

I pray for all my sisters and brothers.

For each and every family member

in their households.

I pray for peace, love and joy

in their homes; that they are out of debt

and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this

knows there is no problem, circumstance,

or situation greater than God.

Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.

　
I pray that these words be received

into the hearts of every eye that sees it

in Jesus ' name. Amen!

Eventually I did get everything done this year that I wanted to. Now the tree is up the decorations are up, and I am having a break from work...I can say I have not gotten anything useful done since Christmas, and I probably won't for a few more days yet...

The tree has at least another week to go till I take it down. Since it is up it is blocking my doing any work, since there is no room in here to do anything with this tree up. It takes up almost a quarter of the living room. But I do love a big tree. If it starts dropping needles at a fast rate it will come down sooner, but as it is now it is still in good shape, and slurping a lot of water.

Ready For Christmas

I believe I have finally done it! gotten most everything done, and will have a couple days to just sit and enjoy my decorations. Only one batch of cookies to go, one present to buy and wrap. All the rest are done, the house is cleaned, the decorations all up, and the cards sent out....
Have the menu written down for Christmas dinner, and I believe I have all the ingredients that I need for everything.
Usually I am still baking and wrapping on Christmas Eve...
It is supposed to snow on Thursday, so I will pop a dish of popcorn, make a pot of tea, grab some DVDs and relax and watch DVDs all day.

Mess number 1 has now become a bigger mess than it was....

Today I tore my sewing/craft room apart...now it is a worse mess than it was before I started. The reason for this act was because I could not find something that I thought I needed. Well I found what I wanted eventually. BUT, while I was looking, I thought maybe it would be a good idea to just do a bit of a clean.....what I should have done, was sat down and had a cup of coffee and waited till that idea passed.

Now there is no going back, have to clean that room! And the living room! That is where the excess stuff that I was moving around is now sitting because there is no longer any room for it in the sewing/craft room.

So tomorrow instead of getting the stuff done, that really needs to get done, I will straightening up the mess I created while I was looking for something that was buried in the original mess...
You know some days, I just seem to get nothing done................................

I think Fall has begun..................

I think summer has finally left...it has been chilly the past couple weeks. I still have hopes that we will get an Indian Summer. I never want to see the hot days end.
  Now there is mostly rain, I am NOT motivated to do much of anything on rainy days...everything just seems so dreary.
  There are so many things that I should be getting done, but there they sit, and here I sit. Today I had an excuse sort of, to just sit...I really did not feel well, not sure what was all going on. I had a stomach ache since the wee hours of this morning...Probably something I ate that did not like me as well as I liked it.
Plus it was rainy, and that added to the blah feeling.
  Must get out of this blah feeling and get back to getting something done, before I really get behind.
Need to go back to making myself lists for the things I want to get done each day, and then sticking with the list.

Time passes

Time that interesting thing we never seem to have enough of...But that is not really true if you sit and think about it. We have just as much time as we have always had...it just depends on what we want to use those minutes and hours for.

  This year I seem to have finally caught up with those things on my "have to finish" list. Only a couple more items to go. Then I can start on the things I want to do.

Sometimes we spend a lot of time on things that we can not change no matter what we do about it, when that happens it is time to step back and see if it is really worth it to continue. Some things were never meant to be and no matter how hard we try to make them happen it is just a waste of time.

  So I have decided to just forget about the things that are not within my control, if they happen wonderful, if not so be it. There are far too many good things in life, to waste time on things that seem to be a dead end.

  Fall is my favorite season, so I am going to enjoy it. Love the vibrant colors, the rustle of the fallen leaves beneath my feet. Watching the squirrels scurry to fill their winter homes with food for the long winter. Even raking all the leaves that fall from the trees is fun.

It has been a while

Well the heat finally left, now it is cool out, I would have liked a more constant temp from day to day, am not interested in being really cool just yet, it is still August! August is supposed to be hot, not July.  But I also do not want fall to arrive too soon either, Do not want snow in November....A white Christmas is nice but not a white Thanksgiving. I have so many things that I want to do outside yet.