2023 “Goodbye to the Pi in the Sky year” We started the year, so much anticipating good things. God didn’t leave us hanging, of course. He had planned many new acquaintances and many new discoveries as we walk with him into the lands of Glad Adoration. I do realize that Glad Adoration was just a figment of my imagination for so many years. It is hard to write about an amazing discovery with so many facets. The adoration of God’s inhabiting the praises of his people is something that makes you want to stop and just observe in silence. His praise is always glorious! He is far more glorious than his praise, but to see him allowing his train to spill outside of his sanctuary into the most uncanny places. Perhaps that is the folly of the uninvitedness of his presence in so many places today. The fact that he isn’t accepted or wanted in the same way that so many kinds of people were uninvited in days of yore. Signs that say for any other kind of person but God. We don’t want him here. Yet, to be working on a Sabbath and sense that he ignores the imperatives of exclusivity people place on some establishments and stages a sit in, right in front of his own enemies. The Elitists, The Exclusivists, The amazing educated “Ish”, simply step over his amazing provisions for them, as though he were a leper, when he is the one who gave them such lavish. What does God do? He lends them more breath, more stuff, more opportunity to praise him? It is an enigma to me! Three years of sacrificing some Sabbaths to the “ish” has blessed my soul in a couple of ways that I have seen in the land of Glad Adoration. 1. Seeing the Train of God’s Glory seep into the ish 2. Seeing my growth in worship and praise in a wordless season. 3. Seeing the truth of “if You turn your foot from the Sabbath…” 4. Seeing the mercy of God in the Land of the Living 5. Seeing God resisting the pride in me 6. Seeing God exalting the humility in me
Today!
TODAY, While the blossoms...Still Cling to the Vine! "my blog to Elyse..."
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Coco Gauff Champion At the US Open
Coco, Are We There Yet?
Hooooorah!
I am ecstatic for her. So many hurdles jumped and overcome to get there! She has won the biggest tourney in our own country and we celebrate her, today! “Such a little girl, with such a big dream” (National Velvet) Such a little lady, with such a huge mantle on her shoulders. We rejoice with you today and we celebrate the labor of your hands and the shoulders on which you stand as belonging to all of us. Thank you for making Tennis your sport and for encouraging us all through your victory.
If you are victorious, We are THERE!
Monday, July 31, 2023
Sunday, July 30, 2023
about This Place by Pastor Loran
" The scoundrel Jacob was in “this place”:" where is “this place” this is my title to the sermon, but first The picture of Jesus rolling back the darkness with his own bare hands was part of the liturgy in the music and worship time. It is a dark place.
The title on the website is God Is Where You Are. I believe that.
The magic of reminiscence is God’s blessing of having a memory at all, no matter that age has diminished much of my short term memory ability.
Pastor reminded us that Jacob was sooo afraid for his life. A rock was his pillow and his brother was estranged from him for these years and had vowed to kill him for his having stolen the blessing from him. Jacob didn’t know that Esau had cooled from the original anger, through age and many other blessings that he had received from God.
The Ladder or stairway up and down out of Heaven. Jacob had awakened to the reality of spiritual activity that was around him. Jacob had been blind to these realities prior to this, but now he was aware. His relationship with God was solidified and he was able to trust God who was taking him into his confidence in this way. God said of Abraham, shall we hide from our friend Abraham what we are about to do? The blessing of the future was coupled with a deeper understanding of the spiritual realities and activities around him. The same with Jacob. The same with each of us.
Pastor said it was a door of greater revelation into the activities of God that came in the darkness of that moment. Keeping our eyes open for the open door of understanding that is provided in the darkness of difficulty was the application. I can relate to that. I can trust God who makes us understand him in the shadows of difficulty. God’s silences are loud and the darkness of fear and difficulty are the ushers into the already open door of communion with God. I am just chewing on an already clear expression of God’s word preached by my pastor.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Thanks for being a wonderful part of making the trip to the art show and other sundry events worthwhile!
Title- The Studious One!
Of biscuits and syrup
Happy Saturday!
Widdle Emmie in outer space school
My little Emmie
My Father and I 1989
to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Are you going to Mary Immaculate?
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
Remember me to the one who lived there,
He once was a true love of mine,
Tell him to buy me an acre of land,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,
Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,
Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,
Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.
Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,
Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,
After your done 50 pushups
and jog down the West Side Highway,
Then he’ll be a true love of mine…
(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)
He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.