Monday, January 12, 2026

Elyse's thesis about living and serving from the abundance of God's provision and not from the emptiness of personal striving {}lack}

My Cup Runneth over

 Hi Mark,

The following letter is in “elyseannese” (a language made of my musings) and I hope it points you more towards Christ even if you can’t  understand me.

I want to start off that the original quote I said was wrong the wrong quote was

Jeremiah 29:28

28For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


That’s less of the point of moving from survival to thriving but let’s go on a journey throughout the Bible “whose report shall we believe” Isaiah 53:1 but Isaiah 53!!!


Eve the origanal empty cup.

From the garden and the survival that is the temptation getting and knowledge separated from relationships with God as if he is keeping something from us his children….  He’s not but I know you know that.


In Jeremiah the premises is more like the beatitudes we are learning about in church… that God has promised good for his children and in the relationship with them they are blessed. This even in captivity due to their disobedience he is with them ( ps. that alone is a blessing) but not only that but he is going to multiply them! Multiplying them yes in number but also a empty cup that you can see if you read the whole of the chapter.

Jeremiah 30:19

. 19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.



Let’s highlight “my cup runneth over” . Our source of everything is Christ. What we offer in the testimony or our relationship with him is not our limited self but limitless Christ. We must be renewed constantly but the source of that renewal has now end. The key is a dependency on Christ rather than our self. 


Psalms 23:5

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over


In community with God not just the brain knowledge of God …. Ps. not including the other knowledges of God. ( for another conversation)

We are to live and serve out of the fullness of God just surviving but thriving on his living water.

John 4:13

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”.


He is the living water he ie. the Holy Spirit  the final biblical text is ….

John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

That is Christ design for you he says so.




 What are the consequences ?  

Samson is an example of taking the fullness of our cup for granted.


Judges 16:20-21

And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him. 21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.

Our God does not leave or forsake his own But we can work outside of relying on him not realizing the strength was him all along.



This was all over the place so email me for more focus conversations.

Words to look for...

sur·vive

/sərˈvīv/

verb

  1. continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship.

a·bun·dant·ly

/əˈbəndən(t)lē/

adverb

adverb: abundantly

  1. in large quantities; plentifully.

thriving

/ˈTHrīviNG/

adjective

  1. prosperous and growing; flourishing.

See other scriptures that talk about dependience on God/ serving from a full cup.

Proverbs 3

Mathew 4:4

Deuteronomy 8 

John 14:26

Yours truly 

Elyse S Walker
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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











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.