HELLO LIFE COLLEAGUES :0)

Hello Life Colleagues,

          It's been a while since I have been online. My apologies to all who checked in to see what's up with this new blog. I did not realize that it was already in public domain. To be fair though, please understand that when I am away from posting that I am greatly involved in family activities and intense study. My family needs me and I love them very much so I do as best I can. My husband is a stroke survivor. Our home is in serious need of experiencing love. As such, it is what I have come to coin as 'my husband's therapy house'. I help him out as much as he allows. I also help tend to small grandchildren who vie for solid attention and who have issues of their own. Needless to say, things get quite busy here and I must also have my God time. I can't share with you what I don't know and can only disclose personal experience. Mostly though, when it comes to my writing, it revolves around The Lord. I write prayers and glean much as a result. I do not like missing out on this precious time. It is sacred to me. You are also my Family, my Friends, my Life Colleagues, and I can't help but sometimes feel that I am letting you down by not ministering to your needs in just as much an emphatically present way. On the other hand, I can't properly address your needs without first possessing the wisdom to do so.

          For me to be speaking with you this way is quite knew to me. It is an experience that I am quite unaccustomed with. This is a public forum, a public setting, to which I have little if any personal experience. I am trusting God with this venture and trusting that He has opened a grand door for me to walk through in which I can be of excellent service to both God as well as to my Life Colleagues. You matter a great deal to me, much more than I can even properly express. You may even be aware of the other blogs that I had started, which I felt necessary to change and make private for now. I know God is working something wonderful in me as well as in them, so I need to follow the guidance I am given. It is imperative that God be in charge so that we all will greatly benefit from what He is doing. I cannot take the credit for what God wants to do or is doing. It is for Christ's sake that I follow His lead and trust that Jesus is the One exalted and that God is the One who is glorified as a result.

        There is much happening in the world right now. The issue with Syria; Different happenings in the US; The waters surrounding Japan being contaminated by nuclear fallout; Various weather issues and warring factions around the world, etc. So many happenings presenting themselves in people's lives as well as in communities, states, and various countries. While some happenings may be individually personalized, many encompass many more, even entire countries as well as globally. But glory be to God Most High!! God has a plan. God has a Divine Plan and Purpose for each and every one of us, as well as for our particular situation, condition, and relation - even for our individual community, state, country, ... and even for the world. And God's Plan is powerful, dynamic, and more awesome than anything we can even conceive. And God's Plan cannot fail in any way, shape or form. The ultimate purpose of God's Plan is to make us all aware of the glory of His Presence and very real involvement, so we know - really know - how awesome God really is. 'Cause you see, God is Great and God is Good. God is Love and God is Just. God is Wise and God is True. God is Real and God is Here with us. After all, God did promise to never leave us or forsake us. (Heb. 13:5). And God is not man that He should lie nor is He the son of man that He should repent. ( _______ ). But God is faithful to all His promises. ( _____ ).

         As for by study time, it's because I have to study - not just to show myself approved, as God commands. But because memorizing God's Word is something that is not natural to me. Some might hold that against me, but it is something that I have come to embrace because like some bible thumpers who might have God's Word memorized inside out, backwards, forwards, and upside down, only to use it to brow beat those less versed - I have come to appreciate that I am not one of those like that. I have come to understand that when God tells me something, I can trust that it is found within His written Word. I just have to find it. And when I do, it's amazing. Not that I have doubted God's revelation of anything to me, but that it is confirmed in writing. When I surrender myself to The Holy Spirit and minister to Him and let Him work through me, it is an awesome thing that can only be explained as Divine. You know when you are blessed and surrounded by God's glory. You know when it's just you and God and in that moment all is truly well and you and God are real, and only the real is what is evident. And it is awesome.

My Dear Family, Friends and Life Colleagues,

           I am not some advertising agent or some multi-million or multi-billion dollar tycoon. I am not some highly educated, well to do, sophisticated, extraordinarily intelligent anything. I am a simple person of lack luster, humble means, who does not speak with eloquence or who knows how to do much of anything other than be who I am. You either like and trust me or you don't. You either approve of and accept me or you don't. I am nothing less or greater than you. I exist just as you do and am just as real as you are. I am every bit as human as you, and like you, sometimes wish I were more because I have not figured out how to navigate this life as well as I had hoped or aspired. And like you, I need God every bit as much, maybe even more. I want to be somebody important that does more good than a person has a right to do, that succeeds at being nothing less than wonderful, an extraordinary blessing to all those who need me to reach my full potential so they can receive what it is that only God can offer them through me. So I can expand their vision of The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and let The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness work wonders through me for their sake. But what is it that I have to offer? What is it that I can do that will make a difference and impact their life or their world for the better? I can offer myself to God and submit myself to The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness so God can work the necessary miracles that exalt Christ, glorify God, and magnify Heaven in their lives for the sake of all concerned. That's a start.

Well, my Dear Family, Friends and Life Colleagues,

          The Lord bless you and keep you.
          The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
          The Lord lift His countenance upon you and give you peace.
          In Jesus' Precious and Holy Name. Amen.