Growing Deeper

 There is a picture in my mind, as I read a story in the news about a person jumping in a lake off a boat to save someone who is drowning... I have heard that when a person is drowning, and someone is trying to help them, they struggle profusely, fighting the person who is actually trying to SAVE their life. It is a natural response in the victim, because they are in the middle of sinking and trying to stay afloat.  I thought about this and then I also thought about how many times I have, in a different ways struggled with God while He is trying to lift me "out of the deep waters" of myself. I sometimes feel like I am drowning in situations that I am trying to stay afloat in.    The first time that I was drowning was 49 years ago.  I was barely hanging on, barely breathing, taking on lots of "water" due to a deep ocean of self preservation, that actually wasn't working at all!   God jumped into my life and all He asked me to do was, relax, and Trust Him, to...

 It's Monday🫣  ...And we are opening our eyes🤗 to a new work week, and of family with various needs. Bless God! Look around to all the wonder and blessings we DO have. Whether they are of health, food, a good job, or those you share your life with.  Yes, it's Monday, a lot of how we view this day will have to do with our perspectives.  Life is good for many, but maybe your life today is not "good. Life in general can be hard to manage, especially with the economy right now.     We live in a fallen world. Life is NOT perfect, but we don't have to succumb to feelings of despair. Even though some are battling sickness, financial issues, loss, fatigue, or whatever, (you fill in the blank_____.)      Isn't it comforting to know that whatever challenge, or battle we face we do not face challenges or battles alone?   God is the Promise Keeper...  He is our refuge and strength! He will see us through and we as believers are n...

  God always was, and in the beginning of everything he was already there, and it was He that created everything, according to the Bible. Soon after God created the world and all that was in it and declared it good, there appeared a fly in the ointment of perfection, and it came in the form of a serpent in the Garden of Eden. The serpent was up to no good. He had a plan to trip up this whole beautiful situation. He came to Eve and asked her the question that he has been asking people ever since. "Did God really say?" That question along with the snakes' seemingly "perfectly logical reasoning" has confused many for centuries. "Did God really say, you shall not eat from every tree of the garden?" Now that inquiry seemed innocent enough, and Eve answered it. "We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, "you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, l...

   It is the holiday season, but for many it is anything but" joyful or happyy"; lost jobs , sickness, turmoil, unrest and for many, a lasting loneliness.  For those  this season is not a merry one, but one of pain.    I remember in those days past ,how that deep hole of hopelessness felt. I was there, many times. I was young, and betrayed, by different circumstancs and even choices I had made that I thought would be good for me. My days were sad and I felt that I was all alone in my pain.   I did survive,  but barely.  I had actually thought of suicide. But I remembered my children, and my love for them kept me from leaving them with that legacy.   I found faith in Jesus Christ when I was so utterly lost... Or should I say,  He found me.  It had to be a God thing because nothing in me was thinking that He was going to be the Answer to my needs.    Now, looking back, I can see how He actually orchestrated many th...

 The first thing I do after waking up and brushing my teeth is trudge to the kitchen and start filling the coffeepot with water and putting coffee in the basket to brew.  After a couple of minutes I fill my cup. For some reason my coffee is never hot enough, it looks right, but as I touch it to my lips, nope...  it has the mere essence of coffee, but is not anything I would drink or offer to anyone else in that blah state. So I nuke it in the microwave for 60 seconds and voila, it is heated to that perfect temperature that smells and awakens all my senses.   Lukewarm coffee is not my cup of tea. and I would venture to say, that this is most everyone elses feeling about it too. This morning I read in Revelations 3:15-20. It is the last book in the Bible written by John. It talked about how God feels about us as believers and being "not hot or cold" but lukewarm. It is very straight forward. Lukewarm believers are distasteful to Him, and he would spit them out of his m...

 One day my husband and I were watching youtube. We do that every now and then to see news, or comedy or instructions on fixing something.  Anyway, when we did that, an array of suggestions came up. This time a sovereign citizen video came up. We wondered "what is that about?" and clicked on the video. In the video, it started out with a police officer walking up to a car that he had pulled over for a traffic violation. The driver rolled down the window and ask the officer, "Why did you stop me??"  The officer replied," you were speeding, going 50 and 35  mile per hour zone."  Then the the officer added, " I need to see your driver's license and proof of insurance please." Driver: " I don't have  to show you anything; I don't have a driver license or insurance but I don't need either one." Police officer:" Yes, you do ma'am.You need to show me your driver's license and proof insurance. It's the law....