MY MOM

 

Just a quick entry tonight.  Mom left this morning and I miss her already.  We had such a wonderful visit.  Especially last night and this morning.  The first week was very nice.  Then she left to visit with my brother and his family.  Mom came back yesterday afternoon.  Everyone here was out last night so it was just her and I.  We talk and just sat around.  It was so very nice.  This morning we got up early and had some coffee and talked again.  What I liked most about this visit was our morning coffee and our reading from the Bible and discussion afterwards.  Last night I gave her a little gift.  It was nothing really just a small box of stationary and some stickers to seal the letters with.  She loved it.  It was just from me.  To thank her for all the help she has given us these last few months.  The card was the best of all.   It was a very sentimental card.  It told her how that words aren't always spoken all the time.  But that love is always there.  I love my mother very much.  I miss her very much.

And, on that note I'm off to watch TV with my hubby so I will say..........

 

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Thank you so much!!

PRAYERS FOR YOU

Prayers for you!  Praying that your pain quickly subsides.  And, most all praying that you heal better this time.

And, for a Blessed Holiday.......

WHAT KIND OF SOUL ARE YOU?

         

You Are a Seeker Soul

You are on a quest for knowledge and life challenges.

You love to be curious and ask a ton of questions.

Since you know so much, you make for an interesting conversationalist.

Mentally alert, you can outwit almost anyone (and have fun doing it!).

Very introspective, you can be silently critical of others.

And your quiet nature makes it difficult for people to get to know you.

You see yourself as a philosopher, and you take everything philosophically.

Your main talent is expressing and communicating ideas.

http://www.blogthings.com/kindsoulquiz.html

I don't hold the results of these types of quizes as truth.  But its interesting that the results say this today.  Just as I am seeking to surrender my critical nature.  And, as some have pointed out this could be my biography.  Although until recently I must have been faking a quiet nature by being really verbal.  All I know is to.......

GOOD MORNING

Good Morning.  I'm feeling much better.  Thank God.  Although, when I was sick I didn't notice the disaster my house had become.  Last night I noticed the house, this morning I noticed the laundry pile.  Christina did some laundry.  But here if you don't do it every day it looks like we take in laundry.  Actually it doesn't matter to me one bit.  I have been wearing sweat pants and tee shirts for the last 4 days.  I have clothes to wear.  It will get done.  So will the house.  I'm not going to sweat it.  I don't have a magic wand.   One task at a time.  I'm learning.  It takes time but I'm learning.  Life is more important than dirty laundry and messy houses. 

MORE ON UNDERSTANDING/JUDGEMENT

I've been, with the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, learning how to rid myself of a judgmental nature. Through prayer!  It appears that this is an arduous task for many of us to master.  I cannot achieve it on my own.  No on can accomplish any task without God on their side.  This is one of my most offensive flaws.  And, I want to banish it.  I do realize that I am only human and therefore not perfect.  And, that my asking for this from Our Lord that I will be tried more so.  Please help me with this.  Please pray for me.  Thank you.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Matthew 7: 1-5

Ever since the serpent tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man has always had the capability to judge.  Our eyes were opened and we were like God, says the serpent.  And our eyes did.  Right after our forefathers disobeyed God that we found that we had the ability to judge good from evil.

When people move on a judgement, people get hurt.  Especially people we love.  During the course of judgement, we forget ourselves.  We only see the "speck" in the eyes of others, as Jesus so rightly put.  We forget the "plank" in our own eyes.  Why does this happen?

If we look at ourselves carefully, when we complain, when we get angry at something or someone, when we get frustrated at people, we have inadvertently became judgemental.  Call it criticize or a simple complaint or evena directed anger, whatever it may be, it is being judgemental and we condemn others along the way, in many cases, unknowingly.

For more information please read......http:///www.geocities.com/food4desoul/message5a.html or Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged

Understanding

Judge not, that ye be not judged.   For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7: 1-2

We all know that so very well.  But do we know where that comes from.  It's God's Word. I thought I did, but apparently I did not.

I've felt the need to examine myself lately.  I thought that how could people not heed that warning.  How could people not understand. I have realized that "There but for the Grace of God go I".  I am thankful to God that I have been spared great trials and falls. 

Thank you Lord!! For putting it upon my heart to examine myself and making me see my faults and forgiving them for me.  You are faithful.

 But the most important thing I realized is that I should not judge others because I am not in a position to do that.  That's God's job.  Not mine.

I must remember that without the Grace of God each one of us is capable of any sin.  We are all flawed.  No one is perfect, except Jesus Christ.  That is why God sent him to come die for us. 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I must learn how to live my life and be able and willing to understand the difference between judging acts and judging individuals.  Because the judgement of indivudals is ALWAYS left to God.  God always knows the hearts and minds of us all.

My prayer this morning is that for to God help me learn how to do this.  That with your help Lord I understand the difference.  That I no longer put myself above you.  That you give me the mind and words to understand the difference.  This I ask in the Name of Your Son Jesus Christ.........Amen

FUN ANIMATIONS

 

Thank you Lori for creating these animations for me.......