WALKING BY FAITH I KEEP CLIMBING

BLANKETING THE EARTH FLOWERS  IN MY SOUL SPRINKLE SEEDS  BRISKLY  PLANTING THEM  INTO THE MEMORIES OF MY SOUL. PRECIOUS ARE THE SEEDS THAT HAVE  IN MY SOUL BEEN PLANTED  OVER THE YEARS  IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO WERE EAGER TO RECEIVE THE MESSAGE  OF GOD'S WORD. SPRINGTIME IS A LOVELY TIME  IT REMINDS US ANEW  OF GOD'S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS. IT TEACHES US THAT  AFTER HARD WINTERS  COME THE SPRING. MAY HIS LOVE  SEEP INTO YOUR SOUL THROUGH THE SEEDS OF GOD'S WORD AND MAY  YOU TOO  FIND COMFORT IN KNOWING GOD WILL  PRODUCE FRUIT FROM THESE SEEDS. ALL THE SEEDS NEEDED  WAS SOMEONE TO PLANT THEM IN THE SOIL. GOD DOES THE REST.    Mark Chapter 4. 1 -20.

BLOOMS IN THE SPRING  With Spring green sprouts start to push up above the soil, to take in the  lovely sunshine, and soak up the refreshing rains.  Bit by bit,  and little by little, these sprouts become as beautiful as this picture of Bearded Iris. How I used to love my Iris.   Yet all I did was put them in the ground, and  God did the rest.   He sent the rain. He faithfully gave the sunshine. Great  is thy faithfulness, There is a song I love that says it this way:  - The chorus is.... O God My Father, Morning by morning new mercies I see, All I have needed Thy hand hath provided, Great is thy faithfulness,  Lord unto me.    Great is Thy faithfulness,  O God, my Father,  There is no shadow of turning with Thee;  Thou changest not; Thy compassions, they fail not; As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be. Summer and Winter  Springtime and Harvest, Sun, Moon and Stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold w

SPRING IS ALMOST HERE !  HAVE YOU NOTICED THE BIRDS CALLING OUT ?  WHEN THE TIDE COMES IN AND THE TIDE GOES OUT THERE IS MUCH FOR THEM TO FIND FOR FOOD. WALKING BY ONE STORE - NEXT TO IT WAS AN EMPTY LOT  WITH MUCH WATER IN IT.   IT WAS A TEMPORARY  "WETLAND"  TWO MALLARD DUCKS WERE ENJOYING THIS LITTLE BIT OF  POND THEY HAD FOUND.   TAKING THEIR TIME, THEY SILENTLY FLOATED ON THE "WETLAND"... Time has a way of eroding the beaches, and changing the landscape.   This photo was taken of a beach where the fine cottage people used to live in is now quite old, and left without anyone in it.     In the same way,  our circumstances change.   We can never go back to "what we were" or to "what used to be"....                      GOD NEVER CHANGES.     Things may change, people may change, but GOD never CHANGES.                The birds migrate in the seasons, going in the Winter, and returning  in the Spring

WALKING ON         Walking by homes and yards, I see the for-get-me-nots in the yards of some. When I lived in another place, I had a large lawn, in which I took these little plants  and put them into the grass to naturalize as part of the lawn.  Every Spring they would come up as lively little bright smiles of hope for the future.                 It has been a year since I last posted.    My revision hip surgery was successful.    The prognosis was that I would possibly be in the Nursing Home for 12 weeks.   I was in the Nursing Home for five weeks.    It amazes me that I am able to do what I can do.   With my walker, I am able to do many long distance things, such as going for a 40 minute walk - sitting and having coffee and soup in a little cafe, and then returning home to my place for another 40 minutes. And so, I am calling my walker CALEB.    Caleb was, along with Joshua, the only survivor of the original men and women that came out of Egypt with Moses.    Caleb

     BY FAITH I WALK, KNOWING JESUS IS MY KING FOREVER.          Matthew 1.21   Thou shalt call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins.    This is what the Angel told Joseph when he was tossing and turning in his sleep over the problem of his now pregnant wife Mary.   It was to him a BIG issue, for his betrothal be broken by shaming her, or by quietly "divorcing" her.    So he was about to decide to divorce her.   You see, my friends, a Jewish betrothal was NOT an engagement as we know it today.   It was a PROMISE of TWO PEOPLE TO BE MARRIED and legally that was what it was -  except that in the Betrothal, the Bride was to wait at her father's home for the Bridegroom - while the Bridegroom was to go to his Father's house and prepare for her a place.    JESUS told the Disciples in John 14. 1 - 6  that He was the Bridegroom going to prepare a place for His bride the Church -  and that He would come again                  Let not your heart be tro