Comments on: Meditation Monday (Even though it’s Tuesday)

By: jonny

jonny — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:34:05 +0000

Oh my, we do seem to be back around to Meditation Tuesday again don’t we !! And it’s Valentine’s Day !!! Maybe we should do a little extra meditating on how to love and encourage each other today, and in doing so loving and blessing our Lord !! = )

By: LindaB

LindaB — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:31:37 +0000

Well, you have broght up some very good thoughts! (Is this meditation Tuesday??) I appreciated them, jonny! Especially this part….”…‘please back up my mission, plan, vision, teaching.’ Oh, and by the way, thanks for saving me !! But if you don’t mind, we’ll get to this ‘You knowing and pruning me, and me actually sitting at your feet and being YOUR disciple’ stuff later, OK ??”!!!! How true is THAT???

By: jonny

jonny — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:47:40 +0000

I guess there can also be at least two types of ‘knowing.’ One coming from a knowledge, awareness, understanding base; the other from a ‘been to hell and back’ type relationship with another and still being one, such as the Father and Son have. But even then it seems there can be a surprise or two; ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken me ?’

By: jonny

jonny — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:36:01 +0000

I find it true in my life. In David’s prayer it’s, I believe, search me and know me and ‘expose,’ ‘bring to light,’ search out’ every false, dark way within me. I believe there are areas so deep and dark that only His Spirit, with our permission, can enter and deal with properly. I hope this make sense. I also HATE the ‘works’ message so often attached to the sheep and the goats thing. I believe the works part is a result of our growing oneness in, with Him. Him in us; us in Him. Just as He was one with the Father and EVERYTHING He did stemmed out of, or resulted from, that oneness. I’m also getting more than a little tired of all these messages, plans, programs, teachings, etc, that seem to want to ‘cut out the middle’ man, yet being ‘for’ Him at the same time. Or at least by-passing any real need for the most important part of why He died for the world, or direct involvement with Him in such matters other than, ‘please back up my mission, plan, vision, teaching.’ Oh, and by the way, thanks for saving me !! But if you don’t mind, we’ll get to this ‘You knowing and pruning me, and me actually sitting at your feet and being YOUR disciple’ stuff later, OK ??

Hope that made sense, and please forgive the rant.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:50:38 +0000

Wow, jonny! That’s an interesting thought! I’ve gotta think about that one! On one hand, He is our maker and knows our frame very well! Yet, David, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and a man after God’s own heart, said, “Search me and know me”. I think that He knows us, inside and out, but since He gave us free will, does He know what we are going to decide to do before we do it? And is that really free will? Okay, now I’m getting a headache. But that was an interesting thought, jonny.

By: jonny

jonny — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:42:15 +0000

“We search and search and search for God, His touch, His voice, His presence…and He’s right there! Always!”

I also believe that not only is He already there, but His desire is to search and know us !! King David often prayed, “Search me, and know me.” When Jesus did the parable of the sheep and the goats, the one casting the goats away said, “Away from me, for I never knew you !”

By: jonny

jonny — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:15:45 +0000

“I’ve often prayed for God for something, then tacked on…”And please let me know when it happens!”…because we tend to get so busy with daily stuff that we miss His still, small voice in the mundane.”

‘Like’

By: MostlySunny

MostlySunny — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:56:54 +0000

And I’m not reading this until Saturday evening (soooo not Monday!)

Rachel – THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! It brought tears to my eyes. It was simple and profound. We search and search and search for God, His touch, His voice, His presence…and He’s right there! Always!

I’ve often prayed for God for something, then tacked on…”And please let me know when it happens!”…because we tend to get so busy with daily stuff that we miss His still, small voice in the mundane.

Thank you, Rachel, for that reminder! Keep writing. You do have gift!

By: jonny

jonny — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:11:15 +0000

Prayers being proffered !!

By: LindaB

LindaB — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:39:58 +0000

Thank you, jonny. Candy is very sore today——she cut her knee in the accident and it’s pretty swollen. We’re just hoping and praying that the blood patch isn’t dislodged because it was such a painful ordeal to get it put in place last week.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:34 +0000

Oh, and I left out the bout of stomach flu we had! Ever try to burb a baby when you’re about to “burb” something up yourself???? It’s a challenge!

By: jonny

jonny — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:28:55 +0000

Wow, Linda !! Hope everyone is OK now, that the worst has passed !!

By: LindaB

LindaB — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:24:59 +0000

Rachel, THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! Bless your sweet heart!

This has been a very stressful week around here…….birth of new grandbaby, complications from the spinal block, a couple more hospital trips, with instructions not to even sneeze and dislodge the blood patch, and then a car accident last night! And I’ve been consciously trying to teach my children how to rest in God’s Hands. How to take one day, and sometimes one hour at a time. And to be thankful for little things along the way. You said it exactly right——
“Don’t wait for a better time

Don’t search for a special place

Drink of the water while you thirst…”!

Thanks, Rachel…..and Tori for sharing! I’m sending this to my daughter today! (And you definitely have a beautiful gift, Rachel! Listen to your mother! LOL)

By: jonny

jonny — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:09:08 +0000

Stuart even cuter = Stuart in a kilt ?? Oh, yeah, he’s not Scottish = /

By: jonny

jonny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:44:39 +0000

Please excuse a brief, Monday, interlude here, but Tori, I think they’ve outdone themselves; again !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c&feature=g-all-u&context=G218b642FAAAAAAAABAA

By: jonny

jonny — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:48:27 +0000

And I thought Stuart The Cute did something right by asking UK Betty to be the mother of his children = / Or did she rope him in…

And talk about an extra long Monday, I did not discover this until just now, which is approximately 10:35, February the 8th, a WEDNESDAY morning; Helsinki time !! Well, better late than never, I guess = ) And I’ve always been a fan of Rachel’s writing ever since some of her lyrics were posted here awhile back !! Wonderful to see her words used for this brand new, which ever day it happens, Meditation Monday !! = )

By: Gramma Jac

Gramma Jac — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:17:53 +0000

Had a LONG LONG Stressful Tuesday (oops–extralong Monday!) and just sat down at my computer to find,…these lovely words from Rachel. Thank you, thank you,..I needed this!! Betty, you sure did something right!

By: bettyrwoodward

bettyrwoodward — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:22 +0000

Stuart says that it’s the first time he’s been called cute since he was three years old. Love the picture which Russ took at Flatford Mill. I would to take you there sometime as well, come over for a holiday.
Thanks for reminding Rachel how well she writes, she needs someone other than us to tell her! Thanks for the blog as well it is always appreciated even when I don’t add a comment.

By: Barbara M. Lloyd

Barbara M. Lloyd — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:35:57 +0000

Oh, sweet Rachel,you certainly know how to comfort a body……from one heart to another. And I do so appreciate the honesty of it all.