Journey into Forever

Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Well, today is one of those days when I have a lot of reflection going on in this crazy head of mine. Pondering life questions. Lots of whys, I don't like it, I don't wannas circulating through my thought processes. I look out at the beautiful snow scenery in my yard and know the picture should make me serene and peaceful. But I'm not serene and peaceful today. I feel like a whining child who doesn't want to do what the parent says.....not caring whether its good for me or not. Not caring that my parents know what is best for me.....just wanting what I want. There is also a certain amount of guilt contained in having a day like this. I am a born-again Christian. Probably considered one of those "evangelicals" the media talks about. Someone who has publically...

Good morning! The weather where I am, here in Missouri,is awful! Cloudy, cold, icy....it's a stay-in snuggle up kind of day. I hope you are comfortable and warm wherever you are. The scripture He grabbed me with today is from 2Corinthians 4:7: (MSG)" If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power within us...." The brightness is here for us today and every day. Don't miss it. It only comes from One Source. And He outshines the sun! Have a bright and happy day in Him!

Mark 13:9 You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. Matthew 10:22-23 Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. You know, it's hard to think about. I am so comfortable in my life that it is hard to realize there are so many others who are not. I'm not talking sickness....we're all touched by that. I'm talking poverty, persecution, abuse. Ugly things that hurt people. Ugly things I don't much want to acknowledge because it hurts me to realize exactly what is happening. Kind of a 'head in the sand' technique. What I don't know can't hurt me. Being a teacher kind of kept me in the middle zone. I often suspected a child was not being treated properly, but m...

It's pretty interesting to investigate where figures of speech have come from. Sometimes the way we think they should be intrepreted really aren't the way they started out at all. The one I currently have investigated is one that really isn't used too much anymore. It belongs more to my generation and the generation of my mother and even grandparents. I guess I heard them use it and picked it up as well. 'The Life of Riley' is the saying I have been looking at this week. This saying may have originated as early as the 1880s when James Witcomb Riley's poems were written, depicting a prosperous home life. Riley even minted his own money in his home, and those coins were accepted even in England. The coins were called 'Reilley's' or 'O'Reilley's' and the term became synonomous with a monied or comfortable person. Later, in the 1940's there was a radio show called "The Life of Riley" starring William Bendi...

One of the most important things Christ tells us to do as followers is to: ( Matthew 28:19)Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Since the bible and its commandments for us all to follow, sometimes we see this particular admonishment as a tough one. How do I, as a wife, mom, nana, and self-titled "old geezer" make disciples? How do you, as a young person who has to earn a living and probably has a family have the time? How does an elderly person, at the end of his life, have the influence or means to go and make disciples? I believe the key is to go and live, and that has been dramatically shown to me in the past weeks in three different examples. I'd like to share those stories with you. The first story is of a woman who passed away recently. She did not have a "piece of cake" life as an adult. At one point she found herself as the singl...