Flip Flop

Day 200:  I can't  believe I made it to day 200!  I celebrated with a strawberry marguerita and wearing flip flops, enjoying the warm weather.

Please, God, bless!

"The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land." Psalms 95:5

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Turtle Party!

Day 199:  Today we were at a restaurant eating out on the patio and we saw two turtles climb up onto the grass out of a pond to sun themselves.  Over the course of our meal, more turtles crawled up.  Bigger turtles, baby turtles, and some in between.  We counted at least 15 turtles just hanging out having a turtle party!  When we finished out meal, we walked over to try and snap a pic of the turtle social, but they sensed us coming and starting flopping back into the water because it was safe.  Who says turtles are slow!!!


Over time the Jews have been returning to their homeland.  Every now and again some may flee looking for safety.  But, like with the turtles fleeing from a perceived threat from us,  there is no need to run.  God will protect His Beautiful Land, His people.

"He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Isaiah 11:12 ESV

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Weighed and Found Wanting

Day 198:  My husband suggested today's doodle given that there seems to be a theme of judgement today.  The Boston Marathon bomber was found guilty today.  A kid in our neighborhood was arrested last night.  A friends son sits in jail tonight.  An officer is arrested for shooting an unarmed man.

Sometimes there is justice.  Other times it seems there is not.  Man is imperfect, thus we will have imperfect justice.

But make no mistake, God knows the truth In every situation.  God will judge according to his perfect justice,extravagant grace, and endless mercy.

Please, God, bless!

"Tekel, you have been weighed[a] in the balances and found wanting;"  Dan 5:27

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Meetings and Partings

Day 197:  "Life is made up of meetings and partings, that is the way of it." - Kermit the Frog

I think that is my favorite statement in the Muppet Christmas Carol, as Kermit speaks to his family after Tiny Tim's passing.  I suppose it is a rather practical way of looking at life and death. Still, it speaks to me.

This past week a friend I worked with passed away. I hadn't seen him in many years, as he had retired, but he was a great friend, and fun to work with. I learned a great deal from him. He was a good Christian man, a patriot, very smart, and most of all a friend.

I am sad to have parted ways with Warren Mercer.  I look forward to the day when we meet again in heaven.

My prayers go out to his family and friends.

Please, God, bless!

 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” John 14:1-4

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

No Tears

Day 196:  147 students were killed 4 days ago at a University in Garissa, Kenya.  Students in a prayer meeting saw the barrel of a gun, then young woman leading the prayer lay dead.  Systematically, the Muslim terrorists went through the dorm, singling out the Christians, killing them with no mercy. Their killers mocked the dead lying in a sea of blood.  They laughed, pleased with their callous, disregard for life.

How sad that our country has had such minimal response!  How sad that many recent incidents similar in nature go unnoticed!  The kidnapped Christians in Syria!  The Christian girls kidnapped by Boko Harom.  How sad that we fail to acknowledge this cult of hate for what it is!  How sad that we continue our daily lives without tears for such acts!

Pray for the brethren.  Pray for those suffering for Christ.  Pray for the families of those killed because they believed.

Pray for our complacency, and that we never grow accustomed to such heinous acts of evil.

Please, God, bless!

“My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.” Psalm 119:50

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Big Numbers!

Day 195:  "Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed. And he said to them, "Do not be amazed; you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen; He is not here; behold, here is the place where they laid Him."   Mark 16:5-6


Conservative estimates say that over 300 prophecies have been recorded in the Bible regarding the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus; he fulfilled all of them with complete accuracy.  This is staggering if you consider the odds of all them being fulfilled by one man--1 chance in 10 to the 157th power!  This is a HUGE number! How huge?  We cannot comprehend. Lets look at a more conservative example.  Winning the powerball lottery.  The odds are 1 in 175 million (or 1.75 x 10 to the 8th power).  Here is how one statistician,Ronald L Wasserstein describes this comparatively meager probability:

"Here is an example I have used in classrooms all over the country, and it is way more fun than thinking about being struck by lightning! Imagine 175 million freshly minted one-dollar bills are being delivered to my house near Washington, D.C. One of those dollar bills is specially marked as the "lucky dollar bill." You get to pick a dollar bill, and if you happen to pick the lucky dollar bill, you win all the dollar bills.

A straightforward mathematical calculation using the dimensions of a dollar bill reveals it will take two semi-trailers to deliver the 175,000,000 dollar bills to my house. Once these arrive, they will have to be unloaded, of course, so you will have a fair chance to pick the lucky dollar bill. So, we will lay them out end to end. How long will that line of dollar bills go?

If we start from my house, we'll have enough dollar bills to go all the way south to Disney World in Orlando. Then we'll still have enough to go clear across the country to Disneyland! But, even then, we are not out of dollar bills, so we can go north and make it all the way to Portland, Oregon. Still, we have dollar bills, enough to make it all the way east to Portland, Maine. And, fortunately, we'll have enough to make it back to my house near DC, completing the loop.

Do we have any dollars bills left? Yes! We would still have enough dollar bills to go all the way around the loop a second time!

Now imagine that you walk, bike or drive for as long as you want around the double loop, and when you decide to stop, you stoop over and pick up one dollar bill. Your chance of selecting the lucky dollar bill is one in 175 million, the same as your chance of winning the Powerball jackpot!"

So, how big is 10 to the 157th power?  Walid Shoebat describes it like this

Let us try to illustrate this number using electrons... Electrons are very small objects. They are smaller than atoms. It would take 2.5 times 10 to the 15th power of them, laid side by side, to make one inch. Even if we counted four electrons every second and counted day and night, it would still take us 19 million years just to count a line of electrons one-inch long.

How many electrons would there be if we were dealing with 10 to the 157th power of electrons?

Imagine building a solid ball of electrons that would extend in all directions from the earth of 6 billion light years. The distance in miles of just one light year is 6.4 trillion miles. That would be a big ball! But not big enough to measure 10 to the 157th power of electrons! In order to do that, you must take that big ball of electrons reaching the length of 6 billion light years long in all directions and multiply it by 6 x 10 to the 28th power! How big is that? It's the length of the space required to store trillions and trillions and trillions of the same gigantic balls and more. In fact the space required to store all of these balls combined together would just start to "scratch the surface" of the number of electrons we would need to really accurately speak about 10 to the 157th power!

Assuming you have some idea of the number of electrons we are talking about; imagine marking just one of those electrons in that huge number. Stirring them all up. Then appointing one person to travel in a rocket for as long as he wants, anywhere he wants to go. Now tell him to stop the rocket, segment a part of space, take a high-powered microscope, and find that one marked electron. What do you think his chances of being successful would be? It would be one in 10 to the 157th power. 

I believe my faith is reasonable.  I believe my Bible is True. I believe in the Risen Christ, who came, died, and rose again to save me!

Please, God, bless!

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Easter Puppy

Day 194:  It was an exciting day, as we welcomed a new puppy into our family.  Lucy is a 6 month old basset, and just as cute as can be.  She and big sister Dari get along great.  Both are worn out! She definitely injects new life into our little family.

This Easter I remember the One who gave me new life, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Happy Easter, from the our family and Easter pup!

Please, God, bless!

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead..." 1 Peter 1:3

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

The Rooster's Crow

Day 193: It is so easy to be an "armchair expert", isn't it? Whenever the Olympics come around, everyone is an expert on gymnastics or ice skating.  "She really blew that landing...did you see that bobble?" Or during a football game, "How could he MISS that?"

It's easy to get into that mode when we read the about Peter, and how he vehemently told our Lord how he would never deny Him. Then the guards came, and Jesus willingly went with them. The disciples scattered. Peter went to the courtyard and was warming himself by the fire, and he did it. He denied Yeshua, not once, but 3 times. And the rooster crowed.

We shake our heads. What a shame....how could he deny our Lord?

But, are we any different? How many times do we keep quiet when the Lord asks us to speak?  How many times do we sin again, after begging for forgiveness? How often do we give our time to our personal entertainment, and leave the Lord alone in a chair, waiting to meet with his beloved child?

I am as guilty as Peter. The rooster's crow may be something different for each of us, but whatever it is, it should slap us back to reality The reality that nothing--no, NOTHING--is more important in this life than our devotion to the one who took our blame, our punishment for our sins, and bore the torture and spiritual fury as he was brutally beaten, desecrated, and nailed into a tree, to hang and die covered in blood which he shed for us.

"Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know the man!” Just then a rooster crowed. Peter remembered the words of Jesus when he said, “Before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went outside and cried bitterly." Mt 26:74–75 ISV

Please, God, bless!

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

The Truth About Potatoes?

Day 192:  I tend to be a skeptic by nature.  I question everything, it seems.  I like to know the logic, the rationale, the business case for any argument or decision point.  I like to see evidence-real evidence! Not the "death by power-point" or "truth-by-soundbite" gobbledygook that is so prevalent in society today.  Yes...today,

• a time when the media is overtly biased, slave to many agendas and real news is filtered; 

•  a time when celebr-idiots tweet their "expert opinions" on politics, relationships, character, etc. and it is taken as gospel truth by followers; 

• a time when people believe whatever they see on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media outlets;

• a time when people believe they can define "Truth" as it best suits them.

And so on.....  Deception is rampant.  It is hard to know what to believe. Truth is not relative, not subjective, and has no biases--it just is what it is.  Unfortunately, discovering Truth takes time, energy and effort.

Lets take nutrition as an example. Potatoes? Good for you or bad? It depends on which fad diet book you read. You can pick up 10 different such books, and half will site "scientific" studies that say potatoes are bad, while the other half will site "scientific" studies that say potatoes are good. The Truth is muddled in hypothesis, some isolated studies, and gimmicks and tricks that will sell the book. If you want to know the Truth about the health benefits/detractors of a potato, you will need to spend some time and do your own research to find out if a potato is good for you or bad for you. That may mean reading many diet books of opposing opinions, reviewing the "evidence", independent research, the context of sited studies, etc. 

As I read the headlines, watch world events, observe the decay of our country's moral compass, watch how pride, ignorance, and self are paraded as idols, the increase of evil and depravity in every facet of society, and a blatant revulsion for those not in alignment with politically correct or mainstream media thinking, it is very evident to me that the days are dark. Now is the time when we should be seeking Truth.

I have had conversations with many folks over the years about the Bible, and whether or not it is True.  I believe it is True, and I believe it can be proven.  The evidence is overwhelmingly there.

Many choose not to seek Biblical Truth.  Many don't like what the Bible says.  Many pull words or historical recordings of events from the Bible out of context.  Many read a book or article challenging the Bible and believe it.  And the list continues...  But after some time in discussion I find that most do not believe it simply because they do not want to; they want to be free to live life as they please.

Unfortunately our wants and desires do not sway Truth. Truth just is. Truth demands a choice-believe it, or don't.  There is no half-way. So, to mimic the Grail Knight in Raiders of the Lost Ark, "Choose wisely. For as the (Truth) will bring you life, the false (Truth) shall take it from you."

 Please, God, bless!

"So, as with the food you eat, have you really sought out the Truth as it relates to God?  If you haven't, I pray that you will. First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us  by saying, “What happened to the Messiah’s promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation.”  ....Don’t forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day. The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to repent." 2 Pet 3:3-4, 8–9 ISV 

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.

Real Peace

Day 191: 

 Peace.  

Activists cry for it...  

Churches pray for it...  

Governments call for it...  

Soldiers fight for it. .. 

Musicians sing about it...  

People drink to it...  

Hippies greet with it. 

Children symbolize it... 

Evil capitalizes on it.

Peace--real peace--will never be a reality. 

There will always be someone whose pride will respond to the temptation of Power. Power does not like peace.  Power hungers, craving more control, more domination, more selfish pleasure.  

Only with Jesus can we know real Peace in this life.  Only when Jesus comes, will there be real Peace on earth.  

 Please, God, bless!

"I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." John 16:33 ESV

Inspired by "365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life!" I decided I should be more conscientious of my creative side. I chose to modify this one year challenge (9/23/14-9/24/15) to create something each day that would also force me to focus my perspective on a Godly world-view.