Anniversary

Day 290: Today I celebrated the day I married my sweetheart. So, here is my quick doodle for the day so I can back to spending the day with the husband God gave me. Happy Anniversary, Danny!

Please, God, bless!

"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her," Eph 5:25

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.

Portobello Tacos

Day 289:  I had an interesting lunch today.  A gal pal and I took off to enjoy an afternoon meal together.  The waiter came over and told us about the daily specials.  Grouper, blah.....crab cakes, too much food...portobello mushroom tacos....hmmm, I can get with that! Not too light, not too heavy, just right!

As my lunch was served, I noted to my friend that these were some strange looking mushrooms.  As I ate it I noted it didn't really taste like a mushroom.  I was trying to describe what it tasted like, something familiar, and when I was about 2/3 of the way through it dawned on me...the waiter said pork belly not portobello! No wonder I tasted bacon! Egads!  It was good, so I'm not complaining, but it was a lot heavier meal than I was expecting for lunch. Note to self, always double check the recited specials when in a loud restaurant.

My portobello taco incident reminded me of how careful we need to be about what we hear, and I thought it a lesson especially relevant in regard to God's Word. Rom 10:17 says:

"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."

If we want our faith to be sound, we need to ensure that what we think we heard was really what was said.  I tell my son, the Word ALWAYS agrees with the Word. Those who say otherwise are just skimming the surface...kind of like looking at a calm peaceful water and thinking it is safe to swim in. Meanwhile alligators lurk beneath the surface! When we find an apparent contradiction, that means we should dig deeper, and see what lies beneath the surface.  We will find that what we thought was a contradiction was a treasure of Truth.

Be wary of attempts to rationalize away minor details that don't seem to fit with the Word.  After all, it only takes 1 degree to set a boat off course.  A false faith can still be a really strong faith. But if what we heard is false, then we are living a lie and we don't even know it! Don't accept a fit for 9 out of 10 verses. If you do, you may be setting yourself off-course!

Be a Berean...always, always, always seek the Truth.

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.

Just Smile

Day 288: Some days are so crazy, you just have to smile......yyyyyyuuuup!

Please, God, bless!

"A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health."  Prov 15:30

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.

Don't Complain

Day 287:  My hubby amazes me sometimes.  He isn't really the complaining type.  Especially when it comes to work or a task he needs to do.  When he's on the job and has to do grunt duty, he just rolls with it. I remember years ago he had to work job control, and do the work of 2 people while the other staff member took leave without pay to keep her benefits, and worked another full time job.  He wasn't happy about it, but he didn't spend all day, every day grumbling and complaining about his unfair working circumstance.  He just did it.  When drama is swirling all around him, he just does his thing, refusing to be a part of it. I made sure to tell my son of his example, in hopes he will be more like him.  

Please, God, bless!

"Do everything without complaining or arguing."  Phil 2:14

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.

Be Kind

Day 286:  Some days it just makes sense to show someone an act of kindness.  Maybe you know someone's struggles.  Maybe God just prompts your heart to act. In any case, listen when hearts cry out for encouragement, comfort, or forgiveness.

Please, God, bless!

"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." Ephesians 4:32 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.

Just Turn on the Light!

Day 285:  Another devotion inspiration from Anne Graham Lotz.

"Moths, in the midst of the darkness, are not attracted to more darkness. They are attracted to the light.

People today, living in the midst of “darkness,” are not attracted to more darkness; they are attracted to the Light. So let your Light shine! Lift it high! You don’t have to have a clever presentation to your witness or learn evangelistic formulas or take a course on communicating to postmodern man. For heaven’s sake, just turn on the Light!"  --Anne Graham Lotz

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Please, God, bless!

"You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light." Eph 5:8, NKJV

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.

Pray for Our Nation

Day 284:  

Happy 4th of July!

Please, God, bless!

"...if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." 2 Chron 7:14

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.

Our Declaration of Independence

Day 283: Tomorrow is the 4th of July, the day when we commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  In this revolutionary document, our nation's founding fathers' cited the grievances against the King of Great Britain.  So, while we enjoy the festivities normally associated with the holiday with a light heart, it may be wise to take a moment to recall the reasons why America became a free nation.

"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these states
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Please, God, bless!

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." 2 Cor 3:17

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.

Finally Caught The Show

Day 282: Today I was 14 again, as I FINALLY got to see a band I didn't get to see in concert at the time.  It was fun to rocket back in time, to the days of my big hair, and get to have that experience, even tho it is decades later.

Please, God, bless!

"Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth."   Ecc 11:9a

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.

A Guide in the Jungle

Day 281: From Anne Graham Lotz's "Joy of my Heart":

"During the Vietnam War, a story was reported about a paratrooper who had been air-dropped into the jungle and couldn’t find his way out. A native guide had to be sent into the jungle to find the lost man then lead him safely to his base. The guide became the man’s way to safety-his “way home.” In the same manner, Jesus is “God’s Guide,” heaven-dropped into the world to lead lost sinners safely “Home.”"

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Please, God, bless!

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

John 14:6, NIV 

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.