Backslidden

Hello Blogworld!
Its been a long time but some of my sister are forcing me back into blogland. They are refusing to Facebook and writing all their interesting stuff on their blogs....its making me want to write again...well we'll just see how long this lasts...Lol

I have been backslidden from blogging for quite some time. Either I haven't had the time, nor anything to say or just so caught up in my world that I have no coherent thoughts...maybe that is changing a bit...or not...as I said, we shall see.

I was just recently preached a sermon by Mark Hall of Casting Crowns...it was from their new album called Come to the Well. He (being the Lord) spoke clearly to me...He said "What well are you drawing from? The well of your past experiences....the well of your failures...the well of your successes...how about the well of your spirituality? and how's that working for you?
I saw so clearly that I have been drawing ..for quite some time, from all of those wells...and that those were all fine and dandy sources of living water once up on a time... but in reality...as Mark Hall said...now really just holes in the ground.....drawing from those will guarantee that I will be thirsty again....Living water is my only hope...and there is only one source for that.....I need fresh and new living water from the Living Well every day..all the time...no matter how grand the old "wells" may have been...they are just that...OLD...
So here's to getting unbackslidden (is that a word?) and remembering how to draw from the Living Well that springs up inside....Maybe some living water will spill over into my blog...who knows...

So Excited!

Blue Like Jazz...the movie! Hope it makes the grade..the book was good.

SchoolTube - Home of the Brave!

This is awesome! Hope your 4th was great!

SchoolTube - Home of the Brave!

This moment...the house of God.

Written by a friend of mine but a perfect prayer for me.....

Lord, I really don't want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy, and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done - yesterday.

I have discovered that I slow the torrent of time by being all here and giving thanks. I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment (which is You). And when I'm always looking for the next glimpse of glory, I slow and enter, and time slows. I weigh down this moment in time with attention full, and the whole of time's river slows, slows, slows. And blind eyes see. It's this sleuthing for the glory that slows a life gloriously. In this space of time I am attentive, aware, accepting the whole of the moment, weighing it down with me all here. Full attention fills the empty ache.

Is this thanksgiving the way to that elusive fullest life, the one that lives in the moment?

This is where God is. In the present. I AM - His very name. I want to take my shoes off. I AM, so full of the weight of the present, that time's river slows to a still... and God Himself is timeless. I hardly breathe and I may never wear shoes again. Make every moment a cathedral giving glory... I am Jacob and the Lord is in this place and I was not aware of it (Gen28:16).

Thanks makes a place for God. I take my vows: I will not desecrate this moment with ignorant hurry or sordid ingratitude. I will be Jacob, and I will name this moment the "house of God" (Gen 28:19).

When I am present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. In His embrace, time loses all sense of speed and stress and space and stands so still and... holy. Here is the place I can love Him. This moment. I have time for God.

I hunger to taste the full life.

God.

Jbear says....

"So Easter is what makes Christmas important." Out of the mouth of babes.....
Happy Resurrection Day!!

Shoes

Thought some of you could appreciate my latest purchase/s.....LOL

Things I love....

I have been thinking of this for a long time and today I think I will begin...I want to do blog posts on "things I love" or things that make me smile or make life easier or what ever...you get the idea....maybe I will be able to keep up with it and maybe not..but today...on this long snow day in January..I am going to begin.
Today will include a couple of things....

1st...this girl...and her Great love for her "children"
this is a picture of her with her handicapped American Girl Doll, Emily. she has no arms, no legs and needed glasses desperately (which she received for Christmas). JBear is so accepting and loving of all of her "babies" and especially the handicapped ones...it just makes me smile. Soon Emily will travel to the American Girl hospital for an arm and leg transplant and return home to be almost as good as new...I can't wait!

2nd...Veggie Chili! My mom has discovered a recipe for Vegetable Chili which I Love! It is so easy and so healthy...I want her to make it every week! Of course we don't always get it made weekly, but today...on this cold and snowy day...Vegetable Chili is perfect!