With God Nothing Is Impossible!

This has been a very creative brain stimulating week - starting with an amazing worship service last Sunday evening, a reading group meeting on Monday night, and then my writing group on Tuesday night. My husband and I listened to a really interesting man named William Lane Craig speak via podcast last night and tonight I just needed to rest - a little.

Now, I need to share back in blog world. It's not that I don't have something to say. I just don't have enough time to write it. However, I have to make time, because someone needs to be encouraged and someone needs to turn from the path they are on, and someone needs to laugh or make a different choice - and I have to do my part by writing my life and sharing it, so that maybe I can help somebody avoid my mistakes or recover from mistakes that I can uniquely understand or empathize with.

I need to ration my time a little more carefully. And, I need to be in the moment as much as possible when I am with people I love - especially my husband. I want every moment in my life to count towards good. I know that this is virtually impossible, but I can still want it. "For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfillment."
(Luke 1:37 AMP)

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God bless America!

Memorial Day

This is a weekend during which we specifically give thanks for and remember those people who laid down their lives on behalf of the citizens of this country. Those service men and women made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might live in peace and safety. They shed their blood to protect the values that we in this country hold so dear and precious: the pursuit of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. To honor them, we must honor those values that they sacrificed to protect.

Life
The value of all human life is a fundamental principle that drove the founding of this country. To behave or legislate otherwise is to violate this principle. Every institution in this country has the mandate to protect individual's lives - hospitals, schools, churches and government. Even prisons are under this mandate - prisoners on death row are cared for and protected until the moment that they must pay the penalty - and that penalty was designed to protect other human lives. In this country, we also go out of our way to protect the lives of those who cannot protect their own or who are more vulnerable members of our society such as the disabled and children. But we still have a long way to go. Many unborn children and many immigrants seeking refuge have a precarious existence, yet.

Liberty
To live together in freedom is an ideal protected by amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Women and people of different ethnic backgrounds and races have been declared by this country to own the right of liberty. That precious commodity guarantees freedom of speech, religion, and discussion in groups. It also affirms that the citizens of this country will not be vindictively, carelessly or arbitrarily locked in jail, nursing homes, mental institutions, etc. or held in bondage in any way.

Pursuit of Happiness
This country believes that individuals' dreams and visions are essential to the well-being of the nation. What a marvelous encouragement this is! This concept has served as a beacon attracting families, entrepreneurs, dreamers, inventors, creators and builders to this country since its founding. In fact, we in this country believe that the pursuit of happiness alleviates poverty, depression and tyrany: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..."

This weekend, let's honor the values fought for, as well those who fought. And, let's not be stingy in sharing our values. Let's get back to being a world leader by the good example of living as if we believe in our values.

Saturdays!!!

What a lovely day of the week! The weather is warm (although a bit damp) and the day is free. What a delightful day to rest and recover - funny how God designed it to be that way - the sabbath.

Enjoy your Saturdays and may they be many!

National Take Your Child to Work Day

What a joy to see all the parents who took their children to work with them today! What a wonderful opportunity to sow good seeds into the next generation–not only to show them what Mom or Dad does all day and where, but to inspire kids to take on the challenges of leading their generation. Workers are leaders. They have a vested interest in ensuring that life has a certain level of security. And, they control a large part of the wealth of the country because they earn it and manage it. So, investing in developing a good attitude towards work is one of the best gifts a parent can give a child.

Working for a Lawyer

What a pleasure to learn new shades of meaning to God's law by learning more about how men's laws work.

Josh. 22:5 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Psalm 119:97 Amplified Bible
Oh, how love I Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 119:113 English Standard Version
Samekh I hate the double-minded,but I love your law.

Psalm 119:136 Amplified Bible
Streams of water run down my eyes, because men do not keep Your law [they hear it not, nor receive it, love it, or obey it].

Psalm 119:163 New American Standard Bible
I hate and despise falsehood,But I love Your law.

Psalm 119:165 Amplified Bible
Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble.

Proverbs 28:4 The Message
If you desert God's law, you're free to embrace depravity; if you love God's law, you fight for it tooth and nail.