Consider the lilies of the field… Matt 6:28
WHAT THEY HAVE DONE I DO
IT’S RECORDED IN THE BOOK
IT HAS DONE ME WELL TO READ AND HEED
THEIR HISTORY AND LOOK
THE SINS OF OTHERS’ BLESSED BY GOD
WHO TRIP AND FALL IN TESTS AND TRIALS
I READ ASTOUNDED BY GOLDEN CALVES
AND SHRINK AT APOSTLES’ DENIALS
ID, show your ID. Do you have your ID? Many of us are asked this each time we go to work. When we go to the bank, write a check or conduct just about any kind of business. Basically, our ID identifies our name, and sometimes shows our picture and other pertinent information related to identifying us.
How many times have you heard yourself, spouse, children or co-workers say “I am afraid I am losing my identity.” We are usually meaning individuality, personality, character, uniqueness, or ourselves in some way, we think and feel certain, that we know about ourselves. We even marry at times to make a sea of identity for ourselves. Our children whether it be good or bad will at times strike accord with others to believe and declare they have identified us, their parents. And, yes, even our Nation can at times identify us.
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Passage Matthew 10:33: Message “Stand up for me against world opinion and I’ll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I’ll cover for you?”
Vs. 5-10 NIV of the same chapter.NIV “…These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts; take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff; for the worker is worth his keep. Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy person there and stay at his house until you leave. As you enter the home, give it your greeting. If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorra on the day of judgment than for that town. I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain
This past weekend I met in Dallas, Texas with the team that is going to Uganda this summer. This was our first indepth planning session. And, my first time to meet most of the team. We sketched out the agenda for our stay. We will be working with the staff of an orphanage and the students for five days.
You may be supporting illegal immigration every time you use your check card, your credit card, pay your mortgage and everything else you do if you have any of these services with BANK OF AMERICA. Recently reported in the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, Bank of America has quietly been offering credit cards to illegal immigrants. If you have had an account with Bank of America for at least 3 months and you haven’t had an overdraft you can get a credit card. The thing about this is, and I have no idea how it is legal, the people getting the bank accounts and credit cards don’t have SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. What is going on?????? My first question is how are undocumented people getting bank accounts? The last time I opened an account I had to provide every piece of evidence I had to prove my identity and people are just being handed bank accounts and credit cards??? How is this happening.
How does Love Look?
Could it ever look like me?
When Love looks in the mirror
How does love see?
Does Love look with eyes of Compassion?
Does Love perceive with gentleness?
Is Love a form of comliness
Tall and stately righteousness
How does Love look?
Our little 13 year old lady did not want to go out in all this ice and snow that we are having on Valentine’s Day in the Washington, DC area. So I dressed her in sweater, booties, hat and she just stood and barked at me. So I undressed her and put her in my lunch basket on my pink bike and rolled her down the street.
Well, Diamond, our little lady certainly did like that. She, as well as our other family doggies, Shadow, Lily, Roxy, and Ranger would all like to say Happy Valentine’s Day to all The Lilies. By the way they all (other doggies) braved the cold, snow and ice without a glitch.
Some years ago I wrote this song and I have been going around singing it recently. It has a marching beat to give you an up and go attitude.
A friend of mine once told me to Jan-Feb. Her idea of this was jam all your indoor work into January and February so when the first signs of spring show up in March outdoors one could go. I think it a pretty neat idea but I am not much on this indoor drudgery work for two long months of cold weather with snow and ice. I have been singing and trying to stay in the now and appreciate the beauty of the snow. Well, that is the way it is in my area. How is the weather in your area?
Chorus:
Go forth, go forth ye servants of Zion!
Take every thought of your mind captive
And the battle of the bulge will go away
And the battle of the bulge will go away.
“FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
THAT HE GAVE
HIS ONLY
BEGOTTEN
SON
THAT WHO SO EVER
BELIEVETH IN HIM
SHOULD NOT PERISH,
BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.”
JOHN 3:16
See my blog below on “What is Love.”
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