Walking in faith and not by sight...

   Hello my family in Christ. I hope that all of you are in strong and good health. I want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and tell you that I pray for you and love you because you chose to love me first. This is straight out of the bible where it states that we love God because he loves us first.....

   I had a good day at church on sunday. I have been attending this new church and it has been very uplifting. My kids actually like it and they have daycare services for the little ones. My grandaughter loves it by the way.... It has been hard to take her home because she does not want to leave. I guess she is playing with kids her age and they have a sorts of things for them to do.
  The segment that I have been attending this month at this church was called Masquerade. It had a different message that was given by this pastor every week.
                 Part 1 was Hiding from God. It shows how we all try to hide from God but do not realize he sees all. In the bible in the book of Genesis, it was known that Adam and Eve hid from God after they ate from the apple. When God called Adam he was hiding behind the bushes because he was ashamed. I believe he was regretful of what he had done and not so much the fact that now he has realized that he was naked.
                Part. 2 Self Deception:  I am number one for this. In life when someone asks us how are we doing we tend to pretend everything is ok. Even to ourselves.I have a bad habit of not admitting to anyone when things are going wrong.  There was a saying and it reads " Th longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth"....
 Easy way out of self deception read Psalm 139 :23-24... It reads per the KJV bible "Search me o' God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Second Listen to others and listen to God as he speaks to you through the Holy spirit. And three change your way. Confess to yourself that everything really is not alright. Ask others to pray for you. You do not have to tell anyone your personal business but you can ask someone to just pray for you for strength.
              Part 3: Hiding your sins..... This was one of my favorite part of the 5 part series. We all believe that just because we did not get caught doing something , we can hide that sin. When we sin we only have to choices. One is to conceal our sin and the second is to confess our sin. Remember in Proverbs 28:13 it reads that He that coverth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.  We also read in Psalm 51 where King David was discover for commiting adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed so that they can hide that sin that they had committed. He wrote this Psalm to God asking for mercy and forgiveness, and it reads " Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. " It does not matter when you sin as long as you confess to God and ask for strengthening.

 I will continue with the rest on my next blog. But it is meaningful to me and I just wanted to share this with you. Hope to write to you soon. God bless everyone.. Have a great day ...

A Joke for you

  I am so sorry that it has been so long since my last entry. I want to say that all , I hope that you have has a blessed month and the best in health. I do not know about all of you and were you live but here in Pennsylvania we are overwhelmed with lots of rain. I am just grateful that we are not flooded like those other states. It is such a tragedy to see. I just feel like I have to pray harder for these people that are loosing everything but as a true christian I believe that God will provide them with something better than they originally had.It's the blessing after the storm.
  On another note, I lost approximately 7 pounds (YEAAAAAAH).
Today is the 20th of May and about 22 years ago and 36 hours of labor later, I had a child. My first born daughter. She is 22 today. It is helping me see all the years that I have been under God's protection. Happy Birthday Jessie.

A Joke for All

   This is suppose to be a true story..."The Houston Herald Newspaper" in Houston, Texas, reported this

        Last thursady night around midnight , a woman from Houston, Texas was arrested, jailed and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6 times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
  The following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the Arraignment Judge, Sworn in, and asked to explain her actions.
  The woman replied, " I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work. I am a waitress at a local cafe.... I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol that was in my purse, that was hung over my left shoulder.
  All of a sudden, I was being spun around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away from me with my purse. I looked down at my right hand and I saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol. The next thing I remember is saying out loud, " No way Punk! You're not stealing my paycheck and tips!" I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away from me with my purse, and squeezed the trigger of my pistol six times.
   When asked by the Arraignment Judge, "Why did you shoot the man six times?"
The woman replied under oath, " Because , when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went click."
 The woman was acquitted of all charges. She was back at work, at the cafe , the next day.
   Now That's Gun Control!!!!!

Bible study among friends

  Hello to everyone and I hope that all your days are well. I want to thank my heavenly father for another wonderful opportunity to be able to fellowship with other friends. None of us go to the same church but we use to. We venture to different places. We had all started in the same teaching ministry but, found our way to different places to worship. Nonetheless, we found each other as friends and family and christ and were able to set up a day for our bible study. I had been wanting to have a bible study session amongst friends and finally we had one. I can tell you it was wonderful.I have to thank my God for allowing this to happen. We had been trying to get together for quite some time. We all started off with a wonderful snack. Thank you Mother Mary ( no she is not a nun) for allowing us to have our studies in your home. It was wonderful and for feeding us and treating us like family.
 We statred reading from the begginning. Genesis chapter 1-4. We had review how wonderful our lord made our world . We also took in acknowledgement that in biblical times our day actually statred at night for in Genesis 1:5 it say and I quote " and God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And  the evening and and the morning were the first day. This indicated to us and our searching that the days as we know it actually were man made clocks and not biblical. Reason for our conclusion.
I am so looking foward to next weeks bible study. I pray that we get just as much insight as we did last week. Until then be safe ,be blessed ,and be humble .



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Happy 2nd Birthday Jenelle

 This is a beautiful day. Today I celebrated Jenelle's birthday. I have not had a party for a child in so long , I had forgotten how tired it can make you.

 

                          

My beautiful angel of a grandaughter that I was blessed with. 

    I thank the Lord everyday that I am around to help in raising my grandaughter. Although my daughter those the best that she can and tries very hard, there is always something that we forget. So I am lucky and blessed to be here for her and able to help with all aspects of my granchild up bringing.

    It is a lot of work and time and patience. God knows patience. 

This weekend was a little gathering for this precious grandchild and it was very tiresome. It has been so long since I had a gathering for a child. Now I see why . It felt like a tornado was about to approach and no matter how you thought you had prepared for it , it just was not good enough to handle the storm. Kids are just naturally hyper and I guess I am getting old.It was a great time had by all. We had attempted to grill outside and immediately had took notice that the weather was not going to let us so we had to take the outside grilling , inside. We cooked and finish grilling. Thank goodness for the foreman grill and the griddle. Everything was made in no time . We all ate and rested while the kids played and then it was time for the pinata. let's just say OMG. Confetti everywhere. Kids sliding and my grandaughter in the middle trying to taste confetti. Then we cut this huge cake...Bye- bye diet..

But she is worth it. God bless you...

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My grandaughters 2nd Birthday.............

    Thank you Lord for this special day and for blessing us with another day on this earth.

A Newborn

At 1 year old...

Today is my grandaughters 2nd birthday. I can not believe how fast time is going by. She is so sweet. In a year she has mature so much. Just to think next year she is going to start head start. On sat. we will have a gathering for her little friends can come and enjoy cake and some ice cream. I will include photos of what she looks like now at 2 on a later blog. God bless everyone and have a good night..




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