WHAT IF?AND THE AARDVARK

Dear God,

Just wanted to drop you a line to apologize for all the times I have questioned you about the Aardvark.  I know it was not polite the way I laughed at this poor creature or often questioned what on earth you were thinking when you created it.  I have a better understanding today!

But you got to admit, that is one strange looking creature.

I had a "what if day" today.  Oh, not the bad kind where you second guess the past with no hope of changing it.  Or the self destructive what ifs where all your dreams are based on these past choices and you cannot move forward, because you are stuck in the what ifs of yesterday.

I had the kind of what if day that created the phone, the computer, electricity...etc....  Which brings me to my Aardvark.  It started out well, I am sure that if I had skipped 3 or 4 what ifs, it could have worked well, but alas like the Aardvark my what ifs sort of gotta away from me and took a life of their own. 

So yeah, I kinda get the Aardvark now!

Your Loving Daughter

Karen

PSALMS 144

Psalms chapter 144 King James Version


1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

On or around November 28th I was snatched from my home by a furry, four legged beast, stolen away from my mate! A kind woman took me from this beast before it could rip and devour me and placed me here so that I would be safe and hopefully if someone came looking I could be found and reunited with my sole mate.

Sadly, she failed to listen to the weather report, so here I sit, alone, cold, wet, with the rain pouring down on me. Bless her heart she tried to explain that this was really a blessing for the beast that stole me was not named Squirt for his size! She wants me to know that I am being washed and will soon be clean.

She claims to understand, how it feels to be alone and tells me of her soul mate Jesus, God who walked among men, who rescued her from being devoured by a beast and how without Him she too would be unclean, that he cleansed her of her sin, and that as with me, alone she has no strength but with her soul mate she too can offer comfort, warmth and love.

So if you recognize me, please take me home, for without my sole mate I too am lost....

MOVE

It's funny I have not thought about this in many years, but today as I was crocheting it was one of the many places my mind wondered to...

It was December 2002, a friend had told me that at The Villages Town Square they were having free rides on horse drawn carriages.  I knew this was something my daughter would enjoy, and something I was never able to afford.  So we went to the square and had been standing in line anticipating this ride, enjoying the sites, sounds and smells.

We were finally getting close just a couple more groups and it would be our turn, when suddenly I became ill, nervous, agitated, I KNEW we had to move, we could not wait we had to move.  I know people thought I was crazy as I struggled through the crowd, I did not care I knew we had to go to the other side of the square.

We got to the other side and I lost my agitation and was feeling silly for not waiting a few minutes to see if I would feel better, when we heard crashing, screams, saw people running in terror.  I was in shock, we rushed back to where we had just come from to see what had occurred, within a few feet of where my daughter and I had stood was a car, the driver had a seizure, crashed through barriers, killing two people and injuring 17 others.

Think what you want, but I KNOW that God touched me that night, my daughter and I may not have been hit by the car where we stood, we may not have been trampled by the crowd of terrified people running for their lives, but who knows what may have been had we stayed and not moved.

How often in your life and your faith walk do you ignore the call to MOVE.  How often has moving saved you or someone else whether it is their life or their soul.  When God tells me to move often I am reluctant and perhaps that is why I remembered this moment today, as a reminder when God says move, I better MOVE......

"I"

I really need to "try" to remember to bring paper and pen with me when I go outside to crochet.  It seems that these are the times God most often fills my mind with thoughts of my day, words spoken, written and read.  Somehow, through God's design I am sure, these thoughts intertwined today to become what follows.  Hope you enjoy my day!

I

WORDS

I

HAD

WRITTEN

THEY HAD

ALL

INTERTWINED

TO BECOME

WHAT

FOLLOWS

FROM

THE

JUMBLE OF

MY MIND

JUST BECAUSE

I

CANNOT SAVE

THE WORLD!

DOES THIS

MEAN

I

SHOULD

 NOT TRY!

JUST BECAUSE

I

MAY NOT

FIT IN!

DOES IT

MEAN

I

CANNOT

 BECOME

A PART

 OF

THE WHOLE

FOR IS

 IT

NOT TRUE,

THAT IF

NOT

FOR THE

ME'S

OF THIS

WORLD

THERE

WOULD BE

NO

" I's "

IN MEMORY, IN HONOR-FOR YOU

“I asked Jesus,

‘How much

do you

love me?’

And Jesus said, ‘

This much.’

Then He stretched

out His arms

and died.”

- Unknown

********************************

MY THOUGHTS

WERE OF YOU

TODAY

THE

 MEN AND WOMEN

WHO

HAVE FOUGHT

WHO HAVE

DIED

AS I SAT

 CROCHETING

A GIFT

FOR ONE WHO

SERVES TODAY

I CHOSE MY

COLOR

FOR THE

SORROW

YOUR LOVED

ONES FEEL

FOR THE

LOSS

OF YOU

FOR THE

MEN AND WOMEN

TO WHOM

THIS GIFT

GOES

KNOWING IT

WILL ABSORB

THE LIGHT

AND

LIKE THE

LIGHT OF

JESUS

WILL

PROTECT YOU

IN THE

NIGHT

I

THOUGHT OF

THE NAM

VETS

WHO CAME

BACK HOME

TO ABUSE

AND

RIDICULE

AND HOW

THEY

STILL

HAVE NOT

RECEIVED THE

HONOR

THEY ARE

DUE!

 I

CROCHETED

WITH MY

HANDS, NO

THOUGHTS OR PLANS

FINALLY I

WAS THROUGH

I

 LAID OUT

THIS CREATION

MADE

WITH

THOUGHTS

AND PRAYERS

OF YOU

I WAS

STUNNED

TO SEE

A WREATH

FOR THOSE

WHO DIED

A TRIANGLE

FOR

THE FATHER

THE SON

AND

HOLY GHOST

AND

A CROSS

FOR

JESUS

WHO WALKS

AT

YOUR

SIDE

Our Greatest Gift

Atheism



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Atheism, in a broad sense, is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.


ATHEIST,

I woke this morning thinking of God's love, how blessed I am.  I seem to be running across many professed atheist lately, spreading their hate and anger on the pages of believers.  Lashing out at people they do not know,  their words meant to hurt, to cause doubt, to make people of faith question their beliefs.

I have prayed and asked God why, what is this need that drives them to search out people of faith.  I just could not understand such a driving need in them that they feel compelled time after time to attack people of faith.  I was at a loss, I have never felt the need to try to force my belief on anyone.  I certainly know that people need to know my God, the love of Jesus and the sacrifice He made for us...  I think that perhaps more than anyone out there they need to know that they are not to far gone for redemption, that the same God that loves and forgives me will also forgive them. 

They cannot confuse or move people of faith for what we feel for them is love.  We see the lost soul, crying out in need, searching not really to condemn us, but feeling their own condemnation and reaching out to the warmth of the love that they can see in us, but like the children they are they lash out in anger because we have what they want but fear they never will have.

KAREN'S DEFINITION OF AN ATHEIST:  Atheist are people who feel their sins are so great, that they cannot believe any God could forgive them, who lash out in anger and fear, at others who have what they fear can never be theirs.

We should love these people, reach out to them in love, let them know that we see the confusion behind their words of anger, the fear.  Let them know that they too can know the love we have, that no sin is to great to overcome the love Jesus has for them. 

Our greatest gift is Love!