TO DREAM

I am a dreamer both in my sleeping hours and while awake.  I love being a dreamer, even though often my dreams are,  just dreams.  God never promised he would make all my dreams come true, he promised to look out for me, to lead me in the path He has planned for my life.

I have had moments where I ranted, raved, and just generally pitched a tantrum when God did not see fit to grant one of my dreams-life...  But like any good parent God has shown me that sometimes the dream was not in my best interest, was not the direction my path was going. 

It is only in following God's path, His will, His way, that dreams I thought were to big to dream, dreams I did not even dream, have been given to me. 

So follow your dreams, but listen to God, He will never lead you astray!

The following link inspired my thoughts of dreams.  His words of encouragement are great and well worth your time to read.  I dream someday of being able to inspire others through my words as he does through his.............

http://mjharvell.com/2010/10/27/are-you-a-dreamer/

SEEDS

SEEDS

I AM A GARDENER

OF NO GREAT

NOTE

SEEDS I PLANT

OFTEN

WITH NO

THOUGHT

THEN IN SURPRISE

ONE DAY

I SEE

A

LOVELY PLANT

GROWN

FROM

A SEED

GOD

WATERED FOR

ME

TODAYS JOURNEY

I TOOK

A TRIP TODAY

DOWN

MEMORY LANE

IT WAS A

WINDING JOURNEY

WITH STOPS

HERE

AND

THERE

WHAT SWEET

JOY CAN BE

FOUND IN

THE

PAST

BUT,

 I

WOULD

NOT WANT

TO

 LIVE THERE

IT SEEMS THAT TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE CONTEMPLATIVE DAYS FOR ME.  IT IS ONE OF THOSE DAY'S WHERE I FEEL SO CALM, PEACEFUL AND HAVE SUCH A QUIET JOY WITHIN.

IT IS HARD TO DESCRIBE THESE DAY'S TO NON-BELIEVERS AS WELL AS SOME BELIEVERS.  I DON'T KNOW IF SOME PEOPLE WHO PROFESS TO HAVE FAITH IN GOD, IF THEY JUST WERE NOT GIVEN THE GIFT OF PEACE OR IF SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY THEY GOT LOST.

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I WAS THINKING OF WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS YOUNG AND WE WOULD TAKE WHAT I CALLED LEFT OR RIGHT TURN ONLY TRIPS.  WE WOULD USUALLY BE HEADING HOME FROM SOMEWHERE SINCE WE ALWAYS RAN LATE GOING PLACES.

THE ONLY RULE TO THESE TRIPS IS THAT YOU HAVE TO PICK EITHER LEFT OR RIGHT TURNS ONLY AND STICK TO THAT TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.

ON ONE OF THESE TRIPS WE WERE COMING HOME FROM UNIVERSAL STUDIOS DOING ONLY RIGHT TURNS.  I HAD TO PULL INTO A MALL PARKING LOT TO TRY AND WORK MY WAY AROUND TO THE RIGHT TURN I NEEDED.

I HAD NOTICED A SUV FOLLOWING US AND IT FOLLOWED US INTO THE PARKING LOT.  I AM GLAD IT WAS DARK AND THEY COULD NOT SEE MY DAUGHTER AND I LAUGHING OUR FOOL HEADS OFF AT THESE POOR PEOPLE WHO AFTER ABOUT THE THIRD TIME AROUND THE PARKING LOT FIGURED OUT THAT US HAVING A FLORIDA TAG DID NOT MEAN THEY COULD FOLLOW US TO THE INTERSTATE.

I USED TO SIT IN CHURCH AND WONDER WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.  YOU KNOW THE ONE'S WHOSE FAMILY HAS ALWAYS GONE THERE, ALWAYS GONE TOGETHER.  THE ONES WHO KNOW EVERYONE AND SEEM SO MUCH BETTER AT THIS WHOLE BEING A GOOD CHRISTIAN THAN I...

MY UPBRINGING IN CHURCH CONSISTED OF WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT MY MOTHER WOULD GET US UP AND DRESSED, FLAG DOWN THE CHURCH BUS AND SEND US OFF SO SHE COULD HAVE A FEW CHILDLESS HOURS ALONE.  THERE WERE NEVER ANY OF THOSE MOMENTS WHERE YOU SIT WITH YOUR CHILD NEXT TO YOU, ABSORBING THE SERMON, WHILE STROKING YOUR CHILD'S HAIR.  NOT A PITY PARTY JUST THE TRUTH.

I ENVIED THESE PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME, ASKING GOD WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THEM.  WHY WAS I NOT DESERVING OF THIS, WHY DID MY FAITH WALK ALWAYS HAVE TO BE THE HARD WAY.

NOW, I WONDER WHY GOD HAS BLESSED ME WITH SO MUCH.  WITH A FAITH WALK THAT HAS GIVEN SUCH STRENGTH, SO MUCH PEACE AND JOY.  I WONDER NOW IF THESE PEOPLE STEEPED IN TRADITION OF GENERATIONS, IF THEY KNOW THE PEACE AND JOY I HAVE.  IF WITHOUT THE STRUGGLES THEY SEE THE BLESSINGS.

ONLY GOD KNOWS AND THAT IS BETWEEN THEM, NOT FOR ME TO JUDGE.  WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT LIKE THE TRIPS WITH MY DAUGHTER OUR JOURNEYS, OUR FAITH WALKS, ARE UNIQUE.

GOD HAS A PLAN MADE ESPECIALLY FOR EACH OF US, TRYING TO FOLLOW SOMEONE WHO SEEMS TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING IS A LOT LIKE THE SUV THAT FOLLOWED US THAT NIGHT.

THEY HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT

WE WERE ON A RIGHT

TURN ONLY JOURNEY.

WE WERE FOLLOWING

OUR PATH, SET JUST FOR US.

OUR JOURNEYS MAY BE DIFFERENT

SOME EASY, SOME HARD

BUT THEY ARE ALL

PRICELESS

TO US.

AND

THEY ALL

LEAD US

HOME

1 Corinthians 13

12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I love these verses esp the 12th verse.  We shall all be known someday for who we really are not as the worlds sees us but as God knows us....  I can only speak for myself, but I want the heart that is me to be judged as loving and kind, sometimes it may not seem that way to others.  But I fear not for God knows where my heart is and what is my truth.  His judgement is the only judgement I seek.

1 Corinthians 13

1) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.


2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.


3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.


4) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,


5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;


6) Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;


7) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.


8) Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.


9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.


10) But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.


11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

GOD'S SONG

PSALMS 23 (KJV)

The LORD Is My Shepherd

The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

 He maketh me to lie down

 in green pastures:

he leadeth me

beside the still waters. 

He restoreth my soul:

He leadeth me

 in the paths of

righteousness

for His name's

 sake.

Yea, though I walk

through

 the valley of

 the shadow of death,

 I will fear no evil:

for thou art with me;

thy rod and thy staff

they comfort me. 

Thou preparest a table

before me in the

 presence of mine

enemies:

Thou anointest my

 head with oil;

my cup

runneth over. 

 Surely goodness

and mercy

shall follow me 

all the days of

my life:

and

I will

dwell in the

house of the

 Lord

 for ever.



GOD PICKS ON ME

I was reading "Why is it so hard to sit still" by Marcus Buckley this morning and was reminded of a recent time when as often happens my mind was flooded with this lovely vision of steps leading up to the Cross in my Memory Garden (sounds better than it looks)

So even though I just had a slope to work with, a shovel and no money, I started to dig.  I figured that if I just took away everything that did not look like a step, I would have steps left, yeah!  So when that did not work a couple of days and blisters later, I went to the internet.  No help there.

I have got to tell you I was doing some powerful fussing at God asking Him why he would give me this beautiful idea and no ability to create it, I pointed out to him all the people in the Bible He had given visions to HE GAVE THEM DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS!  Why was He picking on me.

Well, by the end of the week all I had was a mess, my grandson was over and I was tattling to him about how God picked on me all week, fussing about how when God told Noah to build an Ark he gave him such clear instructions that you could go to the Bible to this day and by those instructions build an Ark.

I don't think my grandson will go build an Ark, but he did not know the directions were there in the Bible and maybe someday he will go look them up and fall in love with Gods word as I have.

So, I gave thanks and praise to God for the week I had spent reviewing His words and the opportunity to share His wisdom.  (Still think He picks on me)


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THE KEYBOARD

I ASKED GOD

(okay, I whined)

WHY! CAN'T I

UNDERSTAND

THE

KEYBOARD

*

THE PIANO

I LONGED TO

PLAY

*

I PRAYED THAT

HE

ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS

MYSELF IN

THIS BEAUTIFUL WAY

*

TO POUR OUT

MY THOUGHTS

MY FEELINGS

THROUGH THE KEYS

MY HANDS

PLAYED

*

SADLY,

*

FOR YOU

MY READERS

HE ANSWERED

MY PRAYER

*

BUT

AS USUAL

FOR ME

ANYWAY

*

BY HIS WILL

IN HIS WAY

*

SO, HERE I SIT

AT MY

KEYBOARD

*

THE MUSIC OF

MY SOUL

MY LIFE STORY

*

POURING THROUGH

MY HANDS

ONTO THESE

PAGES

*

FOR ALL TO

HEAR

THROUGH THE

KEYBOARD

*

HE

*

GAVE

*

ME