PuttingTruthFirst

It is time to rejoice!  How blessed it is to be able to rejoice in the presence of our precious Savior and Lord.  Today I rejoice in Him!  The birds are singing His praises.  All creation is sounding out the news!  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so "I am redeemed!"  May we never take for granted the privilege of grace that has been so generously bestowed on our lives.  I am so thankful for all that God has done for me and for all of His dear children. The scripture tells us that we are treasures of the Lord.  We are also trophies of God's grace.  Bought with a great price, God has bestowed upon us all that pertains to life and joy.  Each day I stand in awe of what He has done.  Today, our society is fully consumerized (that's a new word, I just made up).  We were people who were content with one another to a certain degree but than we began to hear thousands, no millions, of ads day after day, hour after hour, minute by mi...

It's Monday It's Monday, time to recover from a busy weekend and look at all of the tasks that lay before us.  What a pleasant weekend it was!  My little eight year old grandson, Axel, did his Piano Book Recital.  He performed perfectly and brought joy to our hearts as well as a bit of laughter.  He is quite the ham!  Our church finished a special project that we had worked on all week.  It went extremely well but I expected that some in our Sunday School Class would miss due to all the time they spent at the church last week.  Most were there even though I knew they were just as tired if not more than I was.  We looked at the next attribute of Christ's mind in our lesson: peace.  What a joy it is to have a peaceful mind!  To not be troubled by all of the things going on about us is a real privilege.  In Christ we have that.  For  He tells us in John "My peace I give unto you, not the peace that the world gives but My...

It has been over a year since I took the time to write in my blog.  The last year offered many barriers to overcome both physically and emotionally.  My brother passed away at the end of 2011 and I became swept up in all of the affairs associated with that.  Grieving at his loss was hard to do when daily reminders would arrive at the house in the form of letters addressed to him.  I learned that  my adrenal glands no longer worked and I have Addison's Disease.  This was a real surprise.  It seemed hard to believe.  I found that I was extremely fatigued.  I also, lost my appetite finding it hard to eat anything.  I simply was not hungry.  I thought I was experiencing depression and am so thankful that a friend pointed out that something must be wrong.  I went to see an endocrinologist and learned that I had adrenal insufficiency.  Anyway, after many months I am finally beginning to feel alive again.  All of my brother...