One Teaspoon of Love

The other evening, while I was baking muffins, I didn't add any baking powder all because it wasn't written down in the new recipe.

 

Just one teaspoon of baking powder (something I always use), was all that I needed - one teaspoon.

 

Perhaps today, just one kind word, one kind act of interest in someone else, one smile, another visit, is all that's needed.

 

Let's take the time to add one more hug,

one more time, to help to encourage those who are fainthearted

and tempted to despair.

 

Jesus came to free us of sin.

Not to condemn us for our condition.

 

Isaiah said of the promised Messiah: 

 

"A bruised reed He will not break,

 and smoking flax he will not quench;

He will bring forth justice for truth."

 

Isaiah 42:3

 

Let Your Colors Show

 

My daughter Ruth took a picture of a red-winged black bird in flight.

It was a great photo that caught my eye.

Why? Because it's exceptionally vibrant colors of orange and white

 that can only be seen when its wings are open in flight.

 

Just as the red-winged black bird shows off its colors,

 we too can show the characteristics of Jesus

when we allow God's Spirit to direct out lives.

 

Humility, patience, cheerfulness, kindness, hope..the list goes on.

 

The Bible says:

Let your light shine before men,

that they may see your good works,

and glorify your Father,

 who is in heaven.

Mathew 5:16

 

A Real Gem

 

Back a few years ago in 1962, when our first baby was born, I had to intervene in his birth. How?

 

"Bear down, push, push, the doctor was saying. Bear down and push when you have pains".

I said "I had pains back in the other room, but you weren't there".

Then I said, to myself, "If you're going to have the baby you'll have to pray for pains.

 

Well, I did just that - pray and listen; no just pray, don't stop.

Wow, what a job that was!

 

Stanley James was born a very healthy baby boy.

8 1/2 lbs. Though he only had a faint cry, it was enough for me.

 

What a good baby boy he was.

 

God had given us a real work of art.

 

Summer 2013

 

What a great week I had at camp this year with my daughter, grand-daughter, and a young boy from Africa and a mother with her two children!

 

The cabin we rented was more than enough, the water, well a little on the cool side.

 

The services were super and the meals were just what we all enjoyed. It was the warmth of all our friends that was I believe the best part of our week.

 

I loved getting out early in the morning, listening to the birds and walking by the lake.

The freshness of the early morning air can do us all so much good.

 Now- let's enjoy the rest of our summer and early fall!

 

Psalm 69:34

 

 

Good Thoughts

Does thinking affect your thoughts? Someone has said “Don’t dwell on that.”

Your thoughts become your thinking and then they become your attitude. 

Your attitude becomes - - 

What does it become? 

Well here it is in the Free Press: 

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face

 like sunbeams and you will always look lovely – Ronald Dahl.

Think in good thoughts. 

You will always look lovely.

Who wants to look sad?

Think in good thoughts.

 

Touching Jesus

        Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

       In Matthew Chapter 9 verse 21, it tells us of a lady who had an issue of blood for twelve years. You and I may say that is long. This woman said, “If I may but touch Jesus’ garment I shall be whole.

        I like that – "be made whole". She said that from her heart of faith. Now to only touch Him.

        Like Eleanor Roosevelt said, you must do it; and she did.

        What happened is Jesus turned to her and said,

        “Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole."

         And the woman was made whole from that hour.

        Here we find Jesus calling her “daughter”, and then to be of good comfort.

        I can hardly imagine she must have been going through. And then, yes, being called a daughter, putting her into the family of God.

        Giving this daughter comfort instead of pain and sorrow; a hope and a future.

        Jesus, God’s Son, is waiting for you and I to say, “If only I could touch Him”.

       "Let me touch him", – This should be our cry. I’m reaching out to Him. Are you?

 

 

 

 



Hope

In Hebrews,

 it mentions in Chapter ten and Verses twenty two to twenty four,

 these commitments:

1.       Let us draw near – The confidence to come into God’s favor.

2.       Let us hold fast; Verse twenty - the confidence in God’s Provision.

3.       Let us consider one another; Verse twenty-four and twenty-five –

the comfort and encouragement of God’s people.

 

There is a beautiful hymn that says:

My hope is built on solid rock.

Let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering;

for he who promised is faithful – verse twenty-three.

 

A message on the back of a T shirt said “Hope is for Suckers” and someone happened to see.

Hope is for all of us.

Allowing yourself to have this God-given biblical hope

 is not foolish because it has a strong, strong foundation.

One that has stood the test of a very, very long time.

In fact, this grand old him, and I quote,:

When He shall come with trumpet sound, oh,  

may I then in Him be found;

dressed in His righteousness alone,

faultless to stand before His throne.

 

God is faithful.

He can be trusted with everything and anything we will ever face.

 

Both today and forever.

Does God love us?

Yes, He does love us with an everlasting love.

That’s God’s name; “Love”.