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Hezekiah’s 15 minus 1

August 24, 2022 by admin 12 Comments

Update On August 21, 2022 I celebrated my one year ‘anniversary’ of surviving congestive heart failure (CHF). My self-named year of probation is over! You see, last year when all of this happened I asked the Lord for 15 more years (or more) of healthy life – the same amount of time He granted Hezekiah… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: God's will, grace, grateful, Gratitude, grief, grieving, Hezekiah, hope, illness, life, mercy, Moses, Recovery, Truth

Will I Stay Or Will I Go?

April 12, 2022 by admin 6 Comments

Holy Week I love this time of year. Spring has rolled in. Trees are greening. The smell of growth and bloom is in the air. And, I love the week we call “Holy Week.” The celebration of Resurrection is the greatest event on the calendar – for believers and followers of Christ it is the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: Betrayal, Calvary, Disciples, Gethsemane, grace, Holy Week, hope, Jesus, Judas Iscariot, Malchus, Passover, Truth

Drop The Keys and Leave The Ring

March 28, 2022 by admin 22 Comments

Matthew, The Tax Collector As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him. Matthew 9.9 Then He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them. 14 As He… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: Bible, follow me, grace, Jesus Christ, Matthew, New Testament, tax collector

Grace

January 11, 2022 by admin 16 Comments

Word of the Year Do you participate in a word of the year? Do you select it or do you let a word pick you! I am of the latter discipline. It’s a Holy Spirit thing. It is usual for a word or principle to start showing up in my readings around December 1. I… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: 2022, Bible, choose, faith, grace, hope, one word, oneword

Five Minute Friday: Care

September 24, 2021 by admin 20 Comments

Kate said care. When I was a little girl we attended Grace Bible Chapel, a Brethren Assembly Fellowship, Exclusive… don’t ask. Once a month the Sunday evening service included hymn requests – now, back then we sang from hymn books [Hymns of Grace and Truth] and my favorite hymn was page 100. If the leader… [Read More]

Filed Under: Five Minute Friday, Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: Abortion, care, essay challenge, five minute friday, five minutes, free write, grace, hymns, Kate Motaung, one word, Truth, Write

5 Words That Can Change Your Life

June 22, 2021 by admin 21 Comments

Just 5 Words But He gives more grace. James 4.6a Last night I laid in bed thinking about what I’d blog about this week. As most know I haven’t been operating with a full tank! But I’m getting stronger and there is hope of healing on the horizon. My mind was buzzing with memories of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: faith, God, grace, hope, James, trust, words

Abundance – An Update & A Giveaway!

October 20, 2020 by admin 26 Comments

One Word 2020 I wonder if anyone thought choosing abundance as my one word 2020 was on the arrogant side. Did you? I almost did but Holy Spirit gave it to me and wouldn’t take it back. He’s not an Indian giver. And, He also gave me the scripture to go along with it… Listen to… [Read More]

Filed Under: Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: abundance, covid19, family, GAKAT, grace, mercy, one word, quarantine, social distancing, word of the year

Five Minute Friday – Mercy

August 21, 2020 by admin 14 Comments

MERCY

Kate said MERCY noun: compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16.34 Not to be confused with grace: The free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners… [Read More]

Filed Under: Five Minute Friday, Heart, Home, Hope Tagged With: challenge, essay, five minute friday, five minutes, grace, Kate Motaung, mercy, one word

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This may come as a SHOCK to you, but I love to do This may come as a SHOCK to you, but I love to do laundry. 
When I'd visit my daughter's busy home, she'd be up to her eyebrows in laundry and would gladly turn the task over to me! I'd joyfully sort, fold, hang, and stack clothes in appropriate piles for an easy distribution. It was a gift well-received!
Allow me to share a story and my SHOCK when it happened:
As a single mom to three under 13 , I was never without a pile of dirty clothing. My job outside the home was full-time and demanded a lot of attention.  So did our closets and drawers! 
Imagine my SHOCK one early evening, as I whipped up supper for my hungry crew and looked and saw Lowell walk down the hall with a huge basket filled with perfectly folded clean laundry and a cache of items on hangars over his arm!
SHOCKED, I followed him into the bedroom, where he began making piles for the kids to collect and put away.
With a SHOCKED voice I exclaimed, "What on earth?" 
After I left for work that morning, he had collected all the hampers, loaded them in the car, and brought them to the little German lady at the corner laundromat who did laundry by the pound. 
It was the greatest of gifts. Perfectly folded stacks of underwear, tees, and socks. He had that done for me for about a year. The great SHOCK is I learned to love doing the laundry. It was almost a daily gift I could give my family in the most tangible of ways!
Have you ever been pleasantly SHOCKED by something really good?
In the past 3 years, we've had to do some learning In the past 3 years, we've had to do some learning! We've had to EASE into new normals in our personal lives.
2019 The first "EASING" we moved into a tiny house. We did an ultimate downsizing. I shred 300 lbs of paper. I donated boxes and boxes of books. Family heirlooms were given to family members while we were still alive. Shoes had to be "paired" down.we kept only the tchotskies we loved. It was a much-wanted EASING.
The second was a summer of failing health, which ended with a diagnosis.  Congestive Heart Failure, or CHF. 36 hours from sure death, a cardio team rescued me. A couple of meds and I'm good to go! That EASING INTO brought a dear new friend,  a humbling, and a slight fear of being *unfinished!*
The third EASING was retirement from a 44-year span of various careers. I've had some good ones, some not so good, and a few phenomenal ones. Why, I've even worked for a USA President! I loved my different jobs, and it was always my desire to work from home and make an equitable living. I was granted that privilege in 2005, and that position took me to retirement in Dec 2021! Retirement has been a daily practice of EASING INTO. And, I'm getting quite good at it!
God has brought a lovely, peaceful EASE into our lives, and we are over the moon grateful.
Have you ever had to do an EASING INTO? Do tell!
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What exactly are my BELIEFS? I believe in God the What exactly are my BELIEFS? 
I believe in God the Father.
I believe in Jesus Christ. 
I believe in Holy Spirit. It is Them who give me life.
My BELIEFS are deeply planted in a very strong foundation of Biblical proportion! My sister and I,  the only children born to Terry and Hal, are true baby boomers! Our dad served in "the war to end all wars" WW2. We went to church. We said our prayers. We memorized Bible scriptures. We sang choruses and hymns. We believed.
Yet, my BELIEFS became personal later in life. I realized He is the only Way, the only Truth, and the only Source of Life - real forever life. 
My BELIEFS became the very essence of my life. 
I will never regret this decision.  I will never stop testifying of God's Grace and Mercy. 
My BELIEFS are grounded and sure.
Are yours?
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Our tiny home of SAFETY. We've lived here 3 years, Our tiny home of SAFETY. We've lived here 3 years, and it truly has offered us sanctuary. Our children and grandchildren all live a distance from us, but we never really feel far from them. We nurture our relationships.
There have been many instances in our/my life that SAFETY seemed a foreign comfort. 
A time when I would keep a track on replay in my cars sound system. The song? You Are My Hiding Place by Selah. I also had the scripture from Psalms on a sticky note on my dash. The words gave my mother's soul great SAFETY and comfort. 
That season ended with good results after a very hard and long road. Once again, my heavenly Father wrapped me in the SAFETY of His presence.
We all have suffered angst of soul, and it is a hard, hard road. What brings you safety during the difficult times?
You are my hiding place; You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Psalm 32.7
This is an aerial shot of our tiny house COMMUNITY This is an aerial shot of our tiny house COMMUNITY. We downsized in 2019 into a 399 square feet tiny home. It's the best decision for us in this season of our life. We're in "late autumn" if you recall my post from the other day!
Our COMMUNITY consists of 12 tiny houses, two of which are Airbnb's. There are young people, old people, single people, married people, retired people, and working people. We are a diverse COMMUNITY.
Diverse faiths, diverse politics, diverse hobbies, and interests. But the one common thing is that we all look out for one another.
That's what good, caring communities do. In a fashion we are family and we care about each other's welfare.
I've made a pot of chicken soup for one couple. I went out each day for a milkshake  for one with strept throat. I left a care bag of covid aids at another. 
COMMUNITY. I want to be a good participant in ours, in our actual family, and with my online people. 
Do you actively participate with your COMMUNITY regardless of type?
"How good and pleasant it is for communities to dwell in peace."
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The sun is definitely doing its seasonal shift wor The sun is definitely doing its seasonal shift work! But, I'll take sunshine at any angle! 🌞 ☀️ 🌤  #fromfarm2flattotinyhouse #saturyayvibes #tinyhouseliving
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