My Daddy and My Abba

Greetings dear sisters-in-Christ,

I pray that your week has been fulfilling.

I awoke with thoughts of my daddy - from earliest memories I can recall of those special moments when daddy and I would be together. My daddy had and still has a way of just being my daddy. He listens, he teaches, he encourages and he still lets me know that I am his one and only daughter. (well in this case I am, I have 4 brothers). When my oldest son found out that he was going to be a father of a daughter he called and asked me what was he supposed to do with a little girl. My answer was just love her son, lots and lots of love. My daddy did and still gives me lots and lots of love.

My Abba, I know that there is no comparison with my earthly daddy and yet I see how my daddy gives me lots and lots of love and My ABBA, lavishes me with such AMAZING and AWESOME LOVE that the very cells in my being cry out in PRAISE. It takes my breathe away at times when my Abba embraces me and says sweet child just rest in Me, abide in Me and know that my LOVE for you reaches to the highest of heights and the deepest of depths and the widest expanse. That my LOVE for you knows no bounds and no limits.

Abba, Father, I praise thee for Your Wonderous Ways, for Your Glorious and Mighty TRUTH. I pray for each dear sister-in-Christ - may her sight be changed in an instant to see Your eternal Beauty, may her hearing be changed in an instant to hear Your eternal Whispers and may her desires be changed in an instant to know that Your Will is filled with such AWESOME LOVE forever and ever and ever. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Until next week,

An Undesirable Task

Greetings,

What started out to be an undesirable task turned into a learning more about someone. We are moving and all of us know what that entails. I had the chore of going through my DH's grandmothers stuff which we have stored at our house. First we had to realize that she was never leaving the nursing home and second what things should we give away and what to keep. I started going through the boxes of STUFF. The second box was packed full of old envelopes and cards. As I started opening up the cards and old envelops I started to read - they were cards sent to a mother on Mother's Day. They were cards sent from DH's mom. (DH's mom had passed away when he was 16 so I never got the opportunity to meet her.) As I read the cards and heard her conversations in writing, I was beginning to get a little understanding of her compassion and love and joy for life that she had. Which brings me to my lesson learned. If I can see this about a person in just reading some old cards and letters how much more I can and will see when I read the written WORD. My Bible, the written conversations of GOD. HE is compassionate, and loving and in thy presence is fulness of JOY and eternal LIFE.

Heavenly Father, Glorious LORD, Abba, Praise thee and Worship thee in Your Splendor.
Most Sovereign Lord, I come before Your throne of Grace this morning and humbly ask in the Name of Jesus, come, may these dear sisters-in-Christ enter into Thy presence and abide in Your fulness of JOY. There is JOY in thee only. In the midst of the suffering, there is JOY, in the midst of the pain there is JOY, in the midst of the darkness there is LIGHT, and in the midst of the unknowing there is a QUIET KNOWING that You are the I AM and there is none other that satisfies. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Until next week

Greetings,

Today let us do something that is quite out of the ordinary. Yes I realize for some of you that it is mid morning or mid afternoon but a day is 24 hours long. And I know my God can do the impossible and stretch forth His hand and expand time especially when it comes to showing His awesome Love to those in whom He delights and you are that one.

Dear precious sisters-in-Christ - yes - You are dear, so very dear to Your heavenly Father. Yes! You are indeed Precious to HIM and Yes we are sisters-in-Christ. So for today, our Heavenly Father, Abba desires to visit us in a most extraordinary way. We don't want to miss this visit. It comes ever so differently and unique. With Moses it was visual - a burning bush in the desert, with Samuel it was audible - a voice while trying to sleep, with Saul(Paul) it was physical - being knocked to the ground and struck blind.

I pray that for today God will pour forth His Spirit more fully into your life, that your knowledge of His LOVE would be your greatest desire. That nothing would be able to move you from the knowledge that your Heavenly Father, desires above all else for you to KNOW HIM. Oh, LORD, unto thee we raise holy hands and SHOUT praises the thee. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Until next week,

A MishMash of Thoughts

Greetings dear sisters-in-Christ,

In order for there to be increase pruning must be done.
Remembering my son, Grant Elliott.
I brought you here to pray.

God must increase and I must decrease. I have heard this saying before but not with listening ears. This time I am praying for listening ears and heart to be able to understand and grow in the knowledge of Christ.

This morning I awoke with a feeling of loss once again. It happens every year around this time - I remember the loss of a child, my child, a miscarriage at 5 months. I named him Grant Elliott. I love him still. I think of him often, wondering what he would look like and how he would be living his life.

I took a walk yesterday morning along Alii Drive, it is a road that runs right next to the ocean. When we first arrived I used to walk and talk to God about my day, my life, and everything else. I stopped doing it. But yesterday being the 1st of July and the 1 month of our 90 days of increase, reading the new testament - I got up, put on my walking shorts and shoes and went for a walk. And as before I began to ask God, "why?" Now before some of you conjure up in your mind, having conversations with a 3 year old when every other word is "why", it was not the case in this conversation. My listening ears were open and God reminded me of WHY? His Words, "Remember my dear precious child I brought you hear to pray for these people."

Abba Father, Glorious and Beautiful and Magnificent, oh how wonderful are Your thoughts and Ways, oh how Good art thou. May I never tire in my desire to live my life as a sinner saved by Grace. My LORD, I humbly come before thee and pray for these dear precious ones - may You bring about a Great Victory in their lives - where darkness has settled, may Your Light penetrate, where sickness has entered, may Your precious love gift of Healing flow, where fear has gripped may Your LOVE release the chains that have bound, and where grief has overwhelmed may Your JOY draw them to the Living Water which satisfies. Jesus Christ my Saviour, my King. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Until next week,



Romans 8:26-28