May You Have A Blessed Thanksgiving

Greetings dear and precious sisters-in-Christ, Today's scripture is, Psalm 9:1-2, "I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders. I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High." The first verse, yes, I will give thanks to the LORD, and especially with all my heart. Tomorrow is the official day of setting apart time to be thankful and to be together with friends and/or family and sit down for a meal. A time of joining together and being thankful for everything. Yes, even having the football game on is beautiful as you watch the interaction and the cheering for your favorite team and player perform. Being together is a miracle for not all family or friends can be together but in making the effort to be together that is a miracle. And the LORD is always doing the impossible. Indeed it is a time to be glad for all the ways He strengthened, restored, renewed, and refined you. I don't recall a time that there was singing at Thanksgiving or even some traditional songs that are sung about being thankful. So, with a thankful heart lifted up to the LORD and with gladness in exult in Him, may your heart burst into singing about the goodness and lovingkindness and gentleness of the LORD. The LORD who has guided you and directed you and singing praises for He His provision is so rich and His Peace is beyond understanding and His Power displayed changes EVERYTHING. His Promises are Yes and Amen. Let us pray and worship Him - Abba Father, Our LORD, the great I AM, we come before Your throne and with hands lifted up and our hearts full of You we worship You this day and may we open our mouths and tell of ALL Your wonders and may You open the hearts of our Loved ones as they hear of Your wonders and turn their hearts towards You and all join in singing praises to Your Name. Dear and precious sisters-in-Christ may this Thanksgiving Day be blessed beyond all measure. In Jesus Name, Amen. May you have a blessed Thanksgiving,

LyndiaSue P.S. This is an older picture of me taken around 2011.

A Quiet Passing - Thank You O Lord

Greetings dear and precious sisters-in-Christ, Today I am at rest for the struggles that my mom had are now over. No longer will I keep watch over mom, no longer do I need to pray for her, no longer do I need to be sure that she is doing okay and no longer do I need to have doubts about leaving her so far away. The Lord so graciously answered yes to all my prayers. Mom passed away quietly with a nurse holding her hand and comforting her yesterday morning at 9:15 am (Mountain Time). They had called me the night before to let me know that she was resting and my night was intermittent waking and praying. I am writing this month and was at the coffee shop at the time she passed. And I was checking my phone to see if it was on just in case. But it was when I got home at 11:30 (Eastern Time) that I got the call. It was the attending nurse who gave me the details of her passing. God, so graciously answered each one! Oh, Lord, Your lovingkindness is so beautiful and rich. I was having my devotional time this morning and this verse came to my mind, Isaiah 30:15, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength." Yes, Lord, in quietness and trust will be my strength. Let us Pray Abba Father, Glorious and Holy and Righteous, thank You for Your Spirit that comforts and counsels and goes before the Father with groanings. Abba Father, I pray for each dear and precious sister-in-Christ that she will find her strength in You and may she Be Still and Know that You are God, but even more than that she would Know that You are her God, the Great I AM and may You quiet her with your Love and may she TRUST in You knowing that your ways are higher than hers and your understanding is higher than hers. In Jesus Name, Amen. God is So Good ALL the Time, My mother's favorite flowers were daisies -

LyndiaSue

Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 - God's Timing

Greetings dear and precious sisters-in-Christ, A conversation with the Lord upon awakening this morning, when death lingers on, even then I am present. I do not want to sound like I am depressed. I am not to put it in context, my mother, who has dementia and is residing in a nursing facility, has taken a turn for the worse. By that I mean her second bout of COVID she didn't bounce back like everyone thought she would. She is 92 years old and is the joy of all who work at the nursing home. In talking with them over the last couple of weeks I can hear the compassion in their voices and we even cry together at times. I have come to terms with her dying but what I have not come to terms with is God's timing. And the truth is I have wrestled with this for several years - God's timing. In conversations with friends and family whom I trust and help to encourage me and strenghten throughout all the years and in asking for prayers about difficult situations and everyday living invariably one or all will say to me, "remember it is all in God's timing." That is why I chose Ecclesistes 3:1-10 today. Let us read together, "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every even under heaven", I stopped at the first verse because that was the answer to my question that I had silently cried out to God every time someone told me - God's timing - I continued reading the other verses about time but verse 10 also caught my attention, "I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves." It was this verse that gave me the reason for the words spoken to me this morning. God is with my mom even now as she struggles through each day and since His presence is with her each nurse, each staff member, and each one who takes care of my mom is in the Presence of the Lord. I have asked the Lord to take her home, but God in His infinite mercy and abundant Grace has His Sovereign reign where time and space has no limits. I am at peace knowing that the presence of the Lord is with mom and His Timing is supreme. Let us pray - Abba Father, let us shout - Praise and honor and glory to You, thank you for Your timing in everything and thank You that we need not be burdens as to when things will begin nor when things will end for it is Your Goodness and Lovingkindness that sustains us through the celebrations and sorrows of our lives. I ask for Your Joy to abound, Your Peace to reside, and Your Hope rise up in the hearts and minds of my sisters-in-Christ. In Jesus Name, Amen. Lord may I embrace Your timing,

LyndiaSue

Welcome to the Month of November

Greetings dear and precious sisters-in-Christ, Today's reading comes from Psalm 33, "Sing for Joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright." What a wonderful way to begin this first Wednesday of November. We have been experiencing many days of WIND, which at times has been rather unsettling as the gusts were quite strong. It was hard to drive on the freeway with the large semi trucks trying to stay in their lane. Today it is calm so the morning walk was very nice and walking with my friend was very good today. We were thinking about the goodness of our God and now He is so faithful to us and our families. We also talked about how God is a Good God and that He is in Control and He is Sovereign. With these thoughts being said Psalm 33 seems to speak of these truths. Psalm 33:4-22, "For the word of the Lord is upright, And all His work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD, by the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD." How precious are these truths and how faithful is our LORD that when the winds blow or when the day is calm He is still Sovereign and He is still in Control. He is a Good God and He is in Control. Let us pray, Father, Abba Father, may we sing for Joy in the LORD, whom You have called "righteous ones". Lord, I pray that as we walk through this day that we will sing to you a new song. A song which is pleasing to Your ears and we give You all the Glory and Praise for Your goodness and lovingkindness. Lord, I pray for each dear and precious sister-in-Christ that You embrace her with Your goodness and lovingkindness today and everyday. In Jesus Name, Amen. Blessings of Goodness and Mercy,

LyndiaSue