Jeremiah 29:11

 

God amazes me all the time.  Not just some of the time, now and then, but all the time.  His creation and miracles are undeniable: God amazes me.  

Why Jeremiah 29:11?

His love never fails. He sees tomorrow or centuries. God does not own or use a wristwatch. God gave this verse to me 1985.

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.[b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

In 1985 we had decided to sell/give every item in our house, save particular gifts the children owned. We condensed important items and toys into a crate 4ft X 5ft X 4ft.  We shut the door of our house, giving the keys to its new owner.

BUT I rush ahead.

We (husband's family company) bought and operated a hotel in Ireland. It was a mansion/manor owned by a Lord Barrymore who was granted the property. In 1769 the Lord built and lived in it.  

Somewhere in the course of Irish History the hotel w/20 acres of wooded land became a hotel. It was more work than we expected.

  When we decided to take this adventure, we lived in a city in the Mojave Desert. Moving with our 3 children was indescribably awful.  I was distraught.

That is when Jeremiah 29:11 appeared.  First it was in a drawer in the kitchen.  The second time I found it was in the a stack of papers I was collecting to recycle. God revealed so much to me in these two times.

We lived in Ireland for 4 years, sold and returned to California.  God guided us through some difficult times and choices  

He knew the plans....

Wednesday Words: Jack

Jack raced away from the fizzling and foaming of a chemical bomb lobbed at his fellow troopers, sending them scattering in different directions.

He vaulted over a ragged fencing into a barren field, harboring a blister of hope that his comrades were alive. The riptide of emotions swept over him, just as he heard a “crunch” beneath his left foot.

Oh, please God!  No! He whispered.

The land mine was pressure activated and always fatal.  Jack’s mind raced through the possibilities and what equipment he possessed.

Please, Jesus, make this work…If not, I’ll be kneeling at Your Feet…

Jack fired a grappling hook to the nearest tree and pushed the automatic retract button.  It pulled him up and out as the IED exploded.  He saw and heard the blast, but from the safety of the tree.

With drops of blood splattered on his uniform, Jack knew he had some injuries, but was saved, and had been in many ways.

Source

Delores from http://ramblingsoftheterminallyaging.blogspot.com  faithfully lists 6 challenging words each week.  This week This post shows the word as underlined words.  Please click on the delightful photo of a running creek in the right sidebar to access other participants.  It will be well worthwhile.

Seeing the End of the Road

 

YouTube: Scott McCreery and Tim McGraw

American Idol 2011

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Live Like You Were Dying

Tim McGraw

He said
"I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days
Looking at the x-rays
Talkin' 'bout the options
And talkin' 'bout sweet time"
I asked him
"When it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How's it hit you
When you get that kind of news?
Man, what'd you do?"

He said

"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"

He said 

"I was finally the husband
That most of the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden going fishin'
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
I finally read the Good Book, and I
Took a good, long, hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then

I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"

 

And he said

"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
Like tomorrow was a gift
And you've got eternity
To think about
What you'd do with it
What could you do with it
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?"

Life is urgent, it is now. Believe and then act on your beliefs.  

 John 11:25-26. Our life in Him never ends.

 

 Last summer I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. 

It has a learning curve that changes each day. When I wrote this 2019 and re-posted it 2023, my life was on a set course until last year.  

 This has more meaning now than it did then, so I have re-re-posted this.

 Everyone dreads that phone call or letter from doctors. Sometimes that call or letter doesn't happen.  Sometimes it does.