All I Can Say Is Watch and Listen.....

My friend posted the above video on facebook, (thank you Dawn!!), and I just had to pass it on.......
Here's the song:




I can so absolutely and totally relate to this!!    Can you?    May your day be blessed......

Only Because of Jesus,


anne

Let's not forget....

I know it's past Memorial Day, and it's far from Veteran's Day, but, on Monday we, as a nation, celebrate Independence Day.  We Americans know how to party, and, all over the nation grills will be fired up, and watermelons will be sliced and folks will come together to celebrate, kick back with a cold one, and enjoy our freedom.  But freedom isn't free.  I've blogged about this before here  and  here and even here, but, I ran across this video made by a 15 year old girl.....I think she has alot to say.......




So, I guess, I'm just trying to remind us that maybe while we're celebrating our independence and freedom, and standing in awe of the amazing fireworks, we could say a quiet prayer for the men and women who are serving our country, fighting for our freedom, away on foreign soil far from home, making sure we can enjoy these things that we hold dear. Pray for their families, who hold down the fort, defacto single parents for months at a time.  I'm in awe of them.....because freedom is indeed not, free.


May you and yours richly enjoy your freedom this weekend.... :-)

Blessings....

Only Because of Jesus,

anne

Laundry.....

Cleaning out the three youngest girls' room today.  Their constant whine about having nothing to wear was true.....all the dirty clothes were in the floor of their closet or under their beds!! Don't ya just love their "style" of cleaning?  Maybe it's not a "style" maybe it's more a philosophy.  I was just thinking that I kinda do that too, just in different areas, and it always comes back to bite me in the bum.  Something happens, and rather than deal with it right away, sort my emotions, forgive immediately, I file it away for when I have "time do deal with it".  But I never do.  It just sorta festers and rears it's ugly head at the most inopportune times.   God is giving me another chance to allow  Him to do the work in me that He needs to do.  Like an old Petra song said, "This test of your faith will last, as long as it takes to pass."  So true. Maybe I need to learn to take it immediately to Him, kinda "do not pass go, do not collect $200". 

Hebrews 12:15

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁵Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another], to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace (His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing), in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred) shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it--

Maybe Elly, Kyri and Clara  and I need to learn this in a more practical way.....hiding your dirty laundry only makes it harder to haul it all to the laundry room, and He sees it all anyway.......

May our hearts and our clothes be clean........ ;-)

Blessings...

Only Because of Jesus,

anne

PS pic from google images......for the same reason I mentioned in the last blog......  :-)