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I saw the word more

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 I saw the word More

I saw the word More 
and I just said NO.

No, I don’t want more.
I have enough.

I don’t need more to 
fill my plate.  To give me
less time for me and mine.

No .. late night blogging
No.. looking for work
No.. Can you do this?
No.. mowing the lawn 
No.. pulling the weeds.

I’m done, I don’t want more.

So NO I don’t want MORE.
I DON’T

I yelled this loud inside my head.
I DON’T WANT MORE.

But then my reason took hold.
Reason that said..

I do want more.
I want more walks with a talkative young man.
I want more weekends away with my beloved.
I want more depth to my relationship with God.
I want more flowers to bloom in the spring.
I want more people to not have to use the foodbank.
I want more churches filled with people deeply in love with the Lord.

So my NO, became a more quiet.. Yes.

Yes I do want more.
I want more of the right things.
And less. oh… I want less of the things.
That weigh me down.

I want more sermons preached from my hubby.
I want more grins of delight.
I want more conversations that fill me with hope.

So oh yes… I do indeed WANT MORE!
This want becomes a yell within.

I WANT MORE!!!
Indeed.
Gracious Heavenly Father GIVE ME MORE!

Copyright, Annette V, April 28, 2017

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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.
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S-I-N-G

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The Five Minute Friday word prompt of the day is the word sing.  
When I mentioned it to my hubby he immediately popped up with  S-I-N-G, the self-defense song… and once he said it… I couldn’t get it out of my mind.  So with that I bring you the Self-Defense Song
Solar plexus
Instep 
Nose and
Groin 
So remember… ALL women should be able to defend themselves eh? 
While remembering that our ultimate defense is in the Lord’s hands.

S-I-N-G IT OUT!!!

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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.
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Easter Is Here

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The Homeschool Review Crew does word prompts for Instagram fun, I think it’s great to have these words prompts for doing quick posts. 🙂 I find them fun as sometimes it surprises me where my brain goes. 🙂

The word for today is Easter. Let’s follow my thoughts along the way eh?

 Easter
Sadness Reigns
The Saviour is gone
Fear
Depression
A hunt perhaps
Danger lurks?
Mourning progresses
Women attend
Shock
Surprise
Fear
Horror
What could have happened?
Conversation
Hope
Telling
Wonder
Disbelief
Truth to be found?
Touching
Feeling
Hearing
Knowing
Learning
Awareness blossoms?
Jesus talks
Jesus walks
He can be felt.
Rejoice
Listen
Learn
See God moving through history
Celebrate
Speak the good news 
Shout it aloud
Jesus is Risen
He is Risen indeed.
Death is conquered
Jesus is Alive!
  

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But just you wait

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Empty

Surprise,
It’s Thursday night
The night before we remember
God’s great gift to us.

His gift.
His son.
For who
For us.

But right, at this exact moment.
We aren’t there.
We are in the time before.
The time when we know something
Dreadful is about to occur.

We know a trial will come.
We know mockery will reign.
We know that sorrow and hardship
will be staring us in the face.

but right now.. 
We are just anticipating
We are seeing the sorrow
Right around the corner.

Tomorrow
Tomorrow we can be empty.
Tomorrow we can feel hopeless.
Not knowing.
Not understanding.

But you know what happens AFTER tomorrow?
Just a couple of days.
And then HOPE.
HOPE will spring.
An empty tomb will be found.
And HOPE oh Glorious hope will be here.

But here, on a Thursday night late.
Hope isn’t here yet.
But just you wait.

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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.

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Celebrate! Redeem history!

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The
Homeschool Review Crew does word prompts for Instagram fun, I think
it’s great to have these words prompts for doing quick posts.  🙂   I
find them fun as sometimes it surprises me where my brain goes.  🙂

The word for today is Celebrate.  Let’s follow my thoughts along the way eh?

 

Celebrate: 

 This morning as I was browsing facebook I came across a post that was telling Christians to not celebrate Easter.  That to so was very pagan of us based on the roots of the word Easter.   You get the same thing for other holidays in the year, some Christian some pagan, and I have to wonder what draws people to do that.  For Christmas and Easter particularly… it bothers me greatly.   I feel like they are trying to suck the joy our of celebration of the good things of the Lord.

Christ redeems the WORLD.  He does that.

Do people not understand that?

Christmas and Easter in the CHRISTIAN tradition (redeemed, made right)  are celebrations of important events in our history.    The origins of the time of year were attempts by the Christian church to change events held at that time of the year for something better.   They wanted to change events to turn peoples minds to Christ and the things of God.   WHY is that a bad thing???  They were redeeming a pagan festival or a pagan notion for the things of God.   Think about that for a moment.

Changing a non-christian tradition and turning it into one the sees the truth.   Is that not a good thing?   Sure the origins were not good…but its been redeemed for something good.

Kinda like what Christ does in us.
Taking filthy rags and turning them into bridal white.  That’s what Christ’s action (dying on the cross) predicated by his actual birth into the world… DOES FOR US.

So we celebrate those two historic events.
Christmas… Christ’s birth…if he was never born he couldn’t die for us.
Good Friday… Christ took the punishment for our sin.  He took it, bore it, suffered the indignity.
Easter… WOOT WOOT!!!!   Sin and death CANNOT beat God’s work.  THEY CAN’T

So let us Celebrate this
Kick up our heels
Rejoice
Tell of his great deals
Memorialize
Glorify
Beat the drum
Proclaim
Praise
Laud
Honour
Dedicate
Exalt
Commend
Extol
Have a time of Jubilation 
and
Raise a hand in acknowledgement of
the great work 
that
the Lord has done.

Seriously.
Can we not do what the Lord has done?
Do whatever we can to redeem this broken, fallen world that we live in?
Can we not celebrate all that the Lord God has done for us?
Shall we not tell his stories?
Must we not change what was wrong into a time when we remember what is right?

Don’t let anyone tell you that we cannot do this.
That we must only look at the roots of early festivals to tell us that it is wrong to celebrate them.
GOD has redeemed us. 
We are called to make a difference.
So celebrate what the Lord has done.
Rejoice in what he has done in your life.
Talk to your neighbours and families about what this time of the year NOW means…and don’t wallow in the past.
Today is a new day, a time of redemption and change.
Should we not live like it?

PS…this is not only for the days of Easter and Christmas.   We are called to make God known everyday we are alive.   This is simply my reaction to the “but the origins are evil therefore celebrating it is wrong” thought patterns that float seasonally.    I just wish people could see God’s redemption at work.
 
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God Alone is Enough

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Thinking about the word enough and I’m brought back to mind these words from the Ezekiel Study that I am doing. 4 As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by the gate facing east, 5 the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

Filled the temple.   That’s what God’s glory did.  It FILLED the place.

Do you think that was enough?

It should be I think…but so many people don’t see the enoughness of God.   They don’t see the filling that he does.

They look to so many other things to fill themselves up with, things like… money, people, relationships, stuff and so much more.   

But I’ve observed in the people I see (and in myself as well) that when I look to anything OTHER THAN God for satisfaction, for that feeling that I have enough, nothing truly gives me that feeling.   That feeling of enough.

I see myself raising my boy and seeing how I am fairly sure that I fail him…and then seeing how God uses me to meet the needs he has, the training that he requires, and I realize that, in God I am (along with his dad), enough to lead him to making right choices for God. 
  
Still, seeing my enoughness in God, his enoughness in me, to meet that tasks that he sets before me… I still often feel the failure and the want.

It’s a tough one sometimes, to believe my claim, that he is enough….Cause I know it as a surety that he is, but sometimes.. I want to trust my own abilities more than his enoughness.

Oh, that I might learn more surely.. that God is Alone is Enough. 

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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  Today the word is Enough..  
What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.

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Defining Humanity, A Poem

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  Define


 HumanHomo Sapiens ErectMammal
Two Distinct Genders
Created
Not Evolved
But Ever Changing
Made in the image of God
Capable of Love
Capable of Thinking
Capable of Selfishness
Living with Free Will
Knowing Sin
Knowing Love
Daily Struggle
Joy
Delight
Filled with Knowledge
Sometimes Wise
Sometimes not so wise
Seeing God
Seeing Others
Seeing Self Only
A finite being
with Infinite possibilities
Able to die
Yet, with belief
To live Forever.
Created In The Image Of God
Not God
But able to Follow after
Human
Homo Sapiens

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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate.  Today the word is Define.  
What is Five Minute Friday?  Well it’s a party of a group of like
minded folks who gather on Friday to do a five minute free write around a
singular word.  AND THEN we take the time to offer up encouragement to
each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though it’s not always
easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you?  You are always
welcome.
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