Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Okay, It's Here
Spring has come, and summer is really on its way.
So how do we know?
Saturday was spent watching the fire and the sap boil. The sun was so gorgeous and warm that we soaked it in, the first of the year. Yes, for me, it was!
I ended up with a lovely pink burn on my face, but it was worth it!
We also got a little more than a quart of syrup, which we slurped up on Betty Crocker's recipe for pancakes on Sunday after church
.
We were naughty in Sunday School. Our pastor is doing a study on apologetics, and he mentioned modalism.
"That's modalism," he said, and three of us started to shake with laughter. Here's why:
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies
The eye of the pastor was upon us, and he said, "I must have touched a nerve."
Thankfully we have forgiving churchmates. Friends that read here, I offer our excuse for our bad behavior...
and apology!
Monday was a day for the bees.
We expected 5 packages of bees, but got SEVEN. Five were hived in the darkness last night. Two packages are buzzing in the bathroom again this year, and we're hoping someone at the bee meeting tonight will jump for joy at the opportunity to take them in and home.
If not, we must come up with the materials for the hives to house them. Perhaps this will be an experiment this year with non-conventional hive techniques. For now we are buzzed every time we go into the bathroom.
They are beautiful bees, and two lone bees paid a visit to our window, wanting entry. The glass is open and the screens are letting in a few spring breezes.
Our two other hives made it through the long winter, alive, and seem to be doing well. Yesterday I mixed up pollen patties and sugar syrup for all the hives to tie them over until the trees start flowering.
The dogs have spent time in the pen, both yesterday and today, and what a joy for them to be outside sun-bathing!
My mother had an experience of what appears to be divine healing this past weekend. Her eye appeared to have a problem requiring a rigid sort of convalescence, but the doctor who checked her before the final proceedings could find no trace of the problem! She had asked friends and family to pray. God answered.
She is very thankful.
I am so glad to be a child of God through this faith in Christ Jesus. We truly have the most wonderful faith. It spans the entire history of the world, it shows its mark on every aspect of creation, it reaches out in earnest appeal to every soul, yet it doesn't intrude or bully.
It is a privilege to adhere to a faith that exemplifies forgiveness, mercy and love. It is the most compassionate of faiths, and the most tolerant. God is so good to His children.
His Way is the best of ways, yet true to His perfect nature, He takes care that those who do not follow His Way will be punished. That is the way of Christianity, and the Word of God. It is one Way, no other. It must be followed through belief in Christ Jesus. Those are the conditions.
He is gentle in allowing the trials we must bear, too. It seems to us that we have so many things to work through, or heal from, but now matter how deep the valley, God's grace is there to compensate.
I look at our Christian brothers and sisters suffering in the Middle East right now, and I know it is awful---yet they have the grace from Holy Spirit to stand, even until the end.
One of my favorite radio people, Jan Markell, just sent out her newsletter. It's on the convergence of signs. Very exciting! The Convergence
You'll enjoy reading it.
In our school Bible reading time we finished Acts today and started Romans. Interesting to read the two parts together. Paul argues his case before Felix, goes through a ship wreck and then lays out what it really means to be a Christ-follower. In the shipwreck an angel appears to Paul and promises him in a personal sort of way, that no one with him should perish in the wreck.
How I wish an angel would appear to me, an assure me that no-one I know will perish in the upcoming judgement! Lord, work in the the lives of my friends and family, drawing them to Yourself, convicting them of sin, and helping them to repent!
The thoughts we reap from our time in the Word each day.
Spring, Passover, Resurrection Day, ground appearing. I have been working each day on getting the fish pond ready for our patient fish. I had to remove several chunks of ice and many rotting leaves. The fish are healthy, having wintered well on the bathroom counter. Right now the bees are sitting next to them. It's like going to a zoo in there...
One more interesting thing. As you know, my husband and I are singers. We are "choir geeks." My darling daughter, Margaret, got to meet and greet a well-known figure from the choral world.
She got his autograph for us.
Can you guess whose it is?
We were thrilled! Someday it will be as valuable as J.S. Bach's autograph. I'm convinced. Therefore I framed it.
Fun days. It's spring. Time to come alive again!
Pray the bees survive.
Update: 4/9/14-----Both packages of bees sold quickly last night! Yay!!!!
So how do we know?
Saturday was spent watching the fire and the sap boil. The sun was so gorgeous and warm that we soaked it in, the first of the year. Yes, for me, it was!
I ended up with a lovely pink burn on my face, but it was worth it!
We also got a little more than a quart of syrup, which we slurped up on Betty Crocker's recipe for pancakes on Sunday after church
.
We were naughty in Sunday School. Our pastor is doing a study on apologetics, and he mentioned modalism.
"That's modalism," he said, and three of us started to shake with laughter. Here's why:
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies
The eye of the pastor was upon us, and he said, "I must have touched a nerve."
Thankfully we have forgiving churchmates. Friends that read here, I offer our excuse for our bad behavior...
and apology!
Monday was a day for the bees.
We expected 5 packages of bees, but got SEVEN. Five were hived in the darkness last night. Two packages are buzzing in the bathroom again this year, and we're hoping someone at the bee meeting tonight will jump for joy at the opportunity to take them in and home.
If not, we must come up with the materials for the hives to house them. Perhaps this will be an experiment this year with non-conventional hive techniques. For now we are buzzed every time we go into the bathroom.
They are beautiful bees, and two lone bees paid a visit to our window, wanting entry. The glass is open and the screens are letting in a few spring breezes.
Our two other hives made it through the long winter, alive, and seem to be doing well. Yesterday I mixed up pollen patties and sugar syrup for all the hives to tie them over until the trees start flowering.
The dogs have spent time in the pen, both yesterday and today, and what a joy for them to be outside sun-bathing!
My mother had an experience of what appears to be divine healing this past weekend. Her eye appeared to have a problem requiring a rigid sort of convalescence, but the doctor who checked her before the final proceedings could find no trace of the problem! She had asked friends and family to pray. God answered.
She is very thankful.
I am so glad to be a child of God through this faith in Christ Jesus. We truly have the most wonderful faith. It spans the entire history of the world, it shows its mark on every aspect of creation, it reaches out in earnest appeal to every soul, yet it doesn't intrude or bully.
It is a privilege to adhere to a faith that exemplifies forgiveness, mercy and love. It is the most compassionate of faiths, and the most tolerant. God is so good to His children.
His Way is the best of ways, yet true to His perfect nature, He takes care that those who do not follow His Way will be punished. That is the way of Christianity, and the Word of God. It is one Way, no other. It must be followed through belief in Christ Jesus. Those are the conditions.
He is gentle in allowing the trials we must bear, too. It seems to us that we have so many things to work through, or heal from, but now matter how deep the valley, God's grace is there to compensate.
I look at our Christian brothers and sisters suffering in the Middle East right now, and I know it is awful---yet they have the grace from Holy Spirit to stand, even until the end.
One of my favorite radio people, Jan Markell, just sent out her newsletter. It's on the convergence of signs. Very exciting! The Convergence
You'll enjoy reading it.
In our school Bible reading time we finished Acts today and started Romans. Interesting to read the two parts together. Paul argues his case before Felix, goes through a ship wreck and then lays out what it really means to be a Christ-follower. In the shipwreck an angel appears to Paul and promises him in a personal sort of way, that no one with him should perish in the wreck.
How I wish an angel would appear to me, an assure me that no-one I know will perish in the upcoming judgement! Lord, work in the the lives of my friends and family, drawing them to Yourself, convicting them of sin, and helping them to repent!
The thoughts we reap from our time in the Word each day.
Spring, Passover, Resurrection Day, ground appearing. I have been working each day on getting the fish pond ready for our patient fish. I had to remove several chunks of ice and many rotting leaves. The fish are healthy, having wintered well on the bathroom counter. Right now the bees are sitting next to them. It's like going to a zoo in there...
One more interesting thing. As you know, my husband and I are singers. We are "choir geeks." My darling daughter, Margaret, got to meet and greet a well-known figure from the choral world.
She got his autograph for us.
Can you guess whose it is?
We were thrilled! Someday it will be as valuable as J.S. Bach's autograph. I'm convinced. Therefore I framed it.
Fun days. It's spring. Time to come alive again!
Pray the bees survive.
Update: 4/9/14-----Both packages of bees sold quickly last night! Yay!!!!
Friday, April 4, 2014
Watch
We are coming into a time of unprecedented change.
Can't you feel it?
Like never before, the world is growing agitated and restless, physically and politically, spiritually. No, we haven't experienced this type of agitation before.
I've watched, and it hasn't.
We are now in the end times.
Yes, I want to "mong" fear for a moment.
Earthquakes. Never before have we experienced so many 7.0 or higher magnitude earthquakes in succession. The charts reveal a significant increase in birth pangs. The physical kind.
Signs in the heavens: blood moons, solar eclipses, constellation alignments. It's all there. God specifically told us to watch the heavens, and they are revealing His glory, His plan.
Famine: it's coming. Four years until unrecoverable drought envelopes almost half of the United States. Bees are dying. Genetic modification of staple seeds is rampant.
Apostasy. I've been listening to a lengthy study on Jude this week. Remember, it was my book to read daily (or almost daily) last year. I never did memorize the 25 verses, but I did learn much from delving deep into it. Jude is the book that ushers in Revelation. The preacher I listened to called it the "Acts of the Apostates" in a wordplay on the other "Acts of the Apostles." Yes, it's hard to understand, because the message is referring to unprecedented events, things not to be comprehended before the right time.
It's the right time.
God, in His mercy, is wooing people right and left. He is calling the nations to repent, to turn to Him, to believe in His plan of salvation----Jesus Christ.
Scoffers abound. I can't see the news of the world each day without getting another report of mockery against Christians.
The horrors of the slaughter houses in Syria, Christians beheaded and butchered. How long, Oh Lord?
My sister-in-law, Susan Bergman, wrote a book on martyrs of the 20th century. She passed away in 2006. I would think another chapter would be added to the book since then, or perhaps a whole new book on martyrs of the 21st century would be appropriate.
We are facing unprecedented times.
News this morning is that the head of an internet programmer (Mozilla Firefox) was "dismissed," fired, for having a traditional view of marriage. Thanks a lot, tolerant world!
Losing your own company because of a holding of a core human value reeks of discrimination.
What are we coming to?
Perhaps the end?
When secret societies rule and hoodwink the rest of humanity, we watchmen, Bible believers, will stand apart, and in obvious protrusion. If you have anything to do with a secret society COME APART! Leave your lodge or coven. Leave it before it is too late and your allegiance to it trumps your allegiance to God.
Remember that you can find out ALL the secrets in this age of internet knowledge. Nothing is secret anymore! Do a little research, and see the truth for what it is. Make your own decision. God will not hold you guiltless for following another god. That is idolatry. Start to study the symbolism of your sect. Where did it come from? Even the Church is rife with symbolism that should make all of us uncomfortable, even if it has been adopted and re-made in a Christian cloak.
Come apart, those of you who seek eternal life. This life is ending. Rapidly.
One more subject. I've been watching the developments with interest, but caution.
Fallen angels and demons. The supernatural world is becoming bold in manifestations. Here in America there is a persistent attempt to decry and malign those who believe in the supernatural. Even "Christians" have this strange view that the demonic isn't real.
It is. It is in the Practice of deceit, as well, looking like aliens, or Norse gods, or beings of light and benevolence. Nordics, greys, and reptilians----all fallen beings. All supernatural, all created.
Yesterday Bill Clinton parroted a Ronald Reagan quote about the unity of mankind being brought about by an alien manifestation. Amazing, isn't it?
Yes, friends, we are coming to unprecedented times.
I mentioned the Illuminati to my brother the other day, and he completely blew me off. Yes, we are all lumped into the "conspiracy crazy" band when you even mention the word.
Sadly, there is too much evidence to deny that the devil has his massive conspiracy in full-fledged onslaught mode right now.
Warnings not heeded will be rued in days and months to come.
We all know what is right. It is written in our hearts. We can drown it in drunkenness, medicate it with anti-depressants, shop or travel it away, or see it for what it really is. TRUTH.
There is an elitist/knowledge superiority faction that will always think they are above simple truth (the 1% if you will...). Here is what Scripture says: Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Matthew 11:25
The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9
God is coming. He's wrapping everything up, and time will soon cease. Those who don't know Him will burn forever. Those who chose to wake up will be with Him.
Wake, awake! The Night is Coming.
Watch and see. Repent from your sin.
1 John 1:9: If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
You cannot serve two masters. Either you will love the one, and hate the other. Serve God. ALONE.
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Can't you feel it?
Like never before, the world is growing agitated and restless, physically and politically, spiritually. No, we haven't experienced this type of agitation before.
I've watched, and it hasn't.
We are now in the end times.
Yes, I want to "mong" fear for a moment.
Earthquakes. Never before have we experienced so many 7.0 or higher magnitude earthquakes in succession. The charts reveal a significant increase in birth pangs. The physical kind.
Signs in the heavens: blood moons, solar eclipses, constellation alignments. It's all there. God specifically told us to watch the heavens, and they are revealing His glory, His plan.
Famine: it's coming. Four years until unrecoverable drought envelopes almost half of the United States. Bees are dying. Genetic modification of staple seeds is rampant.
Apostasy. I've been listening to a lengthy study on Jude this week. Remember, it was my book to read daily (or almost daily) last year. I never did memorize the 25 verses, but I did learn much from delving deep into it. Jude is the book that ushers in Revelation. The preacher I listened to called it the "Acts of the Apostates" in a wordplay on the other "Acts of the Apostles." Yes, it's hard to understand, because the message is referring to unprecedented events, things not to be comprehended before the right time.
It's the right time.
God, in His mercy, is wooing people right and left. He is calling the nations to repent, to turn to Him, to believe in His plan of salvation----Jesus Christ.
Scoffers abound. I can't see the news of the world each day without getting another report of mockery against Christians.
The horrors of the slaughter houses in Syria, Christians beheaded and butchered. How long, Oh Lord?
My sister-in-law, Susan Bergman, wrote a book on martyrs of the 20th century. She passed away in 2006. I would think another chapter would be added to the book since then, or perhaps a whole new book on martyrs of the 21st century would be appropriate.
We are facing unprecedented times.
News this morning is that the head of an internet programmer (Mozilla Firefox) was "dismissed," fired, for having a traditional view of marriage. Thanks a lot, tolerant world!
Losing your own company because of a holding of a core human value reeks of discrimination.
What are we coming to?
Perhaps the end?
When secret societies rule and hoodwink the rest of humanity, we watchmen, Bible believers, will stand apart, and in obvious protrusion. If you have anything to do with a secret society COME APART! Leave your lodge or coven. Leave it before it is too late and your allegiance to it trumps your allegiance to God.
Remember that you can find out ALL the secrets in this age of internet knowledge. Nothing is secret anymore! Do a little research, and see the truth for what it is. Make your own decision. God will not hold you guiltless for following another god. That is idolatry. Start to study the symbolism of your sect. Where did it come from? Even the Church is rife with symbolism that should make all of us uncomfortable, even if it has been adopted and re-made in a Christian cloak.
Come apart, those of you who seek eternal life. This life is ending. Rapidly.
One more subject. I've been watching the developments with interest, but caution.
Fallen angels and demons. The supernatural world is becoming bold in manifestations. Here in America there is a persistent attempt to decry and malign those who believe in the supernatural. Even "Christians" have this strange view that the demonic isn't real.
It is. It is in the Practice of deceit, as well, looking like aliens, or Norse gods, or beings of light and benevolence. Nordics, greys, and reptilians----all fallen beings. All supernatural, all created.
Yesterday Bill Clinton parroted a Ronald Reagan quote about the unity of mankind being brought about by an alien manifestation. Amazing, isn't it?
Yes, friends, we are coming to unprecedented times.
I mentioned the Illuminati to my brother the other day, and he completely blew me off. Yes, we are all lumped into the "conspiracy crazy" band when you even mention the word.
Sadly, there is too much evidence to deny that the devil has his massive conspiracy in full-fledged onslaught mode right now.
Warnings not heeded will be rued in days and months to come.
We all know what is right. It is written in our hearts. We can drown it in drunkenness, medicate it with anti-depressants, shop or travel it away, or see it for what it really is. TRUTH.
There is an elitist/knowledge superiority faction that will always think they are above simple truth (the 1% if you will...). Here is what Scripture says: Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. Matthew 11:25
The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have? Jeremiah 8:9
God is coming. He's wrapping everything up, and time will soon cease. Those who don't know Him will burn forever. Those who chose to wake up will be with Him.
Wake, awake! The Night is Coming.
Watch and see. Repent from your sin.
1 John 1:9: If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
You cannot serve two masters. Either you will love the one, and hate the other. Serve God. ALONE.
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