GROUNDED IN HIM

Jun. 3, 2022

One of the chores pending is to water the plants inside our house. Most of them are in the sun room but they are many and they are at different levels. I am always amazed at how much water it takes to keep them healthy and alive. I am also amazed at how much water I spill in transport. Often as I do this, I look out through the window at the beautiful woods and ponder how much water each tree must have daily just to survive. We seldom think of this or thank God for doing this for us, not only in our yards but all over the world .

I am off today. I plan to just do a few fiddle piddle projects around the house. I really enjoy yard work and really think this helps to keep me grounded (pun intended). As I go about these various chores, I often think and wish there was a National Piddle Championship. I think I would be primed and ready for this right now since I have been practicing for many years.

Sometimes I will take potted plant outside to the porch . This allows them to feel the sun's warmth directly as opposed to filtered through the window. I am always amazed at the way the the plant responds to this. It grows at such a much faster rate and looks so much more healthy in just weeks.

I will have planted this analogy in your mind to try to convince you to pick up your Bible and begin reading it for yourself. I promise that if you pick up God's word and read it daily it will give you a pick up like no other. Your faith will grow by leaps and bounds . God has given this world many gifted teacher, preachers , and musicians who seek to give him glory and make Him known. They are planted by him in various places and at different levels to help nurture, grow , and tweak your faith. This is all well and good but you need to hear from him yourself. His unfiltered thoughts will be pure and will slowly soak into your heart and mind. He will talk to your heart directly and in such a way a that you will find hope, encouragement, direction and most of all peace.

I assure you that the most gifted preacher on this planet is no match for helping your faith along as reading God's word for yourself . The ones that are for Him and from Him would be the first to agree! May you be grounded in Him!

The Bible is not an option; it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

Billy Graham

Our creator would have never made such lovely days and have given us deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our Bible's aren't meant to sit on our shelves in pristine condition but are meant to be worn down with daily use.

Michael Youssef

As you come up our drive and after you cross the small creek,you pass between two field stone

pillars that match the stones on our home. There is a light atop both of them . Right now, one is green and the the side is white. The green light is to show support for all the people who serve our military as well

as those who have done so in the past.

At Christmas i hang white lights along the 4 rail horse fence. We change the white one to red and

The entryway is good to go. The placement of the red and green has a reason behind it as well.

It may seem to be be random but Iassure you is not the case.

On a plane the red light is always on the left side and the green is on the right side. green and right both

have 5 letters and this was how I was taught to remember as a boy. This applies to boats as well.

Our oldest son, Josh, is a navel aviator. He and his wonderful wife , Christina, are a week or two from going

to Japan. They have lived in several places over the last few years. They lived in Fallon Nevada

most recently and we were blessed to have all of our boys and their girls under our roof and together

the holidays.

Since they aproached our farm from the west the right light was green and the left one was on the left

came home. When they were out east in Va it was the reversed. Japan is on the other side of the world

so I am not sure what I will do. I have not stepped it off but am told it is about as far east to west as it is

west to east.

God is a concerned loving Father who loves you so much! He has made a way for you to come

home through his son Jesus. The porch light of heaven is on . You have a green light my friend.

Because of the red blood of Jesus ,your sins are forgiven . Your approach is cleared as well as all your sins.

As far as the east is from the west,so far has removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:12

ENTRY

Yesterday I went out to check on the horses. It has again been vey hot here of late and a daily chore

to top off the water troughs will cool clear water.As I make my rounds the horses ususlly get excited when they hear the sound of our old red ATV. Because this vehicle usally has horse feeds as well as carrots, we c call it "Chuck" short for chuck wagon .

There is a mare and two young ones in the south pasture. I whistled and they did not come. I banged on the

red tubes on the gate with the scooper. It makes a sound that sounds like a hillbilly dinner bell. I had seen them the evening before and knew they were ok. I surmised they had found a place with a breeze and had it made in the shade.

I set the bright orange bucket filled with feed and carrots in front of the gate. This bucket was a physical reminder for me to "lets do this later". I had some mowing to do and that filled several hours of the afternoon. I kept looking down at the water tank seeing they had not yet drank from it and for the first time became a little concerned.

I went down to the gate and did the two tone whistle my dad taught me. I do this in honor of him and have taught my sons to do the same. They all would turn and prick up their earsand know it was me if I did this even in a crowd.

I banged again on the gate and in no time flat heard the three of them flat out running as hard as they could

go. They seemed happy to see me and even more to see Chuck .They were breathing heavy as they devoured their snacks.

My friend I believe God is calling all of us. As we read Scripture, we learn he calls us all differently . Many people tell me after I speak that I missed my calling. I would quite my practice and enroll in seminary school tomorrow if I felt in my heart that is what God wanted for me. I answered my "call to the see" many years ago. I love the interaction I have with patients for the most part. I never would have believed God would and could could use me to write these stories for his glory.

He has blended and used the very things I love and hold dear such as horses, hunting , and rivers . I am often very surprised at how stories and lessons come together in such a way that I know it is not me but him working through me. Here is the exciting part, he wants to do the same with you. You may not be called to write or do eyes but you are being called . What do you do that gives you joy and satisfaction? There is your best clue in regard to what God is calling you to do.

I pray that at times this website feeds you. I write for all God's people and not just those who gather under the steeple. All I know is when I do this with the hope of pleasing my Savior, it just feels so "write"!

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things

you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

When you empty yourself, God rushes in.

A.W. Tozer

For the man who prays in his heart ,the whole world is a church.

Sylvain of Athos

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