He Will Carry You!

I think the only reason Nebuchadnezzar lives was because he challenged some human minds to think

{Originally written on 1/1/19}


A covenant of brain development...

Perhaps a figment of my imagination I believe that the translation of Enoch to heaven was a translation of brain development as well as a translation of heart relationship...

God is intensely defending his own glory, is a  given.  We cannot know or see God without faith.  It is impossible to please HIm.  we must believe that he is and is a rewarded of them that diligently seek him.   What is diligently seeking God?  Is. It repeating the Halleluiah with or without a faith base.  Absolutely not!  Is it consistency in our vows and responsibilities?  We know that Jesus paid it all in that regard.

My mind says that God wants us to pursue Him with our minds.  He has set up a world where we are able to seek his will for our lives with our minds and with our hearts and with our hands

What means swords to plowshears.  Fighting the battle for better health and seeing the purpose of God in the things that are around us?  do we use our faith to do that?  Very rarely...

What if climbing up the mountain is a symbolism for being a church which is stuck on the mountain of legality in PIlgrim's Progress?  What if our moving forward is a judgment against our not using our faith to advance our minds and look up where we are in the greater scheme of things?  What if? what if we are stuck in a church history motif that is trying our working together with likeminded brethren of other colors and cultures?  Are we winning or losing that battle?  God is going to show Himself just as prejudiced against our directions as we are to our avowed prejudicial acceptance... We accept our own prejudices and can see our infidelities that we accept very clearly.

What if we haven't even made it to the wicket gate with our burdens because our theology is eschewed thinking that we are saved by our much churchyness....?god give us eyes to see that God will and has tolerated heresies and false beliefs that have damned generations or blinded them to the true faith that God expected them to live on the earth.  Are we entertaining ourselves to death?  Are we fighting the good fight?

Taking care of our lives and our bodies and our world is a part of our relationship with God.  where is our song about walking through the wicket gate and guiding others through and avoiding the fiery darts of the wicked one?   where is our song about learning the difference between legality and true faith?  Is our simplicity of faith blinding us from real study of the Word and great literature.  

Overcoming by the "word of their testimony means engaging in the word warfare that locks our eyes from seeing the mission of the church in our age.  We are not looking at the map and singing as we go thinking the next stop is heaven and we are supposed to be learning a lesson of legality that is lost because we are thinking that a lesson is for the sons of Japheth...

Seize the Day. The code belongs to us, but not if we aren't reading and translating as we ought.

"She Shall be saved?" What is our future salvation?

She shall be saved through the childbearing... If they continue?

Is every promise in the book mine? No promise in the book is mine if I am not attached to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that this is the deception of our era.

It resonate salvation apart from the covenant of church membership. Spurious faith as expressed by unattached humans to covenant of marriage and of covenant all agreements far and wide reaching. There is little or no protection from the elements of this world system of deceptions in our own strength if we are walking in our awn sins. we all too often are walking in our sins and the degradation follows us from generation to generation. The "Devolution of our race in the full light of the sun of God's entire revelation given to us and yet we would much rather walk in the light of our own expressions than pour over what is already revealed. we are not tricking our children and they are indeed calling us into question on al of our inconsistencies with regard to our faith. Why are you acting as an unattached Christian. why is your attachment greater to the things of the world than the things of Christ.

Which in regards to women, He shall rule over her. With regard to Her desire, Her desire is to rule over Men and this is far and wide reaching. God promises to subdue such unprincipled desires. You want to be the ruler of the world Woman! God says You will want to take over and do what you want all over the place. It is a Psychosis of Femininity and God has promises regarding this. He will allow it for a moment and then thwart it to the utmost. How much better to accept your position and usefulness in Scripture and do what God intends you to do? why don't we do this. We want our own way and we reap the negative consequences of such actions. God is not tricked by our wrong impulses. God is designing how we will be it back into place as He intended. God has a purpose for our creation and the more we kick against the pricks, so to speak the more we are reaping the sad unnecessary consequences of our own actions. God wants to be known by us. He has spoken, clearly in Scripture about what we are a how we should be acting, but we would rather create our own path of regulating principles.

We are looking for our own way...

Let's follow the move of God's anointing in stead. Be attached to God's Church.

Watching my boys be boys!

I love watching the Gadsdens first crushes.  They are so disciplined in their lives and yet there is a carefreeness that they seem attracted to in the girls who are more often in trouble.  Perhaps it is the attention that their trouble creates for them or something else, maybe.

 I watched William's short stint of a crush with Rhema and that has fizzled and now it is Joshua and Kaylee.  There is something freeing that he seems to find in playing with her.  She has absolutely no consideration for rules, whatsoever.  She lives as though no person should or has the right to direct her steps.  She never sits or stands when the class is directed to and if there is a directive given to everyone, she is sure to go the other way. 

Thursday morning Joshua sat next to her, looked up in the air as he always does and said I am Joshua and then they proceeded to play together without another word said between them until breakfast.  They were dressing the paper dolls.  A game that few of the threes engage in.  It takes some observation and hand skill that isn't cared for by most of the children, but they found a common thread there and it was curious to me how two very opposite children could find commonality.

I am prejudicely suspect of only children by bias.  I hardly think them able to learn to really share, whereas children in a larger family have no choice but to share from their earliest moments of life.  I realize that my bias is wrong and baseless, but I haven't seen it really work out that only children don't take advantage of what is a rule of law for children in larger families.  All children are selfish, but it has long been my opinion that only children can only be understood by only children and multiples, the same.  The family dynamic draws out personality traits that are best kept to themselves, as I see it.  The concept of cherishing and mine alone is sometimes lost in a big family and needs to be learned and the concept of sharing and community like to the only child, in my opinion.

In any case, I was liking the personality sharing that was happening between Kaylee and Joshua.  He was feeling free in her freedom and she was learning disciplines she hasn't exercised before.  All over a couple of paper dolls!

Although we didn't celebrate Santa at Christmas, I can see how he could fit into the festivities

How Christmas might be a good assistant in child rearing?

I don't remember Christmas being held over our heads as children.   We watched the children specials and memorized the Santa Clause jingles in every form.  Somehow it doesn't seem to stick in my mind, a time that I said to myself, I won't do this or that naughty thing because Santa won't remember me.  We did believe in Santa and we did get good grades, but we also did naughty things at all times of the year, Christmas notwithstanding.

Since working in childcare, I have seen parents starting in September reminding and pulling out Santa as an impetus to progress and better behavior.  I didn't even think about that with my children.  I thought about truth and a lie.  

I thought if I tell that lie about Santa, they may not believe me about Jesus.  That was my only reason for not invoking his name.  We read his history, like Christopher Columbus and Miguel Cervantez and Horatio Nelson.  I forgot to tell them not to spill the beans to the believers in Santa cousins.  We felt sorry for the deceived children who couldn't find it in their hearts to try to behave for Galatians 6:1 sake.  God said it. There is forgiveness with Christ that He may be feared.  They didn't mean harm in sharing with cousins that Santa was a historic figure and that He wasn't actually coming down the chimney on Christmas.  They thought that truth was obvious.

Well there is something very sober about rearing children to try to be good for goodness sake and to expect good from God and ignoring the Santa motives.

Still, I feel I missed a great opportunity of investing in the imagination of my children in that season.  We have many special memories, but Santa was an aside.

I love what Santa represents in this time in my life.  I love the trout that we all know that children need multiple motives to behave and one of them is imaginary and special and all kind, unless you are naughty.   It draws out their own attempts at finding good and kind motives for younger people and maybe it could snowball into great imaginations of better and better motives to do good.  God should be enough, we know.  But, sometimes people need great imaginations of better people than the ones that they know to guide them to a good imagination of God.  That is what I have grown to believe about Santa.

"Eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those that love Him."

Thursday and Friday I saw Lauren's name in the sky...

Mu was on cloud duty again. I always am sure it is her, because she writes Lauren's name, very clearly for me. Just in case, you forgot to pray for Lauren I am spelling it out for you! I didn't forget, Mu. I am praying for Lauren!

This time the U in Lauren was leaking. I said why is the U leaking? I just kept it in my heart and mind of the U in Lauren leaking. Sunday was the answer to the question. Acceptable and Unacceptable was the answer to my question and the choir was totally in sync with Heaven, helping me work on my puzzles. That is how God works all the time. He places a question in your mind in the week and then He answers Himself on Sunday and you say, what if I didn't go to church, wouldn't I ever know the answer to the question and the answer is probably no. I can't tell you how many questions in my mind are unanswered because I wasn't in church that Sunday to get the answer to it. Some things you can't receive if you are not there. It is God's you had to be there moment with us. This time I caught it. I hope I remember not to miss it next time.

When the tried and true methods of napping them prove unsuccessful, what do you do?

I remember with an odd fondness, the tremendous sense of ineptitude that I felt with my Emily at naptime.   Each day was a wrestling match which I rarely won. When prayerful walking and rocking and cooing and cajoling didn't bare the fruit I expected my only recourse was to pray and play with her.  You lose, mommy she laughed as she saw me succumb to her antics. She insisted on tag, or hide and go seek in the house.  She wasn't a child that I could play the memory game with.  It was a challenge everyday and she kept me in the best shape of my life...   Some family exorcisms are successful and some are not.   My mommy had her hands ful with me and I received my remuneration with interest in my Emmy.   I am grateful to know that God saves to the utmost, whether you get them to nap, or not...

what happens when somebody picks up the can instead of kicking it?

what happens when somebody picks up the can instead of kicking it?Much conflict, but much accomplished as well.

how's your eye make up?

Put on the cosmetic of a meek and quiet spirit? Can I do that, Lord? Is that for me in this season of my life?

I will start with my prayer over my eye make up. Dear God, please help this make me look to you for my sustenance. Dear God, please help me adorn the Gospel with my behavior and what I look at as well as how I look. When I am made up, help me to be transparent and aware of the darker circles around my heart because of my sin, which no one can see. Help me to be more aware of not covering my sin before you than I am to cover those circles on my face. God, you know my heart is wicked and I would use the coverings for much more. Help me to be true to You! For the sake of Christ. Amen!

Motherhood 101: I am not a professor, but I have a few things to say!

What my Daughter, what, daughter of my womb, what daughter of my vows!

Motherhood is essentially weaving!

Weaving dreams and hopes and desires into purpose is the consequential life of mothering. You give of yourself and you give up yourself into the loom of developing community, first in your home and then in your world. What can you do? What are you good at? Where can you use it?

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but godliness is next to God. Are you next to God, or are you twice removed?

Some of us say, I have studied about God in church and temple and school and others say, I know God. Be the latter and teach from knowing God and not just knowing about Him! We are not dogs we are humans and there is a mental and emotional component of human instruction. when we divorce that from the equation, we create a species that God doesn't know of. They are human creations, just like many of my crocheted cloths. They can go in the garbage, and I would be sad, but no human should be in that category!