Thursday, April 16, 2009

GOD LOVES YOU AND ME!!!!!

I received a text today asking when I was going to update my blog, well the truth is that this last week I've been going through a rough time. Satan, (whose name I despise using) has used a lot of things to beat Bert and I up. The last couple of days I just needed to feel and hear how much my Jesus loves me. I cried out to feel His love wrap around me and tell me I was special. I have felt broken. Have you ever been there?
This morning at 2:30 am when I could not sleep God told me to get my special envelope out of my Bible and read the love letter that I have kept for 35 years.
It read:

My Dearest Charles (my nickname)
Words are inadequate to express my love for you.
Honey, my heart abounds with pride when I see
or even think of you. What more can I say except,
I Love You. Remember, "All things work together
for good to them that love God".
I haff to close.

Daddy

God said, "That's what I want you to know". I bet my Dad was telling God remind her of the note. Thank you Father God and thank you Daddy for writing me this note 35 years ago.


Monday, April 6, 2009

God's Beauty

It's always amazing to me how once in the spring time my roses break forth with massive beauty. They survived even though my irrigation system was not watering them for two weeks during the brutal summer heat. They always barely seem to make it through the summer anyway looking weak with dead limbs and dried leaves. But every December I trim them down to mere stalks and remove all the dead leaves. I give them fertilizer and extra water. I even coat the newly formed buds and leaves with insecticide to make sure the new growth is not harmed. Until finally I get to see the beauty.
Isn't that how God takes care of us. He's there through the Holy Spirit even though we don't feel like He is. He wraps His arms around us when we are going through the rough times and we feel like my roses look in the summer. He uses His word to trim and prune our life. He feeds us from living water and He covers us with His blood so we have forgiveness.
To all my family and friends, have a blessed Easter and expect great things to happen during Passover and Easter.










Thursday, April 2, 2009