31 This is the day the LORD has made...I WILL REJOICE!

We--Mr. MacGreggor and I--have been sloshing through this 'muck' for so long that I thought I might never see this day.

What day, you ask?  

Well, I will be sooooooooo glad to tell you! 

When God said, 

'This is the day that I have made, I will be glad and rejoice in it'...

I have tried to be faithful to do just that, see things as will be, not what they are.   Look past the circumstances, don't worry about tomorrow...live today and meet the troubles head on.  

Of course I have been saying these things to Greg, huh Greg?

I have been studying Hebrews and gleaning some wonderful things (with the help on the Amplified Version):

"We have the Hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul.....It cannot slip...It cannot breakdown on who ever steps out on it....  A hope that reaches farther and enters into the very certainty of the Presence within the veil."   (that was Heb. 6:19)

Vs 20 sez: " in which it is impossible for God to prove false or deceive us;  We, who have fled to Him for refuge, might have MIGHTY INDWELLING STRENGTH and STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT...to grasp and hold fast the Hope appointed for us..."

After talking to Greg this day (the  Lord made)  I prayed:  "God, you are so faithful...so gracious...so merciful to us who are so challenged by the enemy of our souls....to mistrust, lack trust  in  your great and precious promises...You are God,  The Great I Am!!

It is such a blessing to have 'crawled, limped, cried, whined', through this abyss of depression with Greg—

Because he has come out on the other side.

Today he said to me, he had it all backward...every morning he figured he was "staring death in the face"----when now he knows each day is a miracle, a day of life that he has been given.

Physically and actually things are still in a 'crisis' mode.  Can't see daylight....but God is showing up all over the place...not in the way we asked for or wanted, or expected.  But God in His infinite wisdom is 'directing' this Greg Toft drama...and He knows what He is doing and going to do, we just have to TRUST Him, He knows the way.

He still has some mighty hurdles to jump, but God will give him wisdom and strength, or God just might pick him up and jump the hurdles with him...or just simply remove the hurdles...guess we will wait and see, eh? Well, again...hang in there, hang on tight to His hand, and we'll see you here, there or in the air. In the morning!!  Crayola Love and MORE... .Nanny...aka Mom...smile

30 A Merry Heart (something to smile about)

Some excuses we have heard all of our lives, about why  people don't want to go to church.

I just read a tract with some great humor:

I've been a Sports Fan all of my life:

Football in the fall...

Basketball in the winter...

Baseball in the spring and summer...

BUT I WILL NEVER GO TO ANOTHER GAME BECAUSE:

They always ask me for money...

The people I sat with were not very friendly...

The seats were too hard...

The coach never asked me for advice...

The referee made some bad calls...

Some people cared more about their looks than the game...

Some games went into overtime and I was late getting home...

The band played numbers that I didn't know...

Too many games didn't fit into my schedule...

My parents took me to many games while I was growing up...

I have read many books on sports and I know as much as the coaches...

I don't take my kids to any games so that they can make their own choices...

Well what do you think of that?   I thought it was quite funny, but disconcerting at the same time.

What do you think of your choices????

Jesus could return very soon...where do you think your choices will get you?

Hang in there, hang on tight to His hand, and we'll see you here, there, or in the air!!

(Hang on Greg!)

29 A Hovering Peace

Our young Pastor is soooooo good...and right on target too.   Seems to know just what I am thinking, or working thru...(think it might be the Holy Spirit?   Me thinks so!!)   Greg, so it might have something to do with you and yours?   

Well since this is our thing that we seem to be walking thru, you and me, and all the rest of  'those guys'....I am listening to the Holy Spirit....and trying to take it in as He reveals it to me.

Our Pastor always amazes me, in the wonderful way he takes us to a subject you have traveled to before, and puts a new  truth on the old truth.  

Today it was  "Fear and Love".  Right out of Mark ch 4 where we have been for a few weeks.

The disciples (and a few boatloads of others following Jesus)  had been with Jesus as He taught from a boat, on the shores of Galilee,  and after teaching, He sent them away, and said to the disciples, let's go to the other side.  During the night  up came a big storm, a big one!  After rowing for hours and losing ground, taking on water, they thought they were going to drown!!   

Where was Jesus?...Where? Asleep in the boat...sleeping away, on a pillow (it said)  not a care in the world, or in the sea specifically.  They woke him up and said, "Don't you care?  Master…that we are going to drown?"

He was the miracle worker, He had healed diseases,  raised some from the dead,  cast out demons....But here was a very desperate situation...hopeless, something they had no control over....He is right there....but he is asleep....sleeping when they were in so much trouble...they'd rowed all night and were getting   N O  WHERE!  

They might not have been able to fathom how a miracle worker would handle this situation, but He could at least wake up and  bail water faster than they could, maybe..."Wake  up and be afraid with us!  Help us at least get to the other side."

Oh, you silly kids, He might have said,  I created all this....PEACE...He said.....and the sea became  as still as a sheet of glass....there was not enough wind as to flutter an eye lash.  He just BREATHED  the word  peace....and it was done!!

D O N E !!    

 

Nothing is out of Jesus control,  NOTHING!!  (remember He spoke the world into existence?  What breath!)

Why are we afraid, why were they afraid?.....  We do not have faith!    We cannot grasp the fact that He is God.  Just like they couldn't grasp it.   Then... they became VERY afraid of WHO Jesus was, it sez, 'What manner of man is this that even the winds and waves obey Him?  WHO Is HE?

Right now, I am afraid,  because I have dared to say, 'Jesus, where are you?  Are you asleep?  Don't you care if we perish?  When are you going to do something about Greg's situation?  I am asking this of THE MIGHTY and HOLY GOD...Who spoke the worlds into existence, says peace be still to the roaring wind and waves...

Then...our precious pastor takes us to Genesis Ch 1 vs 2...one version sez...'the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of the Lord hovered over the waters.'    So when I say, ”God where are you?”   He  answers....'Hovering, my Child, hovering over you, all is in control, I am near, very near...I have told you repeatedly, I will NEVER leave you nor forsake you....you can trust me;  I AM the great I AM. 

He is hovering over us with complete power and authority.   The Presence of God has dominion over what the world calls chaos,  the raging of the wind and the sea.  We realize how un-holy we are because of His Holiness...what will it take to bring us to the end of ourselves?   If you don't trust Christ....YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO FEAR!!   The disciples were starting to get it....they were VERY afraid.   

Father, help us to get it...help us to keep coming to the foot of the cross.  Keep on coming,  keep on loving,  help me/us be stunned by your love!    My prayer is for us to really trust you and leave all the problem solving to You.   As they say, ' I am giving it to God and going to bed, He is going to be up all night anyway!’

So look up!  Hang in there! Hang on tight to His hand, and we'll see you here, there or in the air!!

See y'all in the Morning,

Nanny

28 Today I Quit

Quit what?   

Well that IS the question...  Certainly it isn't...breathing... (I hope)  *smile*

Eating?   Well, we know better than that!  

But as I meditated this a.m.,  I thought of  how God's mercies are new every morning....so if I am struggling with something  (and when might that be?)  *smile*....This is a good time to quit STRUGGLING.    

So if I am trying so hard to do or be something…(that obviously I am not)  maybe I ought to stop TRYING.......

Really???  

Yes!!!

Trying to change me into what I think God wants......struggling, to do what I think God wants me to be!

What is the answer?  

I have heard it all my life...let go and let God......

Let God do the changing...relax in Him....(don't lie down and go to sleep... *smile*)  But let Him change me...let Him place His peace in and on my life.  

I certainly have made a mess, but He knows me better than I know myself...I cannot change who I am...what I am...it takes a supernatural power of which I have none, except thru Jesus Christ.

Lord prepare me, to be a sanctuary,

Pure and holy, tried and true.

With thanksgiving, I'll be a living sanctuary for You.

Well Mr. McGreggor...what is it for you today?  

It has been very quiet up there...which seems to be a good thing, at least you aren't in the hospital, or laying on the ground and don't have the strength to get up.  Lost the contract on your phone, but you have a little flip phone for emergencies, thanks to Keith...my Buddy, and yours …*smile*

I am not complaining, I am just thanking God for a little respite for you.  

Nothing has changed with your condition, but  it seems your meds are helping you cope.  

Lots of prayers going up for you, and one day, we will see the light at the end of the tunnel...

Soooooooooooooooo--Look up! Hang on tight to His Hand...

We'll see  you here, there, or in the air!