Laugh!!!!!!!!

............Sometimes I just want to tell you what I have been up to....... I put too much on myself sometimes and I really am a very fun person...... Seems that lately I have not been laughing much and I really need to get back to that......... My grandmother said that by the time I was two years old I was in the big middle of everything trying to make people laugh...... and I think that was what carried me through the terrible times in my life.......... I always laugh.......

...... Grandmother said that I reminded her of my Uncle James........ he had dark eyes and laughed all the time.......... He was tragically killed in a train accident just one month before I was born in 1947.......... I think that the Lord gave me his sense of humor and his ability to make people laugh to help remind Grandmother that her son James was alive and well and she would see him again.............

anyway...........

...... The past 8 months or so my DH and I have had this little rent house hanging over our heads... We purchased the house three years ago for a family member with the thoughts that they would live in it for years..... We went in and cleaned and painted and fenced in the back yard and made it quite the little home.......... Well how many of you know that life gets in the way of your plans and this past September they left very quickly without any notice and the house was trashed......... oh my......... We just did not need that right now........... We were building the little house for my Mom and Dad and we were right in the middle of that project and mercy!!!!!!!

....... Anyway, to make a long story short and spare you the cry baby sob sob story.......... We have been working on that little house evenings and every weekend for months and months....... Now you know how that can just wear you down........ BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my DH was on Spring Break last week and we got up every morning and got our coffee and headed over to the house and by Thursday we finished that project and there is a for sale sign in the yard!!!!!!!! Thank you Lord......

........ It was just one of those little dark clouds that hang over your head and try as you might you cannot escape .......... like a thorn in the flesh.....ahahhahahha . Bless his heart my DH was doing most of it alone the past couple of months due to my back problem that has jumped up and bit me in the butt......... so to speak........ but I could do some things and I tried to help all I could...... but somewhere along the way I lost my laughter and the Lord reminded me today that He misses hearing me laugh........... What a precious thing that was to hear Him say......

...... We get so caught up in the day to day that we forget that we are just passing through .... this is not our home and we are sojourners.......... and we need not pitch our tents with the expectation of being here long...........

........ Sometimes I forget that..... in the scheme of things it really does not matter and what is needed most is to not take life so serious........ Laughter is good medicine and it has served me well all of my life......... soooooooooo I am going to rest a bit this week and see if I can find my giggle box again........

.......... I think that the Jesus in me is the Jesus with the laughing eyes......... you need the Jesus in me .........Life throws things at us and goodness knows that if we do not lighten up sometimes we will be overcome with the burdens......... . I think that He has quite the sense of humor........ if you don't believe that just look in the mirror..........aahahahha

.............. That is why I love to go out and read your blogs........ I need the Jesus in each of you...... it is a good balance don't you think?

........... Ok.... I guess you have figured out by now that I am in a really strange mood so I will just get off of here and go and read a while.........

........... laughter is a gift that we can give away............. and still have plenty for ourselves.........

Remember the young man by the name of Bryan Manuel? I posted about him on Feb. 26th titled Swim with the Dolphins.....Please remember him on this Easter Sunday.. He is just steps away from the Father God.. He is at home with his wife and children.... She is sitting by his bed.... He will be leaving soon.... Maybe today... this Easter Sunday...... just remember them today as we celebrate life in Christ.........

Spring Brings New Life............. Jesus is Spring.....

Isa. 53:4

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa. 53:5

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

Isa. 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Isa. 53:7

He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth.



..............I pray that He hath borne your grief and you will let Him carry your sorrow....... I pray that the sin that you carry you will place on the wounds that He suffered..... and if there is torment you will exchange them for the peace that He purchased.... and that you will see the stripes upon His back and believe that each one was so that you could be healed..........



.............I pray that you will speak and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to those around you and shout from the highest mountain of the goodness of God.......... because He remained silent and purchased your right to speak.............


It is finished what the prophets of old have penned............. and He Has Risen!!!!!!!!!

Be blessed this Easter each and one of you......my very special friends..........

That's A Fact !!!

2Cr 4:8 [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;

2Cr 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;


Oh my..... that's a fact!.......


I was up very late last night... trouble with my legs so I sat here in my new comfy chair and surfed the blogs......... My heart laughed with many of them and then cried with many........ There is trouble on every hand in the lives of so many of God's people.... and that is a fact................


I was born again in the late 70's and it was not many years after that that the name it and claim it gospel was spreading through the church..... I was living in Tulsa Oklahoma and I can tell you that it was terrible....... If you needed something all you had to do was name it and claim it...... If you were sick you just needed ignore the facts and just claim that you were well... ....... If you were living from pay check to pay check then you faith was brought into judgment..Because all you had to do what find the scripture that talked about prosperity and claim it and all your money needs would be over..... Name it and claim it....All you had to do was confess the word, confess the word, repetition repetition .. I think the word of God calls it vain repetition .......deny the fact...... ignore what was before us....... put our head in the sand and quote over and over and over that it is not real........ Name it and claim it..........Mercy It was a terrible time in the body of Christ..

It brought about doubt and shame and insecurity in the child of God that could not seem to "get what they needed from the Lord". They were looked upon as weak in their faith........... How not like God............. show me one hero in the word of God that did not suffer in their lives.......... Not a one............. If there was trouble in your life then you were not believing God enough and you were weak in the faith..... Mercy........ I am glad that period in the body of Christ has passed away..............

I knew people personally that kept a little book of all the things that they were claiming in the name of Christ and they would put a check mark beside it when it came to pass....... I tell you this because it was a false doctrine and it hurt a lot of people...

..........There are facts of life that we cannot avoid no matter what we do....... Facts are facts and they are undisputed............ OR are they.........

2Cr 4:8 FACT [We are] troubled on every side, TRUTH yet not distressed; FACT [we are] perplexed, TRUTH but not in despair;

2Cr 4:9 FACT Persecuted, TRUTH but not forsaken; FACT cast down, TRUTH but not destroyed;....

We have to understand that after every fact in our life there is a TRUTH in the word of God .. There will always be a TRUTH in His word that we can lean on when the facts overwhelm us..... The facts are.................... but the TRUTH is greater................ The word tells us that there is trouble....that we will be perplexed ... we will be persecuted, we will be cast down....... those are facts........... but let us move our eyes from the facts that press in on us daily and keep our eyes focused on the truth of the word of God ...... His word is Truth and it is greater than the facts that we face ........... He is truth........... and His truth will set us free..............

AND THE WINNER IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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