Musings and Marvelings on my Jesus Journey

I am musing about.... Ouch! Living and Learning! So this week I have been dealing with a really stiff neck. Ouch! Turn it one way and it spasms. Turn it the other and it catches. It would almost take my breath away at times. It was real! Thankfully, praise God, I seem to be on the mend. Well I have consequently been sleeping in the Lazy Boy. The other night I woke up. Needed to head to the bathroom. As I tried to lower the footrest on the chair, it seemed to lock in place....and then it JeRkEd! Ouch! Still (surprisingly) in a disoriented sleepy fog, I headed for the door. I was unaccustomed to sleeping in that room. I forgot that the door was closed. Bam! I ran smack dab into it! It was what I would call a "Lucille Ball" moment. It would have been a great laugh scene for sure. But it hurt! The next day, I got up in the middle of the night again. This time I was much more aware. I did not run into the closed door :) I lived and I learned. Such is the way as we journey this lif...

 After seeing this cool display (see pic) at a botanical garden recently..... I am musing about ..... Trumpet Sounds Are you listening? For the trumpet sounds? Are you noticing? The signs of the times? The fulfilling of Scripture? Are you preparing? Your hearts and your souls? Are you praying? For the Church? Are you seeking? For lost souls? Are you sharing? Christ's love? Are you lifting up? Your heads? Are your eyes on the clouds? Are your ears tuned? For those blasts? Those trumpet blasts? We know not the day nor the hour. But we can discern the times. And we can say, it surely seems that.... Redemption...... draweth nigh!! Luke 21:28                                                            

I am musing about.... TWO RUGS Do we sometimes "bury our feelings under a rug"? It is easy to do. It is often a coping mechanism, a way to deal with life's challenges. To not address and deal with an issue can be unhealthy. But then again, there just may be a healthy way to do it. It all depends on which rug you are burying your challenges under. Is it the rug of Denial? That place where you want to stuff your emotions, to pretend that they do not exist, or at least that they do not matter? Or is it the rug of God's Sovereignty and goodness? May we first acknowledge our struggle, name it for what it is, explore the ramifications, the way it is affecting our heart and our life. May we pray that the Lord will help us as we process. But once we realize that it is something that is out of our control, even though it is something that may cause us sadness or distress, what a comfort it is to hand it over to Jesus. To place it, through prayer, under the Rug of His Will. To...

  I am marveling about..... Contacts  Is anyone else amazed at contacts? A small, round, disposable disc that fits on the eye and enables us to go about our business of life with clarity of vision! I was, well, older, when I first started using these amazing inventions. Earlier this year in fact. I will not say that it was an easy learning curve; the insertion and removal part. I may have asked for prayers. I may have made multiple trips to my eye Dr.  I may have called a neighbor who works for an eye Dr. to come over and talk me through a difficult removal one evening (thank you friend:)). But now that I have thankfully caught onto it, I am humbly grateful every day for their blessed benefit. To be able to see like I used to and to not need to deal with reading glasses is, well, suffice it to say... a gift!  But how much better the gift that Jesus has given all of those who believe on His name. Spiritual vision! The ability to see life with an eternal clarity that d...

  I am musing about..... We, The Church. That little church. In the picture! Isn't it the cutest? So the other day, I headed south from Kentland IN on route 41 Destination: Lafayette. Was on my way to help our youngest son and his wife pack up their cute little home as they prepared to move to Peoria (our time zone!) Yay! (We are thankful). As I traversed the familiar route, I kept my eye out for a landmark that I had come to love. It always intrigued me and warmed my heart. After a ways....there it was! On my right! Oops! In....my rear view. I carefully pulled over, backed up and turned into the little drive. I wanted to get a picture as I knew I might not pass this way again for quite some time. The WAYSIDE CHAPEL. The writing on the chapel said "DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD". Mmmm. I did not have time to research it. But I wondered. Who put it up? What is the story behind it? I loved the name of it. The words indicating it's purpose. And it made me think. A...