Purrina Joys and Open Windows

Ohh, the amazing joy of opening our front door to this surprise this morn, left by our very sweet and generous neighbor who loves the Lord, and has a storehouse (yay open windows and couponing!!) from which to demonstrate His love to us and our collection of kitties!! 

 

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." 

Psalm 81:10

Thanking the Lord this morning for His purrfect provision for our kittykins!! 

Sometimes the smallest of blessings seem huge when timely delivered!  

Jesus, I my cross have taken

1. Jesus, I my cross have taken, 
All to leave and follow Thee. 
Destitute, despised, forsaken, 
Thou from hence my all shall be. 
Perish every fond ambition, 
All I've sought or hoped or known. 
Yet how rich is my condition! 
God and heaven are still my own.

2. Let the world despise and leave me, 
They have left my Savior, too. 
Human hearts and looks deceive me; 
Thou art not, like them, untrue. 
O while Thou dost smile upon me, 
God of wisdom, love, and might, 
Foes may hate and friends disown me, 
Show Thy face and all is bright.

3. Man may trouble and distress me, 
Twill but drive me to Thy breast. 
Life with trials hard may press me; 
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest. 
Oh, tis not in grief to harm me 
While Thy love is left to me; 
Oh, twere not in joy to charm me, 
Were that joy unmixed with Thee.

4. Go, then, earthly fame and treasure, 
Come disaster, scorn and pain 
In Thy service, pain is pleasure, 
With Thy favor, loss is gain 
I have called Thee Abba Father, 
I have stayed my heart on Thee 
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather; 
All must work for good to me.

5. Soul, then know thy full salvation 
Rise oer sin and fear and care 
Joy to find in every station, 
Something still to do or bear. 
Think what Spirit dwells within thee, 
Think what Fathers smiles are thine, 
Think that Jesus died to win thee, 
Child of heaven, canst thou repine.

6. Haste thee on from grace to glory, 
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer. 
Heavens eternal days before thee, 
Gods own hand shall guide us there. 
Soon shall close thy earthly mission, 
Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days, 
Hope shall change to glad fruition, 
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

Words: Henry Lyte

To listen to this beautiful song, please follow this link...

http://youtu.be/hlpKOJfkveM

Our Wonderful, Weird, but still very LOVELY Girls

The JOY of having a cousin close in age...

"I adore you, you crazy, gorgeous, WONDERFUL (but also sometimes quite WEIRD -but still very LOVELY) person."
author unknown~

For the Glory of God

God gives you Christ as the foundation of your marriage.  "Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God" (Romans 15:7)...Don't insist on your rights, don't blame each other, don't judge or condemn each other, don't find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, pages 31-32

I Am Willing...

To receive what Thou givest, 

To lack what Thou withholdest, 

To relinquish what Thou takest, 

To suffer what Thou inflictest, 

To be what Thou requirest, 

To do what Thou commandest. 

Dougan Clark, a sanctified physician, in 1886. 

Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that you can do all things,
    and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
    I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,
    and repent in dust and ashes.”

7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 

8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” 

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 

11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 

13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 

14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 

15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

16 And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Job 42