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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What Catches Your Eye?


I want you to look at the picture.  Don't take a long time to study it.  Just look at it and then tell me in the comment section what caught your eye.  In a few days I will tell you what caught my eye and why.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

No Secrets In The Medicine Cabinet

I posted this on a blog I have begun between me and my two sons.  I will not post what I put on that blog here often, but I wanted to share it here today.

Several years ago I was talking with a friend.  In our conversation she told me she and her husband had gone to dinner at someone's home that I know.  She told who was there, what they had to eat and drink, and then added this:

"While I was there I went to the bathroom.  I always open the medicine cabinet when I use someone's bathroom.  It tells you so much about them. You wouldn't believe what I found?  There was a 
bottle of Viagra in there.  I can't believe they need that."

So why am I telling you this?  

First, don't open other people's medicine cabinets.  For that matter, don't open closets or cabinets or refrigerators or drawers or anything in someone's home unless you are invited to do so.  When you are invited into someone's home it is a privilege.  And I don't care if it's your best friend from high school and he's living in his first apartment.  It is still his private stuff in those places.

Second, some people (friends included) are going to be nosy.  They just might open your closets or cabinets or refrigerators or drawers or anything else.  If there is something that is personal, something you want to keep private then you just need to find a really good hiding place for it.

The title up there "No Secrets In The Medicine Cabinet" means just what it says.  There are no secrets in the medicine cabinet.  So clean your medicine cabinet and keep it clean.

Hebrews 4:13 
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. 

Just like your medicine cabinet is not closed to people who come into your home, your life is not closed to God.  He sees it all.  You can never find a really good hiding place for anything you want to hide from God.  He sees it all.  Please go read Psalm 139.  And just like I told you to clean your medicine cabinet and keep it clean, I tell you clean your heart and keep it clean.

I love you,
Mom

Friday, February 24, 2012

Back Home

I am back home. I am GLAD to be back home. NC was awesome. I believe as I think about that time away more and more, it will become even more special.

I am doing a biblical word study of the word WAY. A friend asked me to share with her what I have learned so far. This is the email I sent her.


Without looking at my notes - two things are uppermost in my mind about being on God's way.

First, The word "ways" in Psalm 103:7 (He made his ways known to Moses, his deeds to the sons of Israel) is present tense in the original Hebrew and the word deeds is past tense in the original Hebrew. Makes me believe that Moses was "present" on the way, right there while God was happening and the sons of Israel got to hear about what had happened.

That's really basic and I may just have to dig deeper on that. I never learned verb tenses very well and I struggle with that lack of knowledge. Doesn't mean I can't learn it now.

Second, I don't remember specifically where this verse is in the Old Testament. It is found in the story of Joseph coming to Jacob as Jacob is dying. Jacob perks up and talks with Joseph. He tells him about Rachel dying while he was "still on the way". Made me contemplate sorrows. We know we will have sorrows on the way but it made it very clear to me again.

(I have deleted the next paragraph I sent her because it has specific names in it and I don't have their permission to use their names. So I will summarize what I said to her)
This scripture brought a friend to my mind whose husband passed away in
November. She is "still on the way" without that man beside her. She
shines with God's glory as she walks this path of grief. Also, the person
who asked me to share with her, has been walking the way, the path of grief
since 2005. Her son passed away at the age of 17. She and her husband
are "still on the way" without their child.


I KNOW many things bring sorrows to us. I KNOW in my mind and my heart that we have to remain "on the way" if we want to see God's glory in the present and not just hear about it. I KNOW I am to love God with all my heart, all my mind, and all my soul. I KNOW my feet get ahead of my heart, my mind, and my soul many times.

SO, I am seeking to teach my feet to follow God as I love Him with all my heart and all my mind and all my soul so I will stay "on the way".

There are other, in fact, lots of other things that I heard and saw while I studied in NC. I just need my notes. So I'll share some more later. Thank you for asking. It made me think.



I think we should all be asking each other to share what we are learning. It will keep us on our toes. So I thank my friend for asking me when I got BACK HOME what I learned.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

HAVE FAITH

I will be leaving home in a few hours heading to the NC coast for time alone. I have never gone on a retreat, vacation, etc purposefully alone.

I am excited. I can't wait to get in the car and turn on the music and sing at the top of my lungs. Actually, I will probably hum along since I just got my voice back. This past week and a half I heard lots of things I would not have heard if I could have been talking.

I am nervous. Will I be able to get the water and electricity turned on in the house where I have never stayed. Will my prayer time exceed my expectations? Will I be ready to hear what God has to say to me? Will I get scared staying by myself? I use to be really afraid of staying by myself when I was first married.

I am sad. I romanticized this vacation week. Time alone with my husband - he has to work this weekend. Time with friends - no one could fit time off in their schedule.

I am quiet. I can already feel the need to just be quiet, to listen. I already feel the need to step back and look.

In October 2009, my Momma gave me the devotional book - Streams in the Desert. In fact she gave several of these books away right after my daddy passed away. She wanted us to be comforted the way she was being comforted. (My sister, Lorie, has used this devotional book for years. She got us all started on this.) I say this to share the verse I read this morning as I began my quiet time.


Have faith that whatever you ask for in prayer is already granted you and you will find that it will be. Mark 11:24

This word from my LORD brought tears to my eyes. He already knows what is going to happen in NC with me, He already knows what will be accomplished with us, He already knows. . . . . .

Then I read the notes from previous years written on the devotional page for Feb 18:

2010 - Learning a new way to pray, Listening to Believing God in the car, Reading So Long Insecurity, Studying Me, Myself & Lies, Beginning Purposely Engaging and Actively Responding to Life.
2011 - Wondering - Am I a "secretary"? Am I the "Stage Manager"? Where do YOU want me OH LORD?

I did not know on Feb 18, 2010 or Feb 18, 2011 that on Feb 18, 2012 I would be going to spend alone time with God.

So I am going to take God at His Word and "HAVE FAITH" that ponderings/prayers with God in 2010 and 2011 will be revealed in 2012.