Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 1.1.25 Just a little bit of time until the first few seconds of 2025. I would like to end 2024 with some thoughts about the problems with "What if...." This year I have tried to tell some personal stories of my history and my family's way of learning together. Late this year I came across some great teaching from Katherine Wolfe who was living a "normal" life and then had a massive stroke at at 23 from a birth defect. Her husband was just finishing law school and after 4.8.08 she would be mostly in a bed or wheel chair.  She has gone on to develop a work of helping others who go through had life changes through strokes and other hard life changes.  Their organization called Hope Heals holds summer camps for people with disabilities and she and her husand and two sons work together to help others. She was speaking about the problem becomes a person going through a hard time can ask God, "What if...."  She said what If I gotten and early diagnosis.  How...

 12.31- This picture was given to me by my friend Steve Mullinix. It reminds me that my father in heaven is big enough to handle everything. What friend we have in the Lord. Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. He is on our side. He is for us. Looking forward to us coming home and sitting down in the golf cart with him to carry us where we are meant to work beside him and for him. Relax he's got the revive in 25. Psalm 19 19  The heavens tell of the glory of God; And their expanse declares the work of His hands. 2  Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. 3  There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. 4  Their  [ a ] line has gone out into all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun, 5  Which is like a groom coming out of his chamber; It rej...

 12.30- Watching a video until 1am this morning. I have my sleep patterns scrambled a bit lately. Sleep in bed 1 -2, sleep walk bathroom. Sleep in bed 2-4, sleep in bed. Prepare coffee and toast and banana. Turn off lights to sleep in recliner. .Thoughts come. The blessing of this stage of life that my current "job" has flexibility. Jobs have blessings and frustrations. I watched a couple on this late night video giving warnings to younger Christian couples. "We married in college and quickly had two children. Renting a small house we got frustrated with lack of money in our life. We joined a multi-level company selling soap to get so rich we could have much to give away and more time with our two children. In 4 years we were almost bankrupt buying books and cassette tapes. We had no time for our children, broke down our car traveling to sales meetings and conventions. Lost most of our friends because they didn't like us using friendship time as sales time recruitn...