My Heart Jumps For Joy: heart of flesh

Monday, May 6, 2019

This is the Day…

It’s early May and the weather is finally warm enough to go outside without a jacket. Yeah!! The grass is that wonderful shade that I like to call Spring green. Trees are starting to produce tiny baby leaves that create almost a green translucent veil. The birds are singing. The sky is blue today with white, puffy clouds that I also like to call “happy” clouds because it makes me happy to have clear weather with warm sunshine. Some flowers are starting to bloom in other peoples’ yards. I have one lone blue Siberian Cilla blossoming.

These are my Mother's Day flowers from my 4 year old grandson

that I still have to plant.

There are very few bugs. In the evening I hear the frogs and “peepers” singing. The frogs croak seeking a mate. The peepers sound a little like tiny jingle bells. Again, another very happy sound. The “muddy season” has passed.

Spring is upon us. It is the time of new growth and a time to rejoice. In all days, God gives us reason to rejoice but today it is especially so. This day truly make my heart sing and praise my Maker who gave me all these gifts just to delight me. This doesn’t mean that my life is perfect. I have as many issues as everyone else, but I choose to put them aside and enjoy this day with all the JOY that my Sweet Lord has given me and say

This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

Will you join me and celebrate this glorious day?

May God bless you greatly, my friend.

A recent picture of the moon.

God has placed so much beauty here for us to enjoy.

Prayer Requests:

There is so much turmoil in this world, so much hate and strife. So many people have been hurt and killed as a result. Please pray for all the victims and all the ones who seek to hurt others. Pray that God change all our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh so we can truly love our brothers as we love ourselves.

I would also appreciate your prayers for me. I will have a total knee replacement of my left knee tomorrow. Thank you.

All photos taken by Debbie McEwen

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A couple of recent golden sunsets from different days.
I live where I get to see a beautiful sunset many days
if I only choose to look in the right direction.
I think life is like that.
We can find beauty and goodness
in almost any situation,
if we choose to look in the right direction.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

What Would You Have Me Learn from This, Lord?

The sky is gray. Is a storm brewing?
What am I facing? What's going to happen to me?
Why is this happening?

Why did that happen?
Why are You allowing this to happen to me, Lord?

I ask and sometimes He lets me see that this world is not my home. I have not arrived home yet. I’m in school, in training. Each experience is a learning event. I am being evaluated by how I react, how I treat others as I would have them treat me. I am being evaluated on my attitude, how hard I try – even when I fail. Am I learning?

God knows I am weak, but He cares when I keep trying, when I turn to Him for strength. He always knew I couldn’t make it on my own. He has been waiting for me to learn and accept the fact. He’s been waiting for me to turn to Him and make Him my strength.

My flesh...may fail but God is the strength of my heart. Psalm 73:26

He’s been waiting for my heart to soften from a heart of stone into a heart of flesh and to forgive as He has forgiven me my many sins – just because I ask, not because I could ever earn His forgiveness and will never deserve His forgiveness.

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26

God has plans for me, plans to help and not to hurt. He as a job for me to do and I will be here until I complete that job.

He is molding me into the child He knows I can be and really am, deep down inside. I can stop Him with my willfulness. I can choose not to allow. He did give me free will, but do I really want to use it to oppose Him? Do I trust Him completely with my life and my future? Do I trust the Creator of all that exists to make good plans for me? I’d be a fool not to.

So, I put myself in His hands and when stuff comes up in my life that is difficult, that I may not want to do, I ask “What would you have me learn from this, Lord? and listen for His answers.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

God can change gray skies to blue.

There may still be clouds but the outlook is much brighter.

The scenery changes from gloom to brilliant beauty.

This is what happens to my life when I trust in the Lord,

when I trust that He has a plan for me and it involves teaching me,

molding me into His child.

View is near ski jump at Lake Placid, NY.

Prayer Request:

There is so much turmoil in our country right now. Please pray for everyone. Please sew the seeds of kindness every chance you get. We can only fight the darkness with God's light. We can only fight evil with God's goodness. And guess what? God has already won the final battle for us.

In the midst of darkness,

God brings His light and His love.

We only need to walk to the light

and to His outstretched hands.