Call to prayer, please, please, please join me tonight!!!

 

 Good evening, my post this eve will be very short as I had to have a molar extracted today and what should have been a simple extraction turned in to a surgical procedure which has left me in much pain! Even pain meds seem to not be touching the pain I am experiencing! If you would not mind please add me in your prayers for the pain to diminish and for the trob to become a dull ache!
     Today I was feeling as if my posts were falling on deaf ears, I was feeling like I was not touching anyone with the words that God places in my heart, I was feeling as if I was not hearing what God was saying in the way he was saying it as I felt that I was not putting in to words what he was needing others to read! I prayed to him this morning to give me a sign that I was doing well, that I was being obedient and following his word, that I was not understanding his lead! I received a post from a very special Brother in Christ letting me know that he enjoyed my inspiration and that it helped him throughout the day! Prayers were answered for me, I now know that I am doing what I am supposed to do, that I am touching someone who is in need of the very words I am writing...God is AMAZING!!!!
     Please join me this evening in lifting prayers for those who are suffering, struggling and feeling lost and alone, please say a special prayer for Brenda and her family as they say a final farewell to their mother, please continue to pray for my sweet friend who has infection threatening the very ability to keep her legs, for my friend whose nephew is suffering the ravages of the war, may his mental and spiritual health be restored, for those hurting from mother natures wrath whether it be fire, tornado, flooding...please I call upon each of you to get "on bended knees" along side our circle and pray with us this night! God bless you all and know that you are loved so very much:) Two prayer requests just coming in, one who is suffering the loss of a loved ones uncle, life became to hard for him and he has taken his own life, father you know his heart, you know his suffering and his pain, please pray for understanding for my friend her love and all who are suffering this loss. Also a very sweet sister in Christ is in the hospital and will undergo one surgery tomorrow and another in a few days, please ask our Mighty Healer to guide the hands of the surgeons so that their skill is supreme and ask for a speedy recovery, and full healing and for her to back to 100% soon! Thank you all for supporting me and for giving me the honor to pray for and with each of you! I love you all!


Prayer for Peace
O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us Thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in Thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord.

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed; Give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee, we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness; through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

A time to pray! "mass prayer produces miracles" Join me if you will!!

Happy Sunday evening, today has been a lovely day the weather has been perfect, 85 degrees and steady breeze, and sunshiny skies:) I love Sunday's, love, love, love them. Today I have been in thought very much of my Megan, she is the absolute love of my life, when she moved out of state I thought I would not now how to breath, but it was detrimental in her life to make the move and the "cutting of the cord" has been wonderful for her. She is in a relationship with a dear, dear young man, one who I know is her forever partner, one who I know will take very good care of her, is willing to work side by side with her and is fair and honest. I have only been with him a few times but love so much the person that he is...kudos to his parents, I know he is very pleasing to them. I will get to visit with my daughter in the next few days and I will be so very excited to just be breathing the air that she is breathing:) The song I am posting tonight is how I felt the day I gave birth to her and is the way I feel today, I hope you will listen to the words and relive the beautiful unconditional love you felt when yours was born:)
Tonight I have a special prayer to add to the circle, a good friend to many is in fear for her mother, she is suffering some problems with her heart and is in the hospital awaiting a scan tomorrow, please pray for this lady that she is able to rest comfortably and that she will be able to reserve her calm while waiting for the test to be done, please ask with me for our Father in Heaven to touch her heart, to hold it in his healing hands and make it a simple fix. I also ask that you get "on bended knees" with me and ask special mercies on all that are suffering loss, emotional, physical, and spiritual woes, those who are lost and feel that God has taken a step back from them, those who are healing from surgery's, those struggling with finances, those who are unemployed, those who are still rebuilding from the storms, those in the floods in Minot, North Dakota, those who are in the military fighting for our freedom, for our ministers, for our government and lastly for ourselves, Pray for relief, pray for comfort, pray for peace, pray for calm, and pray for strength to help us get through the hard times. Tonight may you be blessed with a wonderful peaceful sleep, may God be a shield for bad dreams, may he be a soft pillow for you to lay your head on and a wonderfully warm blanket that you cover with! God bless you so much, thank you for coming and lifting prayers with me, thank you for being my friend and know that you are loved!!!!

If I have wounded any soul today,
If I have caused one foot to go astray,
If I have walked in my own willful way,
Dear Lord, forgive!

If I have uttered idle words or vain,
If I have turned aside from want or pain,
Lest I myself shall suffer through the strain,
Dear Lord, forgive!

If I have been perverse or hard, or cold,
If I have longed for shelter in Thy fold,
When Thou hast given me some fort to hold,
Dear Lord, forgive!

Forgive the sins I have confessed to Thee;
Forgive the secret sins I do not see;
O guide me, love me and my keeper be,
Dear Lord, Amen.

~~CALL TO PRAYER~~, please join me, so many are in need!!!

Happy Father's day eve, I am sure many are making plans to spoil your fathers, many are making plans for bbq's for sitting and reminiscing, about your youth, about your dad throughout the years, many will share in the day with their fathers, many will sit a share in the day with the memory of their father. I know several have just had their dad pass this year so will be experiencing Father's day for the first time without your dads. I pray that either way tomorrow is filled with laughter, that past memories are happy ones, that you have many stories to tell and that your family is able to be together for this special day! My father passed away on September 11, 2001, not due to the terroristic acts but due to a stroke he had had some 40 days prior. He was in the hospital and I was in Utah therefore I was unable to make it to see him! I have many funny stories to tell about my dad, he was a "one of a kind" kind of man, he was kind, he was compassionate and was considered a friend to many, he worked hard to provide for our family and his children were his life. He was a firm man, he had his rules and they were not broken, he strived to make sure each of us got a vehicle when we were licensed to drive, he strived to make sure we were all offered the chance to attend college. Life was not always good, but then I think we find this in all families, but when it was good, it was the best. I miss my dad and think of him often, I love to tell stories of things he did and things he said. So tomorrow I will celebrate him, I will raise my glass and toast him and know that he is smiling down on all 7 of us, his children, at all of his grandchildren and that he is so very pleased of the lives we are living. God bless you and yours, enjoy your day of DAD's and know that on this day the veil is thin and their spirits are with you!  If you would I would love to hear your favorite story of your dad, leave a comment and lets share with each other! 
Tonight as always I come to you to join me in prayer, I know that mass prayer produces miracles and so many are in need of miracles, tonight I ask you to stand with me in lifting up prayer for a special young lady, she is a sweet friend's daughter, she is suffering some problems with fluid in her cranium and is in need of a great healing, she is suffering so much and is really scared, please join me in asking our father in heaven to lay his hands upon her head and to bring her back to 100% health to lay his comforting spirit upon her and allow her to know she is safe in his arms. Please join me in continuing prayer for little Sydney as she has come through so much, please lets just ask that God make way for her to heal and to come home, she touches the lives of so many, she is such a strong sweet spirit and I know is still needed by many! Continue to pray for all of our friends and family that are suffering sickness, believe that the sickness will be healed by his hands. As always I pray for the victims of the storms, their families, all of the volunteers that labor tirelessly each day so that the ones who have suffered the loss of so much can get back to living their lives, please never forget our soldiers, both on home soil and on foreign soil, allow them to feel your love, your shield and allow them to know that they are not standing firm for the USA in vane. Pray with me that each of us know that you love us Father, that we feel your blessings and your mercies in all that we do, we are worthy of your love, we are all in the battle with satan to keep you in the front of all that we are, give us strength and will to carry on in your footsteps. In the name of our savior Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Are you love????

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I love this verse and read it often as a reminder of how I should live my life...
Love is patient is one of the hardest for me, I have been deemed the mother of impatience, when I want something I want it NOW, if not yesterday:) I work each day at being patient, when I begin to fail at this I take a moment, and say in my mind...love is patient, love is patient, love is patient, it is not in my time it is in God's time, love is patient, love is patient, love is patient...
Love is kind is one of the easier ones for me, I live KIND, I think that if our world would take a moment and be kind that much of the angst and woe would disappear, I find that it is much easier to be kind from my heart than to carry drama and stress around all day long, it is much easier to catch a bee with honey than with vinegar is what I have always been told! 
Love does not envy, another of my downfalls, I do not envy material things, for I know they cannot go to heaven with me, I cannot drive there, my belongings are just that, belongings, but I do envy people that I see walking so closely with our father in heaven and our savior, I do long to be more like them....I long to be more Christ like, I awake each morning and ask God to help me be more like Christ, I slip many times during the day, but I am getting better:) 
Love does not boast,  I am love in this matter, I have never been a boastful person, I really do not enjoy being around those that are. I am pleased with my achievements but give all of the thanks to God for blessing me with my abilities and for nudging me forward. A person that brags, in my eyes, is a person that suffers much insecurity and needs constant validation! 
Love is not proud,  I never knew this was an issue until I joined the LDS church, all of my life I had said the phrase, "I am so proud of you" I was told very early in the church that love is not proud...thus I had to change the way I said things, I still have not figured out the meaning of this one, but as a sign of respect I say, I am much pleased, I am pleased etc... but in looking at the definition this phrase goes hand in hand with the world "proud"

Love is not rude, I am doing right by this one, I may be called many things in my daily walk but rude will never walk in my shoes, it will never be a part of my make up, I do not like rude, I will not tolerate rude, to me...RUDE is RUDE:) 

Love is not self seeking,  I score on this one as well, I am on the opposite end of the scale, I have always tended to put others ahead of me, have alway taken the back seat in life so that someone else can ride up front. My bishop once told me that I would never be a rich woman as I gave everything I had away. Is this not the way we should be, not saying to take your clothes off or not pay your bills but are we not here to give and to share? 

Love is not easily angered,  I am still very much a work in progress with this one, I watch the news and I become angry, I see little people being hurt, being beaten, being abused and I get angry. I sit and listen to the news and hear of the political unrest that is taking place and I become angry, I see people being greedy, I see people taking advantage and I become angry.....so this being said, I still have a lot of work to do in this area, I cannot shut my eyes and ears off to the world thus these events are always going to be in my zone, so I must pray and ask God to soften my heart. 

Love keeps not record of wrongs, I see this one so often, I hear the "he said/she said" I see people going back years and years in arguments or to prove points, my motto has always been "let it go" work through an issue, come to an understanding, an agreement, and then like dirty hands, wash them and let the dirt go down the drain! "LET IT GO" when we pray for forgiveness, God forgives us, he does not sit there waiting to throw it back in our faces when the mood fits, if he, our Father in heaven can forgive then who are we to hold on? 

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth, I do not delight in evil, I am saddened when I see evil, I would rather be hit with the truth in every situation of my life than have evil around me, take a good look around, there is much more evil than truth, we must hold fast to the hem of God on this one, satan tries in all things to drag us in, he is right there just waiting for you to slip...NAY, NAY, NAY...

Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres, I work hard at these four, as for trust, I do trust wholeheartedly, sometimes to a fault and I wind up getting hurt, I have always given the benefit of the doubt and have always trusted, many times in life I have found that people really take advantage of a good situation but there are many also who honestly lay down in humility when given trust. I will continue to live in this matter how I have as I know there is goodness in all and sometimes it takes a little deeper digging to find it. I am each and every step of my life filled with hope, if I did not have hope I do not think I would be alive, my life is based on hope, the hope that we as Christians will lift our heads and really start living as God wills us to, I have great hope for our country and for mankind as if we walk as examples of Christians it will catch on, it will become contagious and we will have won against satan! I do not always persevere, there are times when I fall down and am ready to throw in the towel and quit, but there is always a hand extended down to me, willing me to get up, helping me to stand on my own two feet and try again, as long as I have a relationship with God, my father in heaven, that hand will always be there and I will continue to take it:)

So I ask you now, "ARE YOU LOVE" I say that I am...but I have not mastered it as of yet, SOOOOO, I will continue my journey in the quest! 

Love to each of you this day, may it be a day filled with joy and laughter and my you be "LOVE" today:)

 

Share your heart and make a mark!!!

  

  Good morning and happy Sunday, this morning as I sit outside enjoying the beauty I am amazed at how little things make me so happy. The sky is clear and blue, no gray to be seen, no angry clouds, nothing but blue as far as I can see, the sun has just begun to break and it is standing tall in all its glory, ready to give warmth and joy, the birds are singing in such a sweet melody that you know they are just happy to be alive, a gentle breeze is blowing allowing the trees to sway back and forth in a beautiful rhythm, it is quiet, no one has ventured out as of yet to begin their day and I sit here taking it all in and thanking God for allowing me another day!
     Last evening I had opportunity to have dinner and sit outside enjoying the evening and wonderful word. I had opportunity to meet someone new and got to share thoughts. As I sat there listening, sharing, laughing and yes even crying at one moment I once again thanked my Father in Heaven for my life. The lady I had chance to meet has been dealt a very ugly hand in life's card game , as we talked I looked at her, not her physical appearance, but i looked at her heart and I saw such a beautiful person, I saw love, I saw kindness, I saw strength, I saw grace....But on the outside I saw pain, I saw insecurity, I saw loneliness, and I saw defeat. In all that life had dealt her she had given up, the beauty inside was totally overshadowed by the weather. The storms in her life had all but erased her inner being! This happens so many times in life, we almost have the game won and boom, someone pulls an ace out of their sleeve, throws it on the table and once again we "lose" I see so many times, people who have been defeated so often that it becomes expected, I see so many times that people have tried, and tried and tried and with each try there is less zeal, there is less zest and finally they just accept defeat as a way of life. It saddened me to see such a beautiful spirit sitting there not representing the inside, but allowing the outside to be her way of life. I have been faced with the storms of life, we all have been battered by the wind, soaked by the rain, have slipped on the slick ground, have fallen down and wondered if we could get back up. We all have gone in to battle with our swords drawn only to have it knocked from our hands leaving us standing vulnerable and scared! It is the way in which we take cover from the storm that makes the difference, it is the way we pick ourselves up that shows how strong we are, it is the umbrella we choose to keep us dry, it is the attitude that we choose that brings us through.
     This morning as I sit here in reflection of the different roads I have traveled, at the sink holes that I had to take detour around to keep from disappearing, at all of the times that that "ace" trumped me...I thank God for giving me his love, for placing people in my life who have seen "me" who have been prompted to share with me the lives they have been dealt and how they have overcome. Today as I sit here I wonder how many times people have seen the storms of life swallowing me and have not taken time to  listen to the promptings and followed through with a smile or a kind word, a hand of acknowledgement that they know how it feels. When I left this lady last night, I can only pray that she felt better, that she felt the love of our father in heaven for allowing us to chat, I pray that as she wakes this morning that she sees her day in a new light, that she looks into the mirror and sees the "inside" that she recognizes her strengths and that she pulls that umbrella out and decides to walk in the rain without getting wet! 
     My prayer for each of us is that we recognize the beautiful, wonderful, God given blessings that are presented to us each day, that instead of telling God how big our storms are that we tell our storms how big our God is, I ask God to give each and every one of us super X ray glasses today so that we might see the inside of a person in need, that we might recognize the beauty within and be there to help slough off the grime on the outside. I pray that this will be the day that instead of seeing a need and saying oh poor such in such, that we can go to that person and through the love in our hearts make a mark! God give us the courage and the strength to take upon ourselves the ability to see need and to execute. God gives us love in our hearts to share, may you be blessed today with the "give away" may God place someone in your path that is in need of "you" May you open your eyes, follow his footsteps and share his gift of "self"! Share your heart and leave a mark:)  Blessings this day for a wonderful, beautiful eye opening, heart warming experience:) Love to each of you in Christ, amen! 

windows to the soul...

This morning, as I sit out, listening to the birds sing their wonderful songs, feeling the slight breeze on my face, eagerly awaiting the sun to appear, I am in awe of...life..the temperature is 51 degrees and the sky is a mingle of blue, grey, and salmon.  I could not ask for more right this minute:) As I have gotten older, I feel that I have gotten wiser, I feel that things that were so important to me years ago have changed and things that were not important to me then, now are at the top of the list. Funny how we change, how our thoughts change, how our morals and values change!!! This morning in prayer I asked God what I needed to do today, I asked him to lay a subject on me that would ease someone, that would give someone a new found sense of hope and a renewed faith. I know he will answer my prayer as he always does! I appreciate so  much the feedback I get from the people that this blog and my facebook messages, I appreciate so much you letting me know that the words God awoke in me are the very words that you were in need of.

In sitting here this morning I felt an overwhelming feeling of "self" come over me. Do our aging bodies really mark who we are, if we are overweight and saggy, does that really constitute what we are? Does grey in our hair really matter to God, do the wrinkles on our face really determine if we are loved or not? I think the answer to this is NO. I think what is important to our father in heaven is how we look inside, what he see in our hearts. I think he looks for love, for compassion, for caring, for kindness, and for grit! I know many people that obsess over their bodies, not for health purposes but for vanity reasons, I know many who have a love for botox to take the smile, pain, happy, sad, lines out of their faces, I know people who stress when a grey hair finds its way from beneath the color, but when I look into their eyes, no matter how good the outside looks, something is missing in the inside. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, I see so much just by looking into eyes, one can see pain, sadness, fake, joy...all of the emotions are there if you look. Many people wear masks to try and hide what they are going through, but you can't hide the eyes. I am going to continue to work on my heart today, to give compassion when I see it is needed, you know just a touch can make a person feel better, a smile can change a really sad situation, an "I'm here" can make a world of difference! I am going to be more kind to all, and I am going to let people know I care. I am going to have "grit" in me, the "grit" it takes to openly say, "God Bless You" I think many times we say this silently to people for fear of being thought a freak...I am going to openly say, let me pray for you, God loves you, God bless you and anything else that he puts on my heart because so many times we are led to people who do not really believe this, if I can be his messenger I will be! Today I ask that you look past the outward and look into the windows, look and see what someone needs and do not be afraid to give it. God needs for us to be his messengers, I will not refuse him. I love each of you with all of my heart, I pray that this day, you will touch a heart in need just by being the beautiful person inside, that I know you are. Love is free, give some away:) God bless each of you abundantly:)