Let us fix our eyes on JesusI'm just a simple girl from the cornfields of Ohio who loves Jesus with all her heart!
I'm interested in just about everything~I'm a jack of all trades, master of none! I'm still as curious about everything now as I was when I was 2, and I know God can use even someone like me! I love and adore Him with my every breath!I enjoy homekeeping and puttering around the house,my morning coffee with Jesus, baking, working and sitting in my garden, scrapbooking and beading with my daughters and friends, reading, writing, Bible study, praying, singing, dancing, spending time with God and with my family & friends. Oh, and did I mention my morning coffee?!
In the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. ~Psalm 5:3
These are a few of my favorite things~
roses, gardens, cabins & cottages, out-of-the-way country shops, fleamarkets, beaches, the Smoky Mountains, candlelight, music, praising God, an abundant life in Christ!
For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity]. ~1 Thessalonians 4:7 (amp)
Sitting before the Master, hanging on His every word...His words are spirit, and they are life! (Luke 10:39 & John 6:63)
Lookup a word or passage in the Bible
But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge]. ~Galatians 5:22-23 PROPHESY TO THE DRY BONES! SURELY THE LORD IS DOING GREAT THINGS! ~EZEKIEL 37, JOEL 2 Ezekiel 37The Dry Bones Live1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry. 3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?†So I answered, “O Lord GOD, You know.†4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. 6 I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.â€â€™â€ 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them. 9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.â€â€™â€ 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army! JESUS IS MY VERY BEST FRIEND Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God. Jesus says~ “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.†~Matthew 18:18-20
I grew up with music as a second language~I've had lots of influences starting with my dad playing his guitar and singing us to sleep to Roger Miller and the Everly Brothers~from Johnny and June Carter Cash (as a girl,I would sit enthralled in front of the tv when they would sing and Johnny would strut around her~still gives me chills!) to the Beatles to Janis Joplin to the Mamas and Papas and on and on. While learning to play flute as a girl, I came to love and appreciate classical music and show tunes as well, and as a teen in the seventies I listened to everything~and still have the 45's to prove it! Some of my favorites now are Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Clint Brown, Tommy Renfro, The Thompsons, Jessica Ruiz, Will & Crystal Yates, Natalie Grant, Joy Williams, Ross Walters, the Gaithers and all the Homecoming Friends, Riyel, The Carpenters, Keith Green, Earth Wind Fire, John Denver, Ella Fitzgerald, Rich Mullins, Rita Springer, CeCe Winans, Vickie Winans, Jason Upton, Ginger Smith, Karen Wheaton, Todd Agnew, a lot of 50's, 60's & 70's and so, so, so many more I can't possibly name them all! I enjoy all kinds of music from Native American flute to bluegrass to country to classic rock to jazz to blues and everything in between, but my favorite is anything that leads me into worship and helps me get my praise on!
The Passion of the Christ, A Beautiful Mind, Walk the Line, The Count of Monte Cristo, Braveheart, the Love Comes Softly series, Ever After, Coal Miners Daughter, Legends of the Fall, Tombstone, Forrest Gump, Hidalgo, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fried Green Tomatoes, Dances With Wolves, The Perfect Stranger, Another Perfect Stranger, I Am Legend, Last of the Dogmen, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Facing the Giants, The Village, Timechanger, Saving Private Ryan, School of Rock, The Secret Garden, old black and white films, romantic comedies & other chick flicks, musicals, and any Shirley Temple movie!
THE BIBLE~GOD'S HOLY WORD, THE WORD THAT SPEAKS LIFE!"It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flowers that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon them and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian." - AnonymousAnchored In Love, I Walked the Line, Battlefield of the Mind, Believing God, A Heart Like His, Master Potter and Master Potter and the Mountain of Fire, The Final Quest series, Hinds Feet on High Places, Mountains of Spices, some of the Left Behind books, Heaven, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Practice of the Presence of God, Stepping Heavenward, The Stand, Falling in Love with Jesus, The God Chasers, anything by Beth Moore, Elizabeth George, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Luanne Rice, Kristen Hannah, Karen Kingsbury, Rosamunde Pilcher, and Shakespeare. I also enjoy biographies, all kinds of non-fiction, cookbooks, and books about caring for and reaching children with disabilities. Too many to list~I love most genres; I'm a real bookworm! EVERY WORD OF GOD IS PURE: HE IS A SHIELD UNTO THEM THAT PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.~PROVERBS 30:5
JESUS, my first and forever love!