my favourite things/ God's grace is always kind

This was an end of the year posting that ended up 'not here' but grace must always be shared~ His grace is always sufficient~ peace to all my beloveds~ so precious to Him you are, and to me.

God’s grace is always kind
it is life that is hard
and though so often joyous
life has a way of pulling the carpet right out from under us
at times
we just don’t understand God
but
God’s grace is always kind
in that hard spot
when life seems to just swallow us
and we would shout out at Him
and say Why God
Why me God
Why all this pain
or all this joy
or all this sorrow
God’s grace is always kind
and comes to us
and puts its arms around us
holds us up
binds up our woundedness
waits with us
for healing
or gives us better
God’s grace is always kind
don’t ever think there is not enough
don’t ever think you are not worthy
that He is blind and does not see
or understand
your depths
of agony
God’s grace is always kind
its purpose is life
and that abundantly
in our hearts
in our minds
in our whole beings
not just for now
but for Always
this grace
has tasted life’s agonies
and joys
its victories
and triumphs
it is God’s grace that holds us
when all is lost
when we are found
Be still and let it hold you
rest in its embrace
you are His Beloved
let His Grace show you
the kindness of God
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beloved let us love one another
for love is of God
and he that loveth not
knoweth not God
~I John 4:7,8
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Greater love hath not man than this
that he lay down his life for his friends
~John 15:13
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Love is patient,
love is kind
and is not jealous;
love does not brag
and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Love never fails…
~But now abide these three; faith, hope, love,
but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7,13
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For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.~Romans 8:38-39
God’s grace is always kind

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my favourite things/ shoshi's littlest man

Shoshi's littlest man


Her message: her heart, her plea...
Could use prayers once again for my dear Nicholas. Received a call today from the head of the agency doing his adoption, and her news was not good. Apparently the department in charge of adoptions is refusing to approve Nicholas' adoption file due to the fact that I'm Canadian and not a permanent resident of South Africa. They are saying Pamela and Musa should never have been approved for me to adopt, and they're not going to budge when it comes to Nicholas. Sooooo, my social worker says it looks like we're going to have to take this adoption to court, and fight for me to be allowed to adopt him. . .Tomorrow I'm going to call a wonderful children's lawyer I know, and see if she's willing to help me. But oh, I would so appreciate lots and lots of prayers!
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please pray ~ this is her message today~ God knows all about it~ I pray for the hearts He must move to have His will accomplished~ Bless You Father and Your love for my Shoshi and her little family of whom this littlest one is such a strategic part. Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven ...

The hand of God in the lives of His people...
plans to prosper
not to destroy
bless this littlest man, O Lord
bless my shoshi... her kiddies, O  Lord
Thy will be done, O Lord
 

 

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my favourite things/ holding on

I am sharing my daughter's post hopeful that you will be blessed in turn~ to all my beloved friends and family~ you are loved and cherished~ Immanuel... God is with us~ He loves when we run to Him.

http://addingjoyandlaughter.blogspot.ca/

Though I may stumble and even fall - Oh, that I would hold on like my Nicholas

http://addingjoyandlaughter.blogspot.ca/2014/03/though-i-may-stumble-and-even-fall-oh.html

my favourite things/ the old year

this life so blessed
this year so deep and wide
filled to overflowing
with gratefulness

2013

a new grandbaby
a wedding
a new son
three more grandbabas
such blessed and happy children
hearts overflowing

a house that love built
a son
a carpenter son

building a home to bless

God has given contented hearts
Godliness with contentment is great joy

I see this
and my smile is very broad

Grace has been given so abundantly
This God gift
I stand in awe

this old year

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my favourite things/ Autumn colours scattered

the Autumn colours
lay scattered all around

a dusting of snow gives covering
to its once brilliance

I lay mulling over this
Cat Ole stretched out
across me
warm and caught up in this season of rest
garden put away
tools in the shed
food in the cellar
sawmill under shelter
home fires burning

it is a black and white world out there again
except for the earthy subtleties one must search for
the lichens and mosses
and softly muted branches growing
close to the ground
a few rosehips
for the
sojourning grouse
through the
coming winter

but there emblazoned
bright in the window
shines all the stained glass

the morning light fixating it
bold and glorious
against this
black
and white
world

they have always hung there in the window

now that the summer glory around them has faded
I see their glory

I am praying for life today
everywhere

we are a window 

we see out at the world
the world looks in

there is the Spring and Summer glory
and the Autumn brilliance
and as Autumn slips into Winter
our life begins to fade
God is the stained glass that becomes emblazoned

we sing Amazing grace
we remember hope
we have faith in the unseen future
of life beyond these muted fadings of life
of a glory that outshines
all others

Love comes to us all
and takes us Home

in its season

when He is ready

Our life will be taken up with His
and shine in all its brilliance
because at that moment
we will see Him as He is
and we will become like Him
a stained glass
emblazoned pure
with His enduring Love
and grace shining
brilliant and beautiful
against our old
and fading
life

When He has tried us
we shall come forth as Gold

our rest will be complete
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our
Cat Ole stretched out across me
Autumn colours scattered

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