EARTH AND HEAVEN, COMFORTING IN JOY!!

      Yes!  Thoroughly truthful!!  I'm focusing on Heaven, singing through the home, moment-by-moment, day-by-day, night-by-night.  BTW, since I was a mountain lover as a kid when born and raised in the NW, I'm still very strongly loving mountains, anytime I'm driving through or flying over. When I'm in heading to Heaven, I hope I can fly over them and see many, and have the birds surround me.   When IN Heaven, I hope I can see many situations around our world... family, friends, birds, dogs, cats, squirrels, deer, cows, fish, and many, many others. 
      Worshiping and focusing on the Lord is all I can do ... forever and ever.  He has healed me [my heart when I was 28, 39, and 42, and other portions of my body when from 5 to 23 years that was being beaten very strongly] and I'm very grateful of and to and for the Lord.

     This, after exactly 6 years when I began December 31, 2009, I might not be able to stay on the blog situation very often.  I'll try, but my dementia is increasing and my other portions of body and brain are a challenge.  Even when I can put MY stuff on through photos, etc., I can hardly read the pieces that others are showing.  Makes me sad.  I've been a reader and a writer since I was about 6 years old.  And an actress when I was 13.  And writing acting pieces to kids and adults in churches and acting sometimes by myself.  Now I haven't been able to do it for about a year when I can't do "The Grinch" since I was 14 and have done it until I was 69. 

 Now I'll shut up!  

Miss so many, love so many, and if I can't do well on here,

 I hope to see when we're all in Heaven. 

 Haven't physically met many of you, but you are in and on my heart.

  And, as I said, NOW I'LL SHUT UP!!

I was early 5 in Vancouver, WA.  And in trouble significantly!

       

 My husband and I were in the NW to see family and friends.  And a photo was taken when we were in the Mount Adams area.  We headed home to Omaha the next day and about a week later,

 I became 70.     BTW, in about 1-1/2 weeks, I'll be 70-1/2.

AS A KID AND AN OLD LADY MY LORD HAS HEALED AND SAVED ME STRONGLY!!

       TRUTHFULISM STRIKES AGAIN!!  Even when a photo has Jeremiah words, this and many other portions are filled truthfully in the Bible, of course.

       As I indicated on this photo, it was during our wedding vacation time [the wedding was September 21, '85] and it was a huge blessing for me to be in Lake Superior.  I was an ocean addict since I was a kid when born in Portland and raised in Vancouver, Tacoma, Klickitat and working in Seattle.  I was 28 when the Lord moved me out of California to Omaha, and, formerly, I had been seeing the Pacific Ocean from Washington, Oregon, and California.  I had never been up to Lake Superior to see this and it was a really wonderful gift from my husband -- it looked like an "ocean".  He'd been born and raised in the Twin Cities and he was at the Offutt Airforce Base.  And I had been in Omaha.  The Lord suddenly put us together at a church.  What a blessing to have such a wonderful husband and he was wonderful for my daughter and son then and now for six grandkids.  They all put up with me, BUT they all love him so much. 

Our Wedding and Renae was 15 and Steve was 12; they loved him then!

They love him now... and this was a couple years ago!

        Anyhow, I often am filled with joyfulness through the Lord, and, if I am alive and my brain and body working, I'll be rejoicing April 15, 2016, b/c it will be the 50th year event since the Lord officially broke into me and let me accept Him when I was 20.  I had been filled with sinfulness and horrific situations for most of my years,  as a young kid and a teenager, even though I had strongly known the truthfulness re: the Lord.  As I was going to commit suicide when I was 18 and 19, He broke in and protected me and dropped special people into my life. 

      [ Surprisingly, I was dropped in and encouraged through a Portland Avenue Baptist Church in Tacoma, WA, March, '66.  I never had had a picture of that until April, 2014. A friend who wanted to know of me re: my age situation,  she drive all around my former Tacoma area when I was visiting there.  Well, she was so excited to see this church. It ain't Baptist any more and hasn't been for about 20 years, but other things have been in it, and it's still being used by some sorts of Godly-Words.  So that was a picture of me with it in August, 2014.]

     
       Bless you all.  I don't know when/how I'll keep blogging, b/c my dementia has increased significantly and I can't read and write very well, very often... even though I'd done it since I was about 6 years old in Klickitat,WA, in the first grade of school. Now,  I can't do anything very well.  

BUT I love the Lord and -- moment-by-moment, day-by-day, night-by-night -- I worship, rejoice, glorify, and honor!

YES! THE LORD DOES!!!

      In the last month or two, the Lord had me reading all the prophet Books and Revelation and a bunch of others.  Recently, I read Psalms 34 and 119 and Ruth recently, b/c He laid that stretch on me.  Amazingly how the Lord told me what to look at and read through!  Then He laid John on me right around the morning of Christmas Eve day.  Well, today I finished Chapter 17, and tomorrow I'll finish John and will be reading this verse that was on the picture a long time ago.  BTW, today I wanted to see if I had any of the John words on photos and this popped in first.  
     Well, at Renae's home on Thursday evening, it was with her husband and all their kids ... several girls and boys ... and Steve and his son.  Anyhow, I sure love my kids and sure love their kids.  Makes me smile!!

      [Renae is 46 and Steve will be 43 in about 3 weeks.  AND I'm 70.  I was 30 when that picture was taken. It was about 1-1/2 years since I'd been leaving California and arriving at a special place with a special friend in Omaha.  Life has changed, to say the least, for the 3 of us!  And I'm a Happy Cookie!!]

 

GOD BENDS DOWN! WE ARE BLESSED THROUGH THAT!

     That's what we can count on, forever and ever.  Touching and praying and encouraging is all we can do in our lifetime.  And heading to Heaven is a wonderful spiritual understanding piece!  It is Christmas time, and filled with wonderfulness, moment-by-moment -- either in, the last 31 years, Omaha usually, or at a Christmas stretch-of-days at Minnesota several times for my "sister"/ friend, Susan in the Clearbrook area and to the Twin Cities at Dave's family.  Also,  were in Uganda three Christmas times ['94, '95, 2003].  It's all a blessing. 
      BUT, anywhere, and here or there, serving the Lord is all that counts!  He's had me reading, recently, all the Prophets, a bit of Psalms, Revelation, and, now, John -- will finish that on Saturday.  Thinking of our Heavenly Father and Jesus when everything I'm reading.  On my heart momentarily, even today.

AND, BTW, this photo was taken when we were praying for a family mom or aunt of the teenage boy who had been murdered.  Just happened to work out that I was the official pray-er that day when the prayer shawl was placed.  That was about three years ago. It was a very cold time, but no snow right then, so driving to that part of town... way southeast... was possible.  Many were prayed over by several who were blessing them!!  OH, and I don't know when and/or how I can be at First Responders at the murder sites ... which I've done for 7-1/2 years, unless I'm out of town to the NW or Minnesota area usually ... and I can't drive any more.  It's been at a hospital here when I was being tested about 10 days ago, immediately said I could not drive a car.  I've been crying a LOT since then, but worshiping and praying and glorifying the Lord.  All that counts is HIM, forever and ever!!  Now I'll shut up!!

THE LORD BLESSES, KEEPS, AND PROTECTS TO THE KINGDOM!

     This filled me then when I had shared the photo on my blog in this summer when home. And this filled me NOW when seeing the photo again.  I was strongly blessed through the Lord when I was in my late teens.  I knew I was a sinful kid, even though I'd heard the Word at schools or popping into churches to see friends.  I was considering a suicide in my upper teens, b/c of my sinfulness.  He broke strongly and kindly into my life and I accepted the Lord, April 15, 1966.  Now, even when I'm an old lady, I rejoice, pray, worship, and glorify the Lord.
    When being in that portion of Wyoming on our way home from the NW, it struck me strongly.  When I was going through in the winter time... January, '09... the Lord protected me when entering that Rest Area then, even though the driving areas were covered with ice and snow.  It was a miracle that I didn't fall when I got out of my car in a strange location and it was just about midnight when I continued for another stretch of time, before getting to a motel about 50 miles later.  Anyhow, with Dave in early July this year going into there it was filled with amazement for me!  
     So, as usual, the Word of God is what counts.  Now and Forever!!!

I'm truly looking forward to be in Heaven!

SOOOOOON!!

BOWING MY KNEE TO HEAVENLY FATHER AND JESUS!

THAT'S WHAT I COUNT ON

TODAY AND TODAY AND TODAY AND TODAY

AND FOREVER.

I'M FOCUSING ON OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

AND FOCUSING ON HEAVEN!

AND EVEN THOUGH THIS IS CHRISTMAS WEEK/MONTH,

THIS IS GRABBING MY HEART, MOMENT-BY-MOMENT!

BLESSINGS!!

PSALM 34... VERY IMPORTANT TO AND FOR ME!!

The Lord laid this very strongly on me this morning.  I couldn't go to churches, b/c I can't drive any more and I usually go to two of them on the same morning.  He told me to read Psalm 34.  I have read it for many years, and a couple of the verses in it have been very important to me.  Not on this picture, but especially back in May, '84, He laid it strongly on me:

Depart from evil and do good;

seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue

(go after) it!

Ps. 34:14

When the Lord dropped Ps. 34:11 on me especially back in Sept. 2, '07, I was driving from the Northwest to my place in Omaha, at least 1800 miles.  This verse was heavily on me since my kids and grandkids were having family situations that were serious.  Well, I've never forgotten, that, while on a phone in my car that one of the family guys had called and was filled with sorrowfulness, I had someone take a picture of me at a special strong river area in Idaho.  So here's a "me", who smiles, even though that verse has never left me when thinking of where and when it grabbed at me.

 

Come, you children, listen to me;

I will teach you to revere and

worshipfully fear the Lord. 

Ps. 34:11

FOCUSING ON THE LORD RE: EARTH AND HEAVEN!

THAT'S WHAT I COUNT ON!  FOREVER AND EVER!! AMEN!!!!
IN THE PAST 45 YEARS, WHEN DRIVING AND SEEING AND REJOICING AND FILLED WITH UNDERSTANDING OF THE LORD,  I'VE LOVED TO SEE THE SKY, THE CLOUDS, THE TREES, THE ROCKS, THE ANIMALS, THE CHURCHES, AND THE WONDERFUL PORTIONS OF THE LORD ALL AROUND OUR NATION AND OTHER NATIONS WHEN BEING THERE.  I'M A SMILER AND A REJOICER!  

FOCUSING ON THE LORD CONSISTENTLY IS WHAT I MUST DO NOW, SINCE I CAN'T DRIVE ANY MORE,  AND IN THIS PROCESS MY BRAIN AND BODY ARE THINKING AND THINKING MORE AND MORE OF HEAVEN.

BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS.

REJOICING AND PRAISING FOR JESUS AND HEAVENLY FATHER!!

  I count on that, even consistently. In spite of what is shared around and about our nation and the world that is filled with confusion and sometimes not understanding who and how our Lord occupies... and has occupied for thousands and thousands of years ... I focus moment-by-moment, day-by-day to the Word of God.  And I rejoice and praise for my Savior. 
      I look forward to seeing Jesus either if He comes down here to deal with our world or if I'm up in Heaven.    He is what had been counted strongly on me even when I was a young kid.  I didn't understand Him well enough then, of course, but He protected me when many fights had entered my life, even as a young kid.  I could easily have been beaten and murdered from my childhood time to when in my teens and early twenties in the Northwest.  A few times, even since then, I've been in locations where me and my friends were dealing with our serious national and international situations, and we've heard that we were going to be murdered.   Through all these years, now when I'm seventy, it's been a huge blessing that our Heavenly Father has sent angels and others to protect and keep me and mine alive.  Anyhow, He reveals secrets and is Light and fills with protection and piles of love!  And I praise the Lord and rejoice!

HIS GOODNESS IS WHAT I COUNT ON!

     With my brain and body issues now, especially since a few days ago it was indicated through a hospital that I can't drive a car any more.  So, instead of driving around and worshiping through towns and many locations, all I can focus on is serving the Lord and worshiping the Lord in my house -- day or night -- and turning my heart to serve Him more and more. 
    Sometimes I'm crying, b/c this is such a new piece of my life.  I was a protector and keeper, especially when the seriousness of my family was laid on me strongly since I was 6 -- protected my sisters who were younger than me, and I was a babysitter, especially when I was 7, and until I graduated about 10-1/2 years later when I was just shy of 18.  Touch Cookie for years.  Grateful that the Lord broke strongly and kindly into me when I was 20.  So, around our nation and a couple nations in the world, especially Uganda,  I've still been used to help and protect people.  Now I'm home.  HOPE, HOPE, HOPE to be in Heaven in the not-distant future.
      Blessings-- in spite of the fact that I'm just here now -- I've surrounded to many of my family and friends -- here and other parts of the world -- through praying and worshiping and glorifying the Lord is all I can do!

RELIED UPON THE HEAVENLY FATHER!

       I counted on His Words back then when we were going around the NW and California and back to Omaha a few weeks later.  We'd be seeing our families and friends since we were getting ready to go to Uganda when leaving Omaha.  We thought we might be in Uganda forever, but it didn't work out quite that way.   We trusted Him,  served Him whenever and wherever we were.  So it's been a huge blessing to us, even though we haven't been around the world or around the nation often enough.  But it was a huge blessing to meet and see many and help anyway, anywhere we could.  The Lord protects and uses and encourages.  All we can count on.
      NOW, as my brain and body issue is a day-time challenge, He is Who I trust and Who I focus on.  He will keep me here, use me here, and take me to Heaven and use me there.  All I count on, moment-by-moment.  I worship and focus on Him consistently and look forward to seeing Him... and many others... face-to-face. 

 [OR however our seeing/hearing/talking/walking situation is there.

Find out for sure when I'm there. 

 And, as I've indicated,

 I can hardly wait!]

REJOICING AND LAUGHING IN UTAH AND COLORADO!

     Back in the summer of '98, I had taken our Ugandan son, Sam, out there so he'd see another wonderful portion of our nation.  We were in the Utah and Colorado national parks for a few days.  Then, when heading home, we were visiting a special friend in Colorado and staying with him for a couple days. This whole trip was a blessing, and he sure smiled.  

     

 [OH, and BTW, the Word is correct:  the Lord Jehovah is our everlasting strength.   It IS!!  I count on it

 moment-by-moment, day-by-day.  

And I took the picture of this wonderful

 "baby" squirrel-ish right by us.]

 
Anyhow, just showing the two of us together on that trip to Utah at Bryce Canyon right then.  He sure smiled and loved it!

AND ARCHES NP

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS WHAT COUNTS!

     This is what I count on, moment-by-moment, day-by-day, and heart-to- heart.
      I have truly focused on the Lord's gift to us of those words re: Glory, Honor, and Peace.
      He's truly kind, and truly reaching out and touching to us consistently.

      Facing Christmas time needs us to be consistently focusing on Him and that's what truly counts.







Bless you and yours and be filled with love through our Heavenly Father.

 [Oh, and, BTW, I've loved this zoo!]

CHRISTMAS PIECES HERE AND IN UGANDA!

     About the December of 1992, Dave and I chose a Jesus born stretch.  It was very big and was being set aside by the shop.  I guess they didn't think people would want it in their home.  We did then, and often we do it now.  I just took this photo a couple days ago.

        AND the coffee table is filled with it!  We have to be careful when walking from the kitchen or bathroom area, b/c we could stumble against it when it's so wide.  But we love it and watch carefully.
       When we were going to Uganda in '94, we thought we'd be there forever, so other than the stable piece we had, the others were taken.  When we had a home in the Kampala area [Katelemwa] right before Christmas, and we had been given 4 kids from one family to teach ... Dave did computer and piano and other things, and I did a bit of the English class situation and teaching books ... and, even though we didn't have couches or anything people could sit on, we sat on the floor.  And we put this piece then.  And their brother didn't sit there right then in the living room.  The girls were excited and filled with joyfulness to be right there!  Never had anything like this in Uganda.

From the red-ish color on the left to the right portion with the door portion was all the living room then.  Quite wonderful. 

                           Here's one we did on a door area!

           About a year later, we were at New Hope Uganda in the house that the teacher for the Jay and Vickie Dangers kids.  We were doing what we could do.  AND the house was a lot smaller than our previous one.

      When we had just gotten there, and had our stuff to put in the place, it was quite a bit of stuff.  And this was our kitchen room and our living room.  You can see that brown seat on both of the pictures.  One on the left side in the kitchen and the other on the right portion.  Actually, that was at our table. It was quite a time.
       Well, we had our Christmas piece with us, and we had put it on a table back in the corner.  Eventually, a few kids were brought in and we held the kids and we showed all of it to them.  It was on a small table, right back in that corner that you could see.  Anyhow, one thing happened then, when a young kid grabbed one of them and broke a piece of it.  I cried.

And it's on our table, as usual.  Just thought I'd remind you.

        A miracle is that we still have used it in our homes for all these years.  It's been 20 years now since that happened. So, this is what it still looks like.  I don't cry again, but I always smile!  And I'm amazed and grateful how the Lord let us keep it.  Here it is!  I'll show the group again, and then the last piece of the men who had come to give gifts to Jesus.

  

[OH, and the rock piece is what Dave and I got in Canada at Thunder Bay, Ontario.  A week after our wedding we were at that place for a couple hours and got that rock.  We've smiled at it forever!]

 

 

COSTA RICA LIFE TIME; HOPING FOR HEAVEN, ALSO!

     This truthfully strikes again today.  I was looking through other things I'd written and photos.  This truly grabbed me.  I'd been in that portion of Costa Rica in early 2000.  It was a wonderful time.  And, I also had a special teaching stretch re: spiritual mapping, which is focusing on the historical pieces of the Lord's people and Satan's people.  I was given a lot of info through a YWAM connected to teaching in South Africa where they had been involved there about a year earlier.  I have some of that info they gave me at their house in Los Chiles.  Anyhow, I was there for a couple weeks.  Dave missed me [and I'm missed him!], but he couldn't get out of Omaha re: working.   
      In today's stretch of my life, I don't know how to write the right words very often, and, as I've indicated, I believe strongly that I'll be in Heaven in the not-distant future.  Well, I would miss family and friends here, BUT I'm looking forward to seeing family and friends in Heaven and Spiritual "brothers and sisters" connected to the Bible.  I've wanted to meet Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, Mary Magdalene, Jude, and John [especially re: Revelation] and hundreds of others.  And, of course, Heavenly Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.  Anyhow, that's where I'm at.  I'll try to enter on here for a while, b/c I really love to be with Hazel and a few of my spiritual friends who are on there.  Trusting the Lord is all I can do! And my dementia is increasing significantly and it takes me a long time to read and/or write.  But I try.
     So this is a little bit of the wonderful pictures taken there.  I have MANY others, but just showing to you a few of them.  I'm a winker, re: it.

         I took the photo and it's with my 2 friends right at this edge of the boat!

 On a river time this was wonderful and special and strongly between the nations of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.  A treat!! 

 

Picture was taken when I would be leaving to Omaha in a couple days from San Jose.  Formerly, when she had picked me up in San Jose to go to their home in Los Chiles, we were on a bus together and it was over the mountains and a little scary sometimes.

Light couldn't be seen very well and the bus was covered with clouds and the roads were not very safe.  Praying and rejoicing on the Lord is all that could work out.  When leaving her place a couple weeks later, we went that way on the bus again.  When I would be heading to Omaha soon,  after we were to San Jose and on the bus again,  she stayed with me for an extra day and then she headed home. A day later, I was in the airport!  My whole time in Costa Rica for those weeks was a blessing!

 

 

 

 

COMPASSION FROM OUR HEAVENLY FATHER!

I FOCUS ON THE WORD OF GOD AND 

FOCUS ON OUR WORLD

AND HOW HE HAS FIT ALL OF THEM AND US TOGETHER.

HE'S A HUGE... HUGE... HUGE... BLESSING!!

AND EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY

I WORSHIP HIM AND REJOICE HIM.

[I'VE SHARED THIS PHOTO BEFORE, BUT IT WAS

DROPPED ON ME AGAIN TONIGHT.  IT IS A BLESSING FOR ME 

TO SEE AND REJOICE AND BE FILLED WITH HIS LOVE! ]