GAVE INFO TO A FRIEND RE: MULTNOMAH FALLS

     From about 4:45 until about 6:00, I was at a First Responders, which was in a portion of our town re: a murder boy who was 16, and several of us were there to pray for the family and friends.  Unusually, when we got there there were dozens and dozens of people.  I talked to a couple of them and one was a pastor for him and another was a teacher at the high school.  Many, many, many were crying and enjoyed us worshiping and praying for them and hugging and holding them.  Anyhow, now that I'm home I'm trying to put a bit on here.  
     WELL, I had a young friend/"son" drive me home and he'd been here in the Omaha area since he was a kid.  Through First Responders I'd become to know him in about 6 years.  So, since he'd been raised in this area for most of his life ... he's about 42 ...  just last summer he'd been flown to  Portland, Oregon, and he'd also been taken to Multnomah Falls and Mount Hood.  SO, I asked him to come into my house and I could show him some of the photos re: those that I'd been at.  He was here for a few minutes to go to his place, and I dropped a few so he'd smile.  He DID, and he wants to come some other time so he can see more and more of the Multnomah Falls and the Pacific Ocean and portions of Seattle and more of the Columbia River.  So, here's a few of those photos and I'll have to eat dinner and spent time with my husband. 
      So, this is what I've loved even when I was a kid back in the 1950s and several times until 2016.  Love the mountains, love the rivers, and the ocean, and Multnomah Falls, and have many family and friends there, even though I haven't lived there for about 47 years.  Show a bit of what I can.

Multnomah Falls

Mount Rainier

Mount Hood

BLESSED BE MY ROCK!!!

       When reading the Bible this morning I saw this verse of  Psalms and I saw this photo... AND I noticed that a couple years ago when I put the photo on with the Word I had written Psalm 118 instead of Psalm 18.  DUH!!  Anyhow, the truthfulism is that that Word has really grabbed my heart and my attention many times.  So, I can't re-do my photo, but just thought I'd tell you re: that stupid mistake about Psalms.  AND, also, when it indicates it was when I'd originally left Tacoma 45 years earlier, now it's 47 years.  I was in Tacoma much of the time from when I was a very young kid until I was 23-1/2 when my former husband, about 3 months after we were married, drove down and took me to his family situation near San Francisco, California. Since all those years ago, wherever I was living in other portions of our nation, I've continued to be a visitor ever since then when I could.  I've taken many, MANY pictures of the Mount Rainier.  AND the Pacific Ocean, Columbia River, and many towns in the NW. 

Pacific Ocean, late June, '15
Me and Dave and the other two pictures were early July. 

       

COLUMBIA RIVER

MULTNOMAH FALLS

 

WATERFALLING, ROARING, SINGING... CAN HARDLY WAIT!

BLESSINGS OVERFLOW!!

A TRUE BLESSING

OF AND FOR OUR LIVES.

FOREVER!

 

HIS CREATION

On my trip to and from the Northwest in July, I saw much of His creation and I smiled and rejoiced very often. 

 A variety of creative bits and pieces.

Hope you will smile.
Couldn't not share.

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HOW HAPPY I WAS WITH

 WHAT HE CREATED.

Proverbs 8:31

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At Yellowstone NP

Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA

Downtown, Portland, OR

Point Defiance Park by 5-Mile Road

Multnomah Falls, OR

Bremerton, WA,, Puget Sound, Ferry Area.

Old Faithful, Yellowstone NP

Flowers, Bremerton, WA

AND NOW THE FINAL, BUT MOST LOVED BY ME...

Mount Rainier, Tacoma, WA

Would LOVE to include the piles of family and friends... would LOVE to ... but don't have enough of the photos and wouldn't want people to feel hurt if they weren't included and would feel rejected.  

But WE created by our Lord was EXTREMELY special.  And we are extremely blessed through Him.

HOPE IN HIM ... ROM. 15

 

IN HIM THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POWER.

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YES, I HOPE, AND HOPE, AND HOPE SOME MORE...

WHY NOT MULTNOMAH FALLS??

It was a "God" thing.  Ya see, my sister, Niki, and I were leaving her place about 60 miles west of Portland, OR, and taking I-5 towards Vancouver/Portland.  It was a sunny, warm day... much different than the previous ones ... and we were having a nice drive.

We were going to Goldendale, WA, to see Berta.  

I could drive on either side of the Columbia River.  Bridges were in several places and easy to cross.  However, for some reason, we stayed on the Washington side.  I saw Multnomah Falls, and other falls, across the river, but still felt that staying in Washington was what should be done.  The scenery was lovely and the driving --- curving and climbing -- was fun.

 
Around 2:00, Niki said it was time for lunch.  [Doncha think she was right?]  We were in the small town, Stevenson, and I didn't know where to stop.  She suddenly, glancing down side streets, pointed to the right and said, "There."  I parked and a small antique and cafe shop was by us.  When we entered, we were the only ones to be served.  Had a nice menu and nice food.

While eating, I glanced around and noticed that on both sides of the front door scriptures were artistically in place.

SO, I asked the lady who we thought was the owner... also the cooker ... why the verses were before our eyes.

We talked for a short time, and she, Robbie, casually mentioned having been with an organization called YWAM.  Niki and I started rejoicing at her.  We've both had so many friends and contacts involved in Youth With A Mission.  She shared the locations she had been when younger and told us a number of stories.


Now she was a Mom with 4 kids and owned this store as an opportunity to take care of them and provide whatever was needed.

Before we left, after talking for more than half an hour [if for no other reason than I was there yammering with and for her] we prayed together, and Niki and I prayed especially that her business would expand sufficiently for her needs.

This whole experience fit into my spiritual motto:  Right place, right time.

We know we were used to encourage her.

We loved it.

We continued east from there, through more small towns along the river, and reached Goldendale a bit later than our original plan.  Why?  We were used by God along the way.

The next day we drove over to the Oregon side of the Columbia.  And it was raining, foggy, and not reasonable re: our timing to reach her house, since we left Berta's later than planned.
  

SO, for nearly the first in years, I did not stop at my favorite falls to listen, watch, walk and rejoice ... and grab a small rock or two.  The hard-hearted portion was because I knew this would probably be my final long drive out to the Northwest.

But Niki's instinct in her spirit, that this was the shop to be in, was so truthful, so right, so blessed.

AND Robbie was worth it.