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!

KINGDOM COME...!

THIS IS ON MY HEART STRONGLY...

MOMENT-BY-MOMENT,

DAY-BY-DAY!

PRAISING AND WORSHIPING MY LORD,

MY HEAVENLY FATHER,

IS STRONGLY FOCUSED IN ME.

WHEN I DRIVE NEARLY EVERY DAY WHEN THE LORD 

TELLS ME TO GO, I GO WHERE HE TELLS ME TO, 

AND DURING THAT WHOLE TIME ON THE ROAD,

 I WORSHIP AND PRAY THE WHOLE TIME.

THEN, AT NIGHT WHEN I'M IN BED, I RECEIVE IN THE DREAMS

OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF MYSELF IN THE WORLD,

HELPING AND DOING FOR MANY,

AND, ALSO, ME BEING HELPED THROUGH OTHERS.

ANYHOW, THIS BIBLE VERSE IS MY HEART TODAY...

AND MY HEART FOREVER.

TRULY, IN MY HEART AND BRAIN, 

I'M LOOKING FOR HEAVEN, CONSISTENTLY!

ALL I CAN COUNT ON IS THAT MY HEAVENLY FATHER 

WILL BRING ME THERE ...

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

 

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FOR HEAVEN AND EARTH!

THIS IS MY HEARTFULNESS AGAIN TODAY!

TRUSTING, WORSHIPING, GLORIFYING, PRAISING

IS ALL I COULD DO IN THE PAST, AND NOW, AND FOREVER!

MY NEWEST BIRTH AND OLDEST BIRTHDAY

    This ain't perfect, but since I'm turning 70 right now, and my body and brain ain't working as well, I just thought I'd toss some pieces around and about.  Sorry if this is too crazy!  

Love many, many, many of you.

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     On July 9th I am 70 years old.  Want to share the wonderfulness of how the Lord kept me alive in many ways.  When people say that, in our present-day healthiness, I should plan to be on the earth until I'm 80 or 90 at least.  Well, I would have died through beatings, murders, suicide, or ruined heart issues.  The Lord has healed and protected me many times.

    I was born in Portland, Oregon.  I discovered when I was 17 that my parents were not married when I was born.  Mom, very angry at Dad, when I was about a month from graduation in Klickitat, WA, in 1963, she told me that they had married when I was 3 years old.  After her death, a few years ago, one of my sisters and one of my nieces had gone through more of Mom's pieces and discovered it wasn't when I was 3 that they married.  I was about 1-1/2 years old.  Too much of their situation to tell to any of you.  Even though it is quite normal and acceptable in our present-day world, it sure wasn't when I was a kid! I'm extremely relieved that Dad and Mom came to the Lord... my Dad when he was 59 and died when he was 65 in 1984, and my Mom when she was 80 and died at 90-1/2 in 2011.  I look forward to seeing them in heaven!!
     Because of the fighting that was going on ... Mom and Dad fought each other and others fought them through neighborhood ... I was filled with danger.  I was molested, beaten, and became a fighter when I was 5 years old.  Dad taught me how to fight just as I was turning from 4 to 5

right then.   When near July 4th, shortly before my 5th birthday, I'd been hurt by a 7 year old boy.  As I say, Dad taught me how to fight, and, when the boy walked by me I hit him, and he ran away from fear.  So, I became a strong fighter and did it anytime necessary for me or my family.
    When I was in school, from grade school to high school, even though I heard the Words of the Lord when principles and teachers could talk about the Bible, I truly knew it was right, but I continued to keep my sinful life strongly.  AND I felt guilty, because I knew what I was doing was against the truthfulness of the Lord.
  

      I was working in Seattle when I was 18 and 19, and filled with extreme sinfulness, and was heading to suicide. Amazingly I was moved to Tacoma when I was just turning 20, and was with my Dad, Mom, and sisters.  A few months later, in an apartment, I was drawn to a Baptist church through a new friend, and I went and knew the truthful portions, and, 3 weeks later, I decided to truly accept the Lord on April 15, 1966.  Life began to change for me.
     The Lord has used me to do some very unusual things for approximately 46 years.  In the process, when dealing with very serious and dangerous situations through family connections or towns, He has healed my heart.  My heart was healed when I was 27 & 28, 38 & 39, 42.  I'm extremely grateful!  At those times it had nothing to do with the doctors, but only in houses or churches when suddenly He encouraged me and touched me.

     When I was going to Soriti, Uganda, in November, 2003, and staying until January, 2004, my husband and I, as we knew the Lord had called me to go there, we both thought and were concerned that I could easily be dead over there.  I was gone for 2-1/2 months before Dave could come,

because of his job situation.  One of the miracles was that I, during the last week in Soroti, had been invited to by 5 pastors to go to a very wide group of people outside of town which was in a serious place where the people were forced to live when having run away from their places to avoid the Lord's Resistance Army.  When asked by those pastors to go there, and I planned to do it, another pastor took me to the side and suggested that I not go, because he expected to have to call Dave and tell him that I was dead and ask how to send my body to him in Omaha or have him come to Soroti. Well, since Pastor Joseph said that so strongly, I did not go.  Found out a day later that, even though no one had died, the situations had been very serious, and, if someone from out of their nation had arrived, it [me] could have been much worse.  When Dave came to Uganda 2 weeks later, at the end of January, I had malaria and PTS.  Malaria was handled OK through doctors; no big deal.  The PTS lasted for approximately 4 months.  When flying back home together a couple weeks after he arrived, it took me quite a while to become thoroughly healthy.  I was 58 back then.  Oh, and re: a lot of the situation in Soroti, even though the book is fictional/non-fictional [mostly NON-fictional re: Soroti!] it has now been published. 

     Sorry to yammer so long, but: being in Uganda several times; Costa Rica twice; Morocco for a prayer time with piles of people from our nation Europe and northern Africa; First Responders in Omaha where many of us go to murder sites to pray for family and friends connected to the death; and helping the Bhutanese from Nepal here in Omaha where I was placed into them surprisingly about 5 years ago and have about 200 Bhutanese "family and friends".  In spite of everything, I'm very grateful. The Lord has sent me around and about and taken care of me.  [Much of this was with Dave, too, especially Uganda and the Bhutanese. He's a wonderful pianist, organist, a home "fixer", computer-fixer.  He's a blessing to others and he's been a wonderful blessing to me!]
     Now, even with my stumbling and my dementia increasing very strongly,  the Lord tells me to drive around our city and other local towns and pray for the wonderful situations or demonic situations, and worship very strongly thankfully to the Lord.  In our large world or any very small homes, He is all that counts.  And He is all I can count on.
     I'm very grateful for how the Lord protected me, healed me, used me, and has let me worship and glorify Him, moment-by-moment.
     Thank you for putting up with me, my dear family and friends.

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Dave and I just arrived home 4 days ago from Washington and Oregon area after being gone from Omaha for 2 weeks.  This is the two of us with Mt. Adams in behind us, and the fire was extreme that day.  However, in spite of that situation, we were filled with smiling and rejoicing, because friends we happened to be staying with had driven us around the Klickitat area.

Oh, and I was in Klickitat when 5-7 and 15-17.  

1st grade there, then mostly in Tacoma from 2nd to 9th grade. It was a blessing to be in Klickitat for high school 

and that I graduated there.

A main miracle for me to be there is because

I have wonderful friends that I met there

when very young, teenaged, and now very old!

And, since I was a young kid in Tacoma, WA, this has been my favorite mountain, Mount Rainier,  to see. 

 I rejoiced this time again.

WE CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!

THIS VERSE GRABBED ME YESTERDAY!

TODAY I SAW A PHOTO AND KNEW IT COULD BE USED

REASONABLY RE: THE WORD!

HALLELUJAH!!

CAN HARDLY WAIT TO BE THERE

TO SEE OUR LORD, SPIRITS, ANGELS, PROPHETS, 

SPIRITUAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND 

THE LIFELONG PHYSICAL FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

AND KNOW I'LL BE INSIDE A HOUSE AND HAVE IT

FOREVER!!!

NIKI WAS A BLESSING, IS A BLESSING!

  Niki gave me a photo when she graduated in Oregon where

she had been going to from Tacoma and staying with a friend she had known in Klickitat and who had moved to Madras. Somehow, Niki went there to be with her friend and it was more than 250 miles from Tacoma and took about 5 hours to get there, and the car was FILLED with my parents, my sisters, and some of their friends. It was quite a challenge, but a blessing to see her.
      When she gave me the photo, she wrote something sweet

and wonderful to me. I've never forgotten. We ain't young... in the photo she had just turned 18 and I was 22 ... heading to 23.    
     Yesterday she turned 65; I'll be 70 in about 7 weeks.  She was and is a blessing, then. Niki has continued to be a blessing for me and for many.  I love and miss her!! [And my sisters and nieces, nephews, and friends in the NW... love so much, miss so much!]

Together in Tacoma for Mom's 80th Birthday, July 28, 2000.

OUR SINS BENEATH HIS FEET! A BLESSING!!

AS I INDICATE, THIS IS A HUGE BLESSING.  

HOPE WE CAN ALL, ALWAYS, PRAY AND WORSHIP

AND REJOICE IN THIS WONDERFUL GIFT FROM GOD!

JUSTICE!! ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT!!!

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS PHOTO 

AND THESE WORDS HAVE BEEN USED.

HOWEVER, TODAY THE LORD LAID IT ON ME AGAIN!

I COULDN'T FIND A BETTER PHOTO,

SO GRABBED THIS AGAIN.

TRUSTING HIM IS ALL THAT COUNTS FOREVER!!! 

 

WORSHIPING AND CLAPPING...MOUNTAINS AND OTHERS AND US!!

ISAIAH 55:12

The mountains

 and the hills

shall break forth before you

into singing,

and all the trees of the field

shall clap their hands.

THEY CAN CLAP THEIR HANDS,

WE CAN CLAP OURS!!!

JOY OF THE LORD!!

A BLESSING TO BE WITH ELIZABETH.  SHE'S A TREAT!!

AND MET THROUGH BLOGGING THREE YEARS AGO.

HAVE BEEN WITH HER THREE TIMES WHEN I'VE

BEEN OUT IN THE NORTHWEST AREA. AND

HER "GOD-JOB" IS THE PASTORAL STRETCH

WITH HER HUSBAND AND FAMILY AND

MISSIONARY ISSUES IN AFRICA.

ELIZABETH PICKED ME UP AT THE TRAIN IN PORTLAND

WHEN I HAD LEFT TACOMA, WA,

AND, AFTER GOING AROUND ABOUT THE 

COLUMBIA RIVER AREA AND PARKS,

SHE TOOK ME TO KATY'S HOUSE.

KATY AND I HAD NOT OFFICIALLY MET UNTIL THEN.

WE HAD EMAILED AND FB'D, BUT NOT MET.

WE BOTH LOVED BEING 

MISSIONARIES AND GOD-SERVERS,

SO IT WAS A REAL TREAT TO MEET.

IT ALSO WAS A BLESSING

WHEN I SPENT A COUPLE HOURS

WITH KATY INVOLVED WITH A SERIOUS

MINISTRY ISSUE IN PORTLAND FOR ISRAEL.  

SO THIS IS MY PICTURE WITH HER

TAKEN WHEN AT AN OLD-PEOPLE'S 

APARTMENT COMPLEX..

CONSEQUENTLY, THE BIBLE'S WORD IS TRUTHFUL!!

JOYFULNESS IS STRONG!!!  

HAVE HAD IT MANY TIMES, AND HAD IT THEN

BIG TIME!!

HEAVEN AND EARTH!!

TREES, HIGH AND LOW, ARE GOD'S

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

HIS PLANTS ARE PRETTY...

MY/OUR/THEIR STRONG REFUGE!

YES, HE IS!

ALL WE CAN COUNT ON

FOREVER AND EVER.

CALLING UNTO HIM IS WHAT COUNTS!!

HE TRULY IS ALL WE CAN ETERNALLY COUNT ON!

OUR WORLD CHANGES;

HE    DOES   NOT !!!

HE IS HIGH!!!!

STREAMS RUN DOWN EYES...

[THEY HEAR NOT, NOR RECEIVE IT,

LOVE IT, OR OBEY IT.] 

AMPLIFIED BIBLE VERSE

SINGING AND REJOICING!

REJOICING... SINGING

I REJOICE, I SING...

FOREVER!

[And, on this day, I am rejoicing on my birthday.  If it wasn't for Him and His kindness and His victory over my sinfulness, I wouldn't be here.  Now, I am, every moment of every day -- not just on a birthday, doncha know? --
 but thinking of Him and rejoicing for Him.]