JOYFULNESS AND HALLELUJAH!!

          I'm very grateful and I'm filled with rejoicing!  Today at three churches I was hugged and loved and appreciated, even though I have difficult times to walk clearly and to speak carefully.  Sometimes my brain and body issue is a real challenge to me and to others.  DUH!  I look forward the do what I can in our world and I instantly look forward to Heaven!!  
      Yes, day-by-day, moment-by-moment, I focus on my Heavenly Father and Jesus and piles and piles of others, including family and friends, pastors, and kind neighbors that took care of me and dropped the Lord into my heart when I was a good person sometimes and a fighter sometimes.  I know I've been protected and carefully healed by the Lord a number of times, even when in a fighting home when I was a young kid.  I was taught to be a fighter when I was just turning 5 in July, '50.        
      It's a huge blessing that the Lord broke into my life and did not let me enter suicide which occurred when I was in my late teens.   In Tacoma and Seattle between ages of 18 to 20, I had become in very sinful situations, back in 1964 to 1966, and knowing about it through what I'd known of the Lord I truly thought I'd be murdered or arrested for murdering someone.   It's a blessing that the Lord broke strongly into my life when I was 20.  In all these 50 years He has been such a miracle for me and my family and friends.  So much changed through and for Him.

      So I'm filled with rejoicing and joyfulness!! 

 Through eternity!! 

 Just like many of you the word is

     HALLELUJAH!!!

FULL OF JOY!!

WHEN READING THIS VERSE AND TRYING TO FIND A PHOTO THAT FILLED ME WITH IT, WHEN I SAW THIS ONE I SMILED AND WAS FILLED WITH JOYFULNESS AND REJOICING!

     ABOUT 4 DAYS BEFORE I WAS HEADING FROM TACOMA TO OMAHA LAST AUGUST, I, AT THE TACOMA MALL AREA, MET A BOY, AND IN A FEW HOURS WE BECAME FAMILY.  AARON CONSIDERED ME HIS GRANDMA.

      THREE DAYS LATER, WE WENT TO CHURCH TOGETHER AND HAD THE PICTURE TAKEN RIGHT BEFORE  WE WERE LEAVING.  WE WALKED A FEW BLOCKS AND HAD LUNCH AND THEN HE WENT TO WHERE HE LIVED, A FEW MORE BLOCKS AWAY, AND I WENT UP TO MY COUSIN SHARON'S ROOM TO BEGIN PLANNING  RE: AIRPORT SITUATION THE NEXT DAY. 

      AARON AND I HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH ON EMAIL AND PHONES QUITE A NUMBER OF TIMES IN THESE PAST 9 MONTHS.  WHEN I PLANNED TO BE IN TACOMA A COUPLE MORE MONTHS FROM NOW, WITH MY HUSBAND AND I DRIVING OUT,  I TRULY WANTED DAVE TO MEET AARON SO DAVE WOULD SEE AND MEET HIS NEW GRANDSON.  WELL, THIS WEEK WHEN CALLING HIM, I FOUND OUT THAT AARON IS SUDDENLY IN TEXAS WHERE HIS DAD LIVES.  HE'S GETTING A JOB AND WON'T BE GOING BACK OUT TO THE NORTHWEST, SINCE HE HAD, THROUGH HIS DAD IN THE PAST, FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN TACOMA. AARON WAS BORN IN TEXAS AND HE  HAS FAMILY AND FRIENDS THERE. 

    

     I'D GO DOWN TO TEXAS IF I COULD!  I WANT TO SEE HIM, MEET HIS HAD AND GIVE THEM HUGS, SINCE I'M FAMILY. OH, WELL.  IF NOTHING ELSE, IN HEAVEN I'LL SEE MY GRANDSON SOME TIME, SOME YEARS FROM NOW.

 

FULL OF JOY! REJOICE!!

PHILIPPIANS 4:4

MY FRIEND, LISA, WHO LIVES HERE IN THE OMAHA AREA, 

HAD BEEN DOING SOME NURSING IN THE

TACOMA AREA.  SINCE I WAS RAISED

IN THAT AREA AS A KID,

AND HAVE SISTERS AND FRIENDS AND

NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND

LOTS OF OTHERS OUT THERE,

I TOOK A PLANE OUT SO

I COULD SPEND HER LAST FEW DAYS THERE WITH HER.

I WANTED TO SHOW HER AROUND 

THE PARKS AND THE PUGET SOUND AREA AND MY FAVORITE DINNER PLACE.  AND MY FAVORITE COUSINS,

MY SISTER AND FRIENDS.

WHAT A WONDERFUL TREAT TO SPEND THOSE 

DAYS LAST AUGUST TO SHOW LISA AROUND.

MY SISTER, BETTY, TOOK THE PICTURE.

 LISA GAVE BETTY, AND

MY COUSIN SHARON,

ALL THE STUFF LEFT FROM HER

LIVING PLACE WHEN SHE WAS HEADING 

TO SEA-TAC GET TO OMAHA. 

HUNDREDS OF PIECES OF FOOD AND MANY OTHER PIECES

WERE SPREAD AROUND AND SHARED.  

IT TRULY WAS A BLESSING.

SO, WHEN THERE, WE WERE FILLED WITH

THE JOY OF THE LORD

AND WE WERE REJOICING,

TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY.

SHE'S BEEN A TREAT TO ME HERE IN OMAHA

AND THEN A TREAT IN TACOMA.

I STAYED ANOTHER 3 DAYS AFTER LISA LEFT

WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS BEFORE HEADING HOME.

MISS IT ALL SO VERY MUCH!!

AND SUDDENLY I GAINED A "GRANDSON".

WE'VE BEEN TALKING OCCASIONALLY.

WANT TO SEE HIM AGAIN WHEN I'M OUT THERE

AND I WANT HIM TO MEET MY HUSBAND, 

HIS "GRANDPA".

DOING ALL THINGS THROUGH HIM!

THAT'S WHAT I RELY UPON AND KNOW IT'S

ABSOLUTELY TRUTHFUL IN THE WORD.

EVERYTHING FOR CHRIST, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE

DID I LOOK GORGEOUS?  

NO!!

BUT DID I TEACH SPIRITUAL MAPPING AND WARFARE TO PEOPLE WHO TRULY UNDERSTOOD AND

 ACCEPTED THE NEEDS?

ABSOLUTELY, YES!

LOVED TEACHING IT THEN, MISS DOING IT NOW.