YES! I'LL REJOICE!!!!

The truthfulism of this grabs my heart!  I love the Lord, I'm a rejoicer, and He's been so helpful to me since I was born.

Anyhow, wanting to share something today/tonight somehow

and this Word on this photo did it.

I took the photo when going from Seattle on Puget Sound to Bremerton where I could end up with my car

 and head to Tacoma.

I've loved any kind of birds for most of my life.

This and the others with it really made me smile and rejoice.

AND I often think that when I'm on the way to Heaven birds will surround me strongly and be with me

until above the clouds when the angels will take over.

  Always makes me smile to think of it.

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!

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!!!

JOYFULNESS & REJOICEFULNESS!

I REJOICE CONSISTENTLY

WITH MY LOVE TO THE LORD.

 ALSO, IN ANY PART OF OUR WORLD, 

I LOVE THE WINGS OF BIRDS

THAT ARE BEING SPREAD AROUND...

OVER THE GROUNDS, AND TREES, AND OVER THE SEAS.

ALWAYS FILLS ME WITH JOYFULNESS.

LET HEAVENS AND EARTH!

THIS IS VERY STRONGLY ON MY HEART TODAY.

SEEING THE SINFULNESS OF THE WORLDWIDENESS

AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF OUR LIVES

SPREAD AROUND AND ABOUT.

I TRUST FOR AND WORSHIP MY HEAVENLY FATHER.

AND WHEN SEEING THE CLOUDS AND THE ROCKS

AND THE MOUNTAINS AND THE LAKES

AND THE RIVERS AND THE STREAMS

THAT ALWAYS HAS ME FILLED WITH 

REJOICING FOR MY LORD.

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BTW, Dave and I were going from our place in Omaha, to other places and other states to the West, to see family and friends and heading home in a few weeks.  We took many pictures and this one iwas a special one.  Also, while traveling it was VERY hot in many of the areas, b/c it was June/July '94.  We were prepping and leaving to Uganda at late August and we thought we would never be back the the States.  Thought we'd be serving the Lord there and helping and doing whatever was needed.  Well, we were there for 8 months, came home to make enough money to go back, and spent another 8 months and then were in Omaha again.  Only in Uganda a couple other times, also.  Once for our Uganda son's wedding in Sept., '99, and then for my time to be in Soroti from mid-November to mid-February.  Dave came the last 2 weeks and held me strongly, b/c I was filled with heartbroken pieces, PTS, and malaria.  

Anyhow, Uganda is our favorite place, and the Lord put us there then,

 but He used us for some particular situations, and then 

brought us here to help and spread it around to others.

The photo is of Dave and I as we were at my birthday time in Tacoma,

 and my NW family was there for the birthday, July 9, '94.  

I was looking younger than I do now.

Blessings!

OH!  And "The Soroti Project" that is published now.

 

FOR/WITH HIM I REJOICE!!

MY MOMENTS, MY DREAMS, MY DAY, MY NIGHT, 

 MY FOREVERNESS

IS FILLED WITH REJOICE OF MY HEAVENLY FATHER!

HE'S ALL I CAN COUNT ON HERE ON EARTH,

AND KNOWING THAT FOR ME AND MANY OTHERS 

HE IS OPENING THE DOOR TO HEAVEN IN 

THE NOT DISTANT FUTURE.

REJOICING FOR MY HEAVENLY FATHER!

I DID THEN.  I DO NOW!!

REJOICING IN AND FOR MY HEAVENLY FATHER

IS ALL THAT COUNTS FOREVER AND EVER.

LOVED AND LOVE UGANDA,

LOVE FAMILY AND FRIENDS

HERE OR AROUND AND ABOUT THE WORLD.

FIR TREES AND US...FOREVER

OUR HEARTS AND MINDS AND SPIRITS

ARE ALWAYS HEADING UP!

ALL OF US AND THE TREES AND BIRDS AND FISH

 AND ANYTHING ELSE, TOO.

THAT'S WHAT WE COUNT ON.

SAFELY UNDER SHADOW OF HIS WINGS!!

YES I WILL...

FOREVER AND EVER.

[AND I'M A BIRD ADDICT, BECAUSE THE WORD OF GOD 

IN A VARIETY OF LOCATIONS IN THE BIBLE DEALS WITH BIRDS. 

 HOW CAN I NOT BE IN LOVE WITH SO MANY

CONNECTED TO MY FATHER AND CONNECTED TO ME?]

OUR HEARTS REJOICE AND SEEK HIM!

IN THE NEXT JANUARY IT WILL HAVE BEEN 24 YEARS WHEN WE FIRST WERE IN UGANDA TO SEEK PEOPLE AND SERVE THE LORD.  THAT DAY IN JINJA AT A CHURCH, I WAS THE PREACHER. WE STILL HAVE IT ON A VIDEO AND MUCH OF THE REJOICING AND LAUGHING TOOK PLACE THAT STRETCH OF TIME.  AFTER THAT, WE WERE TAKEN TO THE NILE TO SEE IT OFFICIALLY AND I PUT MY FOOT IN THE WATER.  THE TREE IS THE DIVISION BETWEEN THE LAKE VICTORIA AND BEGINNING OF THE NILE.  THAT WAS QUITE A DAY.  A BLESSED ONE THEN, AND, WITH DEAR ONES STILL  IN OUR LIVES, WE ARE STILL BLESSED.

WE TRULY HAVE SOUGHT THE LORD--

THEN AND NOW AND FOREVER. 

THIS IS A SCHOOL BUILDING, EVEN THOUGH THE ROOF WAS BROKEN AND WINDOWS WERE CRACKED.  MANY WERE THERE FOR THE LORD AT THAT SERVICE.  IT WAS A BLESSING.

  MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE BACK THEN TO TAKE THE VIDEO.  

HE WAS A TREAT THEN AND HE'S A TREAT TODAY.

THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND PEOPLE...

AND LET MEN [EVERYONE] SAY AMONG THE NATIONS,

THE LORD REIGNS!

I CHRONICLES 16:31B

[WE TOOK THIS PHOTO THE SUMMER OF '94, RIGHT BEFORE LEAVING TO UGANDA, GOING AROUND & ABOUT THE WEST PORTION OF THE U.S. TO SEE FAMILY AND FRIENDS.  WE THOUGHT WE'D NEVER BE BACK IN OUR NATION AGAIN, BUT LIVING IN UGANDA FOREVER.  OH, WELL...GOD USED US A DIFFERENT WAY THEN,

AND MANY TIMES SINCE OUR OFFICIAL ARRIVAL 

IN APRIL, '96.  WE LOVED UGANDA THEN, AND IT'S 

BEEN ON OUR HEART CONSISTENTLY

 EVER SINCE '91.  WE MISS MANY OF OUR DEAR ONES THERE.  

AND, BTW,  WE DO LOVE OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS HERE.]

FILLED WITH A ROCKY REJOICE!

WHEN I SEE THE ROCKS, SMALL OR LARGE, 

AROUND AND ABOUT THE WORLD, 

I ALWAYS AM SMILING, TOUCHING, 

GRABBING, AND THINKING OF JESUS

 AS OUR/MY "ROCKY SAVIOR".

MOUNT RAINIER, TACOMA, WA.

MONTANA

CASABLANCA, MOROCCO

BRYCE CANYON, UTAH

OUR YARD

PRAISE AND REJOICE

MY LORD IS THE ONE I CAN RELY UPON

EVERY DAY,

NO MATTER WHEN ANOTHER YEAR TAKES PLACE,

AND OTHER ASPECTS ENTER MY LIFE.

[AND YOURS, OF COURSE.]

REJOICE IN HIM... ALL OF US

... ALL THOSE WHO OBEY HIM.  [PS. 32:11B]

I WANT TO REJOICE, SHOUT FOR JOY, AND OBEY HIM.

FOREVER AND EVER, 

FROM HERE AND TO AND THROUGH ETERNITY.

TENDER GRASS SPRINGS FORTH

IN THE SPRING, SEEING THE TENDER GRASS,

ALWAYS MAKES MY HEART REJOICE.

HIS FAITHFULNESS IS A BLESSING

 FOR EVERYONE ON OUR EARTH.

PHIL. 4:4 ... REJOICE!

YES!!! ... REJOICE.

FOREVER AND EVER.

HIS EARTH...PS. 24

Could have shown, would have shown, piles and piles of 

flowers, birds, animals, bugs, mountains, rivers, oceans, hills, and PEOPLE!

But always smiling at this flower photo taken nearly 18 years ago, I decided I needed to share it to make all of us 

GRIN and REJOICE for our 

CREATOR'S CREATIVITY.

REJOICE!!

YES!

  I MUST, I DO, I TRUST!

NOTHING ELSE COUNTS THROUGH ETERNITY.

MISTY WORLD AND GOD'S GIFT

REVELATION 14:7

WORSHIPING HIM WHO HAS MADE...

AND

AND THE

HOW COULD I NOT REJOICE TODAY 

WITH THIS WORD IN MY HEART?