PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH THE NILE RIVER.

I LOVED BEING THERE...

'91, '94-'96, '99, '03-'04

BITS AND PIECES OF TIME.

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN LATE JANUARY, '04.

THE PHOTO ADDED WAS WHEN DAVE AND I WERE

VERY FIRST TAKEN TO THAT RIVER AFTER 

HAVING PRAYED AND PREACHED AT A CHURCH 

IN THIS TOWN AND A FEW OF THE PEOPLE

TOOK US THERE.  

A BLESSING!

 THE CHURCH WAS A GRADE SCHOOL AND IT WAS FILLED

 WITH MANY CHAIRS PILED AGAINST THE WALL

AND MANY PIECES BREAKING OFF THE CEILING.

WE WERE SAFE AND THEY WERE WONDERFUL.

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!!! 

 

MALACHI IS ON MY HEART...

A HUGE "AMEN"..

HIS HEALING -- BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT --

TRULY IS A "FOREVER" BLESSING.

MERCY AND KINDNESS

HE WALKS... WE CAN, TOO!

COUNTING ON HIM,

FOLLOWING HIM,

IS ALL WE CAN DO.

PEACE FROM MOUNTAINS AND HILLS.

TRUSTING HIM THROUGH THE CREATION

 AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS

IS ALL THAT COUNTS FOREVER.

MOUNTAINS AND DEEP SEAS FOR HIM

YOUR PRAISE

ONE OF THE BLESSINGS DURING OUR FIRST VISIT IN UGANDA WAS THAT I PREACHED IN 3 DIFFERENT CHURCHES, 3 DIFFERENT TOWNS, AND TAUGHT THE KIDS IN 3 PLACES, ALSO, BUT NOT ALWAYS THE PREACHING PLACES. 

 I WAS SO BLESSED TO BE ABLE TO SHARE MORE AND MORE OF THE LORD  WITH MORE AND MORE PEOPLE.  AND WAS ACCEPTED SO BEAUTIFULLY.

SO MANY OF THE PEOPLE [ADULTS AND KIDS] HAD BEEN THROUGH SERIOUS DANGER  [FOR INSTANCE, HIDING UNDER THE WATER, BREATHING THROUGH OPEN VINES FOR SURVIVAL], FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS MURDERED, OR DYING FROM SERIOUS ILLNESSES.  TO BE ABLE TO ENCOURAGE THEM, TEACH THE LITTLE ONES, BLESS THE OLDER ONES WAS A REAL TREAT.  I LOVED IT!

AND I'D LOVE TO DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

 MAYBE THAT WILL BE MY HEAVEN JOB.  HMM!

QUARRY AND ROCK AND ME

FANCY?  NO!!!

TRUTHFUL?  YES!!!

 AND YOU AND I PURSUING RIGHTEOUSNESS,

SEEKING THE LORD?  

ANOTHER "YES!!!"

JUSTICE EVERFLOWING

JUSTICE IS IMPORTANT ... 

EVEN DONE HONORABLY BY OUR LEADERS.

YES!...

BUT MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT IT MUST

 BE FOCUSED ON, AND ALLOWED BY, OUR LORD

IN EVERY PORTION OF OUR WORLD.

VERY IMPORTANT.

MALACHI 4:2 ... HEALING SUN

He is all we can count on ... forever!

ISAIAH 48:18 -- PEACE, RIGHTEOUSNESS

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PSALM 92:15

This is the verse that the Lord dropped into me

 this morning when I was in the Word.  I was pleased. 

 Means I'm back with my friends again.

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It's been 10 days since I've posted.  WHY?   The Lord had me reorganizing my home office, restructuring hourly portions that would be more and more involved in scanning photos -- thousands -- and writing/editing/rewriting hundreds of pages for stories/teachings/sharings/poems/plays/skits, all either short or long --some go back about 40 years.  Not finished, OF COURSE, with the photos and writings -- just beginning this part -- but am moving forward.  During this stretch of housework, I donated books to my church; gave away house items; sorted, resorted, and shredded hundreds and hundreds of papers (income tax stuff from the past years and years, and lots of  family filing I had done over the past stretch that could be discarded).

And, because of the office re-organization, I had to adjust and re-organize a couple other portions of our house.  [Including, removing the Christmas tree and re-doing the living room at this same time.]  I've been one busy cookie for a week.

 So, NOW, I'm BACK.  Not entirely done -- as I said, the writing and photo scanning are just in the beginning organizing process -- but I'm BACK.   

[Hopefully, in the next 3 months THOSE basics will be in place.  That's my goal.]

ISAIAH 48:18

[OUR LORD SAYS:]

OH, THAT YOU HAD HEARKENED TO

MY COMMANDMENTS!

THEN YOUR PEACE AND PROSPERITY

WOULD HAVE BEEN 

LIKE A F-L-O-W-I-N-G RIVER,

AND YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

 LIKE THE