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- WHO IS CAROL ANN RITCHEY – WHY THE CHANGE –
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- WHOA – STILL DWELLING IN OUR MOTORHOME – TWO YEARS NOT TRAVELING – FINALLY HAVE INTERNET WE CAN USE – ADAPTED MY NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY – THAT WAS FUN – HAD A LOT TO LEARN AND LEARNED WHILE WRITING – NOW READY TO SELL – DUH – PANDEMIC – YOU GOT TO BE KIDDNIG – STILL – OUR GOD REIGNS – THE LORD IS ALWAYS GOOD –
- Our Rocking Rolling 2018 Tour in Our Motorhome – Living Life – Like Everyone Else – Lots of Good Times – Some Trials and Tribulations – But in the End – It’s All Good – God is Good –
- So Long – So Long – Not Goodbye but Too Long not to Post – We Live the RV Life – Data Costs More than We Like – Posting Requires Data – Almost Decided to Quit Posting – Catch Up Time –
- I Opened the Shades to See the Sun Rise – Black Storm Clouds Loomed – What Would Sunrise Look Like – Would the Light Shine Through – YES – Gloom Gave Way to Bursting Shades of Purple Pink and Lavendar – Reminding Me of Troubled Times that Shrink When Grace and Truth Appear – God Is Good – Hang on When Trouble Hides the Light – Ashes Blow Away – Beauty Remains –
- Sunrise at Van Horn RV Park in Van Horn, Texas – Small Town – Excellent Park – We Are Resting Here – Calm Blue Skies in the Morning – Motorhomes and Fifth Wheels and Campers Coming and Going Each Day – We Love It –
- Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
- Beginning Our 2018-19 Tour in our Motorhome – And the Excitement Builds – What Could Be So Exciting – For Me – Looking Out Our Windows Beholding New Surroundings – I Love It –
- Blue Sky – Blue Sky – Morning Is My Favorite Time of Day –
- Bikes in Our Future – Steve Turning 80 Soon – Carol Ann 70 – We Think We Can Ride Them and Have Fun – Good Exercise – A Recap of Challenging Journey – Different from Our First Year that Happened without a Hitch –
- Las Cruces New Mexico – Destination for Fun with Friends – Fellow RVers Meet Us Here – We Dine Together at Local Restaurants – And There Are Plenty – Steve Had Coach and Jeep Washed after Five Days of Rain and Mud in Texas – Now They Shine Again –
- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
- Moving toward Our Next Destination – Driving a Comfortable Distance – Following Our Plan – Reaching Parks We Booked Months Earlier – Three Days to Rest – Three Days that Fly By –
- Everyday Life for People that Live in an RV – What Could Be Better than to Wake Up in the Morning to New Surroundings yet Being in Your Own Home – It’s the Little Things in Life that Make it Okay –
- Had to Share this Photo of Lake Erie Shore – We Arrived this Afternoon Greeted by a Wasp that Flew into the Small Window Used to Pay Tolls from the Driver’s Seat – Last Year Hornets Invaded the Cockpit – One Huge Wasp Was Just as Effective in Slowing Down our Progress until We Smacked it Silly and Tossed it in the Trash –
- Where Have We Been – Up to Flagstaff Arizona – Albuquerque and Santa Rosa New Mexico – Amarillo Texas – Oklahoma City – West Memphis Arkansas – Nashville Tennessee – Virginia – Pennsylvania – Long Island New York – Ohio now – Heading for Michigan in a Few Days – South to Florida, West through Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and New Mexico – Back to AZ –
- Camping on Little Pigeon River Makes Up for Being Canceled by Our RV Park on the Mighty Mississippi – Which Flooded Her Banks This Year – Here We Are on Another Riverbank – Enjoying the View –
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Tag Archives: Fail
When Christians Miss the Mark, Sin, Fall Short, or Fail – What Then – (Letters to a Friend – Series)
Here we are merrily going along living the Christian life, when we suddenly stumble, slip, or fall. Maybe it isn’t sudden. Perhaps we are slowly backsliding into a weakened state, when finally we fall and we know it. We are … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Bible Verses, Letters to a Friend (series), Thought
Tagged Accuser, Believe, Christ, Christians, Comforter, Fail, Fall Short, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John 16:7-11, No Condemnation, Righteousness
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Jesus – You Cherish Me
Prelude to poem: Remember the song we sang as children: Jesus loves me; this I know; for the Bible tells me so. Yes, Jesus loves me; the Bible tells me so. And so it does tell us so (John 3:16). … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Bible Verses, Poetry, Thought
Tagged abundant grace, Almighty God, Believer, Calvary, cherish me, Children, Fail, Forgiven, Free, Hope, Jesus, Lamb of God, Mistake, Redemption, Regret
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If I Could Have Whatever I say…(short fiction)
If I could have whatever I say, what would I say? She considered that thought for several minutes, contemplating what she really wanted in life. First she thought of her personal circumstances. Was she really content with her life? She decided … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Bible Verses, Short Fiction
Tagged Believe, Believers, Car, car breakdown, Cross, Declare, desire of heart, desires, dialog, Eternal Life, Fail, fail less, Failure, Faith, forgiveness of sins, full access, Gave Himself, Have what I say, Healing, health, in faith, Jesus, material, materialistic, Prayer, Prosper, prosper more, Prosperity, repair, Say, take away sin, Throne of Grace, vehicle, wellness
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Training – Will I Melt Down
Waiting on You – LORD – I so often fail – You are training me – LORD – Am I learning it now – Trouble comes – I see it Just before it lands – Fear not – Right- Fear … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Abednego, and Abednego, Collapse, Comfort, Containment, Daniel 3, Fail, Failure of Containment, Faithful LORD, Fear, Fear makes me pray, Fear Not, Forgive, Forgive my lapse, Forgiveness, Free, Furnace, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus sets me free, Lapse, Learning, Lord, Melt Down, Meltdown, Meshach, Nuclear Event, Pray, Rescue, Rescues Me, Rest, Shadrach, Strengthen, Sustain, Test, Then the Test, Training, Trouble, Trouble Comes, Trouble with a capital T, Trust, Trust and Rest, Wait, Wait on the LORD, Waiting, Waiting on the LORD, Walks alongside, Will I Melt down, Will I rest, Will I Trust, You are training me
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All I Need
When my accomplishments seem adequate When I find my cushion and sit on it When all is right In my sight You say – come up higher my child – Look behind you – look ahead – Yes – … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Accomplishments, Accomplishments adequate, Adequate, All I can be, All Is Right, Because you're all I need, Come up higher, Cusion, Expecting to Succeed, Fail, Failure, Forever, I belong to You, I can be nothing without You, I fail, I fail and fail, I quit, I'm Yours, In my sight, Jesus, look ahead, Look behind, Lord, My Child, No matter how I do, Not because I succeed, Nothing without You, Remind me, Remind me LORD, Shepherd, Sit on it, Stretch myself, You are all I need, You ransomed me, You're all I need
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Why Should Anxiety Defeat Me
Troubles come suddenly but LORD – You know it first – You delivered me From death – Deliver me From falling Because I Trust You Why should I fail You – LORD – Why should anxiety defeat me – … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Adversary, Anxiety, Death, Defeat, Delivered, Delivered from Death, Fail, Failure, Falling, Lord, Praise God, Praise Lord, Slip, Spirit Praises, Troubles, Trust
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Not Again
Hit the bottom Sank below Disillusioned Dejected Depressed Angry too Spoke my sorrow Made my protest Threw my tantrum Shed my tears Will I never rise above my weakness Will I never hold out faithful to the end Testing shows … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Anger, Crash, Fail, Fall, Forgiveness, Jesus, love, Mistake, Sin, Stumble, Tears, Weakness
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