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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 –
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- 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 –
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- 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 –
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- 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 –
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- 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: Forgiveness
O Israel – You Will Not Be Forgotten by Me – I Have Wiped Out Your Transgressions Like a Thick Cloud and Your Sins Like a Heavy Mist – Return to Me, for I Have Redeemed You – Isaiah 44:21-22 (NASB)
Psalm 122:6-7 – The Bible (NASB) – Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. Psalm 130 – The Bible (NASB) – Out of the depths I have … Continue reading
Who Satisfies Your Mouth with Good Things so that Your Youth Is Renewed Like the Eagle’s – Bless the LORD – Oh My Soul –
Psalms 103:1-5 – The Bible (KJV) – Bless the Lord, O my soul: And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Food
Tagged Benefits, Bless the LORD, Destruction, Eagle, Food, Forgiveness, Forgives, Healing, heals diseases, Loving Kindness, Psalm 103, Redeems, Satisfaction, Satisfy Satisfied, Youth Renewed
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What About Our Relationship with the Lord – Are We Secure As Believers or Does God Stop Fellowshipping with Us – (Letters to a Friend Series)
1 John 1:9 – The Bible (KJV) – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Some teach that this verse is telling believers how to … Continue reading
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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Why Disappoint the One Who Paid –
Paid in Full – A man breaks the speed law, gets a ticket for $350, which he has no money to pay; and, his loving wife, who has a fabulous job and makes lots of money, pays his ticket, in … Continue reading
God Is Good – His Love Endures Forever
Psalm 103:106 – The Bible (KJV) – Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses
Tagged All His Benefits, All the Earth, astray, Benefits, Bible, Bible verses, bruised, Bruised for our Iniquities, By his stripes healed, chastisement for our peace, crowns, crowns with lovingkindness, Eagle, Earth, Enter His gates, Forever, Forgiven, Forgiveness, forgives all our iniquities, Gates, Gladness, God is good, gone astray, Healed, Healing, heals diseases, His Love endures forever, Isaiah 53, Joy, Kind, Kindness, Like sheep, like the eagle, Love Endures, loves, Loving, Pasture, Peace, people of his pasture, Praise, protects, Provider, provides, provides food, Psalm 100, Psalm 103, Redeem, Redeemer, redeems from destruction, renews youth, satisfied, satisfies, satisfies thy mouth, Shout for joy, Tender Mercies, Thanksgiving, The Lord is good, Worship, Worship the Lord, Wounded, Wounded for our Transgressions, youth
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Holy God – Perfect Lamb – Jesus – Savior
God is Holy. He cannot bear to look at sin. If any of us had one single sin that wasn’t covered by the blood of Jesus, we could not stand before God. Jesus, the Lamb of God that takes away … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Thought
Tagged Blood, Blood of Jesus, Christ, Death, Forgiveness, Healing, Jesus, Justification, Lamb of God, Perfect Lamb, punishment, Redemption, Resurrection, Righteousness, Salvation, Sanctification, Sin, Son of God, Takes away Sins
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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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LORD – Who Are the Righteous
FATHER in your Word are many promises Promises made to the righteous – Who are the righteous I am not righteous LORD – You know – Not in myself – It’s not in me LORD To do right for … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Accuser, Accuser Has No Power, Blessed, Blood Sacrifice, Calvary, Cross of Christ, Faith of Abraham, Father, Forgive, Forgiveness, Grace, Heart Breaks When I Fail, Heartbreak, Never Condemned, No Condemnation, Obey, Obey and Rest, Power, Promises, Rest, Righteous, Righteousness by Faith, Sacrifice of Blood of Jesus, Sins Covered, Testimony of God's Word, Who Are the Righteous, Word of God
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Sin’s Shackle Is Undone
Both man and God Both weak and strong Tempted like we Yet never wrong In the garden pressed – Your will – He prayed – Sweating blood – yet By dread not swayed The first Adam fell The … Continue reading
LORD Show Mercy – Grant Grace
One bolt of lightning One crack of thunder Woke me from sleep I cracked the blinds To watch the show Your power unleashed Yet under control I spoke my prayer For mercy LORD For all of Earth’s Inhabitants – the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Age of Grace, Anger, Asleep, Awake, Bathe Helplessness, Break Chains, Cursed, Downcast Countenance, Forgive, Forgiveness, Grace, Grief, Hope, Lightning, LORD God, Mercy, Mistreated, Old, Prayer, Salvation, Savior, Storm, Strong, Thunder, Weak, Young
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Tormented Soul Trodden Down Look Up
Tormented soul trodden down Identity marred by wounds inflicted Inflicted by one that should have loved you Hope seems invisible – rage devouring Shadow of life lingering Crippled spirit Hanging on Sworn to Pay back But near Death Look up … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged All-knowing God, Almighty One, Crippled Spirit, Destruction, Enemy, Fairness, Famous, Feed your Enemy, Forgiveness, Hope Invisible, Identity Marred, Injustice, Justice, Light in Darkness, Look Up, Love your Enemy, Mercy and Grace, Near Death, Pay back, Rage Devouring, Shadow of Life, Sorrow, Tormented Soul, Unfairness, Vengeance is Mine, Wound, Wounds Inflicted
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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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The Guilty One
Let me hear that something happened that shouldn’t have happened and immediately I wonder how I caused it. This is the way I’m wired. I am sure there is some psychological explanation for such insanity, but I don’t go there. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Christian, Cleansing, Faith, Forgiveness, Guilty, Jesus, Justification, Righteousness, Safety, Salvation
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