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God Loves me in my Darkness - Hymn for the Wounded

Coming home last weekend from a visit to family in Tennessee, my heart was so heavy with all sorts of burdens.  Tears escaped my eyes all day.  On the ride down the mountain I was quiet as my brother drove, every once in a while a tear dripping down my cheek.  I didn't want to feel all of  this, I had been silently crying at my desk that week anticipating the visit.  My anxiety and panic was through the roof, I announced, "I'm not going."  But I had to go, I'm in the Lord's Army.  So here I was, serving my family in a difficult situation and fully loving them with all my heart and emotions.  I wrapped my arms around them, and I loved them right where they were.  I couldn't speak, just tears. God reached down to me and comforted my heart with a song, and on the mountain I penned... "God Loves me in my darkness, and calls me to His light, He is reaching out for me, bringing me back to His side.  God loves me in my failures, and calls me to...

Chronological Thematic Bible Reading - Noah and the Flood

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  "For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man."  Matthew 24:37-39 I tried to write on Cain, Able and Seth, but I have more questions than I do answers.  I also ended up doing a study on the biblical theological idea of "carpology," the study of seeds.  Genesis (and the whole Bible) is full of references of seeds.  Very interesting study.  A main thing I gathered regarding Cain is that he was a "bad seed."  He did not have the seed of righteousness in him as Able and as Seth...yeah!  Quite the rabbit hole to go down.  So moving on to Noah after deep thought of beginnings.   I read this a few nights ago and it was such a blessing to me and helped my mind ...

Chronological Thematic Bible Reading - Adam and Beginnings

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 “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.” Romans 5:20 Last year, 2025, I read the entire Bible with the Bible Recap reading plan. I read the New Testament with that plan in 2024 and resolved I would do the whole plan January 1, and I did! Some of my favorite readings were in the Kings and Chronicles. More on that in another post.  I wanted to capture this journey through the Bible. It’s a totally different plan it is not cover to cover but as the title suggests, Chronological Order AND thematic. So we jump around from Old Testament to New. I don’t think a lot of believers have ever read their Bible cover to cover. Many reject the Old Testament because it “doesn’t apply.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Leviticus will absolutely bless you when you read it through the lens of our Savior. I fell in love with the Old Testament last year and how beautiful it truly is.  Without rambling on, you can find this reading on YouVersion Bible App. Let’s connect and...

Oh Saint Suffer Well

" The Lord   God   has given   me  the tongue of those who are taught,  that   I may know how to sustain with a word  him who is weary.   Morning by morning he awakens;   he awakens my ear   to hear as those who are taught." Isaiah 50:4 Be the end of the year, which is just a couple more weeks, I will complete my first Bible in a Year plan!  While I have read the entire Bible in 90 Days years ago, I haven't ever (that I can remember) read it all the way through and pondered.  When I finished the Old Testament I loved it so much I immediately started another Bible in a year plan so I could start again and refresh the Old Testament while I go through the New Testament.  At the moment I am reading Isaiah and Romans.  I've loved every word of the Old Testament, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, the battles in Kings and Chronicles, the words of the prophets.  I have found His Word as treasure, and I often think how sad tha...

A Blip on the Radar

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"For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,   as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV I recently was in a meeting at work with some managers at my job and the phrase came up that "this will all be a blip on the radar down the road."  I've been pondering that statement these last few weeks.  "A blip on the radar."  My life doesn't feel like a blip on the radar, there's danger and turbulence everywhere and alarms are going off and we're firing missiles every direction!  I'm paying the consequences of sin from years ago and I can't get away from the reminders of what a mess life got to be.  It's like we all got knocked out of orbit in 2020 and we're spinning out of control trying to regain ourselves and who we were ...

Ponderings on Charlie Kirks Death - Keeping Jesus the Main Thing

To be quite honest, I didn't listen to Charlie Kirk much.  I saw clips of him here and there and knew about his grassroots ministry of Turning Point.  I liked what he stood for and what he was doing.  He definitely was doing what God put him here to do.  He had the personality for it, and the drive to do what he did.  However, even though I wasn't an avid listener, I did listen to his last interview with Laura Ingram on Fox News last Monday night.  I loved what he said, "Get married, have children, love your family."  And I smiled and agreed, that is the true American and Christian way to live happily.  For reasons only known to the Lord, He has not granted me that happiness yet, but He has given me many children who need love into my arms to make laugh, to teach, and hug tight.  I love being Aunt Aggie. Last Wednesday I was working from home as is usual, and I was flipping around on the TV usually between Fox News and something else, Martha ...

Jeremiah: The Word of the LORD Came to Me

 A couple of years ago as God was leading me back into a fellowship of Church and Believers after a few years of hard trials I found myself in what I called the "Land of Oz" and in a Sunday Morning study through the book of Jeremiah.  I wrote a piece a few years ago about it linked here  . Like the book of Ecclesiastes changed my life in a Sunday morning book study and birthed this ministry "Living Above the Sun," so this book written by a prophet whose nickname is "The Weeping Prophet" was a sweet gift from my LORD as he gently was leading me back to the life He had called me to live.  It was a sweet gift because He was leading me in repentance for the years of hard living I had just come through.  Sin I never intended to ever do, or thought I could do...I fell hard.  But here I was back in a church pew around people that felt foreign to me.  I was longing for Jesus and His Word, the familiar, the truths I had held near to me.  The theologies I ...