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  Scriptural Reference:  Romans 6:23, 'For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of GOD is eternal life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.'     In honor of the memory of Rob and Michele Reiner for  Princess Buttercup and Wesley,  Harry and Sally, and  all those who love vicariously through them because of  those romantic hearts  I grieve  the penalty of sin and  rejoice in the redeeming  gift of GOD  through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.   My family, like other families, continues to experience disharmony for various reasons such as differing faiths, unpopular life choices, opposing opinions, and random bits of likes and dislikes. However, in my continuing pursuit of peace, because of JESUS LORDSHIP in my life, I do not use my words, or hands to harm. May all our mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and kindred far and wide come to the saving knowledge of JESUS CHRIST. The terrible penalty of ...

Scriptural Reference: John 8:32 (KJV) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Ephesians 4:25 (KJV) "But speaking the truth in love...."   Full sigh and deep breath.  Repeat. This is the way I am right now and since some special dear people who love me have spoken life transforming truth(s) to me.  There are occasions when we may find ourselves in conversations about our lives that has been witnessed by long-time friends, and close family relations. Our mutual proximity to one another is often a place where true bonds of emotional vulnerability and trust are created and strengthened with time. I am so grateful to JESUS for providing such an environment and persons who promote this type of atmosphere in my life. I know that this is not common. I am certain this is unique. I am not surprised that few groups, and fewer families, know this precious treasure. I celebrate JESUS grace in providing the confidante(s), companion(s), and true friend(s)...

Scriptural reference: Luke 19:10 (KJV) "For the SON of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." John 6:39 (KJV) "And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which HE hath given ME I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day."  Tonight, as I was preparing my dinner, I chose to use the pop-up dough biscuits. Per usual, I struggled to get the spoon at the proper angle so my biscuits had a chance to look more like the photo and less like blobs. I was so focused on the biscuits fitting into my baking dish that when the biscuits were all neatly nestled, I thought every biscuit was out of the tube. I set my timer and when I began to smell the baking I knew soon I would enjoy a delicious biscuit. Ding! When the biscuits were ready I carefully retrieved them from the oven and buttered them gently while salivating with glee. When I had removed all of the biscuits from my baking dish I began to count them. "One, t...

Scriptural reference: Galatians 6:9 (KJV) "Be not weary in well doing, for in due season you will reap if you faint not."       I had a tantrum and fainted like a proper southern belle!!! I swooned and promptly fell unaware, soundless, and without a visible witness to call for help. I landed on the proverbial rock-bottom ground with my unrealized hopes and dreams splayed around me like copper and red hued dried leaves. I lay unconscious and still. I lay there in undignified, uncovered and unseemly wretchedness in the middle of the floor of my weary life. At first glance the collection of musical information noted on a page of sheet music doesn't look like much of a triumph. These few measures do not readily announce the effort, straining, tears and passion poured into a project that is still a work in progress. The naked eye cannot see the enduring unspoken longing that this fragment of notation heralds. It is there. Look again, and perhaps you will see it. Thirty-five ye...

Scriptural references: Galatians 4:19a, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,” Philippians 3:10, "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." 2 Peter 1:4-8, “According as HIS divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue; Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor ...

Scriptural Reference: John 4:24, "GOD is a Spirit, and they that worship HIM must worship HIM in spirit and truth." I need JESUS 24 hours of every day. I cannot wait for a 9-1-1 moment to suddenly turn to JESUS in prayer begging HIM to rescue me from an event, circumstance, situation or trial. I need JESUS to make it through my life's journey. Period. Peace:          is not the absence of sound. JESUS is peace. Tears:           are shed in sorrow and joy. Tears are the souls earnest prayer and praise.                         JESUS bottles the tears of those HE loves, and those who love HIM. Worship:     is the heart response to the integrity and worth of GOD. Humble, fervent, joyful, tearful, and deliberate worship is not an indication that there is no adversity, test, or trial. True worship is the defiant stance of the heart that is confident in the Hol...

There are some extraordinary examples in scripture of how GOD encountered frail, desperate, and hopeful humanity. Wells and altars are places in our life of faith where we discover GOD. At these wells and altars GOD reveals us to ourselves. We in turn, present ourselves back to GOD. At the wells we are refreshed. At the altars we sacrifice, surrender, and worship. Just like the sun is either about to rise, rising, or about to set, we are either at wells to be refreshed or we are at altars sacrificing, surrendering, and worshiping. This is true of the nature of following JESUS in the varied seasons and experiences of our life’s journey of faith. Since the earliest mention of GOD’s dealing with man in scripture (Genesis 4:4) we know of Abel, a man who honored GOD with an offering on an altar. After the days of Noah the scriptures focus on a man of Ur, a Chaldean named Abram. Scripture Reference:  Genesis 11:27; 12:1-6 - Abram's Journey Begins When Abram is called by GOD he is living ...

  JESUS is... Thought Close Breath Near I am praying  for you and your loved one, too. JESUS is your anchor,  your fortress, buckler, and shield. JESUS is thought close and breath near. You don't have to  find HIM. You belong to JESUS so JESUS is where you are. John 14:18 'I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you.'   Feel free to shine,   OneLight  (c) Copyright 2025 MDel Publishing  All rights reserved. No part of this post may be used without written permission.

Scriptural Reference: John 15:9 ‘As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.’ In this scripture JESUS speaks of HIS intimate, bonded, and deep familial relationship to GOD as HIS parent. JESUS is the expressed personage and fullness of GOD manifested in skin, blood, and bones. The Father, who is GOD, becomes the SON housed in a mortal body in time and simultaneously remains in eternity without diminishing one state of being for the other. The SON is the Father mediating, redeeming, restoring and bridging the gap between sinful man and the holiness of GOD. JESUS in HIS sacrificial offering at Calvary stood pressed between the chasms of eternity and time so that whosoever would come could come and be reconciled to SON-ship, heir-ship, joint heir-ship with CHRIST JESUS in GOD. This Father who anoints the SON JESUS with wisdom, dominion, honor and all power loves HIS only SON. The Father endows the SON with all authority to delegate the kingdom within me...

Hello dear friends and readers, To put it mildly, I've been through a season of devastation. I walked through the valley shadowed by the death of my dreams, the destruction of my expectations, and I collided with truths that left me weeping when awake, weeping while dreaming, and weeping while trying to understand my hearts utter breaking. I was in this graveyard until I had a vision I survived an apocalypse. I didn't know I would be alright until I saw myself walking away from the rubble in the vision GOD mercifully sent to let me know I would live and not die. My first glimpses of hope came when I could think about the disappointment and not hate the one(s) who utterly disappointed me. The more I could see myself plainly, and learn how I contributed to my own suffering, the more I knew healing. I lived for months with my head swimming not sure if I knew what to hope for or if I knew what to pray for. I only knew that at the feet of JESUS I felt safe. With JESUS I felt secure....

 

 

 

Scriptural Reference: Job 2:12, 13 (The Message Version) ' When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.' Selah. i can do no more than breathe.  i do not dare whisper or mouth the words i write. i say them in the silence of my mind.  in honor of the solemnity, i sit, with those who weep, in silence. my eyes gaze upon the tear stained face. i see their eyes turn slowly from dirty earth and then timidly upward to gaze into heaven's broad sky. i can do no more than be still. i have no glib or sincere reply. i wait.  watching the sun rise and settle into starless night skies. i steep in the slow ache of hope. praying as swaying wind blown shadows around the naked pain. leaning hard upon ancient texts that pro...

Scriptural Reference: Romans 8:28, ' And we know that all things work together for the good of those who love GOD, who are the called according to HIS purpose.' sometimes, we offer the comfort we need to someone else before we actually feel comfort or comforted. we may extend our heart to pray in faith while waiting for the answer to our prayer. all i know is that JESUS loves me. i know because HE told me so. i know that HE has a plan for my life. that is all i know. i do not understand HIS mind, HIS ways, but i am practicing trusting HIS love. HE is breath close and HE is thought near. HE is here. now. all ways. always. i am glad we can know individually and collectively, that we are not alone. my heart and soul rejoice in the LOVE of JESUS that i am bathed and swaddled in today and always. JESUS gives grace, courage and wisdom. gladly i celebrate the Truth, that is in JESUS, that frees, keeps, and comforts me and all who turn to HIM. i am grateful that JESUS makes HIS amazing...

Scriptural Reference: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 KJV 23 For I have received of the LORD that which also I delivered unto you, that the LORD JESUS the same night in which HE was betrayed took bread: 24 And when HE had given thanks, HE brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is My Body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me. 25 After the same manner also HE took the cup, when HE had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the LORD's death till HE come. Communion Sunday, as I remember the day in childhood, was solemn, sacred, and a time for reflection and repentance. The deaconess wives and widows wore white from head to toe. The communion table was radiant and holy. The elements of The LORD’s Supper were draped in white that glistened sharply under the sanctuary lights. These stood waiting until the pastor called for the deaconess to...

Scriptural Reference: Ephesians 4:17-24 17  Therefore I say this — indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.  18  Their intelligence has been shrouded in darkness, and they are estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance in them, which in turn comes from resisting God’s will.  19  They have lost all feeling, so they have abandoned themselves to sensuality, practicing any kind of impurity and always greedy for more.  20  But this is not the lesson you learned from the Messiah!  21  If you really listened to him and were instructed about him, then you learned that since what is in Yeshua is truth,  22  then, so far as your former way of life is concerned, you must strip off your old nature, because your old nature is thoroughly rotted by its deceptive desires;  23  and you must let your spirits and minds keep being renewed,...

Scriptural Reference: 1 Peter 5:8 'Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.' I had an object lesson recently. I lived through a hard lesson to learn about trust, gullibility, openness, and true respect. It cost me a lot to be ignorant. It cost me a lot to be easily trusting. I learned that a recommendation is not license to blindly believe anyone on the strength of the integrity of the person making the recommendation. You've been there, too! Someone who loves barbecue will adamantly guarantee that the barbecue from "ABC" spot is worth the drive and the cost. You order your meal and expect to be amazed. However, on the day that you arrive for a meal the regular chef is not available. The recipe has changed and so has ownership of the business operation. This is an over-simplified scenario to say, one single hard earned truth. Vet every person. The lesson about the lion who comes to devour ...

Scripture Reference: 1 Samuel 17 th Chapter My mind can picture the scene between one young man and one giant. These two stand in a valley between their armies, in cultural, physical, and theological opposition. The young man, David, servant of King Saul, is a minstrel, and sheep herder. The champion from the warring people, Goliath, nine feet tall with a bad disposition, foul mouthed, foul breathed, with an arrogant strut. The armies of Israel are cowering in their boots trembling at the sound of the giants’ threats. Centuries before the imagined character ‘Jack’ met the also imagined ‘fe fi fo fum…’ singing villain at sky high tree tops, young David of Bethlehem Judah heard the outlandish insults of Goliath of Gath. David is the least regarded son in his father’s eyes, by his own admission, and his father’s blatant favoritism (as seen in 1 Samuel 16 th chapter). David’s days are spent on the hillside with his sheep. David is content to sing a melody of praise to GOD as he wat...