Wet Rainy Sunday, But the Son still Shines!!!

Good Morning Beautiful Y'all!!!!!     It's looking like fall y'all.     hahahaha    It's cool wet damp sprizzly rainy morning here.     But, like the title of this post says, "The Son still Shines!!!!"     Isn't those shouting words to y'all's ears?        They sure are to mine.       We've had some pretty days and a couple of frosts within the last week and a half or so and the last frost being Friday night into Saturday morning.       Lots of trees are loaded with beautiful colors.      It is funny, one afternoon last week we got out and rode around close to home and was noticing the beautiful colors.     The next day, we had a dr appt to go to and the colors weren't there like they had been.     Then it finally hit us, there had been some heavy winds the night before and blew all the beautiful leaves down.     That's what happens.      We laughed at our forgetting for a minute or two about the winds the evening before.     Oh it wasn't a huge wind, but enough that it blew all the colored leaves down.

I planted a couple of fresno pepper seeds and a couple of yellow beefsteak tomatoes back in August and I have those in my greenhouse.      I'm just praying that they don't freeze before I get some peppers and green tomatoes at least.      I would love to get about a dozen or so green tomatoes so I can air fry them and put them in the freezer to have some with a meal every now and again.      The fresno peppers are hot, really hot, but they are oh so delicious.      There is a hint of sweet with the heat.    I also have a pot of ginger and a pot of garlic in there along with 3 trays of lettuce.       I sure hope I get to harvest a little bit from all of it before it gets too cold for it it all dies.

I have a reason for making a post today.      This is where I let off steam and not worry about what other people think or may say.     Since no one leaves any comments anymore, I don't have to worry about that.      You wanna know what I need to let steam off about?      

Well here goes:    I am so sick of every sermon that I hear or see, being turned into a covid 19 fest!!!!!    If you are a man or woman of God, preach the BIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!       Anyone with half sense and a second grade education knows that a "pandemic" doesn't end in 2 weeks!!!!       So called preachers are now standing in the pulpit and all their sermons are about is how our lives have been disrupted by this pandemic and we just need to get back to living.      Well, dead people aren't doing much living.      I know that if that person had a relationship with Christ, they ARE living the dream that we all have, and that is to be in the presence of our Savior.      

If the preachers are concerned about one thing, it needs to be saving souls, not about trying to stir up riots by talking about how this all a scam, a hoax, something not to fear, and blah blah blah!!!!!      If this is as good as it gets with the preaching I've been seeing here lately, then I just have to say that the pulpits are filled with wolves in sheeps clothing!!!!!       A lot of these preachers are sold out to BIG business and they want to keep the big donations coming in and they feel that's the way to keep the big bucks rolling in while the country is dealing with a pandemic.     I support the work of God, but I don't support the work of BIG churches who have forgotten the mission of the church and this is to lead the lost to Christ.      If you stand up in church and do everything you can to get your congregation to be as selfish as they possibly can and toss the masks and start spreading covid 19 madly and wildly, then you deserve to have the doors of your church nailed shut.     Notice I said, "your church", because obviously, it's not God's church!!!!!        

God gave each of us mind and free will.      What we are seeing is selfish free will taking place.        We are not seeing the love of God happening when people are being encouraged to throw out the masks and do what ever you want to do.     That is NOT Godly behavior!!!!!       That is worldly behavior!!!!!     I can't understand what has gotten into them.      Even the preachers stand behind their pulpits and beat their chests like a bunch of screaming apes!!!!      I don't get it.      I'm so over them and their NON GODLY messages they are spewing forth.   

I am a Christian.      I am a Christ Follower.       I am a follower of The Way.      That's it.      That's all.    Nothing else.      Call me sheep!!!!!      I am ok with that.    In fact, I'm more than OK with that term.    Because what I'm hearing coming from the pulpits is NOT Christ followers messages from the Bible.    They are disruptive, divisive, and derogatory to the Christ that I follow.       I know there are many that will disagree with what I'm saying, and that's ok.      Well, if you're ok with it, then I'm ok with it.     I have tried to share Jesus on my blog and will keep on doing so.     Just be aware that most of what is spewed forth from the pulpits is not of Jesus.     Just to be blunt, it is of the devil.     Disruption and confusion come the devil.

Just know that God loves us all.   He wants and expects us to use our brains for the of ourselves and others around us.     If we say we love our neighbors, then act like it and do it.    That's what Christians do!!!!!       For so long we have heard dribble coming from the pulpit and we haven't heard the Word of God!!!!!    It's time for us all to pick up our own Bibles and quit being spoon fed this worthless watered down useless mess coming from the pulpit.      It's time to stand up and tell them to sit down and shut until they actually have a message from God's Word and not the latest polling numbers.     

That's about as good as I can tell you.      Use your brain and love your neighbor enough to do what it takes to keep from making people sick, or not.      It's up to the individual, but our decisions tell loud and clear where out heart is.    Don't forget that.

I want to tell us all to remember that God loves us.      While I'm sure that God loves us, I'm also sure that He is waiting to see if we will start acting like we love Him.      If we do, then wearing a mask and trying to keep the spread of a pandemic will not be an issue for us.     If we love Him, we will do what it takes to help keep others healthy, when it depends on us to do so.      

Off my soap box now.      Have a blessed day and do remember that God does love us.     Even in the stench and rot of sin, He loves us.      He always has our best interests at heart and is waiting for us to run to Him for help.      He loves us!!!!!!     Be blessed and have a great rest of the day.    hugs and love, patty

Questions, again from March

Good afternoon Y'all!!!     I pray that this finds each of y'all happy and healthy as we are breezing on thru this year.      Wow, September just flew by and here we are almost the middle of October.    This year will be over before we know it.     I will be kinda ready for it to be over with, but certainly praying for a better 2021.     We'll have to wait and see what the year brings.     I just pray that God will have mercy on this planet and rid the world of this disease.      

Just a preface on what you are about to read.    This first appeared on my facebook page on the morning of October 13th, 2020.     Just in case someone reads it somewhere other than my facebook page or my blog, I want you to know that I am/was the author of this piece.    I know that it has been shared and I don't mind that, I just wish for others to know that it is my writing and not someone else.   Now, on with it.

Back on March 20th, 2020, when I was having time with the Lord, He impressed upon me a series of questions.     3 questions, as a matter of fact.      I wrote those questions down and have tried to be real with myself and answer those questions at least 3 times since the world changed.      Here are the 3 questions:

Thoughts for the day   March 20th, 2020

1. What will be your greatest lesson learned from this ordeal? 

2. What will be your greatest sacrifice through this ordeal? 

3. What will be your biggest blessing on the other side of this ordeal?

Those have been some powerful questions for me and really hard to answer at times.     These questions run thru my mind almost constantly.      I haven't been able to get them out of my mind.     He put those questions there for me for a reason.      As I struggle to answer them as honestly as I possibly can, I must say that it is hard!!!

For #1, I have to say that learning peoples true nature has been the hardest for me to deal with.     There have been many wolves in sheep's clothing exposed.      The expression "fake it till you make it" doesn't work with entering the kingdom of God.

For #2, I've always said that in all honesty, I know nothing of sacrifice.     I grew up in a time of abundance and luxury, face it, most of us did.       No, I've never had the best of anything, but that's not sacrifice, that's being petty.  

I've never had to go off to war for my country knowing that I may come home in a body bag like millions have.     That's sacrifice!!!       I've never got up and put on a uniform and walked out the door knowing that there's people on the streets that I'm charged to protect that value my life less than that of a sick stray dog.       That's sacrifice!!!       I've never walked into the hospital knowing that today may be the day that I walk out with the disease that will kill me like it has so many other drs and nurses, but it's my job and I have to do it.      That's sacrifice!!!       I've never gotten behind the wheel of a big truck hauling food and meds to other places across the country and wondering if today is the day that someone kills me because they are evil people with evil intentions doing evil things.     That's sacrifice!!!  

I could go on and on, but I won't.  Most people I know are just like me, they haven't sacrificed much for this country.     And for those that have, "thank you for your sacrifice" you have my utmost respect!!  

So I guess the greatest sacrifice that has been asked of me up to this point in my life has been to wear mask to help protect other people.      I haven't made excuses, I haven't beat my chest like a war drum screaming about my rights, I haven't been disrupting the lives of others, I haven't been claiming it's all a hoax.      I have been trying to do as the Lord has asked of me, to live as peaceably as I can with others, when it depends on me.       When I'm out, I wear my mask.      I haven't done a whole lot of shaming others for not wearing their masks.     I certainly could have done a whole lot more than I have, but I haven't.  

Those that have been complying with being asked to wear a mask have been called sheep.     And that my friend, is one of the highest compliments that could ever be said about me.      Jesus knows His followers and His followers know Him.     What about the wolves in sheep's clothing?  Well.......................what about them???

For #3, my biggest blessing thru this and on the other side has been and will continue to be my constant.        That has been knowing that God has been in control, God is in control, and God will continue to be in control.        For that, I can wake up each day, knowing that no matter what my day brings, God has ushered it in for me and has allowed me to be a part of His creation for another day.    I am of the mindset that God IS our only way thru this life.      He will make a way in a barren desert.    He will make a way thru the raging river.      He will provide shelter when mountains are falling down around us.      The "I Am" will provide and make a way!!

God IS, All IS Well!!!!

be blessed and have great rest of the day!!  hugs and love y'all!

I hope, as the afternoon fades into evening, that you and your loved ones are safe and secure in the knowledge that God will make a way.     He is the way maker!!!     He is pain breaker!!!!      He is the Great Physician.      He is the plumbline.      He is the truth!!!!     He is our everything!!    He is worth to be praised.      I pray that you have a blessed evening with a wonderful night of refreshing sleep and healing rest.     God is good and He loves us.    I love y'all too!!   be blessed, love and hugs, patty