Good Morning to everyone in blog land, I sure hope everyone has had a great beginning of a new year.  You know so many people make resolution for the new year and usually they don't last the first month.  If you really want to change your life, trust in the Lord and ask Him to help change your ways from the inside out.  When we work on changing our heart first towards our Lord and Savior and ask Him to search our heart for things that are hurting us. He reveals what things that need to be changed.  You see we are going to our creator who created us, and has a special plan for us.   He has a plan for each one of us because He knew us when we were in our mothers womb.  So search for Him and He will find you and bring you to where He wants you to be and the person He wants you to be.  Trust in the Lord with all your Heart and He will direct your paths.  God Bless and Have a great day.

Letting God Lead

Following God's Lead


Sharon Jaynes

Today's Truth

The LORD says, I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you (Psalm 32:8 NLT).

Friend to Friend
Several years ago, my husband and I decided to take a few ballroom dance classes. I wanted to be the next Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So we signed up for a six week class. The first thing we learned was the Fox Trot, which is like making little boxes with your feet. I put my right hand on Steve's left shoulder and my left hand into his right and we began to march in little boxes. Slow, slow, quick, quick.

The teacher explained that Steve was the leader and I needed to learn how to follow his cues. But I had trouble with this. After all, I was the better dancer and felt that if he would just let me lead, then the classes would go a lot quicker. But that's not how it works. Steve was the leader, and I had to learn how to follow. For the first few weeks, the teacher kept saying, "Sharon, you're leading again."

Here's the thing. Steve was the leader and I needed to learn how to trust him. Did you catch that? It was really about trusting him. And that's the same way it is with God. When we learn how to trust Him, our walk through life becomes a beautiful dance. God, as the leader, has the hard part. We just have to learn to follow His lead, to trust Him. Then we get to dip and spin and make the fancy moves. He actually makes us look good.J

Steve and I are still no Fred and Ginger, but I have learned how to follow his lead on the dance floor. And when it comes to my dance with God, I'm learning how to follow His lead as well. And let me tell you, He knows all the right moves.

I want you to think about that today. When you give up control and learn how to trust God, He turns your walk through life into a beautiful dance that's He's choreographed just for you.

Let's Pray

Jesus, today I'm trusting You! I'm giving up control and following Your lead. Help me to follow Your cues...Your gentle nudges throughout the day. Thank You for extending Your hand and inviting me onto the dance floor of life! I think I hear the heavenly host playing our song!

In Jesus' Name,

Amen.

Wanted to share this devotion with you this morning for I thought it hit me right at my heart and thought it might help someone else today.  Hope everyone has a great day.  My daughter is coming from Florida today for just a few days visit, I don't care how long it is, but just getting to see them for a few hours is precious to me.  Always remember the precious memories whether big or little, they all make life so wonderful.  And, of course I'm thankful to God for bringing all these wonderful memories my way.  We do need to trust Him completely He is in control and He is a wonderful Heavenly Father who has our best interest at heart.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MY HOUSE

                     TO YOUR HOUSE

Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  Choie is ready to play Santa for everyone in doggy land.  She's dressed and trying to find the presents to give to all her furry friends.  She and Walter feed the squirrels everyday.  And she helps him put bird food into the feeders.  Well these are things that I do with my doggie and there fun. 

 But most of all I want everyone to know just sharing the holidays with family and friends is the greatest give we can give each other.  God gave us these friends and most of all let us be born into the family that we either cherish or don't get along with.  God has a purpose for doing these things and sometimes its hard to understand that God knows what He is doing.  He wants to use us in any circumstance of our life.  He wants to reveal Himself to You so that you can love Him, know Him and serve Him with a greatful heart.  

Its a wonderful life just knowing that He is God, our Creator, Redeemer and most of all our Friend.  So this holiday remember God loved us so much that He sent His Son Jesus to be born in a Manager so that 33 years later Jesus would lay down His life for us so that we could be reconciled back to God as long as we confessed our sins, believed that He (Jesus) is the Son of God, but most of all that we have faith and trust in that what God tells us in His Word.  God Bless, 


Merry Christmas to all.

Sharing Girlfriends in God's Devotion

I would like to share this with you today from Girlfriends in God.  I hope you enjoy it.

November 25, 2011

The Trumpet Game
Gwen Smith



Today's Truth

"The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing." (Zephaniah 3:17, NIV)  Friend to Friend
My friend Brad has a little girl named Elizabeth. When Elizabeth was one year old, Brad and his wife taught her some sign language. For the word please, they chose to have her rub her chest. So, as Brad and Jamie taught Elizabeth to say please, they rubbed their own chests and said "please." Simple enough.

Elizabeth had a favorite toy. It's a plastic knobby toy that holds colorful rings. You know the one with the yellow pole and white base that, without the rings, loosely resembles a trumpet. (C'mon, use your imagination!) So, being the fun, creative parents that Brad and Jamie are, they would dump off the rings and playfully hold up Elizabeth's toy and make a trumpet sound. Elizabeth loved her parent's silliness. She laughed and clapped with delight. It became a favorite game in their household.

One day, when Brad and Elizabeth were playing the trumpet game, Elizabeth excitedly grabbed the toy and handed it back to him to do it again. Brad encouraged her to say "please" and reinforced the instruction by rubbing his chest. To his surprise, Elizabeth made her way over to him and started to rub his chest instead of her own.

Did this please her daddy? You bet it did!

Even though Elizabeth mixed up the signals, she communicated with her daddy. Brad was filled with love and joy by her effort. He was pleased that she came to him. Not because she did or didn't do something right, but just because she is his daughter and he loves her. He adores her.

God adores you too. Just because you are His child. His sweet daughter. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1a).

Have you considered that perhaps God isn't longing for you to come to Him with perfect, polished prayers that have fifty-cent words and flowery language? Have you thought about the pleasure God experiences when you simply approach him just as you are, warts and all, because He loves you? He delights in your attention. He takes pleasure when you go to Him simply because you are His.

I love how the psalmist responded to God's love:

Praise the Lord, O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

Praise the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-

who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,

who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,

who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

(Psalm 103:1-5)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE GATEHOUSE

 

Freedom from Want or The Thanksgiving Pictures

is one of

Four Freedoms paintings

by Norman Rockwell

that were inspired by

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

in the State of the Union Address,

known as  Four Freedoms.

I sure hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be thankful for, please take a few minutes and count your blessings one by one and just see what God has done for you this year.   We would be surprise, think about health, children, out of state family members, your house, your church, and just the fact that you know God personally is a big thanks, because that means you realize there is a God and I hope you know about his Son, Jesus.  That is the most thankful gift you can have for yourself, your family and friends knowing Jesus as your personal Savior.   So I pray that you have a very Thankful Day realizing how wonderful life can be.  Have a blessed day. 

Hello from Gatehouse Street

Its been a while since I've posted, I'm not going to say I failed  at losing weight, I have had a few problems, I still want to lose but just had to take a breather.  I sure hope anyone that followed my blog about weight, that it helped you,  it did me until I pulled or hurt something in my leg.  I'm at a stand still right now, but I sure hope to get back to my water walking and more determined to lose weight again.  It's hard to fight these urges when you don't feel like moving and doing what you need to do.  So, hang in there and lets hope we will all do a better job, you younger ladies, I would suggest that you start trying to lose weight while your young and you still can move more and better. 

I have been watching Bonnie on Biggest Loser and she is doing really a good, I don't think I could have done what she has done.  I'm really impressed with this lady at her age, 63 and she is making a difference for all of us who are older.  I'm looking forward to getting back in the groove soon.
Thanks for keeping up with me and encouraging me to keep going. 

You see my great grandaughter, she is a cutey, and smart as a whip.  I sure hope everyone is doing good and I'm  wishing everyone happiness during this time of year.  Talk at you soon.  God Bless.

Missing In Action

I’ve been missing in action, what can I say, I have had a bad month, just a lot of emotional stuff going on. I’m sorry that I let everyone down, but most of all I’m sorry, I let myself down. I’m still trying to lose weight. I’m at 300 lbs. so that is good which means that I have not gained any weight but I haven’t lost any, but guess what I’ll take it.

Okay, what happen, I let emotional stuff get in my way of doing what I wanted to do, lose weight and get healthy. Sometimes our children, husbands or just life itself throws us some punches we just don’t want to face or do. So I just stopped everything. I did go back to water walking 2 weeks ago, but hurt myself because I was trying to do exercise instead of just walking. So that kept me away from the pool. I went yesterday and just walked and felt so much better. Also, went today tried some new stuff but went back to just walking. You see you have to find what works best for you and I’m still doing that but I want to do big thing and right now I just can’t do them with my body in the shape that it is. But try to find out what you can do for you to move and lose.

I will tell you this that we have to work through whatever we’re going through, it doesn’t just happen. God loves us and wants the very best for us. He wants to help us through those down times and He gives us hope that tomorrow will be better. He wants us to just keep searching for Him and He will give you rest and show you the truth of who you are in Jesus. Even though I failed, I still want to encourage you to get moving and losing because you know it’s the right thing to do for yourself. We didn’t get fat over night and we’re not going to lose it overnight, it’s going to take time and patience. So come on and get on the bandwagon and lets start moving and sharing our appearances of how we can do a better job on ourselves to succeed with our weight loss program. God Bless