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November 22, 2019
7:04 am

Lord, you have SUCH a sense of humor! You gave me a silly but rather delightful dream to wake up with, after FINALLY getting a good night of sleep… woke up just as the thunder and rain were beginning, with my Mate nearby and hearing his cheerful voice in the dark… and just a short time later, when I checked my phone, trying to see what temp it was outside and how long the rain would last… it was 5:55 am, 44 degrees outside with a “real feel” of 33 degrees… and today is 11/22… EVERY number from 1 to 5 covered, in duplicate — HaHA!! THANK YOU for waking me up LAUGHING, and tickled with delight!! I so enjoy sharing those little moments with you and with my Mate — THANK YOU! :O :D And now the 7 pound package my daughter mailed to me is marked “out for delivery” from Fort Worth already, so this very day I should not only get tickled by my daughter’s care package mystery contents, but also I will receive my royalty check from the international copyright center and be able to put just a little money back INTO my website, finally purchasing this program I’ve been wanting to get for over six months now! Yay! I am going, going, going and learning, learning, learning and building, building, building with the new ViVa Learning system, still working on all my other projects, including art and HSL color math… and now I will be able to start adding interactive CROSSWORDS (and perhaps other word and number puzzles) to my website! WOOT! People seem to be enjoying the interactive WORDSEARCH puzzles I’ve put up already… and some of the other interactives… but I have just barely even scratched the surface so far. If I HAVE TO be this far away from you during the rest of this life, Lord, I am sooooo grateful that you have given me enough playfulness to my work to keep me pleasantly occupied. THANK YOU again, faithful Shepherd!! :D

1 Peter 2:11-17 ERV

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers in this world. So I beg you to keep your lives free from the evil things you want to do, those desires that fight against your true selves. People who don’t believe are living all around you. They may say that you are doing wrong. So live such good lives that they will see the good you do, and they will give glory to God on the day he comes. Be willing to serve the people who have authority in this world. Do this for the Lord. Obey the king, the highest authority. And obey the leaders who are sent by the king. They are sent to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do good. When you do good, you stop ignorant people from saying foolish things about you. This is what God wants. Live like free people, but don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as those who are serving God. Show respect for all people. Love your brothers and sisters in God’s family. Respect God, and honor the king.

Lord, I thank you for all the years that I have grown, almost as much in skill and wisdom as in spirit! I feel like I know so very little… but yesterday in talking to my niece, I was reminded where I was 15 years ago, and I got one of those “WOW!” moments when I actually got to see just how much I HAVE grown! Of course, this has very little to do with ME, and everything to do with YOU, Lord. It is your Spirit, your Word, your mercy that has caused this growth in me. All I ever do is look to you, including you in my thoughts, in my considerations of most any little decision I make during the day — and all those countless little ones that I make seemingly by myself alone, I trust YOU to barge in and let me know if I go off track, giving me a CHANCE to obey your Spirit, to do things your way instead of my own. It seems so simple, now that I have had years and years of experience with it. AND I THANK YOU again for all your amazing mercies while I went through that time where I was drinking alcohol to the point of stupidity, several days a week, and causing stomach upset and other discomforts in the days between! I watch people around me go through that now that I have the perspective of 3 years since I’ve taken a drink… and I feel absolutely LUCKY that your loving mercy helped me escape that labyrinth, Lord. Without you, I would be absolutely NOTHING, just a miserable, hopeless little human that I would not even recognize as myself. I owe EVERYTHING to you, Lord. So once again, I give you my time, my mind, my hands, my heart, my work, my play, my day. It is all yours, faithful Shepherd. Lead on!

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