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April 12, 2020
5:53 am

Lord, I truly enjoy being up before the sun — and this light pattery rain makes it even better! :D Thank you for the joy in my heart, the lightness and peace I have once again! Thank you for my Mate and the good times we have here in our tiny camper. Thank you even for the tiny arguments and all-out fights we have, each one serving as fodder for getting to know each other better, along with our boundaries and sensitivities, so we can grow just that much closer. :D Thank you for the delightful outdoor noises, little crickets and raindrop sounds coming in through my open window, with the breeze. Thank you for the stocked pantry and frigerators we have, and thank you for the ability to make my SOUP today — WOOT! I do love a good soup — and it will be perfect on this wet and cooler day. I can’t believe it is going down into the 30’s overnight for the next few nights!! I ADORE this time of year in Texas — so very much VARIETY!! And so much GREEN, before the Texas sun bakes most everything to a monotonous tan. LOL — THANK YOU for giving me HOPE — even with this COVID mess — that one day I MIGHT be able to purchase a mixed use building up in Western Michigan to serve as my summer home. I really badly miss the wetlands and riverine forests up there, Lord. You KNOW how my heart longs to return to the natural areas that I call HOME! Until then, I will just keep on appreciating the nature here in Texas — including all the awesome exposed ROCK on the ground that is excellent to use for honing my body’s balance! :D
Thank you also, Lord, for the peaceful art play time I got yesterday, enjoying a beautiful Sabbath rest. It was fun just doodling on the little kingfisher, freestyle.

Philippians 3:13-21 ERV

Brothers and sisters, I know that I still have a long way to go. But there is one thing I do: I forget what is in the past and try as hard as I can to reach the goal before me. I keep running hard toward the finish line to get the prize that is mine because God has called me through Christ Jesus to life up there in heaven. All of us who have grown to be spiritually mature should think this way too. And if there is any of this that you don’t agree with, God will make it clear to you. But we should continue following the truth we already have. Brothers and sisters, join together in following my example. Also, learn by watching those who are living the way we showed you. There are many who live like enemies of the cross of Christ. I have often told you about them. And it makes me cry to tell you about them now. The way they live is leading them to destruction. They have replaced God with their own desires. They do shameful things, and they are proud of what they do. They think only about earthly things. But the government that rules us is in heaven. We are waiting for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from there. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his own glorious body. Christ can do this by his power, with which he is able to rule everything.

Lord, I thank you for making me FREE from the world’s “Easter” and all the other pagan holidays established by the Catholic church so very long ago. I thank you for making me FREE from the “daily grind” of commuting to a job and trading my TIME for MONEY. I thank you that you have set sooooooo many people FREE from that daily grind now, during this COVID mess — and I ask you to help people ENJOY their freedom while it lasts. I do not know if I will get a “stimulus check” or anything of the sort, but if I do it could buy us a different type of freedom — our own transportation again!! It has been 16 months now that my Mate and I have had to depend on our friends to give us rides into town and such — and frankly that is getting OLD. I ask for your mighty mercy and provision, Lord Jesus. Give my Mate and me a way to pay for insurance and registration and the little bit of repairs that our truck needs, so we can FINALLY be more independent. I ask this in Jesus’ holy Name — but not my will but yours be done, Father. Amen. :)

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