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June 25, 2021
9:37 pm

THANK YOU, Father, for my most recent jaunt down to the creek, walking barefoot through puddles on the way back up to the house. Thank you for the deer I see every single day, in various parts of the property. Thank you for what I am learning about sedges and cotton grass, along with other interesting wetland plants. Thank you for my new St. Clair County Library system card, the books I borrowed for the sake of learning and pleasure reading, and thank you for my little hotspot that I borrowed from them for two weeks. Thank you for my nice walk with my Mate yesterday, and all our little mately moments throughout this day — some pleasant, others tense, all fodder for learning and growth, lol. Thank you for the time with my sister today, helping her and her mate move into their new home on wheels. It was awesome to be able to help them AND to be appreciated and helped right back, through a lovely lunch and good conversation! Thank you for all the time I have been able to spend on getting new/old Spanish materials ready for temporary sale in my Printables Shop — even if that project DID derail my birthday project and delay my release of the new page for it — FranLaff.com/10-05 which I STILL have not gotten ready due to lack of time. My apologies, dear reader. I HAVE gotten the first “bit” written — just a piece about my Wednesday night nature-bathing — but all my OTHER work efforts have necessarily been put toward things that are likely to bring in immediate income, because my Mate and I need it. Although I will probably start the “real job” caring for others soon, I cannot expect a check until mid-July. By then, my bank account will be bounced several times. The trip from Texas to Michigan drained our finances, and my Mate used the rest to procure items for Trade. Such is life. I am happy just to HAVE HOPE and good projects. AND good people AND awesome nature!! :D Thank you, Lord, for soooooo many blessings!

Romans 13:8-14 ERV

You should owe nothing to anyone, except that you will always owe love to each other. The person who loves others has done all that the law commands. The law says, “You must not commit adultery, you must not murder anyone, you must not steal, you must not want what belongs to someone else.” All these commands and all other commands are really only one rule: “Love your neighbor the same as you love yourself.” Love doesn’t hurt others. So loving is the same as obeying all the law. I say this because you know that we live in an important time. Yes, it is now time for you to wake up from your sleep. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is almost finished. The day is almost here. So we should stop doing whatever belongs to darkness. We should prepare ourselves to fight evil with the weapons that belong to the light. We should live in a right way, like people who belong to the day. We should not have wild parties or be drunk. We should not be involved in sexual sin or any kind of immoral behavior. We should not cause arguments and trouble or be jealous. But be like the Lord Jesus Christ, so that when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don’t think about how to satisfy the desires of your sinful self.

Lord Jesus, I truly do not know how to be like you, except to just keep letting all my petty concerns and personal expectations GO, giving those AND my TIME and worries and hopes and dreams… my SELF to you. I keep having this phrase in my head that my brother said recently: “Morality without God”. Too many people seem to try to build their house on the sand, striving to be “good” without having a KING who is good, without having the Holy Spirit of God to MAKE you “good”. I just don’t understand it, Lord. What is the POINT? I only want to be GOOD to please YOU… like a child eagerly awaiting the approval of the beloved Father, hoping to some day hear, “Well done, my GOOD and FAITHFUL servant”. Otherwise, being BAD is more fun… so what do people who do NOT have hope in Jesus wish to build, with their own “goodness”? Lord, I do not NEED to understand it — for which I am grateful. But no matter what, I THANK YOU for helping me to see LOVE in people… regardless of whether that love is based on YOU… or attempting to exist, without you. Is that even possible?
Okay, reader, I THANK YOU for your consistency and your diligence, your faithfulness and your concern for little me. I truly hope this little prayer blog in some small way helps you. :D Here’s a link to that first little “bit” I wrote. Hopefully tomorrow I can finish up my work with the old Spanish files, in order to make some money to pay my bills. Everything including that and all my other projects, I give into God’s hands for His perfect will and timing to produce through me whatever He wills. So be it. Amen. :wink:

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