How will we Respond?

theresponseusa.com

(sorry i can't get links to work)

i invite my friends and family to Join in Prayer with our Christian family in Texas as they pray for our nation. 

In Daniel 10, Daniel has a vision of a man that frightens him.

Daniel 10:10,11,12

(10)A hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

(11) He said, "Daniel, you who are highly esteemed, consider carefully the words I am about to speak to you, and stand up, for I have now been sent to you,"

And when he said this to me, I stood up trembling.

(12)Then he continued, "Do not be afraid, Daniel.

Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

i LOVE how God responded to Daniel.

 So Precious, that God would go out of his way like this.

When you read chapter 10, you will see what i mean. Gods messenger went Way out of his way to deliver this response.

Can we, in turn, Go out of our way to respond to Him?

(just a little?)

(Just a whole Lot!)

i also invite you to read the book of Daniel as he is shown the future ... the Revelation of the things we are Right Now going through.

In fact

if

it has been too long

i

invite you to start reading Gods word

from the beginning in Genesis.

Begin a new year

Right here in the middle of the year.

It is Not yet too late to start over.

To begin a new life right now.

Time Is short my friends.

Jesus

 is the Way

The

Truth

The

Life.

Pray for our country

our President,

 for our world

Pray for Israel.

Blessings.

(this is tardy, i'm sorry, it's the way my mind (doesn't) works.)

But it's still NOT too late to Respond.

*huggs & Buzz's

Where R we goin' ??

    Recently B.B. & i scouted out an area of this state we have been considering a move to for the better part of a year.  It's in a cooler region a little higher in elevation and has fantastic potential for filling our desire to have a small piece of dirt in which to begin efforts at self sufficiency.  We wish to have chickens, and a garden at least. My efforts down here  in this scorched earth are abbysmal, with the exception of a healthy Avocado sapling grown from The most bodacious seed we've ever found in a softball sized Avocado.

Solar power is something we favor since this territory is made for it. And we're looking into other off-grid "low-tech" alternatives to support our home.

Both of us have complimentary backgrounds that make such an endeavor a

no-brainer.

Bill is  great at maintenance and carpentry, He's very talented with wood and other materials, machinery and tools. i have a background in agriculture/horticulture, livestock and gardening. Through my child hood all the way to college no less.

One of my first 'Pets' was a Chicken.... Yeah... a little Banty hen some incredibly loving member of my family encouraged me to name "Dumplings" .... nice huh?<

i was 3 or 4 years old.

 i used to run off into the canyon with my dear little pet when the inevitable threat would come....

"We're going to have chicken and "DUMPLINGS"  for dinner tonite!"

To this day i am amazed i did not get eaten by one of the numerous packs of coyotes that lived in those canyons, but i would run away thinking my feathered friends life was in more danger at home.

Dumplings must have had a righteous Guardian Angel, i tell ya ;>

Oh Well,

Mud under the bridge.

i guess this is why i have such a warped sense of humor.

Any ways ... To the point....

We took the road trip and discovered wonderful opportunities to put our dreams into motion.  With a possible twist in the employment scene.

For both of us.

Not certain of a time-frame yet,

but .....

it couldn't happen soon enough for me!

In his heart a man plans his course,

but the LORD determines

his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

No Comment

For some Crazy reason i have Yet to figure out...

 i have not been able to respond to comments on This here blog of mine .... So i am sorry if it seems i've snubbed you, Dear friends.

 Also there are a few blogs i follow that no longer show i follow them... ??

Does that make a lick of sense?

i'm all but certain it's something i'm doing the wrong way or ??? Since most of my time is still spent in that Fog bank they now call Fibro-fog, it's difficult to know.

 What a weird state of mind it is!!

 i used to apologize endlessly for this state of Bee-ing i am often in, but anymore it's just The way it is... and i'm tired of beeing the "Sorriest" person on planet Earth...

Actually... i have my own planet now ... We call it Zupitorb... with it's two moons... Otip and Itorb.

So now, Is this Bizzaar enough for you?

Anyway that's where i spend a large part of my time ...

on Zupitorb or somewhere in it's orbit.

Zoning out.... with the kiddles... Abbys, Slippersdoodles & CocoMOco-coco.

My body stays on planet Dirt...

 i mean ... Earth.

Someones got to do the chores after all!))

It's not like i'm gonna disturb her Abbys-ness when she's doing her best impression of an

upside-down bearskin rug.

Anyways-ways....

Thanks Y'all

for 'Bearing' with me/us.

(pun intended;p)

i'll still comment on your Blogs if they let me...

:]

"Be completely humble and gentle;

 be patient,

 bearing

with one another in love."

Ephesians 4:2

La-La Blah-Blah land

Yes, i know ...

 i've been derelict in my blogging duties ....

What can i say?

?

Well....

guess it's time i thought of something .... Aye?

This is a Blog after all...

uh huh.

Yup

looks like it's s'posed to be a blog...

Uhm....

but then ...

maybe i misread ....

perhaps i'm mistaken.

.....

Perhaps this is a BLOB  ......

perhaps it's supposed to lay around in the middle of nowhere and just do what BLOBS  do?

Bee a BLOB...

did i say BLOB???

oh

Sorry i meant ...

"BLAH"...

Maybe it's a big BLAH!

Yeah...

No

 it's not ...

 :/

 i am.

it's me...

i am

 Blah...

This is the look i get from  Slippers-doodles as she listens in ... to my muddled thoughts ...

and yes she IS a mind reader.

It's much easier than you know....

when the mind being read is in a state of

BLAH.

i love these furrys.... they keep their eyes on me from sun-up to sun-down and their furry little buttz on me when darkness surrounds our tiny realm of wonderment.

Oh... sorry... sometimes it's just a furry paw stretched out toward me as i fight to find sleep or fight sleep.

either way i am always under "Watch and See"...

it's their occupation in life...

to keep watch over their peoples

and see to it that we carry on with daily living to the best of our abilities,

no less, no more.

Actually More is always the goal in our household

More crunchies, More open windows, More chin scritchy's, catnip micey's, Bottle top twirleys,

Bellymus-whampamus,

It's all well & Good .

Since actually...

my la-la blah blahs are all i have left in me after our daily tasks,
plus,

 the good news here;

besides extra special attentive caregiving Furrys Extra-ordinary efforts....

We have added Bike riding to our daily's...

Yes,

Sweetie Bee found a replacement bike for me after the other got stolen >:[

and i am now enjoying outings almost every day.

Plus,plus, we found a used stationary bike for me to use when my head is too "swimmy" to stay upright on the new  bike...

So

it's not like i've been doing nothing...

( really Now ;} )

Monsoon has rolled in ... one big-huge gully washer to the next ...
with this

 & the summer heat,
 it is HOT & Muggy ...

BLAH!

But it's still SO Much better here:)

Psalm 107:35

 He turned the desert into pools of water

and parched ground into flowing springs;

 there he brought the hungry to live,

and they founded a city where they could settle.

"and all God's people said...."

Amen!

:))

Song of Songs =17 years

My Lover is radiant and ruddy,

outstanding among ten thousand.

His head is purest gold;

 his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

His eyes are like doves

by the water streams,

washed in milk,

 mounted like jewels.

His cheeks are like beds of spice

 yielding perfume.

His lips are like lilies

dripping with myrrh.

His arms are rods of gold

 set with chrysolite.

His body is like polished ivory

 decorated with sapphires.

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold.

His appearance is like Lebanon,

 choice as its cedars.

His mouth is sweetness itself;

 he  is altogether lovely.

This is my Lover, this is my Friend,....

Song of Songs 5:10-16

We were married on June 4th 1994

At the church of the Nazarene.

Our good friend  Pastor Ron officiated

and observed that our ministry & lives

would

"Color outside the lines".

My father told a wild tale about Canons

His father advised..

"When you get to the fork in the road ... take it".

No truer prophesies could have been uttered.

We spent our first year driving truck for Cannon Xpress.

We've taken Many "forks in the road"

And driven into so many sunrises and sunsets ...

remembering that

ministry

is

coloring on the outside.

Only God can fill the inside.

i Thank God for filling my heart....

 with So much Love i could set off  Canons without need of a match....

because You

my Dear

Sweet William

my Bill-billbillbill bill bill...

My one and only

Sweetest

 of the Sweet Bee'z

Are

my

Match.

Thank You for Loving Me

for 17

Song of Songs Years.

 I AM MY BELOVED'S

MY  BELOVED

IS MINE

i Thank God

for

You!

WaterMelon Wars

The WaterMelon wars have begun again.

 & We B's are SOoo happy !

Prices have come down to a place we can now enjoy these delectables more often.

Between the new Walmart & Safeway... and our favorite local store Basha's;

we can usually find

some really

good

 prices.

Before the prices started dropping for the season i had asked one of the Produce men

if he knew when the "Watermelon wars" would start up again...

he leveled a perturbed glare at me... >://

"Just HOW do you think these stores can survive AND pay their employees if they keep cutting prices on every thing??"

i was low on snappy come backs so i just slunk off feeling like a whupped puppy but wished i had remembered to quote that old saying  "a fast nickle will beat a slow dime anytime"... or something to that effect. i can't remember the exact quote..

but i DO understand this gentle-mans point... peoples need their incomes ..

 It's getting to be the time of year when things slow down where Hub.B. works now ... and they offer people the chance to go home early... Soooo.... we Bee Savin' our nickles & dimes furr sure...

By the way.... When we first came here...money was really tight.... we did allot of belt tightening so to speak...

but Some Dear, Lovely person decided to help us and paid several months of our gas bill ...Anonymously.

Rumor has it that this person or persons has done this before for other families who were going through  similar transitions as we did when we moved here.

WOW!

The Lord really has blessed us BIGGY time here... and there.... Wherever he moves us though it's been difficult and not always as secure as we wanted... He always sprinkles big and little blessings amongst the trials. Sometimes we find ourselves giggling at ourselves for feeling so insecure, 'cause

He'll pop something into our day that would otherwise seem so random.

but ... it's not random at all.

Nothing God does for us is Random...

even the uncomfortable situations are very much a small tile in that very large mosaic that he is artfully placing our story within.

kind of like a juicy slice within a ripe watermelon

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit"

Romans 15:13

Springing Spring-green

It seems to me that there's an awful lot of Spring greens springing up around the country this year!

Not just in Natures schematic either.

When we moved into this tiny trailer house we promised ourselves to paint the kitchen walls over from this lovely hue of green

to a tamer color, creamy white perhaps ?

but....

2 plus years later .... our walls are still springing out at us 1st thing with the morning light.

No matter how rigormortized my body feels... how out of sorts my fogged out mind is, i still cannot help but smile and giggle a bit at the sight.

More than this though ... whenever we go shopping lately we've been finding all sorts of merchandise that's sporting the same color!

Fortunately for my sweetie B.B. i understand our budget does not include re-stocking our kitchen with All these funny, lovely new fashionably springy things.

Look

a lovely dutch oven !

who thought of such a thing?

 How fun is this?

Hey... Thanks to all my Blogger friends ... even those who don't know it yet....

for sharing all Your lovely uplifting thoughts and pictures.

" A cheerful look brings joy to the heart,

and good news gives health to the bones. "

Proverbs 15:30

Thank You All for inviting us into your lovely lives and hearts Springing with the newness of life ... 
Now you know....you are good for the heart and bones!)

You are Awesome!