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The Dance of Hope

22 Monday Jul 2019

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2 Corinthians 6:18

And (I) will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

My soul is deeply stirred and moved.  As I think on my relationship with God and my love for Him, I think of it sometimes as a dance: me, here on the Earth – Him in the Heavens – Between us, a strand of spiritual DNA swirling up and around and between us.

My eyes close and the arms of my heart reach up in longing as my thoughts rise heavenward in a blessed blending of faith and hope sent swirling up to the Heavenly and Holy courts of my God, my King and my Holiest and most precious Father.  His response is in kind – condescending to bless me despite my imperfect state and lift me up through the Gift of His Most Beloved Son and my Divine Redeemer.

I am imperfect in every way – yet the promise of living with Him again makes its way down the strand of Holy communication and fills me with an urgent longing, a desire to strive for the promised, glorious blessing of seeing Him again….

I am rendered speechless; left alone in the absolute purity of Hope…My sigh is deep as I contemplate the possibilities of all we are taught that we can gain through the unmerited gifts of His Son…

Because we are His sons and daughters…

of Royal Blood…

because He first loved us.

Who is my Neighbor?

19 Friday Jul 2019

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Our riding lawn mower broke recently.

Of course, because we don’t have a job right now, we can’t afford to get it fixed.  This is quite a bummer as we have 2.25 acres to mow, but thankfully we still have a little mower, so my husband goes out with our little push lawn mower last night and begins the long process of mowing our lawn.  The weather is raging hot so the next morning at 6:00 he gets up to start mowing, because the job is no where near done.   About 2 hours later, just as he is finishing up with about one third of the yard done, and the heat is getting ramped up, our neighbor comes up to him and says, “You should let me help you with that.”  (This is the neighbor that snow-blowed our driveway covered in 24 inches of snow last winter with his snow blower.  Memory tells me that our snow blower was broken then too.  After he did our driveway, and a couple of weeks after his act of kindness, his wife comes to the door to ask a favor of us because her husband is in the hospital after coming very close to having had a heart attack!!!!!  We were alarmed and of course, we were very concerned.  We willingly helped them out…)

So, today, when he offers to help my husband do the yard, he say something along these lines, no, we don’t want you to have another heart attack.  He says he is fine and makes a list of all the things he does to keep active, biking with his dog, tennis several times a week, para-sailing…(it’s exhausting to listen to, not to mention embarrassing, but he makes his point.)  So, my husband agrees, but tells him not to do the whole thing.  Between last night and this morning, Mike had done about .75 of an acre and we still had 1.50 of an acre left to go.

Mike had to go for job hunting, but before he left, we witness our neighbor heading straight into our yard armed and ready with a thermos of water, his lawn mower and a gas can.  I watch him like a hawk and after an hour I go out there to tell him to stop…but he tells me he’s fine and in truth, the temperature is still good. Thankfully, there is cloud cover and a breeze and I feel it’s okay not to act like a mother. (He is 60.) But I say a prayer and ask Father in Heaven to please extend the cloud cover so that he stays cool.

He does.

Finally, after 2.5 hours, our neighbor decides it is time to quit and seeing him head back to his house, I go outside to thank him.  Gratefully, he quit when the sun finally did come out and left some for my husband to finish.  This man has a heart of gold.

Who is my neighbor?  It is a man like Rod.  A funny guy always looking out for others…God bless him.

Who is my neighbor? It is anybody who I meet on the street and look past the outward appearance to see a need that may not be expressed, but may help lift and help brighten someone else’s day.

“The abundant life noted in the scriptures is the spiritual sum that is arrived at by the multiplying of our service to others and by investing our talents in service to God and to man.”  –Elder Patrick Kearon of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Holier Pattern of Service

 

It’s been a long time…

18 Thursday Jul 2019

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It has been a long time since I posted…much of life has slipped through my fingers as if I water slipped through my fingers.  Shortly after I had my experience with the stranger, (see this post:  The Stranger )  I met a man who inspired me to pursue a certificate in Genealogical Research.  I did and I am in the throes of busy-ness.  I will be posting more soon about my thoughts about life and it’s amazing ability to challenge me to do my best.

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