Left in the Water

33 years ago I left it in the water!

I left it all: drugging,drinking, anger,unforgiveness hopelessness, ... The list goes on of the negative, life diminishing, soul destroying things I left in the water.

33 years ago someone new came out of the water! I was truly born again and since that day, December 7, 1985 - I have never looked back into the water for what was left behind. I have never doubted that the heavy load of darkness,pain, and addiction were dead and buried. I have come this far only by the grace, love, and power of God - nothing of my own. I have daily sought and continue to do so His face and not His hand. I have experienced a 33 year transformation that is real, consistent and a continual reconfiguration of myself. For this, among so very many others I KNOW my God is real!

There is great significance in this picture. In this picture I am 17 years old - the same age my daughter is now. I am grateful in so many ways that this day - the day I left it in the water, God started me on the path of shaping me into a woman of God for the next generation! At 17, I started my walk with God and for 33 years NEVER doubted His presence,never looked back, never regretted the covenant we made. The blessings keep coming - for 17 years now my daughter has NEVER experienced a day without God in her life. Because I left

"it" in the water, she has never had to wear the garment of shame, pain, addiction and (you name "it"). Because I left it in the water, she is clothed with strength and dignity, and beauty. The things I left in the water she did not have to inherit! Since this day 33 years ago I left "it" all in the water, God has been actively blessing me above and beyond my greatest expectations!

Today I take the time to publicly praise and acknowledge God for this monumental marker. Today I am trusting in Him for even greater joys and longing even more for His return, in which He will bring ALL those who left "it" in the water into His everlasting presence - where "it" will never be!

BOOM!!

We just finished celebrating Thanksgiving and are now heading swift and head long into the holiday season.  A festivity of food, friends, confined spaces, lots of hugs, kisses, and hands shakes increases our vulnerability to the dreaded flu.  Many of Americans are rushing to get their flu shots!  As a matter of fact they have such an abundance of flu vaccines that they are giving it out free along with an incentive (aka prize) for receiving one.    Well the sad fact is that many people who receive the flu shot get the flu!  How can that be?  There are many factors and yes, lots of controversy around the safety and efficacy of the flu vaccine - that I opt out of participating or exposing myself to the possible side of effects and protect myself and my family with simple hygienic remedies and a power natural elixir against called the FLU BOMB!

Flu Bomb
Ingredients:

• 1 large clove of fresh garlic (crushed)
• 1/4 tsp of grated ginger
• 1 tsp of Honey (real honey)
• 1 DROP of Eucalyptus Oil
• 1/8 - 1/4 tsp of Cayenne Pepper

Directions:
Pour 1/3 to /12 cups of hot water over the mixture and drink ALL the solution (ginger and garlic particles included) down.  Do this 3 - 4 times a day
This is excellent for the flu and all types of respiratory aliments such as pneumonia bronchitis, and asthma (holds for about 4 hours).  Usually best with a meal of thick soup due to the heating herbs.

Stay Informed!

Stay Well!

Stay Happy!

Where Do I Go From Here?

It has been several years since I blogged! 
I thought no better time to start again now that my son has graduated from high school and my daughter is in her senior year.  At this stage of life I am examining what I should do with my life after homeschooling all these years.  The possibilities are limitless!  I have a whole new life chapter ahead of me and I am wondering what to do.  I am praying for God's guidance to show me the way He would have me to go - For I want to walk in His plan and will for my life.  So where do I go from here? 
My prayer echoes that of King David in Psalm 143:8: "Show me the way I should go."
I have read that 90% of knowing God's will is obedience!

I do know this one thing - God is interested in every area of our lives and what He calls us to do He will equip us to do.  We are called to move forward - to go out - to tell, to show, to invite, to shine, to live, to be all that we can be in God's Army!  

We are called to move forward and grow.  Yet we are encouraged with this truth, "He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).  So I ask myself, "Where do I go from here?"
The answer is found in Proverbs 3:5 & 6;  "Trust in the LORD with all of your heart, and lean not on your understanding.  In all of your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.
Let's go!  I am living with expectations of goodness!

Medical arrogance - Just thinking here on a Sunday Afternoon

Whether you are fighting traditional medicine on the topic of autism, cancer, diabetes or any other malady. The fact remains that, true progress in medicine has always without exception has been violent resisted by medical authority who cling to the belief of their time. In 1840’s, Ignaz Sammelwies an Austrian obstetrician noted that over 20% that is 1 out of 5 women giving birth in the hospital died within 4-6 days later of puerperal fever. The women where then autopsied in the basement of the hospital. And the doctors who performed these autopsy wore not gloves. Can you imagine that!? Believe it or not they would then leave the autopsy room and go straight to the delivery room to assist other births without even washing their hands. Then Dr. Semmelwies’ good friend and fellow physician accidentally cut his finger during an autopsy. In 6 days this doctor dies of same signs and symptoms of puerperal fever. All of a sudden Dr. Semmelwies new. He realized that doctors were transferring the disease from the autopsy room to the delivery room and he urged his colleagues to simply wash their hands. For this unforgivable sacrilege, he was drummed out of the medical profession and he died in an insane asylum. Now today we have the same kind of arrogant commitment to belief in all areas of medicine.




Puerperal fever is now rare in the West due to improved hygiene during delivery, and deaths have been reduced by antibiotics. Dr. Semmelweis was not alone, although he was not aware, Oliver Wendell Holmes published published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, Holmes' conclusions were ridiculed by many contemporaries, including Charles Delucena Meigs, a well-known obstetrician, who stated, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean."[1]. Semmelweis began experimenting with various cleansing agents and, from May 1847, ordered all doctors and students working in the First Division wash their hands in chlorinated lime solution before starting ward work, and later before each vaginal examination. The mortality rate from puerperal fever in the division fell from 18% in May 1847 to less than 3% in June–November of the same year.[2] While his results were extraordinary, he was treated with skepticism and ridicule.



1. Wertz RM, Wertz DC. Lying-in: a history of childbirth in America. New York: New York Free Press, 1977. Original reference is probably Meigs, Charles Delucena (1854). On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Students of His Class. Original from Harvard University (Digitized Nov 30, 2007), Retrieved September 1, 2008: Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia. p. 362 pages. http://books.google.com/?id=RigSAAAAYAAJ.:104

2. ^ Raju TN. Ignac Semmelweis and the etiology of fetal and neonatal sepsis. J Perinatol 1999; 19(4): 307-310.

Press on

Philippians 3:12

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Remember the words of Paul, Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me (Phil. 3:12). We have a responsibility to lay aside what easily entangles us and look toward Jesus and press on. He has overcome and in Him we are overcomers! Don’t quit, keep pressing on!

You Mustn’t Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest! if you must – but never quit.

Life is queer, with its twist and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won if he’d stuck it out;

Stick to your task, though the pace seems slow –

You may succeed with one more blow.

Success is failure turned inside out –

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt –

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –

It’s when things seem worst that YOU MUSTN’T QUIT.

- author Unknown, from Along The Road To Manhood

by Stu Webber, p. 92.

Dying thief or living thief?

Years ago, a Signs of the Times author wrote a short reflection about the thief who died on a cross next to Jesus.

A man was once asked, “Are you a believer in the Christina religion?” 

“Oh, certainly!” the man replied. “You are a member of some church, then, I suppose?” his questioner asked.

                “No, indeed.  Why should I join a church? The dying thief wasn’t a member of a church, and he will be in heaven.”

“But of course you have been baptized.”  “Oh, no.  I am as safe as the dying thief was, and he never was baptized”.

                “ But since you will not join a church or be baptized, you will give your means to help others in some way?”  “Of course not! The dying thief--” The friend interrupted, Let me remark that you seem to be on pretty intimate terms with the dying thief.  You derive a great deal of consolation from his career.  But there is one importation difference between you and him.  He is a dying thief.  You are a living one.”

Adapted from Sings of the Times, November 6, 1893

Pharaoh's Lies

                                                Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8:1

The command of God is clear. "Let my people go, so they can serve me." Although God was speaking to pharaoh of old the command has not changed. Today, God is calling us out captivity. He is calling us out of bondage, out of the hands of the destructive slave master of sin driven by a tyrant who despises us to the core. Like Pharaoh of long ago our enemy (sin) will not release its iron grasp on our lives easily. However, unlike the people of God in Egypt we are the ones who can make the choice to leave. The gates are open and all we have to do is choose to step through and keep moving away from the place of bondage. The reality is if we stay close we are in danger of going back.



Pharaoh’s response to God’s command are deceitful compromises. Study them well:



1. Exodus 8:25”Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land."



IN THE LAND - THE LIE: He told the Israelites that they can stay in the land and do their "religious living" right there in the land, still in bondage, still under his control. He tried to convince them that there is no reason to leave. You can stay right here and serve God. "

THE TRUTH: You cannot! You have been called out! The call is clear “Come out of her my people, Babylon has fallen! (Revelation 18:4) The reality is "the land" represents sin and bondage to sin. Jesus came to save us, not IN our sins, but FROM our sins. If He doesn't save us from our sins, He doesn't save us at all. There is no such thing as partial salvation. Sin is a cancer that kills. If you don't kill it, it kills you. Through Jesus you must get sin out of you and then you must get away for the land of sin!



2. Exodus 8:28 “I will let you go; only you shall not go very far away."

THE LIE: I will let you go . . .

THE TRUTH:  The enemy has no intentions of letting you go.  He will never relinquish his hold over you without a fight.  He will do whatever it takes to keep you in his kingdom of bondage and destruction including destroying you!  He absolutely HATES you!  Like Pharoah used his slaves and disregarded their needs, the enemy also will use you as disposable trash!  He will not let you go...he will only destroy you and then toss you aside. (John 10:10).

THE LIE: You can serve God (under his breath) but not too far away.

See how the enemy would have us linger near Egypt. Near enough to hear the sounds, see the sights, breathe the tainted atmosphere. Just near enough to be slowly contaminated, tempted and drawn back to the bondage of sin ruled by a tyrannical master who set on ruling and ruining us body, mind and soul.

Our enemy whispers this lie to many who heard Christ call, "All right, go serve Jesus - only don't go too far away.” “Don't worry about the little things.” “Don't get rid of your old ways, your old music, and your old friends. You can still hang out- who knows you might be able to convert them - but if you go too far away that will not be possible. Plus you don't want to come across as too religious, closed minded, intolerant and lonely do you?"

THE TRUTH: The old serpent likes to keep you close to charm you helplessly back into the jaws of death. The real deal; Drop everything that will hold you back and run! Run while you can. Run from sin! Go and serve the Lord as he has said, leave the land of bondage and never look back!