Fearfully And Wonderfully Made!

Almighty God's Great Grace 

Is 

Utterly Amazing! 

The Lord Jesus ... Our Creator

With Amazing Love And Available Grace

With The Superbly Fine Touch Of The Master Hand

Caused Us To Be Fearfully Aka Awesomely

And 

Wonderfully Made! 

We All Know This To Be True 

And In Gratitude 

We Should Joyfully Give Our God 

Great And Glorious Praise

Morning, Evening, Noon And Night! 

Beloved, 

Choose To Think Of 

And 

Dare To Believe On The Lord Jesus Christ! 

We Don't Need To Change 

The Fluids In Our Circulatory System 

Every Three Months! 

We Don't Need To Change 

Our Kidneys After 10 Years! 

We Don't Need Our Legs Rotated 

Or 

Our Hearts Relined! 

We Don't Need Bi-Annual Brain Upgrades! 

We Don't Need Our Eye-Balls Fashionably Upgraded 

Just Because It's What's New On The Runway, Walkway

Or The Tongue Of Mr. Or Ms. It Or Popular Trans It! 

And

We Don't Need Our Mufflers Replaced!

Thank You, Jesus! 

Food Is Our Medicine 

And 

Our Medicine Is Our Food! 

As Long As We Live, We Live

And

When We Die

We Return In Component Parts To Origins: 

The Breath Of Life To Our Creator 

And 

Our Bodies To The Dust From Whence They Came! 

We Are Blessed! 

Don't You ... Even With Regular Aches

Pains, Problems, Pressures

And 

The Gift Of The Power Of Prayer

Think It Is Time To Lift Up Our Lord Jesus!?! 

I Don't Dare You

Because

A Reasoning, Honest, Heart

Should Cause You, Me, Us All

To See The Light Of Life

Get To It! 

Hallelujah, Jesus! 

Peace!

The Wonder Of It All!

We Are Made In The Image Of The Eternal God 

And

We Have Been Purchased At Infinite Cost 

By Our Creator Who Knows Everything 
And 

Does All Things Well: He Does Not Make Mistakes! 

We Are The Lord's Own ... Twice
By Creation And Redemption

And

It Is Time That We Recognize And Accept 
And 
Appreciate The Value The Lord Has Placed Upon Our Persons 

And 

Start Living Like The Children Of 
The Great And Glorious King That We Are Called To Be! 

We Were Born In Sin And Shaped In Iniquity 

But

We Are Called To Acknowledge That 

Our Past Does Not Determine Our Future Estate

To Recognize The Wonder That Is Our Creation

To Believe The Love That Bought Us

To Grasp The Hope That Calls Us

And

To Walk In The Light That Shows Us The Way Home 

So That We Shall ... Revived And Reformed

Enter Into The Joy Of Our Lord And Our God! 

Beloved, 

In The Confidence Of The Love That 
Will Not Let You Fail Or Fall Or Let You Go

Straighten Your Knees

Suck In Your Gut

Stick Out Your Chest

Stiffen Your Spine

And

Put Your Tail Bone In The Air 

And 

Humbly Walk Wise Before Your God

And 

Be A Working Prince Or Princess Watching For 

And 

Waiting Upon Your King! 

We, Each, Are Given A Daily Measure Of 
The Faith Of Jesus Christ Which Cannot Fail! 

We Are Asked To Trust The Giver Of This Gift

To Believe The Living Word Holy

And

To Exercise The Gift That Appreciably Grows! 

Brethren,

Let Us Let The Wonder Of Our Existence

The Magnitude Of Our Salvation

And

The Eternal Extent Of Our Redemption

Encourage Us To Stand Up 
And 
Be Counted

Marked Forever ... For Life! 

We Belong To The King! 

You, Personally

Are Valuable To Jesus Christ: 

Live Like You Know It 

And 

Are Glad For It!

HAPPY SABBATH + PRAYER: A Hope To Hold!

Father,
I Truly Love Your Artistry
Displayed In The Amazing
Simply Awesome
Soul-Stirring
Works Of Your Hand!

I Remember
Even As A Child
Gazing Upward
And Seeing A Cloud Drawing
And Becoming Hopelessly
Awestruck And Inspired
And Calling Out To All:

Did You See What I Just Saw!

I Saw Over There An Elephant
Over Yonder A Floppy-Eared Puppy Dog
To My Right A Racing Dragon
Dead Ahead A Shoal Of Fishes Floating
And
Even To My Then Child's Mind
Child-Sized Angels Floating, Floating!
Father!
You Do Thrilling Work
And I Am Blessed!

But, Then, Lord
I Grew Up
And Stopped Looking Up
And Started Looking In
And Gazing Instead
Around And Down
And Became So Obsessively Consumed
With Man's Vain Work
And
Striving For Daily Bread
That I Practically Forgot
That Life Is Not All Work!
I Forgot To Commune!
I Forgot To Stop And Just Breathe!
I Forgot To Sincerely Worship!
I Just Did That With Which I Was Pleased!
Forgive Me!

Life Changed ... Again
And, Then
I Finally Realized That
You Did Not Stop Painting
Drawing Or Coloring!
It Was I Who Stopped Gazing
And
In A Starkly Clear Awareness
A Benevolent Act Of The Will
I Could Again See
And
I Again Started Looking Up To The Sky
Blue 
Grey
Cloudy
Stormy
Starry
Cloudless
And Also Looking 
- Even If Only At Second-Hand Pictures -
And Enjoying Again
The Bounty From The Hand Of The Master
The Creator Of All
The Sustainer Of All
Who
For My Personal Upliftment
Paints Pastoral Scenes
Sea Scapes
Mountain Ranges
Raging Storms
Windswept Plains
Portraits Of
A Child New Born
A Rugged Face Of A Weary Worker
A Gnarled Old Hand
A Warm Embrace
A Dewey Eye
A Racing Tear
A Smiling Face
A Serene Display
Not Every Picture In The Distance
Some ... Up Close
Some Pictures ... A Scent
A Noise
A Touch
A Hope
From Love ... Everlasting
My Blessed Hope
A Hope To Have
To Hold
From This Day Onward
Until I Shall Die
Or
You Shall Come
And, Then
For All Eternity
My Hope Realized
With My Own Eyes ... To Behold!

Thank You, Father!
Your Gift To Me
It Does Not Float
For It Is Anchored
In My Heart ... So Solidly
That I Look Up
And I See The Distant Shore
Just Within Sight
So Far ... Yet So Near!

I Can See The Lightning!
I Can Hear And Feel The Thunder!
I Can Hear The Trumpet!
I Can Hear ... I Can Hear ...!
My Lord ... Is Oh, So, Near ...!
That Which Is Now Distant
Is Coming For Me ... Right Here!

Thank You For The Works Of Heart
For Through Them
I Know That I Have Nothing
From This Life To Fear
Because ... Because
My Father Is Still Sitting Upon His Throne
Sending Me Messages
Holding My Hand
Telling Me Clearly
That He Is Still In Command!

I Love You, Lord!
Please Come Soon!
AMEN.

The Value Of A Blessing

God Gave Me Life!
I Didn't Even Give Him A Graceless "Thank You!"

God Gave Me A Living!
I Uttered A Half-baked "Whoo Hoo!"

I Needed A Hand
A Help
AND
A Healing
AND
God Gave Me A Hope
AND
I Behaved As If
He Is Mine To Command!

The Value Of A Blessing
Is Not To Be Underestimated!

The Value Of "Thanks!"
From The Receiver
To The Giver
Should Not Be Undersold!

We Are Instructed
To Give Thanks
With A Grateful Heart
For
Our Gifts
AND
Blessings
Cost The Holy One
Something Precious
The Half Of Which
Has Not To Us Been Told!

Let Us Tell God -

Father

Son

And

Holy Ghost

And

One Other

"Thanks!"

For The Benefits

Unrequested

Unexpected

Unhoped For

That We Have Received ... Today!!

*********

The Weight Of Thanks Is No Burden!

NO GROUP THINKS: Walking With God!

I Had a Good Think
And Birthed a Great Thought:

"As a Child of The Creator

Who By His Own Blood

Me Bought

Everlasting Life in Eternity

He Must Me Have Truly Sought

Else Why The Great Sacrifice?

Why The Pre-Creation Plan

To Save Me

To Bring Me

Into The Household of The Son Of Man?!"

We Are Not Nice!
Every Where Is Real Sin and Real Vice
And Forays Into Madness
Like Growing Human Ears on The Backs of Mice
Like Choosing To Elect to Leave Earth
Early
Under Man-made "Steam"
Over The Possibility of Nuclear Rain
After Oxygen Depletion
Before Universal Starvation
Through Greed Graft and Gross Gullibility
Not Considering That God IS In Control
And All Man's Actions Are Vain!

In Faithless Performance
We Give Lying Leaders of Men Top Props
Denigrating God To The Position
Of Creator Of Life's Flops
When God IS The Life-Giver
The God Who Provides Grain
Sun Moon and Stars and
The Infallible Indicators Called
Conscience
Sense
Commonsense
Faith, and
Pain
To Tell When We Are In A Wrong Not Right
Not Pleasant
Not Safe
Not Tasty
Perilous Even Deadly
Good Bad True
Loving Lying Healthy
Risky Satisfying State Place
BUT
We Are So Brilliant
So Knowledgeable
So Right and
So True
That We Give God Finger-Indicators
And Proceed To Make Life Rhyme With Shoe!

I Looked To God!
I Looked At Life and Science Leaders!
I Looked At "Faith" Leaders
AND
I Looked To God,  Again
AND
I Got Out The Scale
That Balance Called Truth
I Placed The One God and His Way On One Side
AND ... Then I
Placed All The Strata of Human Leadership 
Through The Ages Such As
The Scientific
The Economic
The Financial
The Religious,  and
The Political on
The Opposing Scale Pan!

The One God Got All The Glory
AND
All Man's Endeavors
Anointings 
Appointings 
Machinations and
Methodologies
Burst 
Into Gigantic Minute Flames
Consumed 
By Arrogance
Idiocy
Presumption, and
Plain Lies
Thus, Rightly Disclosing That

THE PURPOSES 

OF GOD 

CANNOT

BE DENIED!

We May Say Vile Words!
We May Herd Righteous Believers Like Sheep!
We May Even Extinguish Right
BUT 
Heaven's Light Can't Be Beat!

SO ...

I Made The Decision
To Walk In The Light Way
AND 
Come Hell Or High-water
I Am Going With God
All The Way
Home
On The King's Highway!

How Can I - To The Lord - Say: "Thanks!?" + Prayer

I try to #DoSomethingForTheLordEveryDay
For every day He works does wonders for me
I don't even think about what I Receive
Or what He causes me to Achieve!

I open my Eyes - Sight!
I turn my Ear - Delight!
I sit on a Chair - No fear!
I put out a Foot - I Walk around!
I Sing a glad song and
Oft' dance along
To the rhythm that 
My steady Hands beat
Glad for the sound beating 
My Happy Heart does regular repeat!

How do I say: "Thanks!"
To The God of The Mountain
Maker of The Seas
Ruler of Heaven
Healer Helper
The Blessing to Me?

I bow my Heart
I close my Eyes
I "look" toward Heaven
And softly, I cry ...

Thank You, Dear Father

For The Blessings today

I thank You, I bless You

For The Store You prepare

If I had a choir of voices

I could not sing enough

Of Your Praise

And provision 

Of what is not stuff!

You give me My Being

You give me Your Love

You show me The Path to Mount Zion

You protect Me from McGruff

That Lying Old Serpent

Who is always sending Stuff

And Nonsense

And Nudges

And Winsome White Lies

That were it not for You, Lord

I would be beguiled!

Know, Lord, that I am Thankful for

I know that I am Blessed

Thanks for The Leading - All Sin I confess!

Keep me on Your Pathway

Sheltered by Your Light

Thou Giver of Abundance

Thou Healer of Strife!

And when My Day is over

Cradle me in The Long Night

And at Your Coming

Awake Me, I pray

To the Glorious Sounding 
Of Your Everlasting Day!

Until then, Father ...

Teach Me so that I may Teach Another

Bless Me so that I may Bless Another

Inspire me so that I may Inspire Another

And Use Me so that I won't Use or Abuse Another.

I love You, Lord!

Amen.