WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

Join us as we share God's beautiful word through beautiful pictures. Our hostess this week is Penny @ Pennyraine.com/blog. Hop on over to join us for Word filled Wednesday!

Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

Lori at All You Have To Give is hosting Word-filled Wednesday this week. If You’d like to join us for Word Filled Wednesday, simply add your name to McLinky at her blog and post a photo and a BIBLE verse.

Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse! You can find McLinky at Penny's blog, PennyRaine.com. Stop on over and share God's Word expressed through photos.


Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse! You can find McLinky at Lori's bog at www.allyouhavetogive.com. Stop on over and share God's Word expressed through photos.


Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

Today's word-filled Wednesday post is dedicated to my mother-in-law, Audrey. This is a picture of her with our youngest family member, Kate (my niece, Audrey's youngest grand-daughter).

Audrey had a stroke on Friday night. She is an amazing woman with a deep, strong faith that has sustained her throughout her life. We are relying upon OUR faith right now to get us through each day. Audrey's family is devastated and we don't know what the future holds for her. We do know this - and we know that she would agree with us: God is good. He cares for and about us. His will shall be accomplished on this earth.


We ardently pray for complete healing for Audrey. Short of that, we pray for the strength and courage to face what God plans for her and us.


"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV).

Susan at Forever His is hosting WFW this week. Hop on over to see other beautiful pictures and inspirational scripture. Join us!

Blessings on your journey,

Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse!

You can find McLinky at Lori's bog at www.allyouhavetogive.com. Stop on over and share God's Word expressed through photos.

Next week’s hostess will be: Christy at Critty Joy

Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY!

Welcome to Word-Filled Wednesday!

The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse!

To join us, pop over to pennyraine.com, who is hosting “Word Filled Wednesday” for Amy at the 160 acre woods

Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

Christy @ Crittyjoy is hosting Word Filled Wednesday this week. Stop on over to see her beautiful blog and link up to share how the Lord has spoken to you today!


The purpose of Word filled Wednesday is to share God’s word (no famous quotes or other literature — only the beautiful word of our Father) through photo’s & a Bible verse!




Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

I'm joining AmyDeane again this week for Word-filled Wednesday.
Stop by The 160 Acre Woods to see the words others have to share.

Blessings on your journey,
Mary

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY!

Head over to e-Lisa from Extravagant Grace to sign up for WFW this week!

Hello, it's Me God! Just Need to Vent!

Thankful Thursday, Faith-filled Friday, Word-Filled Wednesday, Testimony Tuesday, Monday Manna. I've heard of all of these memes and more. I've participated regularly in some of them. There are some very good reasons I choose to participate in memes. As Christians we are meant to be in community and joining in a meme allows and affords me the opportunity to join with other in a common activity. It's fun, it's educational, it's a wonderful way to reach out to others and to be ministered to by others whom we may never meet on the earth in this lifetime.

Sometimes my husband even reminds me that I don't "have to" participate in a meme every week, if it's going to stress me out! At those times, I'm particularly thankful he is my husband, my best friend, and in many ways my mentor on all things regarding faith! (On the day-to-day, common sense, keep the wheels of civilization turning things I excel. It's on the real nitty-gritty aspects of faith that he far surpasses my ability and capacity.)

I'm one of those literalists when it comes to faith - and my husband generally agrees with me: if Jesus said it, He meant it - very literally and without need for expansion or deliberation! Feed the hungry means just that! Shelter the homeless, offer comfort to the brokenhearted, extend hope to the downtrodden . . . and on and on. He meant it both literally in very physical terms as well as in spiritual terms. We do diverge somewhat on the love and acceptance part, but that's for another post!

Love your neighbor. Worship the One True God. Trust and Obey. That's it -- everything else really falls in to place, don't you think?! Yes, I know that's very simplistic! I could talk with you for hours about this very topic and perhaps agree to disagree on where exactly one should draw that proverbial line in the sand. The bottom line, though isn't whether it's drawn nearer to one extreme or the other, but I think rather, that we even discuss it at all!

The past several days have found me shaking my head and asking - more than once - "What is wrong with people? Really, what is wrong?! No big tragedy or major misfortune has befallen me or anyone I love (for that I am truly grateful). It's just that sometimes the world seems so NOT what Jesus preached and I am challenged to live in it.

Sometimes I do feel like a stranger, a sojourner in a world that is oddly out of kilter with what I envision, imagine, hope for and strive for! Don't worry, I'm not "losing it"! (At least not any more than usual:-) I'm not about to hang it all up, throw up my hands and attempt to escape reality! Sometimes I just need to vent! Sometimes I need to talk myself back to where I need and want to be: squarely at the foot of the Cross! I long for heaven, but for now I'll take the shadow of that Cross where my Savior won me passage to heaven at the end of time.

So for today, I beg your forbearance as I bemoan my own lack of control -- knowing full well I'm not the one in control at all. I'll bewail the fickle circumstances of life that take us places we never imagined we would go and bring us back again stronger, surer and more in love with Jesus than when the journey began.

Today--this day--I thank God for His forbearance of my own failings and shortcomings and I am eternally grateful for His grace, extended to me on the Cross.

Blessings as you travel on your own journey of life.


"In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling" (Exodus 13:21 NIV).

"he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake" (Psalm 23:3 NIV).

"guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long" (Psalm 25:5 NIV).

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

I'm joining AmyDeane again this week for Word-filled Wednesday. Stop by The 160 Acre Woods to see the words others have to share.

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by e-Lisa's blog this morning to learn the history of "Word Filled Wednesday" and for more words and images about our amazing God.

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by e-Lisa's blog this morning to learn the history of "Word Filled Wednesday" and for more words and images about our amazing God.

Blessings on this beautiful day!

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

“Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-24 NIV).

AmyDeane is hosting Word Filled Wednesday at The 160 Acre Woods. Stop by her blog and see the words shared by others. You will be blessed.

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by e-Lisa's blog this morning to learn the history of "Word Filled Wednesday" and for more words and images about our amazing God.

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from

him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I

shall not be shaken. On God rests my deliverance and my

honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in him at all

times, O people; pour out your heart before him;

God is a refuge for us.

Psalms 62:5-8

This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by AmyDeane's Blog this morning for more words and images about our amazing God

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY

""So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Luke 11:9 NIV).



This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by AmyDeane's Blog this morning for more words and images about our amazing God.

WORD-FILLED WEDNESDAY

This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by AmyDeane's Blog this morning for more words and images about our amazing God.

WORD FILLED WEDNESDAY
Happy Earth Day

Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." (Genesis 9:16 NIV)


This is the latest installment of Word Filled Wednesday. Stop by AmyDeane's Blog this morning for more words and images about our amazing God.