2025: the last day of March

Hello, dear Reader, and welcome (back?) to this small, American sliver of cyberspace; may God smile on you this very moment (and always! Why not?) 

Today, the three of us (Terry, Freedom Turtle, and me) went and obtained some more of his favorite large earthworms and he was happy to even eat one in the car before we all came back home. Right now it's a few minutes past eight o'clock in the evening; the Sun hasn't been 'down' for that long as I hammer out these words, wearing a nightgown, hair down, makeup off - ready for rest tonight in preparation for a more vigorous day of activity tomorrow.
Today? That was easy. 

It's been hours since I read it myself, but here is today's Proverb (one of my very favorites, especially verses 8 & 9):

Proverbs 31 ESV

I cannot deny the truth when it's so obvious, clear, apparent, frank, to the point, and so very easy to understand (as in the excellent example of God's holy Word, the Scriptures). It (the Bible) is indeed "living and active". 

Don't (just, blindly) believe me, though; (read it a bit) and see for yourselves. Prove me wrong, go ahead. All I ask is that you put true, repeated effort in a dedicated, genuine need to discredit me. 😏 Yeah, show me! Go ahead. 

Well, right now I'm going to write a prayer for what strike me as some pretty big needs at the moment - feel free to agree if you like:

Dear Lord, thank You for yet another beautiful day full of blessings, starting with Life that no one was promised and that not one of us deserved, God. Thank You. Please let us wake up again tomorrow, Lord God. Father, we lift up our friends and family to You all the way to the most casual acquaintance, God, and ask for You to move in and through each of them in a new way today, God, and we thank You, Lord. Please heal the sick, encourage the fearful, strengthen the weak, give clarity to the ones searching for Your Truth, God, please save souls this day, Lord, to the glory of Your Name! Please protect all godly leaders across the globe, Lord God, protecting each of them and everyone who surrounds each of them, God, in Jesus' Name. Please expose any traitors in safe and undeniable ways as You protect them and imbue them each with the ability to do Your Will, God, in Jesus' Name. 
Lord, we ask You to please set every captive free across the globe, God, in Jesus' Name. Please reveal and liberate every single human being, every child, God, who is currently a victim of the human trafficking industry. God we ask You to please destroy that entire industry globally and bring the workers to their knees before You, God. Please turn that industry into nothing more than a memory, let it become like the dust of the desert, God, in Jesus' Name, please. 
And Father God, we ask for You to please show Yourself merciful to the people in Myanmar following the massive earthquake they recently experienced, God. Please save every survivor according to Your will, God. Please imbue everyone working to rescue others with emotional, mental, and physical strength, God, and prepare each of their hearts for the things they will each likely see; we can only imagine, Lord. Anyway, we ask You to save the soul of every human being who hears or reads these words, God, in Jesus' Name! And, please answer the prayers we forgot asking further that, above all we want or ask that Your will is done, in Jesus' Name. Amen. 💘

Saturday, March 19th, 2025 - So Will I ❤️

 Good morning, et cetera, dear Reader! 

Welcome to this obscure American blog (again, if applicable)! Even though the Sun has yet to rise and it's otherwise silent, I now have this playing on full volume:

Music in general (but moreso praise and worship music) is alive, fully living and active and never, ever 'gets old' for me, kind of like favorite movies (the few that I've already seen and will watch from time to time, though rarely). 
Here is today's portion from the Book of Wisdom:

Proverbs 29 ESV

And, further reading, today from the New Testament:

2 Corinthians 5 ESV

Here are some of the verses that stand-out to me today (but which ones resonate for you today, dear Reader?):

I pray for you, dear Reader, that God meets you at the very point of your greatest need for Him and that He change you inside and out to the glory of His Name, in Jesus' Name, amen. 
Please also pray for me to become more like Jesus, increasing in gentleness and compassion as well as true strength and more growth in the ultimate powers of humility and forgiveness. Oh to be like Him some day! 

Thank you for these minutes of your time today, dear Reader, I really appreciate the eternal investment. May God bless all whose eyes read these words, now and always, in Jesus' Name, amen.

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Friday, March 28th, 2025 - Evening

Greetings and salutations, dear Reader, and welcome to this obscure American blog (again, if applicable) on a warm late-Spring evening in the Northern Hemisphere where the following video is playing in the background ever so softly, the only other sounds being an oscillating fan and the clicking sound of my typing:

This video (all of those long-running, soothing videos, in fact) - it's just fantastic; we love it and use it quite a bit, since we often don't want anything that demands full attention or competes with our conversations. And it's also nice to leave playing for the pets to enjoy when he and I leave the house so that the non-human family members don't have to sit alone in silence while they wait for us to return home. 

Today was busy and we got quite a bit done with much, much more to do until the current task is finished (the task of moving to another home, that is). It's no secret though I haven't exactly been advertising the fact, either; simply put, it's closer to town, costs literally exponentially less, and we will have the freedom to do as we damn-well please with the outdoor spaces adjacent to home as all humans do when not otherwise stifled. We're more than happy to put our money towards those who deserve it, rather than those who steal from and oppress the poor which, as I understand it IS a one-way ticket straight to Hell, but I digress.

And that's literally all that I have to say about that, for now; the way that we are treated from this moment and up until the last one that we are here will determine how (if at all) I speak about this place, the people here, and what really goes on around here after our move is complete. But that is wholly dependent upon those in charge here, based wholly on how this venture ends and how Terry and I are treated, so we'll see and I will do nothing more or less than tell the truth. 
Anyway... 

This morning I did at least read and listen to the day's Proverb and will post that here for you as well:

Proverbs 28 ESV

Today's stand-out verse for me is this one:

And, maybe you don't, dear Reader, but I, for one, have to be reminded of this truth frequently and even then I must be reminded some more and again! Note also that elsewhere in the Proverbs we are admonished to trust Him with all of our hearts, leaning not unto our own understanding, noting the critical distinction between the two words which were deliberately chosen in each case and with deep, excellent reasoning.

I have one idea that could immediately stop the Ukraine/Russia war, but have no safe, private, legal channel for making the idea known to the higher-ups in our government, so I will just continue to pray that God give our leaders this same idea (as the one in my mind) and will leave that at that. Suffice it to say, that ultimately, all I want for everyone is peace; way, way too many people have already died; enough is enough. Who cares what the history between them is at this point when those ideals continue to result in the needless shedding of human blood and for what? Like Elon Musk pointed out in a televised interview last night, the battle lines haven't moved in two years - so WHY do people have to keep dying?! Anyway: we now have nuclear warheads. So, yeah, we need to do all that we can as human beings to end war, globally. Any reasonable person knows this, irrespective of (political, ideological, theological) beliefs.

Thank you for spending some minutes of your time here, dear Reader; be bold in integrity, you won't regret it. Take care. 💘

March 27th, 2025 💜

Hello, dear Reader, and welcome to yet another day on this side of the Grave. It's a beautiful, dark morning in the American southwest, with only the sound of one large fan creating a soothing hum gently replacing the pre-Dawn silence. 
Today is the 27th day of the month, so here is the 27th Proverb:

Proverbs 27 ESV

And, because this came to mind:

Psalm 112 ESV

I haven't been very 'righteous' for several consecutive days now, ever since something bad happened (don't look for me to go into detail other than to say that someone stole some expensive item from us and we cannot afford to replace it... but we need it). Anyway. God sees and how He's allowing it to all happen is something that I might never understand - not that it's mine to 'understand', either. The way these damned emotions affect me = no offense, God, but sometimes it sucks to be human. 
There, I said it.
Anyway, here is one article to try and help with this situation of my anger. 

I pray that the Lord will give us the energy we need today and for the next few days as we accomplish good things. 😃

Here is the current weather and forecast:

And, some memes that I found yesterday:

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I hope those amuse you like they amuse me! I'm smiling now and very happy. It's a new day, I'm on THIS side of Sheol, breathing in and out. God is so very, very good even though the rest (Creation; everything else) can be downright questionable at times.

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blog #1 3-25-2025

Hello; greetings and salutations on another fine day above ground, dear Reader, and welcome. 

Proverbs 25 ESV

Well, goodbye Spring. Here, we enjoyed all ten days of it this year; today's high is supposed to reach 86F so, yeah, Spring is GONE.

But our case is no different from yours, dear Reader: it all depends wholly upon where you find yourself on Planet Earth, much of which is covered with snow at this very moment - just not the part where we're located. 😎👍

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3-24-2025 - our weather and today's Proverb

 

Proverbs 24 ESV

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 😍❤️🐢

 Good morning, et cetera, dear Reader, and welcome (back?) to this little blip of cyberspace where we speak English, try to search out wisdom and the things of God, own our mistakes (well, where I tell on myself if I think it might help you), all while exercising our Free Speech rights to the fullest extent allowed by God Almighty. 
It's a good day: we start this one out alive again! That in and of itself is worthy of much gratitude. 
Right now it's almost five a.m. in the Mountain Standard Time zone; here's a look at the current weather and forecast:

It's very, very windy - which is particularly normal for this time of year; in fact, pretty much from about now until about October it's pony-tail season due to winds and ever-increasing (though thankfully dry) heat. 
Yesterday we went to Sierra Vista to the PetSmart there and bought some more live food for Freedom Turtle; he inhaled the first massive night-crawler (worm) that we gave him as soon as we got back home. I missed it, in fact; I set the worm down in front of him; he oriented on it; I asked Terry to watch him while I went in and put the worm container into the fridge, and when I came back out, the huge night-crawler was gone! 😂 Terry said he'd never seen anything like it. 
At some point, we plan to create a mini worm farm for him in a large bucket of dirt (among other plans we have to improve his quality of life). I won't say more than this: plans are in the works.

In the last few days I am alarmed to note how very fat and weak I've become at this point in being ill literally ALL the time, but especially so since that last heart attack, the first week following the event was the worst to date. Being acutely aware of this weakness is made manifest by trying to take care of things around the house that need it - clearing out closets and the like. These activities are far more exhausting than they need to be, and I've simply got to force myself to build up strength as much as possible and fast. May God help me in this, and may He help you, too, dear Reader, where you need it most. I realized all of these things as I wrote the text shown in this following picture of our President swinging a golf-club:

I've got to deliberately get much more physical exercise (than I have been lately) as well as stop eating crap like Reese's peanut-butter cups and drinking soda all the time. Enough is enough; I see the trend going in a direction that I do not like and know that, if I want different results, that requires change on my part. It's all on me, the ball's in my court here - and that's good news. Personal responsibility: it matters. So, although the heart attacks aren't my fault, rebuilding strength afterward is something that I do have the power to work on. Losing weight (again!) is also up to me as I get to choose what goes into my body, and how much. I've always done that, though, as an adult: lose weight, get down to about 130lbs, start gaining weight back. The next year, when I'm around 200lbs (like now) then I tweak my eating habits and head back down the other way. I understand that this is terribly bad for one's health to do and hope to get off the merry-go-round here soon.

At any rate.

Here is the day's Proverb:

Proverbs 18 ESV

I've decided to mount some of my photographs onto canvases and try to sell them in nearby Bisbee at some point, just some landscapes and sunrises and things of that nature. We'll see how that goes, I sure would love to generate income for our home but only in an honest, ethical way (remembering that, on many occasions, I've had to quit jobs that didn't sit right with my conscience, such as that job in Dallas with the advertising firm - man, do I hate advertising, but I digress). I loved working as a waitress/ in food-service but am afraid that I no longer have the physical strength/ stamina required for that. And, no waiting tables isn't the biggest stretch of one's intellect, but it is very important work; as a server, you get to make people feel like they matter. You get to make them feel important, you get to bring them refreshment and nourishment, you get to help create a positive and restful environment where they can forget about the day's troubles if only for an hour. I like that.
Once as a waitress at a steakhouse in north Texas, I had a young lady (six years old) who was there with her parents and found out that she was being celebrated for graduating from Kindergarten. She was the most well-behaved child of that age I'd ever seen, I was so impressed! It was a true honor to help make her day all the more special; her parents tipped me very well indeed and, though that's great and I appreciated it very much, I got much more out of interacting with them, as human beings. So yes, I loved waiting tables.
If I can get my physical health to cooperate, though, I do think that I need to go ahead and (finally!) pursue that law degree. I am primarily interested in Constitutional Law and Criminal Law (probate and family law are the absolute worst, though - yuck). We'll see how that goes; at the moment, thinking about that is like looking at the top of Mt. Everest and wishing that I was up there; as it is, I'm willing to start taking the steps and will be happy to see how far can I go?
What mountains are you looking up at today, dear Reader? Start taking steps! Let's see how far you can go! 💜

Sunday - March 16th, 2025

Hello, dear Reader, and welcome here (again?) on this day of breathing in and out yet again, the first of many blessings for us to be mindfully grateful for today. Add to that a hot cup of cappuccino and weather like this:

and, so far, it's shaping up to be a beautiful, glorious day and the Sun hasn't even risen yet. 😎

Here is the day's Proverb:

Proverbs 16 ESV

 One of the stand-out verses (to me) today is:

I feel like the Word is challenging me today to strive for better, gentler communication with all people, which also reminds me of these other verses about gentleness:

And, honestly, dear Reader, if Anyone in this Universe can squash someone else like a bug, well clearly that Person IS God Himself, and since He chooses to be so very kind and gentle with us, we are obligated to do our best to show that very same character to each other as well, in emulation of Him.
Anyway, it's truly more difficult (if not downright impossible) to receive harsh words than it is those spoken with thoughtful respect of the hearer in mind. He challenges us to quell frustrations and operate above the realm of mere emotion and, I don't know about you, dear Reader, but for me it IS a challenge. How lovely it would be if gentleness were my default setting, but that's not reality at this moment I'm afraid. No matter, so long as we're doing our best to do better in His eyes, we must be on the correct path and, if not, He's abundantly skilled in making that plain to us in His time. 

Here is another chapter from the New Testament:

Colossians 3 ESV 

See how He's always talking to me directly? By that, I mean just look at this next verse from Colossians chapter 3:

Maybe it IS a very immature way of viewing things, but when one topic is constantly in my face as I search the Scriptures, to me, that's God showing me precisely where He wants me to grow in the area that He's challenging me to do better in, like those verses above today. Of course, themes throughout the Bible are repeated constantly; it's hard to explain, but when I experience it, there's no denying that that's what's going on. 
I feel like a lot of you can relate and would love to hear about it.

So, please pray for me, dear Reader, that I will speak the truth IN LOVE that it may actually be persuasive to the hearer and not hurt them in the process. May God make me more and more like Jesus; I must decrease that He may increase:

Thank you for sharing precious moments of your life today reading these morning thoughts; may God bless you and fill you with such love that you will never be the same! In Jesus' Name - amen. 💜

The Ides of March 2025

Greetings and salutations on a beautiful, dark and chilly Spring morning on the Ides of March 2025 where I sit at a busy desk, listening to vintage praise music, hammering away at a $10 keyboard in the small hours before Dawn (my very favorite part of the day). 
I pray these words find you well, and, if not, I pray the Lord change either your heart or your circumstances, or both (depending on His will and whichever option is best for you). Here's the classic Jars of Clay song currently playing:

Here is a look at our current weather here:

Yesterday when we were in Sierra Vista, I picked up a pretty pastel-striped, fuzzy sweater at the Goodwill and am wearing that for today's chilly conditions. It's oversized and comfy and cost me less than five dollars (score!). 😎 I rarely 'do' retail and contend that I would continue to shop this way even if our financial means were greater. 

Without wasting any more of your time, here is today's Proverb:

Proverbs 15 ESV

I can't speak for anyone else, dear Reader, but there's a lot in today's Proverb to unpack (for me); every verse is pregnant with deep, rich wisdom and insight today and starting with the very first one, several stand out to me today (how about you?) 

Do you want to hear how dumb I am? 👀 I play worship music while putting makeup on so that (more often than not) the music elicits tears and the tears ruin the makeup as its being applied. 😂

Sometimes I even have to start over and do it all over again, too. 😏 And guess what? I get up and do the very same thing again the next day. And that, dear Reader, is the part of it *that is the proof that I am, in fact, dumb. 😶 

No matter: the limitations of this finite, human mind isn't a soul-crushing reality as I know that I'm not alone since all of us besides God are less than Him and pretty much all in the same boat (that of being flawed, finite human beings). In fact, laughing at ourselves is often deliciously enjoyable, I highly recommend it. Now, more random 'feel-good' music:

And now, some morning prayer:
Dear Lord God, thank You for waking each of us up and giving us yet another day of Life today, God. None of us deserve it but here we are and we give You praise for the gift, Lord. Please work in and through us for Your glory today, God, that the Life You've ordained today will not be wasted in Your eyes, God, in Jesus' Name. Please protect all of the vulnerable today, God, starting with the unborn, God! Please make the murder known as 'abortion' literally unthinkable world-wide God, please, in Jesus' Name! Lord, thank You for sending Your peace across the earth and bringing an end to conflicts across the globe, God. Please show Yourself mighty and merciful to all affected by war, God, in Jesus' Name. 
Lord, please protect all of our leaders, God, and expose any/all who are less than loyal - to you, to others - and bring all deeds of darkness out into Your glorious light, God, in Jesus' Name. Please send a host of angels to protect President Trump and all who serve under him and surround him God, today and always, God, in Jesus' Name, and thank You for using him for Your purposes in this nation and around the world, Lord God. Father we ask You to please remove all wicked rulers from places of authority and replace them with those who love and serve You, God, in Jesus' Name. Father God, please set ALL captives free today, God. Please release ALL who are currently in bondage, God. Please set them free to the glory of Your name that all will know You and You alone are God, Lord. God, we ask You to please recover and redeem 100% of all humans who are currently enslaved and hidden, God. Please release the babies and children, God. Please save the women, please redeem the men. Lord, please convict human hearts of those who currently work inside the human trafficking industry and give them no sleep, no appetite, no peace until they do the right thing in accordance to Your will, Lord God, in Jesus' Name. 
Father, please meet every human need today, God. Lord, please eradicate all Marxist and other satanic 'ideals' and replace it all with Your truth, God. Please subdue the world at Your feet, Holy Lord God. Please answer the prayers that we forgot to pray today, God. Please make us humble, gentle, teachable, holy, and in general please give each of us the character of Christ that You may be glorified. Thank You for all things, Lord, we love You. In Jesus' Name, amen.

Thank you for spending precious minutes of your life here, with me, dear Reader; may all eyes who see these words come to know God in a new and powerful way today, in Jesus' Name, amen. 💜

March 14th, 2025 🙏 a Friday

Hello, dear Reader, and welcome to this sliver of cyberspace to the blog of one Christian, American, middle-aged woman on yet another blessed day above ground. 

Here is the current weather and forecast (and I am dressed warmly for it): 

Since it's such a chilly day without much prospect of getting much warmer than it is right now, I skipped a morning shower today and just went ahead and got dressed; it's something that I'll do quite a bit during Winter, in fact, opting instead to bathe much later in the day or even that evening or night. And, I don't know about you, dear Reader, but I've had at least a half a pot of coffee all by my onesie so far today.
Anyway, here is today's Proverb (first, the text, followed by the audio):

Proverbs 14 ESV

There are lots and lots of effective corrections, prescient warnings, and explanations of God's Universal Laws in application in today's Proverb - so much of it applies to me personally! How about you, dear Reader? Among my many faults and frailties is a tendency to be pretty hot-headed (bad/ short tempered) so several verses today speak to me in that regard - ever a work in progress. Which vaguely reminds me of one of the books that I read while a ministry student many years ago; I'd recognize the cover if I saw it but nothing comes to mind as far as author/title at the moment.

Since finding the next video recently, I watch it about once a week and, so far, always get something from it; Chris Langan's IQ is 200+ and the things that he says will blow your minds! I follow his substack as well as his X profile (and, his wife followed me on X recently😎, so I now have new access to two brilliant people - bonus!) - but I digress; here it is:

Honestly, especially the first time you see this, it will probably blow your mind, no joke - and I don't think it matters what your current faith looks like, either, feeling that the ingenious insights and unconventional wisdom that he shares are expansive and inclusive in nature. Just brilliant, please do see that (video) if/when you can (and feel free to let me know what you think in the comments section). 👍

Well, for your periodic reference, here I am today:

much makeup and filtering were used here 😁

And what else? 
Oh, the tiny, little intelligent, sweet baby turtle is sleeping with Terry; I tried to wake him up earlier but he flat refused to come out of his shell (quite literally). 😂😕🐢 His apparent sentience and ability to comprehend and communicate are sometimes unnerving, he's so clearly intelligent. He's my favorite turtle that God ever made. 💚

So!
Tomorrow is the dreaded Ides of March, also called 'National Brutus Day' it is the anniversary of Julius Caesar's murder on the steps of the Theatre of Pompeii by his so-called friends (senators, including Brutus, his alleged best friend) - hence the somewhat-antiquated saying, "Beware the Ides of March". 

Beyond that, in three days from today, here in the United States at least, we observe St. Patrick's Day. If it's warm enough, I plan to wear this: 

but, if it's too chilly, I've got a shamrock-green baby-t-shirt to wear under a warm hoodie with leggings. Either way, it's all good; we'll see. I appreciate all the seasons, but am ready for warmer weather now.
I apologize that there's not much depth or substance to this blog entry; just sharing some 'random thoughts' as they occur.
I found this very encouraging:

That's about it for now! I hope to have subjects of more substance for you next time, dear Reader; in the mean-time, thank you for spending some precious, fleeting moments of your life here with me; be blessed and have a wonderful day. 💜

March 13th, 2025

Good morning (et cetera) dear Reader on yet another beautiful, (so far) peaceful day above ground, with Life being just one of the innumerable, undeserved blessings being poured onto our heads by a loving, all-powerful God today. 💖

Be encouraged!

Let's read/ listen to Romans chapter 8. 

I'm not crying, you're crying. 😍💖👏

And, here is today's portion from the book of wisdom:

Proverbs 13 ESV

I'm suffering from 'imposter syndrome' big-time lately and suppose I'll have to get back on the path to a law degree at some point in the relatively-near future; the idea simply will NOT leave me alone.

I don't always write mine down here, but as well as praying the easy prayers (for family and friends, for our leaders, et cetera) please also try to pray the hard prayers, too (for our enemies, to forgive those who've hurt us, for truth to remove deception far from us, et cetera). Thank you for spending precious minutes of your life here today and may everyone whose eyes see these words experience God in a new, powerful, life-changing way today, in Jesus' Name, amen. 💜

Morning Thoughts - March 12th, 2025

Hello (again?) dear Reader, and welcome to an obscure American blog on a dark, chilly Spring morning where I write to you from a remote location in the Sonoran desert near the US/Mexico border. 
Here is our current weather - it hasn't changed (I checked) since I took this:

And I could hear a gentle rain when I first rose from bed about an hour ago. 
Well, in today's Proverb there is much readily-available, targeted correction for me personally (see verses 13 and 16 and 18 as huge stand-outs to me today, among others):

Proverbs 12 ESV

Although there is a lot to assimilate from today's Proverb, here is some more reading, this time from the New Testament:

James 1-3 ESV

Because I have a weakness for anger and also (unfortunately) using my words as weapons, many corrective verses pierce my heart with conviction (thank You, Lord, for correcting me!) these verses offer hope and provide a goal to strive for, giving encouragement and life:

Thank you for spending some of your time here today, dear Reader; no matter your own imperfections, always know that our God is so much bigger than our failures! Yes, even yours. 💜

❤️ Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 in the Morning 🌅

Good morning, et cetera, dear Reader, and welcome (back, if applicable) to this temporary wisp of virtual smoke in the cyber-Universe on a chilly Spring morning somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, USA.

here is shown my Lord, and me (or you), holding the hammer and nail. 💔

Well, the rubber meets the road again, and I am now in a place where I am either forced to repent (of hatred, judgement, anger and the like) or choose the other option and that is to continue to indulge in all of those things as though His sacrifice meant nothing to me. Even in light of putting it that way, you'd think the choice would be an easy one, but no: I'm very human and my feelings have far, far more sway with me than I prefer to admit even to myself, let alone to you or anyone else, Dear Reader, but here we are, and as I love to tell you all the time: facts ARE, indeed facts. I can never repent of a thing unless I'm willing to first acknowledge the reality of that thing for what it is: sin IS sin, and by indulging in mine, I am wrong.
(Remember: 1 John 1:9 is step one, I've got to call that spade a spade and then He can do something about it). Rather than rendering the confession worthless by trying to couch it in justification or trying to deflect any of my responsibility onto others, I must own it completely, just as Jesus owned these same sins Himself when He died to redeem me, and to redeem you, and HE of all People would have been completely justified if He'd put that blame back onto us, the ones who DO deserve it, but no. He didn't, and He is the One I seek to emulate. 

So, no, the responsibility for my sin IS 100% ON ME and no one else, no matter what he or she has done - to my way of thinking - none of that matters here. All that matters is that I own my sin, my part in it, before God, so that is what I now choose to do. Those paying attention will notice that I do this constantly, like a hamster on a wheel; it is the Christian process. 

But I am not afraid! I know Who forgives, and heals, the same One Who will take the ashes of my wretched sin and give me Beauty for them in exchange. But to get the miracles of peace, wisdom, discernment and all of those other beautiful gifts, I first have to be willing to let go of the counterfeit things, of Pride, Anger, Judgement, and the like - and be content to remain empty-handed in His Presence and before the world until He decides otherwise. 
If you find yourself in that kind of place today, Dear Reader, I pray now that the love of Jesus Christ fill your entire being and remove all fear, silencing all lying spirits who try to dissuade you from the light and love of His truth, in Jesus' Name, amen. 💜

I looked up Isaiah 6 today because of this verse that rose to my mind when I first sat down to share these thoughts with you today:

And it's a short chapter, but full of Life and Wisdom and other miraculous treasures:

Isaiah 6 ESV

And here is today's Proverb from the Book of Wisdom:

Proverbs 11 ESV

Behold, the Word of the Lord. I don't know about you, dear Reader, but I see myself in both chapters, ways where I am weak, things in which I am continually wrong and sinful. May God deliver me; may He deliver you from your troubles as well, whatever they may be.

Dear Lord, thank You for yet another day of Life today, God! None of us deserve it, but here we are: thank You. Please deliver us and make us holy, useful to others by You, to accomplish Your will, Lord, whatever that is. God today we ask You to please create a new heart in each of us, O God, as stated by David in Psalm 51, this is the prayer of our hearts before You today, Lord God. Father, please protect every vulnerable human today, Lord, starting with the unborn! Please create maternal love in the heart of all expectant mothers that the idea of murder is abomination to them one and all, in Jesus' Name! Please continue to pour Your peace over the earth like a blanket, smothering the ravages of War and Destruction, in Jesus' Name! Father please release ALL who are currently in any and all forms of captivity: the children, women, and yes the men, who are there not by their own choice, God! Please expose ALL done in darkness and bring those deeds out into the light, God, as You set every captive free, in Jesus' Name! God, please introduce Yourself to ALL who do not yet know You, God, in Jesus' Name. Please protect President Trump, Elon Musk, and everyone else in leadership, Lord God! Please protect them and all who surround them now and always, in Jesus' Name! Please protect ALL servants of righteousness from harm, God, including the entire administration and all who serve in public office from the Senate all the way down to our local offices, God, and replace all wicked rulers with righteous ones of Your choosing, in Jesus' Name! Please redeem our friends and family, Lord God! Please also pour Your abundant love and grace out like a flood onto our enemies, God! Please overwhelm them with Your goodness that they will never be the same, God! Please subdue our human passions and give each heart a song of praise today and we give You all glory and honor for You alone are worthy, God. Thank You again, Lord, and please answer the prayers we forgot to pray today, in Jesus' Name, amen. 💜

Monday, March 10th, 2025 in the Morning 🌅

Hello, dear Reader, and welcome (back, if applicable) to this almost-completely unknown American blog, a tiny bastion of faith and free speech amidst all the lies and propaganda (and other unsavory content) available online, all of course depending on what one searches for.

Here is a link to Matthew chapter 15:

Matthew 15 ESV

And today's Proverb:

Proverbs 10 ESV

March7th, 2025: some morning thoughts

Hello (again, if applicable) dear Reader, and welcome to this unassuming American blog; free to read and rife with good ole American FREE SPEECH. 😎

and THAT, dear Reader, is WHY they can NEVER be allowed to take our 2A rights away! 

And, have a patriotic tune for this beautiful morning above ground; I love both of these talented, fierce patriots:

March 14th should be made an American Federal Holiday. Why, you might wonder? I'll tell you: that is the anniversary of the DEATH of Karl Marx, the one and ONLY part of his entire existence worth celebrating.
His satanic ideals only LOOK GOOD ON PAPER but have never, and WILL NEVER, translate into any real, concrete success in real life. That's just the truth. Now, handle the disappointment the way you did as a child when you learned that humans cannot fly; childhood lessons are meant to continue to be with us for life; we learn most of the very important things first (as children). Now, in this consumerism/instant-gratification/zero attention span society, I know that it's socially more acceptable to abandon foundational tenets as you hear 'new' concepts, but everything about that mentality is deeply, fundamentally flawed at best. 

It's just about adultery, but here's a link to the day's Proverb:

Proverbs 7 ESV

Some morning thoughts on Wednesday, March 5th, 2025

Hello (again?) dear Reader, and welcome to this obscure sliver of American cyberspace in the middle of the week on a cool, sunny day in early Spring where I currently sit, writing my late-morning thoughts/prayers/observations et cetera, from a remote segment of the Sonoran Desert. 
First, here is today's portion from the Book of Wisdom (in correspondence with this being the fifth day of the month):

Proverbs 5 ESV

And, because "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God" (Romans 10:17 KJV), here is the audio version as well:

Elsewhere online, I saw this Psalm referenced, and that caught my attention:

I am compelled to admit to you right now, dear Reader, that, at the time of this blog entry, I AM an abject FAILURE at verse 3, FULL STOP. No excuses, no justifications. It's just sin/ failure, pure and simple. I'll make no excuse for my behavior, nor will I deny it. And, no I'm not bragging, but merely owning what is fact because facts are not altered one iota because of how I 'feel' about them. 

Ok, so there's step 1, taken from 1 John 1:9

Now, for the second part (prayer and repentance):
Dear Lord God, thank You for this, yet another day of life that I was not promised and do not deserve; please see that I do not squander it, God! Thank you for making my sin apparent so that I can lay it down and seek You for healing and the empowerment to do better going forward, Lord God. Please always, always show me when I'm wrong that I may have that chance to do better the next time, God. Please create the strength of Your Gentleness within me, Lord Jesus, and further please imbue me with Your compassion for all, leaving none out. Thank You, Lord!  
Father, I am compelled to ask that You please protect all the unborn from medical murder, God, in Jesus' Name! Please give a deep love for every unborn baby to that baby's mother, God, in Jesus' Name. Father, please end all war, globally, God; please settle Your Peace over the land, God. Please bring clarity where there is confusion; please dispel conflict with understanding, God. Lord, we ask also that You please protect President Trump and everyone who surrounds him, God, now and always, in Jesus' Name. Father, please remove all the wicked from places of authority and replace them with those who truly love and honor You above all else, Lord God. Also, Father, please feed every hungry mouth as well as every hungry soul today, Lord. Please protect all of the most vulnerable among us, God. Please dispel the insanity of partisan politics, God, not only in the US but globally  - please erase the division, God. Father God, please bring all of the currently unsaved to the saving, miraculous inner knowledge of Christ and remove all of the scales from the eyes of all who are presently deceived, God. We ask that You embolden saints across the land to speak and to live in Truth that will be a light to the lost. Please heal the sick; please deliver the bound and all held in captivity, God! Please end the entire human-trafficking industry world-wide, God! Please cause people involved in the industry to encounter You and cooperate with the right global authorities to bring the demise of that unspeakable evil about, God, if it be Your will. Please, meet all of our unspoken needs and the prayers that we forgot to pray and lead us every minute of every day, by grace, in faith, and strengthen every heart to cry "though He slay me, yet will I praise Him!" and we thank You for all of these things and more, our heart, our Love, our Everything, God. In Jesus' Name, amen. 

I always go way off the starting topic in prayer, but, the point that I am trying to make here is that prayer and repentance (I think, should) always follow confession.
One more quick note about confession: I think that it's important to confess TO the person harmed by the mistake/ your sin whenever possible. It's my experience that yes, it's the most difficult option (emotionally, psychologically speaking) but I find that it's also the most effective, truly-cathartic option as well. Of course, I feel like you are still absolutely forgiven by the Lord if/when direct-confession is not an option (and, not that I can speak for Him, I'm just what the Bible says about it). So, if you - for whatever reason - cannot confess directly (to the object of that offense), it's not the end of all things. 

I AM the latter here - the evil one in dire NEED of Him

Getting back to the prayer and repentance part:
For me, I find that repentance is impossible UNTIL I've prayed. Like, I just do not have it in me, in/of just my human, finite self, to repent without praying for it to even become a possibility first. Sometimes the substance of that prayer is a whispered "God, help!" and sometimes the prayer is a morass of unarticulated tears, in a language that only God can understand. Just honest prayer, from the heart is all that He asks. In fact, God calls David "a man after My own heart" even though David had Uriah the Hittite killed and then took Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, for himself. Don't believe me? Read 2 Samuel 11, 12 and I Kings 1, 2. 

That's it. 
No need for a PhD or any other degree from men. You don't have to be a genius, you don't have to be wealthy, you don't have to be a rousing social success, no. What you do need - what we ALL must have, that is - to approach God, is honesty, first with ourselves and then with Him. This is about the only time you'll ever hear me recommend that we put ourselves before God in anything and the simple reason is this: if we are not first honest with ourselves, we make it therefore impossible to be honest with anyone and everyone else afterward, and that includes God. 

Enough about that; next time I hope to talk some about partisan politics, but will go and rest a bit for now, thanking you, dear Reader, for these minutes of your time and I ask You, Lord God, for the salvation of the souls of all whose eyes see these words, in Jesus' Name, amen. 💜

March 4th, 2025 in the Morning

Hello! Greetings and salutations, dear Reader, on yet another day above ground (a tremendous blessing in and of itself, meritorious of much gratitude and responsive humility). Today is March 4th, getting very close to the official start of Spring (here in the northern hemisphere) and, right now, it's a wee bit before dawn. Here is our current weather:

Here is today's portion from the Book of Wisdom:

Proverbs 4 ESV

If you know me in real life, even if you only know me at all from social media, then you are well aware of the fact that I am NOT, in any way, shape, form, or fashion, by any means 'perfect' no matter how hard I try. Knowing that we're all in the same "less than perfect" boat, though, I live with the understanding of it being a matter of WHEN I am mistaken/wrong (rather than fooling myself with the concept of IF instead). 

But, generally speaking, WHY are humans so afraid of being wrong? What is it that prevents us from wanting to learn what IS true and correct so that we can rightfully reject everything else? Only God Himself knows the answer to that, I suppose.

Dear Lord God, thank You for yet another day of Life today, God. Please move in and through us to accomplish Your will today, Lord. Father God, please end all human trafficking around the globe today, God! Please release all who are currently in captivity, Father God. Please eradicate evil with Your wrath and mighty Justice, Father God! Lord, we ask You to please settle a blanket of Your Peace over the entire earth, God, and extinguish all war like water douses fire, God, in Jesus' Name. Lord, please protect all of the unborn today and give all mothers a deep and undying love for their babies, God, in Jesus' Name! In fact, Lord, we ask You to please give revelation to all who are currently deceived and open the eyes of their understanding as only You can, God, in Jesus' Name. Lord, please protect President Trump and all other godly leaders from evil and harm, Lord God, and please expose any and all traitors who are currently in the trusted inner circles, God, in Jesus' Name. Please bring ALL deeds of darkness out into the light God, and please bring irrefutable, undeniable truth to eradicate the lies of satan, God. Father, please empower all forces of good and deflate all 'powers' of darkness, God! Please silence and bind every lying and/or other demonic spirits today, God, and let all hear the voice of Truth, God, in Jesus' Name. Father please draw all lost souls unto You for salvation as only You can, God, and please meet all human needs today according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus, in Jesus' Name. Amen.