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MUST SAY THANKS!

I am struck today with gratefulness. It's for something that won't matter in eternity but is such a gift from heaven for me! I...can...play...the...piano. I can play the piano while I worship. Couldn't do that for 2 years because of the severed tendons deal. This is the first Thanksgiving that I can play without the damaged nerve firing in anger back at me at every attempt. Last Thanksgiving I sat in defiance of the circumstances and tried to play anyway. That wasn't all that fun! Every day this week I've sat down and sang and worshiped, and sang some more - just for the fun of it. Oh My God, I thank You! Thank you for handing back to me what You had given me in the first place. Thank you. I look around me in anticipation and expectation of what You'll do next. You bless us when we don't expect it and don't deserve it. Please surprise someone this very moment with Your blessing, Your provision, Your healing, Your peace. THANK YOU, Abba - Fath

How's Your Mailbox?

We were gone most of last week, so, Dennis asked that our mail be held and then delivered on Saturday. Usually, it is put on our front porch after being held - but not this time. This time it was JAMMED into our little security mailbox cubby. Magazines and CATALOGS (it's the season) and a package and a bunch of regular mail all jammed into a little box. I had to undo it like a puzzle - one piece at a time to get it out. Sometimes my life feels that way. Things get 'delivered', one after the other...no hot water yesterday, NO water today, 3 more families going through the process of the loss of loved ones, our kids facing challenging decisions that you want to make all better but know you can't...those kind of 'deliveries'. I've learned I have to unload whatever is delivered EVERY DAY. I need to take it to the Father EVERY DAY. If I'm too busy to take it to the Father, then I'm too busy...because I'm not built for all this all the time. I

Higher Ground

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I have a gift - at least I'm choosing to see it as a gift! Random songs will pop up in my head, for no obvious reason. I was humming something in the car last week and Dennis asked me, "what is that song you are humming?" And...I didn't know - until this morning. It was the theme song from the old Dick Van Dyke Show. Hello. Who has a brain that spits out random old-school TV show themes. What is that a sign of? Anyway...another song has popped up and stuck in my brain as well as my heart - and that one is worth sharing with you... I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights I'm gaining every day! Still praying as I onward bound, "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground" Lord, lift me up and let me stand, by faith, on heaven's tableland A higher plane than I have found, Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. (Here's my favorite verse...) My heart has no desire to stay - where doubts arise and fears dismay tho' some may dwell where the