Stray Noodles

We serve a risen Savior,  I know that this is true,  For every path my foot falls on,  The Lord has been there too. For each of us there comes a time when we have to stop and take stock of our lives.  We need to ask the important questions; who am I; what am I doing; and where am I going.  I am thankful that for me, all of these questions can be answered in Christ.  Who am I? A child of God.  What am I doing? Serving Christ.  Where am I going? To be with Him one day.  How can I be so certain of this? Because with every fiber of my being, I know that He lived, lives and has provided a way, and that He loves...ME! My God is so gracious that He stooped to carry even me...with all His mighty power...this mere spec upon a planet inside of a trillion light-years worth of stars in space; this sin laden worm, trying and often failing with its tiny feeble might to please Him.  He, God, the King and creator of this universe, loves...

" Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." Romans 5:3 David, a 2-year-old boy with leukemia, was taken to see Dr. Truman who specialized in treating children with cancer and various blood diseases. At the age of three, after a year of the usual treatments, David had to have a spinal tap - a painful procedure at any age. "If it hurts, remember it's because he loves you," said his mother of Dr. Truman. The procedure was horrendous, taking three nurses to hold down David's flailing body as he sobbed. When it was over, the tiny boy, soaked in sweat and tears, looked up at the doctor and said, "Thank you, Dr. Tooman, for my hurting." When we experience pain, it's difficult to believe that anything good could can come of it. But in those difficult times, if we can reflect upon the life and cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, it may be easi...

Dear Friends: If you'll permit me, I'd like to share some of the valuable lessons I've learned since my D arling H usband passed on. I'm wishing there had been a handbook of what to do when facing the loss of a loved one. But, I am thankful for the direction and the grace God gave in leading me through a number of difficult decisions before that fateful day came. For the many out there who may not be so blessed, or have chosen not to think about it 'til it happens to them, this is a wakeup call. Lesson one: it pays to at least shop around. I didn't purchase anything ahead of time, but when the day came I knew to whom I would go to make those all important arrangements. While it may not be appealing to think of shopping for burial blots and funeral homes, doing so saved me thousands of dollars. Burying a loved one is just as expensive as marrying one. For the record, that advertisement that says funerals could cost you up to $10,000.00 should be doubl...

If there is anyone out there who is reading this and has read my posts in the past, you probably noticed that they disappeared.  In a moment that I now wish I could take back for some of my posts, I removed everything.  I had a growing, legitimate concern for the direction the blog was taking, one more of boasting about doings than of encouraging others to follow Christ.  In addition, a dear friend shared a concern about how expressing oneself over the internet may be taken and used.  However, I recently got a very clear picture that this cannot be prevented.  This is now the way most of the world communicates and no matter what, I must not let my voice for the Lord be silenced.  He saved me for a purpose, to be a witness to His miraculous saving grace and bring hope to the lost.  Our world is changing, hostilities are rising, and the end is drawing near.  We all must die one day be it through old age, illness, or violence.  We can't always ...

  "For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area."   How many times have we seen that phrase scroll across the bottom of our television screen, either in real life, or a movie? It's comforting to know that we have alarm systems available to us when external forces are at work, but what about when the emergency is internal where nobody sees? Is there an EMS for that too? There is, and this is one example of how it worked for me.   To say that learning to cope with my widowhood has been difficult would be putting it lightly. But the harder task has been getting used to single parenthood; mostly because it was an aspect of my husband's death I never considered, given that my sons are now young men. But now, as I watch them grapple with how to navigate their lives wit...