Agreed.

Amen to that Bitty....




Give God Your Brokenness


You long to heal the inner man
Where we are bruised and scarred
The memories of the hurts we have
Still linger from the past

We need to give the past to you
So you can begin to mend
The brokenness within our souls
To bring wholeness once again

Lord you see the deepest part
Where others cannot see
And only you can feel the pain
That’s there inside of me

Lord you saw what I went through
You held each tear I cried
You wanted then to show yourself
To pour your love inside

I couldn’t see you reaching out
I didn’t know you were there
I felt so very much alone
I didn’t know you cared

But now as I look back I see
You cared about my life
When I was in my darkest times
You were there by my side

So help me now to reach to you
To know you so much more
To really know the depth of your love
To know you as my Lord

A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones chests, would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe, but she never got a response equal to four-year old David's comment.

Gently she tucked the stethoscope into his ears and placed the disk over his heart. "Listen", she said..........."What do you suppose that is?" He drew his eyebrows together in a puzzled line and looked up as if lost in the mystery of the strange tap - tap - tapping deep in his chest. Then his face broke out in a wondrous grin and he asked, "Is that Jesus knocking?"

Oh, Debs, I bet she would never forget that moment.

The verse was lovely too.

Hey Britty....I posted that somewhere else and someone replied "I don't get it" I just sent her hearts.....lol How are you today my sweet? You know as long as all of us have been talking, other then we all believe in the same thing...We don't know anything about each other at all.

So briefly tell everyone a little bit about you life!!!!


Something that is not in the profile.

So briefly tell everyone a little bit about you and your life!!!!
I hate when people ask me to be brief and only tell a little bit. But you already know that about me.
At one point in my life I was given the chance to work in a wood working shop just as much as I liked. The shop was equipped with a mixture of antique wood working tools such as some excellent block planes and a wonderful bit and brace. The shop also had all the modern wood working tools, routers, joiners, a deluxe table saw that had a draw through blade. This shop had more tools than the guy on TV on Saturday afternoons!
I had put a new roof on our barn. My brother-in-law wanted to use half of the newly roofed barn for his shop. He allowed me to work in there any time he was not in there. Uncle Rick, as we would call my brother-in-law, was a collector of tools. He would spend part of every pay he got on collecting both old antique tools from old farms and toll auctions, as well as the top of the line modern tools.
I set up a box making shop. I had a small saw mill at that time that would cut 18” boards out of the clear sections of pine. I had stacks and stacks of these small boards called “shuke” I used the shuke to make the boxes, much like the old cigar boxes. I would always try to make 100 in a single day. I never did reach that goal. I set up jigs and streamlined my operation to where I could turn out close to, but never quite, 100 boxes in a day.
I like to do repetitive tasks that require skill and concentration. I also like to make the best possible product I can when I create something. I enjoy working with wood. The best wood to work with is wood I have felled the tree, milled out the boards or lumber and sometimes even kiln dried myself. I find this a work of love that I love doing.
Did you know that about me? Was I brief enough? Was it at all interesting?

I love it!

I loved loved loved it JB....And I would love to see your boxes. I think things that are made with love and God's provisions are the best. I would take something made by someone over store bought any day.

Thanks for sharing....I truly thought it was wonderful to learn about you.

JB "So briefly tell everyone a little bit about you and your life!!!! I hate when people ask me to be brief and only tell a little bit. But you already know that about me."

really?

Thank you JB for sharing a little more about yourself. You would love my friend John's workshop - he has a lot of old woodworking machines. I hope he will have time to get back to them one day.

Debs, I am a little too sleepy to share much tonight, but I shall come back to it. I did see my friend this evening. I gave him some information, from a Christian brother, and he has promised to work on it. He is such a good man, I hope one day he will be able to see that for himself.

God bless,

Hey Britty how are things in your part of the world?

oh my..."Is that Jesus Knocking?" that's sooooo precious...makes my .... smile.

Thanks for sharing that....

One thing about that wood working shop.
When I was just getting started, I was working to salvage the bricks from an old mill building in town. We came across the name of one of the old business that had been housed in the mill building at some point many generations before. Stamped on a board was the name, “Bradford Pine Box” The name of my home town in those days was Bradford New Hampshire. I had a stamp made and that was the name I used for my boxes. Sometimes the best things are not new, but have their base in antiquity.

Good morning JB - "Sometimes the best things are not new, but have their base in antiquity. "

so true!

Good morning Bry395 - good to see you pop in again.

I am fine - I do have a dear friend (DG) who is battling
depression at the moment and needs prayer. I have mentioned him in the last few posts. I have started to give him some information to work through (that was given to me from a christian brother). We are praying he will get through this.

“…And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together will all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled up to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV)

Proverbs 16:11.
A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 11: 1
A False balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.

Deuteronomy 25
14. Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15. But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Mark 16:14-20

14 So den Jesus shode up to all his d00dz wile dey was NOM NOM teh cheezbergrs an yelt an pwnd dem fer not baleevin He wuznt ded no moar. 15 An He sez, 'GTFO an GBTW tellin all teh cats an kittehs on Urfs abowt meh. 16 Tell dem teh cats dat baleev r full of WIN, an teh wons dat dont r on teh FAILBOAT an gonna get pwnd in teh hell. 17 An teh peepz full of WIN getz mah lvl ups an gonna b abl to pwn demans an 5P3@I< l33t w0RdZ, 18 an jugl snayks, an drank poysin witowt gittin hert, an respawnd ppl. k, bai.' 19 An wen he wuz doen talkin wit dem he taekd a INVISIBLE EVEVATER to teh skai an sat at da rite paw of Ceiling Cat. 20 An dey went an telded all teh catz and kittehz wat happn, and Ceiling Cat halpded dem do amazn stuffs to proev it. Kthxbai.


from the lol cat bible translation

From Saint Patrick’s Breastplate

Christ be with me
Christ before me
Christ behind me
Christ in me
Christ beneath me
Christ above me
Christ on my right
Christ on my left
Christ where I lie
Christ where I sit
Christ where I arise
Christ in the heart of every man
who thinks of me
Christ in the mouth of every man
who speaks of me
Christ in every eye that sees me
Christ in every ear that hears me
Salvation is of the Lord.