She's beautiful, Missy! Love that setting too. Praise the Lord for His precious attention to our needs. I'm also happy you didn't go to your Mom's for Christmas!

Bren, that is a beautiful picture too! I'd be sitting there a wreck trying to figure out which one I'd want to be my favorite, or even to snuggle with! LOL! That was so nice of you!

I had my x-rays done today. I hope to hear on Monday what they say. The NP is pretty sure it's arthritis in there and she even mentioned replacement (not what I want to do). I'm hoping that can just shoot something in there that will cushion that joint! She did send in another prescription for my Tramadol, but I haven't heard from CVS, so not sure they got it. I'll have to send Jennifer a note to let her know. She and her nurse were both surprised and hadn't heard of anything like that before! I have one weeks worth left so I hope and pray it all gets sorted out before then.

Well, Wade is waiting for me. Love y'all bunches.

Been there done that! giggle giggle! (with the misspelling).

OOO, you'll have to give us a picture when everything is settled in the bedroom!

I called our neighborhood walk in clinic to see if he would see me about my symptoms or possible pneumonia again. I gave them the symptoms so am hoping he'll just call in a prescription for antibiotics for me rather than needing me to come in. It's the same symptoms as other times I've had it. It's just too weird that every three months it appears and usually after I have been out. It doesn't seem as bad as the past three times though, so I'm not positive that's what it is, but then when I am trying to suck in air and my chest hurts I'm pretty sure that's what it is! We are having our New Years Eve get together tomorrow night and I will miss it again - I had pneumonia and a sinus infection over the holidays last year! That was when I was sick for two months!
Add on: I talked to my local PA and he ordered two weeks of antibiotics for me since the symptoms were the same! Thank You, Jesus.

Well my lovelies. I hope that you are able to celebrate a new year coming in, a new year to grow closer to the Lord and give Him all that we are. We need to take advantage of the respite we've been given with President Trump and share our light as much as we can. As our pastor says, it's not a recovery, it's just a respite - the Bible doesn't give any attention to the US in the last days, we are insignificant. Because the Bible says it, so it will happen and in those days of our fall Christians will be persecuted as we haven't seen before. But rejoice, for Jesus is ours and He will never leave us nor forsake us! Praise Him!

What a blessing to be able to go three years without an increase in a time when everything was getting more expensive!

Good job with tracking. Wade and I are going to start our new eating habits on Monday! We have a "December/January" birthday celebration this Sunday, so just easier to start on Monday! I have been cutting back on sweets and carbs though to get myself ready! Today breakfast was an Aussie bite and coffee; lunch was a salad with carrots, chicken and Gouda cheese topped with Thousand Island Dressing. I'll cut that dressing out and use my Raspberry Vinegrette starting Monday. Dinner will be Greek yogurt, a small apple, blueberries, cherries chopped up and some nuts. Soooo good! Good Keto meal too, all of the carbs are complex. My starting weight is 237.8. That was from two days ago, I haven't weighed since then. I'll get an on-time weight in the morning (if I remember).

I took a tumble yesterday afternoon. Wade was cutting trees next door and I was watching, but then remembered I was possibly going to get a call from my NP so I was heading to the living room and tripped over a small heater against the wall right outside of his office. I never saw it even though I make a habit of looking at the ground to make sure I don't trip over something - ugh! I landed on my knees and hands! My left knee is quite sore and a little bit swollen, but no bruising. My right hurts quite a bit less. I wrenched my left wrist, but the right side is fine. God was very merciful to me! I was able to scoot over to a chair (wood floor) and stand up from there. I hurt all over for just a couple of hours, but felt fine by evening with my knee hurting only when I walked. It hurts to touch it, but it's fine otherwise today! God is so very good!

I've called my NP's office twice now about my X-ray results. The gal I talked to is going to get a note to her assistant as well as to Jennifer, so we'll see if we can get those results! I'm pretty sure it will say arthritis, but what we are going to do about it is the real question. The way things go with me, they'll say that the X-rays don't show anything and all of the pain is in your head! LOL! Well, it used to happen, but not recently, so that is good!

I hope y'all have a great day. Marilyn, I know that other teams do that, but I would hate to take our team off of their list of teams, at least if we are there they can find us easily again if they want to. A lot of people just pick a ton of teams when they first begin and then just go to the ones that most interest them after a week or so. Hopefully some of our team will want to join in.

Take those rest days for sure! Your salad looks very healthy! Wade and I are on day one of eating more healthfully. My weight this morning was back to 240, but hopefully it will go down quickly again as I cut out some carbs from my diet. No sugar through the week, the one treat on Saturday and one on Sunday. Much better than eating whatever I wanted to from Fri to Sun! We are stewards of the temple of God and we need to put good things into that temple. We eat well other than over the holidays, but we are going to work on eating even better, more fresh things in our diet.

We were cold yesterday and ended up doing our Church services on Zoom because of the bitter cold. Praise the Lord we could still meet! It was very good too. We are going to be in the low 60's today - yippee!

Here's another blog that I thought would be good for a study help. I am going to look up the verses for each of the things in the "I Preach" section to refresh myself on the truths presented there. I've heard these preached for 50 years without change - they are biblical and won't change!

Love you.

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Through the years I have wanted to see my congregations grow in numbers, as well as in spirit, godli-ness, knowledge, grace, love, faith, vision, ministries. But my desire was not for my own advantage, or even the numerical or monetary well being of my congregation

I want people to come to my ministry because I want them to have at least what I have found and ex-perience what I have. I want people to become all that God wants them to become. I want them to be immersed in the power, purity and purpose of God, through the work of the Holy Spirit.

-I preach holiness of heart and life.
-I preach victory over sin and temptation.
-I preach that agape love is the fulfilling of the law.
-I preach that God makes it possible for believers to experience perfect love.
-I preach that it is possible to have the mind of Christ and to walk in Christ's footsteps.
-I preach that we can be pure in heart.
-I preach that God calls and equips His children to do that which is pleasing in His sight.
-I preach that we can be conformed to the image of Jesus.
-I preach that God gives us everything we need for life and godliness.
-I preach that "greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world."
-I preach that Christ saves believers "to the uttermost."
-I preach that we are personally responsible to God for our actions, but God has provided forgiveness, newness of life, cleansing, spiritual knowledge, power, reconciliation, guidance to whosoever will trust and follow Him.
-I preach that there is Divine intervention, transformation, deliverance, in this present life and in the world to come.
-I preach that God heals broken lives, relationships and hearts.
-I preach that God's calling comes with God's enabling.
-I preach that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness shall be filled.

And this is just the surface of the great truths found in the salvation that God makes available.

You can find these great truths in God's word.
Find them, hide them in you heart, live them out in your daily life.

I realize these may seem like commonplace concepts. However, there are very few people who live according to these principles and the number of preachers who proclaim these truths are very small.

Acts 20:28-32 28 'Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
29 for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
31 'Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;
32 and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

Hearing, believing and following these Biblical truths will change individuals, families, churches, com-munities, societies, nations. But very few hear, therefore very few will give their utmost for His highest [Oswald Chambers book title from biblical truth] and therefore very few will live life on the highest plane [Ruth Paxon book title from biblical truth].

Make this the year that you walk in His light, His love, His life, His truth, His way, His power, His Spirit every day.