Dear friend,
Things here are going pretty good. with my husband starting a new job we are on better financial ground. Our youngest loves kindergarten. Ive been quilting and knitting. Yesterday we discovered a persimmon tree loaded with fruit in our yard that we had never seen before. Im hoping to use them to make jam! I just love jam. Then I spent several hours hulling black walnuts, washing them and putting them on a screen to dry for 2 weeks.Ive still got tomatoes cabbage and a few cucumbers in the garden.The weather will be getting colder soon so ill finish gathering that over the weekend.
It all seems so pleasent. The fall leaves the harvest of food. This has allways been my favorite time of year, halloween, thanksgiving christmas.I even have my own season. I call it baking season. It starts around now with apples and ends after christmas. Fudge ,cookies,candy, gingerbread houses and pies. Soups and stews of all kinds become a regular in my house. Warm cozy, happy.Snug in our home away from the world until you turn on the T.V. and see americans being beheaded.
Countries so angry and set on destruction. Killing one another bombing each other out of existance. The men who were beheaded were reporters telling a story. The story of the war the plight of the people effected, the terror in the night. The fear thousands face as they flee for there lives to what ever country will have them.fear of loseing your home takes on new meaning when it is blown up, or you are forced to abbandon it just to save you own life and those of you family.
Then there is pestilence, disease ,drought ,wild fires.Hurricaines tornadoes tropical storms. Ebola. Ebola is a deadly disease with know cure spead through contact of bodily fluids. Once this disease takes hold in a place that is not equiped to handle it it spreads rapidily and kills fiercely.There has never been a case in the U.S. before. But last night on the news one man from liberia made his way here from africa through Bressels to texas and now hundreds are quarentined.This man was on airplanes with people that flew all over the world and our country.
In the west wild fires are tearing through several states. Burning down homes and destroying lives property and peolpe are being desimated by it. Firemen are working round the clock . Mean while ther familys sit at home hoping and praying that there spouses and faters and brothers come home safe .Doctores have gone to africa at great personal risk. Two have been shipped home sick but have recovered from ebola.Some of the wild fires set by arsonists have been contained. Bombing in Syiria has started by the U.S and some of it alliess trying to stop the terrorists.The cdc has sent out a tracking unit to find all the people exposed here in the U.S. to ebola.
There are many people out there doing all they can do to help. I wondered what I can do . I can pray. And recently someone very special sent me the most amazing scripture I think I had ever read. Psalm 91. I have started to memorize it and read it out loud. It is a promise of God for protectio and safety against so many of thease things. Sometime reading my bible is comforting , sometimes its sad. sometime it gives me strength and others I find wisdom in Gods word. But this chapter and its verses are becoming my battle cry. My knowledge that God has promised safety and health and protection by angels. In this a very frightening time.So today with you dear friend I pray this prayer over the whole planet. not just those that read its words but those hiding in caves those running for there lives, for all the sick and weary the tired and scared. The brave and strong, the happy and sad,
all of those that know God and all those who still dont.
Dear God Hear our crys,He who dwells in the shadow of the Most High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say to the Lord,"My refuge and my fortress,
My God , in whom I trust.
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfullness
Is a shield and a bulwark.
You willnot be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;
Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand'
But it shall not approach you.
You will only look on with your eyes
And see the recompense of the wicked.
For you have made the Lord, my refuge,
Even the Most High you dwelling place,
No evil will befall you,
Nore will any plague come near your tent.
For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.
They will bear you upin their hands,
That you do notstrike yourfoot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the cobra.
\ The young loin and the serpent you will trample down.
" Because He has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him
I will set him securely on high, because he has known mMy name.
He will call upon Me , and I will answer him,
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation".
Psalm 91
I also read a book about this Psalm By Peggy Joyce Ruth in it she breaks down each verse to tell you exactly what God is promising. I love finding new things in Gods word. When reading sometimes you can miss something so valuable. My husband and I firmly belieave all of Gods word to be true. And it seems like this psalm91 is needed so desperately by so many in the world today.
Anyway Ill be in touch again soon. I hope this note finds you well and in good spirits. Take care.
Love, Me
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