A Spiritual Lesson from Attending my First Shabbat

June 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment

 

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I was so impacted by my first Shabbat service with Mel and Lucy the day before their wedding.

I was really inspired by the awesome reverence and respect given to the handling and reading of the Torah. It left an indelible mark on my soul as it humbled the heart in silent awe as the spirit witnessed as never before this really is the Holy Word of the Living God!

In the eye of the spirit I could see Luke 4:17 vividly come alive.  

Jesus went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.

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Love Knows No Age! 

June 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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Attending the Wedding Rehearsal for our dear friends Dr. Mel and Lucy Swartz who are proving it’s never too late to fall in love. I am so honored and excited to be invited to do the blessing at their Jewish Wedding ceremony tomorrow.

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Remembering My Mother on Her Birthday 

June 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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It has been 26 years today since my mother went to be with the Lord. Time is a funny thing for it seems just like yesterday and yet it also seems like a lifetime ago. I believe when God sets eternity in our hearts we often experience time as He does.

For as 2 Peter 3:8 tells us that “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”.

Thank you, Mum, not only for the spiritual legacy you left us but also the large biological legacy with a part of yourself invested in each eleven of us.

If you are fortunate to still have your mother invest time with her for that lost time will never restore the emptiness nor fill that void once she is gone.

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By the Light of the Silvery Moon 

June 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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The air is heavy with the fragrance of roses in our garden as we enjoy dinner by the rippling sound of water in the pool on a clear beautiful spring evening with our dear friends Pastor Larry and Caren Hickey visiting from Winchester Virginia. His peace and beauty surrounds us as we share His goodness while He lights up the sky with the awesome sight of a full moon.

With open hearts we share our needs of direction in the ministries that God has entrusted to us and the full moon was like a confirmation to me of the following scripture.

Isaiah 42:16 I will lead them in paths that they have not known:

I will make darkness light before them,

and crooked things straight.

These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

 

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A Westie Free to Good Home! LOL

May 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment

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It was with an angry outburst, to say the least, that I returned home yesterday to find my Westie had industrially destroyed my flower garden, uprooting plants that had been planted with such care and love, and the pathway covered in dirt, thrown in all directions. My first reaction was, “Iona, you’re a goner!”

Then this morning I recall a time many years ago when one of my twin toddlers, Patsy, industriously pulled up all my plants after she noticed her father weeding the flower bed. To Patsy’s mind she was helping her Dad. After being scolded her Dad told her “No more!”. To our surprise she turned to her Dad with her tiny finger pointed and repeated “No More”. The first words she ever spoke.

The Lord used this as a window to my soul and reminded me how often we think we are helping our Heavenly Father by uprooting ourselves from situations He has placed us in to enable us to bloom more profusely. Instead we are industriously and often emotionally digging away at our roots to get out of the situation with our free will decisions thrown in all directions as we finish digging that hole for ourselves to find the pathway of our lives covered with confusion, discouragement and disappointment. In our finite minds we think we are helping! It could be a situation in the church God has planted you in, a workplace, a relationship, or even a marriage.

Just as a Westie’s nature is to dig,dig,dig! our fallen nature is to be rebellious and self willed but you know what? God is still willing to sup with us. Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me

By the way my Westie, Iona, is still with me and supping a cup of tea with me and I am so glad God didn’t get rid of me when I dug up and tried to mess up His Plans for my life. Thank you, Iona, for this window to my soul.

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CHALLENGE: Don’t try to help the Great Gardener in the seasons of your life with your childlike finite mind. Only His infinite mind knows His eternal purposes.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope

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