Some people want it to happen, some people pray it will happen, others want, pray and make it happen. Tuesday April 17, 2018 Be happy with your lot. Life is just that simple. May You be blessed with an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. Contentment is a decision you make.
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WE BUILT A HARP
“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing.” Psalm 98
Last year, my daughter disappeared often. She’d flit through the wardrobe door to discover Mr. Tumnus, or fall down a rabbit hole to have tea with the Hatter. And she was just as unhappy at my calling her back home to help wash dishes as I had been when my own mother attempted to relocate me from Middle Earth to Later Earth because the table needed
setting. Kids need a foot in both the real and the storybook worlds. But how do you strike a balance?
Balance struck all by itself last summer, when a professional harpist treated us to an impromptu outdoor concert. We were ten feet from the sound box, and as the haunting melody rippled out into the evening air, a certain daydreamer beside me woke up – and stayed awake. When the music ended, she walked through several people, never taking her
eyes off those strings. The harpist was cross-examined, though she didn’t seem to mind. We walked home rather dazed, and daughter informed father that she was going to play harp. He snorted in disbelief. The man can play seven instruments, but harp was not on his radar. The “you’re-only-nine-think-it-over-for-a-bit” conversation went on for six months, but she kept harping on it (yes, I know).
Then some strings started to align. A friend donated
a small secondhand lap harp. Another friend recommended a teacher, the harpist in the local symphony orchestra. But a lap harp gives you no room to grow, and it can’t change keys. A quality lever harp, however, can cost five thousand dollars. While we were puzzling over that one, my husband and I traveled to Lancaster to staff a booth at a homeschool conference. From a distant corner of the exhibit hall, the unmistakable tones of a...READ MORE
In my darkness I see the light of God and I go. |
| FOR MY MOM
Please pray for my 90 yr old mom in the nursing home. She has had so many strokes she falls every time she gets up on her home and today they put alarms on her to remind her not to get up without help and she was so hurt and humiliated.
She wants to die.
I cry each time I leave her because she is so sad. She wants to be independent, but that is gone now, Please God, give her a peaceful happy death. - Shirley T.
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Prayer Request: I just received word that my oldest brother has gone to be with the Lord. I've offered to preach his service. I'm surprised that I am so at peace, but when God calls on us, He also equips us. I've got to go to Oklahoma and get back to Arizona to be here to take
care of my neighbor. Please help me pray for strength, and favor.
Testimonial: Wanted to let you know that everything is going great. Thank you.
- Ray C. |
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