Sign Posts in Ozzie Land

If you don't know where your going, check a sign post.

No Snow? No Worry..Skiing Roo..

What else?

 

For the Cassowary. Sure hope he can read.

Nothing to worry about...

Don't try to attract the the Croc's

 

Otherwise...RUN....

 And the best sign post to Eternal Life is Jesus.

Be Wise And Follow Him Today.

Stunned

Yesterday was an alarming day for me.
I drove myself some fifty kilometres to the hospital where I am due to enter in two weeks.
They are very thorougher in their pre-op education.
It's very strange being the patient instead of the nurse.
Being the one who needs help instead of the one giving it.
I was given another ECG, and... my silly heart is still in Bundle Branch Block.

Because of this, my anesthetist has decided a Spinal Block will be my safest form of anesthetic during the procedure.   I am to have a Total Left Knee Replacement.


I was so grateful that he was open to listening to my requests.
"No morphine for me please, I'd rather have fentanyl...."
There is nothing worse than having a patient who knows all the answers.
The Occupational Therapist came to assess my home for hidden dangers today.
Is my bed, seat and toilet high enough not to cause knee strain??
She was lovely, relaxed and re -assuring.
Next I go for a blood test for a group and hold, in case I need a blood transfusion.

I cannot say I am not a little stunned over the whole affair because I am.
We never understand anything until we experience it ourselves.
How many times have I comforted someone else getting ready for surgery..
This is not my first time to be the patient, yet usually I have colleagues working close by.

The one thing I do know is that, I am never alone... Jesus is always near.

I love His promise.

"NEVER WILL I LEAVE THEE.

NEVER WILL I FORSAKE THEE."

Hebrews 13:5

To My Special Blogger Friends

Ray is off at golf and I am at home alone...

No, that's not true..

Jesus is with me. 

He lifted me up as I prayed.

As I read the Word.

Then when I came into my Blog and read all my sweet comments.

He reassured me, I am loved.

"I LOVE YOU ALL OUT THERE **"

Blogger friends...You are the greatest!!!

All I have to do is open my puter...and there you all are.

Sharing your hearts, inspiring, encouraging, or making me laugh.

You are all so unique and special.

So on a lighter side.

I took Monty and Mille` out for a drive the other day.

Monty runs around all over when I say we are going Tat-tar...

Mille` runs after him not knowing what's going on???

When I open the back door of the car Monty jumps joyfully in.

Mille` looks on, she is too small and can't make it alone. 

Monty sticks his head out of the open window watching all that passes by.

Mille` has a brave peek... every so often.

I stopped to show them a herd of cows...

They sat and looked, unsure....

I laughed so much at them.

And took this photo to share.

"A Joyful heart is good medicine."

Thank you all for brightening up my days!

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Angry

I wonder if you, like I, get angry with people who exploit others??
I know I shouldn't, and I don't want too....BUT, I fail and I do.

One particular person who I have always trusted and admired, lied to me.
I couldn't believe it!
Then I discovered more lies...
And, it hurt.
NO! Its not my husband...

Then I did the unthinkable.
I talked about it with my children.
I was livid mad... especially as it had to do with my mother.
No one, but no one, was going to harm my mother.

Well God had dealt with me again....
Yesterday I got up and opened my Bible to read the following verse.


"Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written:

“It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”says the Lord.
 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.

In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Romans 12:17-21

So because I totally believe Gods Word...

And because I know He knows best.

I am doing what He tells me...

I hang my head with shame and ask His forgiveness.

(Yet Again)

Praise His holy name.

Birthday Boy

Izaiah (zai) turned three...

The older they get the older we feel.
I believe children are much more intelligent today and much more grown up.

So it is up to us as parents and grandparent to preserve their childhood.
And to encourage outdoor fun activities.
They had a wonderful time playing in the back yard.
Climbing the Mango tree, playing chasing's with Mille in hot pursuit and swinging.

And you are never too old to play and take pic's.

My poinsettia bush is blooming.

Finally a memory photo with Mummy and Papa.

Two parents together, add to a child's security.

Look how those little hands hold on to both.

God Says.....
"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with my loving eye on you."
Psalm 32:8
 
My blessing to my grandson:
 
May the Lord Bless Thee and Keep thee....
May His light and Glory shine in thee...
May good health, a generous spirit and the gift of discernment be yours.
And may you always, acknowledge Him who created you. Amen.
 
 
 

Blogger and U.S.A. Tornado Problems

Please leave a comment if you are having problems leaving comments on other sites??
I have written loooong ones to Joey and Geoff and no matter how many times I try to post, I kept being asked to sign in....and it never works???
My comments will not go through?
Very frustrating..

A good excuse to add this famous painting. "The scream."

I love my Blogger friends..
As Gorges Smythe once commented, they become like family.
(And if you love wonderful yarns, Gorges tells them well.)
http://gorges-smythe.blogspot.com/

Beautiful Starry Dawn...please don't think I am neglecting you.
Or, anyone else for that matter.

As I can get through...I certainly shall, (as our Queen would say.)
Until then, I'm off for a cuppa......
And to read my wonderful word of God.
I wonder what He will tell me today??

My daughter Daniella tells you one thing as she writes it on our beach wall.

I am going to open at random...

Just love doing that, He never ceases to amaze me with His great wisdom.

I am going to share with you, what I received.

"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Watchfulness


 “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,
 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.
Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.
It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.
But understand this:
If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into."

Luke 12:34-39

Well! This certainly spoke to me today.
I wonder, given all the events unfolding, how many of you got a message....
Let's all remember our neighbours in times of trouble.

Central U.S.A. hit by Tornado's ....
Devastating effects for all concerned!
Our Prayers are with you.
From The Body of Christ in Australia..

"May the Lord Bless and Keep you Safe..."

  

Who Am I ?

Do you ever wonder this?
Have you ever felt lost and think, what does my life mean?
If you knew the story of your life in advance, would you
 rush ahead or give up before you began?

Think about this, just for a moment.....

"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord,
Plans to prosper,
Not to harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future. "
Jeremiah 29:11

Now that's encouraging...
And yet, you may say while reading this, I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.... its all just too hard..

Me at 3.

We were not a rich family, my father returned from the war, shell shocked.  I was born the second youngest of five children. My father became incapacitated when I was eight, my grandfather died not long after....
My mother went to work, and we learned from a young age, that life was tough.  The best part of all our hardships was belonging to a church family. The old tin Lizzie, driven by our minister, came regularly to pick up my younger brother and I each week for Sunday School.... 
What a joy that was. Riding down those dusty country roads singing chorus's at the top of our lungs, and learning the accepting love of Jesus Christ. 
I met and married my first husband when I was very young.
My mother was against it. We were unevenly yoken, she said...
And through much hurt and pain, I learnt she was right.

Pictured with my first child, daughter Femia.

When you are young you think you know it all.

I was no different.

I married into a different culture and to a man who I loved dearly, yet one who denied the Lord.

When I walked away over thirty years later, I was a broken mess.

Yet today in wisdom, I thank the Lord.

I know if my marriage had been different God would never have come first.

And in time, I was to come to realise how...

"He turned my mourning into dancing,

and my sorrow into joy."  Psalm 30:11

My younger daughter Daniella, with five of my grandchildren when small.

From left, Antonio, Luke, Kirra, Elyshah and Joel. 

 Today, Joel, Luke and Elyshah at Nanna's.

Because of what I have come through, and what I have come from,

I know first hand that God's promise above is true.

Today all of my children have a faith in God, and all of my grandchildren have grown up in Him.

My eldest granddaughter has married a Christian man.

They are both at Uni studying teaching and plan to be Missionaries.

My youngest granddaughter Shiarn.

My youngest grandson Izaiah with cousin Shiarn.

Their road to travel has just begun.

There will be good times and not so good. 

But if they acknowledge the Lord in all they do, the blessings will flow.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart,

And lean not on thine own understanding.

But in all thy ways acknowledge me.

And I will make straight, thy paths."

Proverbs 3: 5-6

                                                 SO TRUE !!!








 

Mille and Monty

Little Mille runs circles around Monty.....

"Who me?  I am innocent Mum."

"I am a picture of perfection."

"Why that old stuff shirt Monty doesn't know how to have fun?"

"Its not fair, that kid comes in and takes over.

A man gets no peace"

"Hey Monty, I just want to play."

                       "Listen Mille, only if you promise to play fair."

"Young Whippersnapper, I said fair, respect your elders"

"Your going too far...."

"Aw Monty, I love you. Lets kiss and make-up."

Love is Patient

Love is Kind.

1 Corinthians 13

                            

Water/ Ocean Therapy From Stress.

Wandering down peaceful paths.

What is this??

Well, if you look closely you will sight a tiny hole in about the middle...

The hermit crab is responsible..

It burrows down and begins to work by throwing out these tiny sand balls.

The work is long and tedious, and the end result, is patterns of many different sizes and shapes all over the beach.

Who is the hermit crab? and what does he look like?

He is a tiny sea creature. He is pictured here in his conch.

I have been staying with my son in far north Queensland.

He has been suffering from sleep deprivation and stress.

So I took time out and went to keep him company and take the soothing love of Jesus.

We walked down a sandy pathway and out onto the peace of the ocean.

Just watching the waves flowing in and out.

                                Hearing the sea gulls, and smelling the sea air,
                                brings a feeling of wellness...
                                And rightly so..as you are breath in an extra atom of oxygen.

Getting away from the bunker, where life can be isolating.

Fish and chips down at the Marina..... with visiting relatives.

Streets of MacKay and Outback Jacks.

A town situated on the ocean to transport coal out of Australia and around the world.

I don't know how much my presence helped??

Yet I will contiue to pray for his well being..

Picured here he looks well.

Yet isn't always so.

Please pray for him to find that peace.

"Some went out on the sea in ships;
they were merchants on the mighty waters.


They saw the works of the LORD,


his wonderful deeds in the deep.


For he spoke and stirred up a tempest


that lifted high the waves.


They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths;


in their peril their courage melted away.


They reeled and staggered like drunkards;


they were at their wits’ end.


Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble,


and he brought them out of their distress.


He stilled the storm to a whisper;


the waves of the sea were hushed.


They were glad when it grew calm,


and he guided them to their desired haven.


Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love


and his wonderful deeds for mankind. "
 Psalm 107:23-32

                        JESUS IS OUR LIGHT,  IN THE STORMS OF LIFE.

                                                             

Protection Beyond Understanding.

Ray decided we were due for a day out.
Time for just us.
So the Harley came out and he polished it up.

We are getting to old for this I thought.

But, it was still a good idea.

The road we took is a busy fast one.

One where huge lumber semi's fly along.

I'm terrified of those trucks, so I prayed we had no problem with any today.

Not long on the way a monster was roaring up behind us.

Ray had to to go very fast to keep in front and safe.

I hung on and prayed.

I prayed for safety and I thanked the Lord for all His goodness to us.

Suddenly I saw in my mind, our bike with a flat tyre?

How silly?

I shook the thought away and kept a close eye on the revision mirror and that truck looming nearer.

Well, eventually it turned off after following us some 40klm.

Thank God I sighed.

We soon arrived at our destination.

It was hot and we parked and went to get a drink.

Returning, guess what?

The bike had a flat tyre.

Can you believe it?

I wonder if the Lord had not planted it in my mind to pray.

What would have happened to us??

We may have been another road fatality!

Something we all need to realise.

Our days are numbered and only the Lord knows when we will meet him.

We always need to be ready.

"Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life."

Psalm 39:4

 "A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps."
                                                  Proverbs 16:9

                                        Taken in Montana 2006.


                                     God has always been with us....