What a wonderful gift to unwrap!
"There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot" Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 NIV
Join Emily at Chatting at the Sky and share what you unwrapped today.
I'm over at today at Exemplify Online today, blessed to be part of the Marriage Channel Team. I've written about being how we have been made for each other. Stop by for a visit, and while you're there, check out the other channels and the magazine. We have an amazing group of women writing to reflect His glory.
I'm back in the states for a week to check on and care for my parents, dad in the care home and mom at her apartment recovering from her last chemo treatment.
I feel helpless and sad and miss my husband already.
The Lord has again placed me in a position where all I can do is reply on Him. Isn't that where we should always be anyway?
I remember when I was tring to write about the people of Uganda I said:
"When you hve nothing but God, He is always enough. When you try to place others things above Him, nothing is ever enough."
I need to listen to my own advice.
Today I am joining in on the fun and interesting blog reading at Elizabeth Esther's The Saturday Evening Blog Post
This is where bloggers gather on the first Saturday of each month to share their latest and greatest blog posts! This is the day to share posts from the month of October.
I chose a post about the seasons turning for it speaks of giving praise to our Lord.
Come on by and read what other bloggers have shared and add your own favourite post too!
We have entered into a covenant relationship with our God through His broken body and His blood. We seal and dedicate ourselves to that covenant each time we take communion.Rick and I have entered into a covenant relationship with each other, with Christ as our center.
We are also in covenant with the couple who joined us on Monday. We pray for, encourage and hold each other accountable before God. We learn what it means to love one another. Jesus is also at the center of this relationship.
We are in covenant with the land the Lord has entrusted to us as well.
Part of our journey Monday included sharing communion with each other, our friends, our land and our Lord. As we stood around the hole we had dug to hold the cross that now stands overlooking our valley, we broke matzos, giving a piece to each person and placing a piece in the ground. We passed a glass of sweet Jewish wine, each taking a swallow, then poured the rest atop the matzo in the hole. Then the cross was lifted up.
We placed a bit of matzo and wine in the ground before we hammered in each scripture coated and anointed stake. It was communion with the land, in rememberance of the One Who provided.
And when He had given thanks, He broke [it] and said, Take, eat. This is My body, which is broken for you. Do this to call Me [affectionately] to remembrance. Similarly when supper was ended, He took the cup also, saying, This cup is the new covenant [ratified and established] in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink [it], to call Me [affectionately] to remembrance. For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are representing and signifying and proclaiming the fact of the Lord's death until He comes [again]. 1 Corinthians 11:24-26 Amplified
Yesterday we buried scriptures as we staked out our land, as we prayed and dedicated back to the Lord all that He has given to us. Rick felt led to also bury 4 significant stakes as pillars of truth holding a canopy of God's blessing and protection over us.
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