It has taken me a month to be able to get a grip on how to record the details of this friend in my life. It was a month ago tonight that I met with a group of sisters to prepare this dear friend to be laid to rest. A sacred experience that cannot be told here. Tomorrow will be a month that her body has been resting in its earthly holding place. Yet I know for a month now her spirit as soarn above the clouds and has been in a place of joy. That is peace.
Take a look at this you tube. If I was more talented I would build a memorial to her. All I can do is video-lift, if you will, one that speaks to me -- of her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVq2khzam2g
10,000 Miles -By Mary Chapin Carpenter
Re-told by me:
Fare thee well, my dear true friend
Farewell for a while
I'm going away but I'll be back
Though I go ten thousand miles
Ten thousand miles
My dear true friend
Ten thousand miles or more
The rocks may melt
And the seas may burn
If I should not return
Oh, don't you see that lonesome dove
Sitting on an ivy tree
She's weeping for her dear friend
As I shall weep for mine
Oh, come ye back, my dear true friend
And stay a while with me
If I had a friend at all on this earth
You've been a friend to me
Fare thee well Dear Friend!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
A New Year - A New Thought!
The greatest need of this old world today is peace. The turbulent storms of hate, of enmity, of distrust, and of sin are threatening to wreck humanity. It is time for men—true men—to dedicate their lives to God, and to cry with the spirit and power of the Christ, ‘Peace, be still…. ‘ (Mark 4:39.)” (David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals, p.295).
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Approaching Year's End
As I approach the end of the year and realize that my un-met goal is not a total loss, I have learned through the journey. I am realizing the restoral of peace to a troubled soul will also be a process. As I continue on this walk, learning to 'obtain sufficient hope' and learning to be a 'peaceable follower of Christ' parts of the process will be easy and others not so much. I'm learning that burying swords is going to add to my peace but are harder to accomplish that other traits and goals. I'm learning that with some it is easier to turn the other cheek. Yet I struggle to do so with a particular few.
I do believe more strongly in my quest than I did at the beginning of the year. As I said, it was difficult to keep up with it all on the level that I wanted to. Homeschooling and trying to keep my business going in the down-turned economy was always a detracter from my desire to journal and blog and record the thoughts and changes I was trying to have take place. Still, two steps forward are better than not begun.
2010 hedges closer and as I extend my goal to learn to have a more peaceable walk I am in earnest, desiring to be taught by the Spirit of the Lord what this means to Him for me. I know saying that it means more test and more trials. I pray for strenght to bear them. As I have seen others struggle with their trials this year I have been encouraged in bearing burdens. I have learned lessons that I hope and pray I'll be able to call upon when and if a time comes my way where it is just too much.
Peace, be still....
I do believe more strongly in my quest than I did at the beginning of the year. As I said, it was difficult to keep up with it all on the level that I wanted to. Homeschooling and trying to keep my business going in the down-turned economy was always a detracter from my desire to journal and blog and record the thoughts and changes I was trying to have take place. Still, two steps forward are better than not begun.
2010 hedges closer and as I extend my goal to learn to have a more peaceable walk I am in earnest, desiring to be taught by the Spirit of the Lord what this means to Him for me. I know saying that it means more test and more trials. I pray for strenght to bear them. As I have seen others struggle with their trials this year I have been encouraged in bearing burdens. I have learned lessons that I hope and pray I'll be able to call upon when and if a time comes my way where it is just too much.
Peace, be still....
Monday, September 14, 2009
Following Peace and Holiness
Following peace and holiness is attending the baptism of your daughter's friend and knowing that in just a few weeks it will be your daughter's turn. Watching her be excited for her friend, knowing her turn is close. Listening to talks about promises and covenants and about being washed clean. President Packer once wrote that being 'washed clean' is the greatest gift. It is a part of our peaceable walk to follow in the example of the Savior in baptism. It is an holy act and brings us to a place of holiness. Now to continue the journey...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Follow Peace - And Holiness
More from blogs on the web that help restore peace to my soul.
It was not a peaceable week last week, nor was my walk that peaceable. But my studies today have shown me some light.
From Hebrews: THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS - CHAPTER 12
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth—God is the Father of spirits—To see God, follow peace and holiness—Exalted saints belong to the Church of the Firstborn.
From Me: To see God, follow peace and holiness.
More from Hebrews:
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him cendured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
From me: Faint in my mind = a loss of hope or of peace (or of holiness, a new addition to my quest). Run the race with patience keeping my eyes upon The Finisher.
It was not a peaceable week last week, nor was my walk that peaceable. But my studies today have shown me some light.
From Hebrews: THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS - CHAPTER 12
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth—God is the Father of spirits—To see God, follow peace and holiness—Exalted saints belong to the Church of the Firstborn.
From Me: To see God, follow peace and holiness.
More from Hebrews:
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him cendured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
From me: Faint in my mind = a loss of hope or of peace (or of holiness, a new addition to my quest). Run the race with patience keeping my eyes upon The Finisher.
Peace is - starting a new school year
I am sitting at my scrapbook store today planning school. I should have done it last week, but I was used car shopping. There is something re-newing about the beginning of a school year. Maybe it is all my years teaching school that stirs anticipation. Maybe it is just the comfort of scheduled days and nights and the determination to stick to that schedule so we can get through (summer is way more sporatic). No matter, as I sit and ponder and think through where I must begin and where I want to end I usually come upon some wonderful ideas via all the great resources on the web.
Today it is blog reading for me. Here are some great and comforting quotes and scriptures that I came across today.
From a blog I found called "His Grace to Me" she uses the tagline: "...and His grace to me was not without effect." ~ ICor. 15:10. The thought was worth pondering, but not recalling this phrase I went to my King James Version to check the actual scripture that I would use for that reference. It is this:
1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
From a blog called "A Lady in Training" the tagline: Learning to be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)... From the KJV Gal 5: 22 But the afruit of the bSpirit is clove, djoy, epeace, flongsuffering, ggentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 aMeekness, btemperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the aaffections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
I love verse 25.
From a blog about promoting beautiful womanhood is a section about teaching children well: Teach Your Children Well
Rearing Lords and Ladies
We are "ruled-rulers," as T. David Gordon termed it; we must act the part or disgrace the One who made us in His image. As we learn to be like Him, we are responsible to teach our children to do the same.
Yes, it is in my peaceable walk that I find joy in teaching my children to walk uprightly before the Lord. To love and honor what is good and noble and to shun the world and all the perversions that are around us. We must fight for our families and for the preservation of our right as parents to instill in them what we hold to be sacred and true.
Today it is blog reading for me. Here are some great and comforting quotes and scriptures that I came across today.
From a blog I found called "His Grace to Me" she uses the tagline: "...and His grace to me was not without effect." ~ ICor. 15:10. The thought was worth pondering, but not recalling this phrase I went to my King James Version to check the actual scripture that I would use for that reference. It is this:
1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
From a blog called "A Lady in Training" the tagline: Learning to be led by the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)... From the KJV Gal 5: 22 But the afruit of the bSpirit is clove, djoy, epeace, flongsuffering, ggentleness, goodness, hfaith,
23 aMeekness, btemperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the aaffections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
I love verse 25.
From a blog about promoting beautiful womanhood is a section about teaching children well: Teach Your Children Well
Rearing Lords and Ladies
We are "ruled-rulers," as T. David Gordon termed it; we must act the part or disgrace the One who made us in His image. As we learn to be like Him, we are responsible to teach our children to do the same.
Yes, it is in my peaceable walk that I find joy in teaching my children to walk uprightly before the Lord. To love and honor what is good and noble and to shun the world and all the perversions that are around us. We must fight for our families and for the preservation of our right as parents to instill in them what we hold to be sacred and true.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Today is not a peaceful day - - -
My friend has cancer.
She has had it a while and has been doing amazingly well.
But today, I found out that the cancer was in a place that the doctor's hadn't tested.
I just want to cry.
I want to plead up into the heavens for mercy for her.
The day before yesterday a friend's granddaughter was born.
And this is the way we soujourn upon the earth.
In the words of Hillary Weeks -
"You Give"
You Give me sight
When I can't see.
You give me breathe
When I cant breathe
And You give me love
And You give me peace
And You always seem to give
Just what I need
You take my doubt
And replace it with truth
You take my fear
So all I can see is You
And You take me by the hand
You see to my soul
And You take just what I need
Chorus-
You give and take away
And refine me day by day
As You lead me through the bitter and sweet
I am trusting You to make me complete
Though You see the heartache
You're sending Your sweet grace
A You give
and You take
--
You give me strength
And You give me life
You give me hope
And You give me light
You take my pain
And You take my shame
You bless me to see the give and take
Is just what I need
--chorus--
Please send Your perfect grace
As You give
And You take
May God bless you R and little baby J as he gives and he takes!
She has had it a while and has been doing amazingly well.
But today, I found out that the cancer was in a place that the doctor's hadn't tested.
I just want to cry.
I want to plead up into the heavens for mercy for her.
The day before yesterday a friend's granddaughter was born.
And this is the way we soujourn upon the earth.
In the words of Hillary Weeks -
"You Give"
You Give me sight
When I can't see.
You give me breathe
When I cant breathe
And You give me love
And You give me peace
And You always seem to give
Just what I need
You take my doubt
And replace it with truth
You take my fear
So all I can see is You
And You take me by the hand
You see to my soul
And You take just what I need
Chorus-
You give and take away
And refine me day by day
As You lead me through the bitter and sweet
I am trusting You to make me complete
Though You see the heartache
You're sending Your sweet grace
A You give
and You take
--
You give me strength
And You give me life
You give me hope
And You give me light
You take my pain
And You take my shame
You bless me to see the give and take
Is just what I need
--chorus--
Please send Your perfect grace
As You give
And You take
May God bless you R and little baby J as he gives and he takes!
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