How's your "new year" going?

Mine's going well....the message at church yesterday was full of food for thought...and action.  We're studying 1 John right now.  Yesterday we were in chapter 2.  I really love this verse.

 "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.  I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it,

 and that no lie is of the truth."  1 John 2:20-21

No lie comes from the truth.

There are so many different things going on in the world today...in my world. Sometimes decisions we have to make seem a little gray.  But there's no possible harmony between a lie and the truth.  Things are black (sin) or white (truth)...there are no gray areas.

As a Christian I know the truth...it's in the Word of God, it's revealed to me by the

 Holy Spirit...it's from Jesus Christ Himself.

I'd like to spend 2015 focusing on the truth, standing up to the lies, reacting the way

 God wants me to react in various situations.

I want to rely on His life within me.

I "have an anointing from the Holy One".

I want to use it.

 

So It Begins. . .

Another year gone.  A new one just beginning.
A fresh start....or at least a fresh start at a brand new ending!!

Thanking God for family and friends, and praying that the new year is filled with hope and joy for each one of you.

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

Happy New Year!!!

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“Teach me, O Lord, to follow your decrees;

then I will keep them to the end”.

Psalm 119:33

 

"Help us to humbly put our hands into Your hand,

 and to trust You and to seek Your will for our lives during this coming year."

Billy Graham

 

 



Happy New Year!

From My Family to Yours!

My family......quite the group! They are the most precious gifts the Lord has ever given me.  I am so very blessed to call them my family!  They are what I am most grateful for as we move into this new year!




Bill, our daughter Amanda and me.

Our son Kevin, Penelope and Jacqi.



Our son Joe holding Elijah and Johanna with Caleb.

Our daughter Katie with Mark and Charlotte.

Elijah, Grandpa, Charlotte, Penelope, Gramma and Caleb.

These are the best times!

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV