Happy Friday, Friends.
FYI it hasn't been the best week for me. I've had to take care of things concerning my mother's estate, and I have a terrible tooth abscess. I was at the dentist yesterday morning after having gone to the doctor earlier in the week. I thought I had an ear and sinus infection, but it's my tooth. I can't see my endodontist until Monday morning, so I will be taking it easy this weekend.
So I hope that y'all will help out by sharing your thoughts about the lesson. I only read it twice this week, and I think that's the least amount of times I've read one of our lessons since I started this blog.
It's been a week! :/
What I want to contribute to the discussion is this:
Every year, I read through the Bible. I read the Old and New Testaments simultaneously via Bible Gateway. What I have repeatedly read through 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, and 1 and 2 Chronicles is that God always says that David always walked in his ways, and he promised him that his descendants would always be on his throne (this holds true because Christ is King). God's word says this after he basically had a man killed and committed adultery with his wife. Solomon was the son born to Bathsheba and David, and he became the wisest king ever to live before or since. Although David messed-up badly, and his sin certainly created a chain reaction within his family, God knew David's heart. David was contrite and mourned over what he had done, and he knew that only God could restore his heart.
Here are two of the Bible verses mentioned in our lesson, and I also included a graphic of the Fruits of the Spirit as well.
Prayer Requests
- Carla would like for us to pray for the military build up at the door of Iran. Pray for our leaders to seek wisdom. Continue to pray for our military, our young men and women who are at that door waiting what orders might be coming. May God protect them.
- Rita's friend Pam signed off for comfort care Wednesday afternoon. All other meds and treatment have stopped. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers for a swift and loving transition.
- Pray for Kris's son-in-law Tim. UPDATE: Pray that conditions will improve at work for Tim. Tim and Jen put their home up for sale. Pray for them as they prepare for this big move.
- Carla has an extended family member stationed in Kuwait named Haley. She is her cousin Steve's daughter. Please pray for her safety!
- Carla's Sam has several Wisconsin Guard friends stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Sam had an update for us from his teammates who are currently deployed in the war zone. Please be in prayer, they have been bombed several times. Continue to pray for safety.
- Continue praying for Kitty's son Mike as he continues on his journey of no pain meds. Mike is off of pain meds for several weeks and is weaning off several other prescriptions. Mike is requesting that we pray for his mental health.
- PRAISE: I am going to be a grandmother. I am so excited!!! Please be in prayer for Shanley Belle and Christopher as they prepare for parenthood, and pray for my little precious granddaughter. I'm calling her my Little Starling!
- Kitty would like for you to pray that her daughter sells her barndominium and can find a home closer so that she’s not driving two hours a day.
- Pray for my tooth abscess.
- Pray travel mercies for Terry and Kris as they explore the Southeast for a possible move for retirement. Please also pray that they will extend Terry's contract for two more years, if it's God's will for them.
- Please pray travel mercies for Rita and her family as they travel this week.
I will be drinking hot liquids, taking massive doses of antibiotics, and hopefully reading and watching baseball this weekend.
I hope y'all have a lovely week!
Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill
Ricki Jill
Happy Friday, Friends! I hope you are having a lovely week.
What are your thoughts about this week's lesson?
I kept thinking about how the Bible encourages us to learn from God and be led by the Holy Spirit. This enables us to remain on level ground during the trials of life.
I enjoyed the visual from this week's Psalm about the bookends of "teach me"and "lead me" taken from Psalm 143:10. And as per usual, the prayer is OH! So helpful!
"....please give me the strength today to stop often and ask for your help and your guidance."~Page 75
Friends, we don't have to walk through the steep valleys alone. All we have to do is ask God's Spirit to lead us.
Below please find the scripture mentioned in this week's lesson.
Prayer Requests
- Carla would like for us to pray for the military build up at the door of Iran. Pray for our leaders to seek wisdom. Continue to pray for our military, our young men and women who are at that door waiting what orders might be coming. May God protect them.
- Rita's friend Pam needs our prayers because her cancer is stage four. She is in palliative care, yet still trying to live. UPDATE: Pam has a MRSA. Please pray for her throughout the day whenever you think of praying.
- Pray for Kris's son-in-law Tim. UPDATE: Pray that conditions will improve at work for Tim. Tim and Jen put their home up for sale. Pray for them as they prepare for this big move.
- Carla has an extended family member stationed in Kuwait named Haley. She is her cousin Steve's daughter. Please pray for her safety!
- Carla's Sam has several Wisconsin Guard friends stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Sam had an update for us from his teammates who are currently deployed in the war zone. Please be in prayer, they have been bombed several times. Continue to pray for safety.
- Continue praying for Kitty's son Mike as he continues on his journey of no pain meds. Mike is off of pain meds for several weeks and is weaning off several other prescriptions. Mike is requesting that we pray for his mental health.
- PRAISE: I am going to be a grandmother. I am so excited!!! Please be in prayer for Shanley Belle and Christopher as they prepare for parenthood, and pray for my little precious granddaughter. I'm calling her my Little Starling!
- Kitty would like for you to pray that her daughter sells her barndominium and can find a home closer so that she’s not driving two hours a day.
- Pray that my allergies and asthma will improve.
- Pray travel mercies for Terry and Kris as they explore the Southeast for a possible move for retirement. Please also pray that they will extend Terry's contract for two more years, if it's God's will for them.
- Please pray travel mercies for Rita and her family as they travel this week.
- Happy Mother's Day to y'all, and I hope you have a blessed day on Sunday!
Sometimes I like to put together themes for these posts.
Today's theme is matcha. I want to learn how to make matcha drinks at home.
Have a great weekend!
Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill
Happy Friday, Friends! I hope your week has been lovely. We've had a lot of much needed rain here in Central Alabama, so I'm not complaining. Our weather reminds me of a poem by Steve Garnaas Holmes:
Weather ReportJoyborne on winds beyond our control,falling like rainthroughout the nightbefore we were awareChance of flooded hearts.
This week's lesson came at a very opportune time because I've been struggling with my allergies and asthma. Both can be scary, but I'm taking a new medication which seems to be helping. Sometimes when I struggle, I do feel like I'm in a pit. The Psalmists often wrote about this feeling of being in a pit with no way out. But God protects, delivers, and saves.
Below are the first two verses of Psalm 40, and then the following graphic includes verse three from the lesson.
I waited patiently for the Lord;he turned to me and heard my cry.He lifted me out of the slimy pit,out of the mud and mire;he set my feet on a rockand gave me a firm place to stand.~Psalm 40:1-2
Prayer Requests
- Carla would like for us to pray for the military build up at the door of Iran. Pray for our leaders to seek wisdom. Continue to pray for our military, our young men and women who are at that door waiting what orders might be coming. May God protect them.
- Please pray for Kris's MIL because she has been having some heavy health issues, and Kris is currently her full time nurse. Pray that God will help and bless Kris as she cares for her MIL. Pray that other family members will step-up and will be discerning about what's best for her care.
- Rita's friend Pam needs our prayers because her cancer is stage four. She is in palliative care, yet still trying to live. UPDATE: Pam has a MRSA. Please pray for her throughout the day whenever you think of praying.
- Please pray for my baby great-niece, Lundy.
- Pray for Rita's neighbor Chris who is undergoing chemo treatment for her urethral cancer, and for her brother, Mike, who has esophageal cancer. UPDATE: Chris completed her chemo last week!
- Pray for Kris's son-in-law Tim. UPDATE: Pray that conditions will improve at work for Tim. Tim and Jen put their home up for sale. Pray for them as they prepare for this big move.
- Pray for Carla's friend Alice who had plastic surgery on her nose due to skin cancer. UPDATE: Alice did not have a good outcome with the reconstructive surgery. They will be looking at doing another.
- Carla recently had to deal with a very bitter person. She has been very bothered by this, and she does not want this person to steal her JOY.
- Carla has an extended family member stationed in Kuwait named Haley. She is her cousin Steve's daughter. Please pray for her safety!
- Carla's Sam has several Wisconsin Guard friends stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Sam had an update for us from his teammates who are currently deployed in the war zone. Please be in prayer, they have been bombed several times. Continue to pray for safety.
- Continue praying for Kitty's son Mike as he continues on his journey of no pain meds. Mike is off of pain meds for 13weeks and is weaning off several other prescriptions. Mike is requesting that we pray for his mental health.
- URGENT: Pray for Rachel who has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
- PRAISE: I am going to be a grandmother. I am so excited!!! Please be in prayer for Shanley Belle and Christopher as they prepare for parenthood, and pray for my little precious granddaughter. I'm calling her my Little Starling!
- Kitty would like for you to pray that her daughter sells her barndominium and can find a home closer so that she’s not driving two hours a day.
- Pray that my allergies and asthma will improve.
- Travel mercies for Trip this weekend as he's traveling for business in Nevada.
- PRAISE: Rita's daughter Megan's graduation for her advanced degree is Saturday, May 9th. Congratulations, Megan!
- Pray travel mercies for Terry and Kris as they explore the Southeast for a possible move for retirement. Please also pray that they will extend Terry's contract for two more years, if it's God's will for them.
I am hoping to have a very quiet weekend; I hope to do a little gardening, drawing, and reading. I will probably go to church on Sunday and do nothing else but watch baseball on TV. I need to rest!
What are your weekend plans?
Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill
Ricki Jill
Our New Dawn Rose in full bloom
Happy Friday, Friends! How are you? I am home from Ann Arbor, and I have been getting caught-up around here. It's been a great week although I have been suffering from my allergies a bit.
I appreciated this lesson because sleep is truly a gift. We will have a few weeks at the end of the year when we will need to recycle a few posts, and this one will definitely make my cut! I have read this lesson several times, and I love the prayer, too. Did you try keeping God's word close to your heart beginning first thing in the morning until bedtime? I did try, and I have rested and slept well this week in spite of my allergy symptoms.
We forget that God is sovereign over us, and he has given us sleep as a gift.~Page 67
Here is the Psalm for the week:
Before I move on to our prayer requests, I wanted to share with you a few photos from Starling's nursery. NOTE: I will share very little about my granddaughter on the other blog. This is for us only. Shanley Belle and Christopher are VERY private. :D BUT they wanted me to share with y'all because you're prayer warriors!
Prayer Requests
- Pray for Rita's daughter Megan as she finishes her masters program this semester. Pray that she will stay healthy, and that she will manage her time well for work/school/life balance. UPDATE and PRAISE: Rita and family will be celebrating Megan's graduation this weekend!
- Pray for my best friend Barbara who is battling cancer. UPDATE: She will meet with her surgeon on Tuesday to schedule surgery for her tumor.
- Carla would like for us to pray for the military build up at the door of Iran. Pray for our leaders to seek wisdom. Continue to pray for our military, our young men and women who are at that door waiting what orders might be coming. May God protect them.
- Please pray for Kris's MIL because she has been having some heavy health issues, and Kris is currently her full time nurse. Pray that God will help and bless Kris as she cares for her MIL. Pray that other family members will step-up and will be discerning about what's best for her care.
- Rita's friend Pam needs our prayers because her cancer is stage four. She is in palliative care, yet still trying to live. UPDATE: Pam fell in the hospital and broke her hip last Saturday, surgery was Monday. Radiation and chemo stopped for the week while pain management is the focus. She celebrated a birthday Thursday in hospital. Please continue to lift her in prayer.
- Please pray for my baby great-niece, Lundy.
- Pray for Rita's neighbor Chris who is undergoing chemo treatment for her urethral cancer, and for her brother, Mike, who has esophageal cancer.
- Pray for Kris's son-in-law Tim. UPDATE: Pray that conditions will improve at work for Tim. Tim and Jen put their home up for sale. Pray for them as they prepare for this big move.
- Pray for Carla's friend Alice who had plastic surgery on her nose due to skin cancer. UPDATE: Alice did not have a good outcome with the reconstructive surgery. They will be looking at doing another.
- Carla recently had to deal with a very bitter person. She has been very bothered by this, and she does not want this person to steal her JOY.
- Carla has an extended family member stationed in Kuwait named Haley. She is her cousin Steve's daughter. Please pray for her safety!
- Carla's Sam has several Wisconsin Guard friends stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Sam had an update for us from his teammates who are currently deployed in the war zone. Please be in prayer, they have been bombed several times. Continue to pray for safety.
- Continue praying for Kitty's son Mike as he continues on his journey of no pain meds. Mike is off of pain meds for 13weeks and is weaning off several other prescriptions. Mike is requesting that we pray for his mental health.
- URGENT: Pray for Rachel who has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
- PRAISE: I am going to be a grandmother. I am so excited!!! Please be in prayer for Shanley Belle and Christopher as they prepare for parenthood, and pray for my little precious granddaughter. I'm calling her my Little Starling!
- Kitty would like for you to pray that her daughter sells her barndominium and can find a home closer so that she’s not driving two hours a day.
- Pray birthday blessings for Kris!
This morning I'm going by O'Henry's for a latte to go, and then I'm going to the salon for a haircut.
We're planning a chill weekend relaxing by cooking and watching baseball.
What are your weekend plans?
Until next time...
Blessings!
Ricki Jill
Ricki Jill
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