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Only LIGHT Can Do That

” Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The time is always right to do what is right.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?  “

~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr~

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/god-dr-kings-kitchen-table
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
At that moment, I experienced the presence of the …

At that moment, I experienced the presence of the …

At that moment, I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: “Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.” Almost at once my fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared. I was ready to face anything.”

It was the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks had just been hauled to the police precinct for her audacity on the bus. And amid the electricity in the air, King emerged — the man of the hour, a confident new leader who would take on racism and injustice and violence, and surprisingly, in a spirit of confident, public non-violence.

At least by the outward look of things. Privately, however, he started out as a reluctant prophet. By all means, he

would help advance non-violent change. But to be thrust in the spotlight of national leadership — that was another matter indeed.

On the other hand, an assumption mitigated the pressure. The boycott, assumed everyone — including King — would last but a few days. Symbolic victory achieved, and in short order things put back to normal. A few days, however, became many and passed over into weeks and months, and white Montgomery rightly discerned a bona fide economic threat. That’s when the death threats began. Chilling and cutting to the chase: “Call off the boycott or die.” Towards the end, as many as 40 such phone calls came in every day. And on one occasion, when the police had hauled him into jail for speeding, in the clutches of the police at last, he imagined himself on the threshold of being lynched. Fear descended like a fog.

It reached an apex late Friday night, Jan. 27, 1956. King slumped home, another long strategy session under his belt, and found Coretta asleep. He paced and knocked about, his nerves still on edge. And presently the phone rang, a sneering voice on the other end: “Leave Montgomery immediately if you have no wish to die.” King’s fear surged; he hung up the phone, walked to his kitchen, and with trembling hands, put on a pot of coffee and sank into a chair at his kitchen table.

 

Here was the prelude to King’s most profound spiritual experience. He describes it in his book Stride Toward Freedom.

 

I was ready to give up. With my cup of coffee sitting untouched before me, I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture without appearing a coward. In this state of exhaustion, when my courage had all but gone, I decided to take my problem to God. With my head in my hands, I bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud.

The words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid in my memory. “I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership, and if I stand before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I’ve come to the point where I can’t face it alone.”

At that moment, I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: “Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.” Almost at once my fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared. I was ready to face anything.”


Three days later a bomb blasted his house and his family escaped harm by a hairsbreadth. “Strangely enough,” King later wrote, “I accepted the word of the bombing calmly. My religious experience a few nights before had given me the strength to face it.”

News of the bombing drew a crowd A mob formed within the hour, all clenched jaws and closed fists. And they pressed up against the shattered house and shouted for vengeance. King mounted the broken porch and raised his hands. “We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop because God is with this movement. Go home with this glorious faith and radiant assurance.” And thus the mob dissipated, their mood disarmed and their ears ringing with the message of gospel non-violence.

 

Some 11 years later, King spoke before an audience of his epiphany in the kitchen. “It seemed at that moment, I could hear an inner voice saying to me, ‘Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you, even until the end of the world.’ I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.”

Look Everyone… a Seacret

LOOK EVERYONE…I FOUND A SEACRET!

So now I am 63 instead of 60!  Haha  Where does the time go?Hi! I’m back from a 3 year retreat…all that time trying another technique of acids.   Yuck!
Acid in my facewash,  acid in my face cream, acid…acid.
What did that do?  Wreck my skin and make it dry and peeling.

 
Before                          After

But recently…I actually found a secret that is “Seacret Minerals from the Dead Sea”.

They are spectacular! I was skeptical at first and didn’t know if I should mention it to anyone.

Then, the other day, after using the face products for 2 weeks, I had a compliment.
I was with my granddaughter and we talked to some ladies and they said I looked like a young girl.  I mentioned that it was probably because I had my hair in a ponytail.
They said, ” No it was something different”.  They said, “You can’t possible be this 14 year old girl’s mother.” And when I told them I was her Grandmother…they couldn’t believe it!  Haha

So now I can’t stop myself from sharing it with everyone!  Because all of you might as well feel and look as young as you can.

Why…because being young  is FUN!

I think I might have a Ladies Facial Night!
Or better yet I could even help you by selling it to you, too.


How FUN would that be…fun to be YOUNG
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Parables of Faith
Matthew 7:7-8
Good morning.It’s a fine day to plant my garde…

Good morning.It’s a fine day to plant my garde…

Good morning.                 “Ask and ye shall receive”

It’s a fine day to plant my garden.

So I have a dilemma I have some beautiful lime and orange plants and they are blossoming. Since the wind is blowing very hard I decided to cover up my lime bush because the blossoms are falling off and I don’t want them to disappear. The blossoms turn into little bulbs of fruit and then those grow into the fruit and each year in the spring when the blossoms come on then it decides to become windy and and it’s so windy that it blows all the blossoms off.  So I covered it up with a lightweight sun protection Fabric and we will see if it saves the blossoms this year.

I also planted some items in my garden. I planted three types of tomatoes a dark purple type and cherry tomatoes and another early early blossoming type.   We have a lot of strawberries growing from last year and oregano came up really well. Of course,  all the mint is going crazy.   Mint grows like a weed.   We have some little flowers that have come up and I planted some marigolds and I planted some peppers.  They are all different varieties.  Like a whole rainbow variety of colored peppers.  I planted some kale so let’s try that. Last year I planted spinach and lettuce and some type of Little Critter ate it all . It ate all of the pepper leaves and pepper plant,  so this year we’ll see who’s lurking about my garden.

 

Time to Garden

Spring is a magical time when everything comes alive.

It comes from a seed!
That is what magic is all about.  A little seed is put in the ground and it germinates into life.   I learned recently that the ideas and events in life are like a seed.  You put a thought into the ground into your germination …your little seed of thought and it grows and grows and grows.

 I think that is how Faith works.  The example of Faith as a mustard seed is exactly what it is.  We put it there so that our Loving Heavenly Father can use that thought,  to give you what you would like… and help you attain even more than what you could ever imagine.

That’s why I love spring because it is the beginning of a new chance.   A knew chance of life to Blossom!    That is what each idea in each day should be in our lives!   Stop and cut out the old and let the new thoughts and ideas Blossom.   With new thoughts and new ideas  – Jesus said,  “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find.”   You will receive,  if you honestly believe that there is a source, a Father in Heaven,  who will bless you with all of those things that you stand in need of and would desire.                    ASK FOR ALL GOOD THINGS.