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It is Friday January 17th. In three days, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Although in his farewell speech, Joe Biden said "Democracy is fragile", the Constitution--to which President Trump will swear allegiance to defend and protect-- is not based on fragile precepts. The United States is not a direct democracy in the true sense where each person dictates the rule of law. The framers believed such a system would be subject to tyranny of the majority. Rather, they gave us a Constitutional republic with a representative government, with the good people electing good legislators to represent us in Congress.

The framers knew we would struggle to keep balance in our country, that we would tangle with foreign entities and be threatened from within and without. The document they left us in enduring. It has endured for 237 years despite internal and external forces trying to render it null and void. And so, America endures. The Constitution. The Constitution of the United States. It is a beautiful and God inspired document providing the citizens of the United States with the freedoms needed to live life to the fullest. 

The preamble illustrates the wisdom and strength of the founders' vision for this great country:

"We the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of freedom to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States."

These beautiful beginning words, should lead all Americans to the point of pride in our founders' work and create in us the diligence to encourage each other in the wisdom of the document they forged. We need to know and understand our Constitutional rights. We need to teach each other kindly in these rights. 

May the days of division come to an end as we unite, truly unite as one people under God living in a land governed for the people and by the people. Donald Trump is a fighter, a bigger than life leader who has not given up his belief in the people or "the nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Neither should we.

Now he is to become President of the United States, again. Only the second man in history to serve non-consecutive terms.  May God bless Donald J. Trump, 45 and 47th President of the United States. And may God bless America.

Now that's a RED WAVE!

  Here's how a picture paints a million words.

 

                                                                   

                                                       

It's Veterans Day 2024...God bless the USA

I don't care how many times I hear this song, it brings tears to my eyes. Thank you Lee Greenwood for capturing the heart and soul of America in this anthem. Listen to it on Veterans Day 2024. An historic year for the USA brought about by the people who wanted a President for the ages.

Please take a listen...and remember the Veterans all over America who deserve our praise and help.

Good Morning Everyone In Heaven!

That is how I wake up each day now. "Good morning everyone in heaven! Good morning sweet Jesus. Good morning Heavenly Father. Good morning Holy Spirit. Good morning Dave." Sigh.

It feels good to connect right away with the most important people in my life. It makes me smile. It sets my heart on the right path. I love my mornings reading Dave's Bible and thinking of the things he thought about thanks to all his handwritten notes and dots connecting themes on each page. Happy.

Sooo....I am in the midst of relandscaping the front yard...old junipers have been removed and now all you see is dirt...and the house! The house actually looks beautiful with so much potential for a lovely front yard. I want to put in a flagstone walkway in place of the old funky brick one that was poorly laid and replicate the rock garden Dave did in the backyard along with a few large flagstone steps to help manage maintenance on a sloped yard.

I see the olive tree as the main "speaker" of the job...Mediterranean style plants should prevail and colors that complement the silver green leaves of the olive. I have contacted a couple people about the job but no bids are in yet.

Here are a few things I like:

More later, after I hear from the landscaper.

"You should not be surprised at my saying 'You must be born again.' The wind blows where it wills. You hear its sound, but you cannot see where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the spirit." John 3:7

I see these words of Jesus meaning that the wind changes the landscape, everything it touches but you really cannot see a molecule of wind...only the sound and the effect of the wind. It is the same when mysteriously and miraculously God touches our hearts with the Holy Spirit...the spirit changes the landscape of our heart. We cannot see a molecule of the Holy Spirit. We can only be amazed at its effect.

I love you Jesus. Amen

Don't You Love It!? More & More & More Stars Being Added to the Universe

 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning image of the Tarantula Nebula, shedding new light on the brightest region of starbirth in our galactic neighborhood. 

Also known as 30 Doradus, the nebula is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Its turbulent clouds of gas and dust appear to swirl among the region's newly formed stars.

Miracles happen every day in every life...miracles as significant as a star being created. Sometimes, however, we fail to recognize the event as miraculous. For over 1 1/2 years now, Dave and I have witnessed countless miracles in our lives as we are fighting to live together as long as possible. People pop out of the woodwork wanting to pray for us...a teller on the phone, a checker at TJ's, every neighbor on the block, a radiation assistant, a carpet cleaner, a roofing guy, a cardiologist, our home care nurse and her prayer group in India...the list goes on.

We have never felt so loved, so supported or cared for. We are basking in God's love and provision for us. Even when things happen that I thought were wrong or untimely, turn out to be for the best and at the right time! 

My vision of the future is so very limited. God's is endless. So I pick his vision for us, want what he wants for us. Today is a good day, a very good day.

Amen.

My Next Project: I am not afraid

I found this silver charm on Etsy today. I think I have to have it to make my next bracelet!

The notation said it was from Joan of Ark so I looked it up:

As Joan of Arc was leaving Vaucouleurs to begin her mission to save France she was asked by a women: "How can you make such a journey when on all sides are soldiers?" to which Joan responded: 

"I do not fear the soldiers, for my road is made open to me; and if the soldiers come, I have God, my Lord, who will know how to clear the route that leads to messire the Dauphin. It was for this that I was born!" 

The original in French is: "Je n'ai pas peur des soldats, car ma route m' a été ouverte, et si les soldats viennent, j'ai Dieu, mon Seigneur, qui saura comment libérer la route qui mène à Sieur le Dauphin. C'est pour cela que je fus nais." 

From the website Maid of Heaven

America, America God Shed His Grace On Thee

The best song ever sung for our country by the great Ray Charles...please listen and be inspired

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