Jerusalem

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,

    which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

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As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

    so the Lord surrounds his people

    both now and forevermore.

Psalm 125:1-2

These are some of my son Cameron's photos of Jerusalem this week.

Praying for Healing and Righteousness

Yes, the Lord will give what is good;

And our land will yield its increase.

Righteousness will go before Him,

and shall make His footsteps our pathway.

Psalm 85:8-13

Praying for the nations, 
for all those suffering from recent storms, attacks, and tragedies.

Revive us again.

Fill our hearts with Your love.

May our souls be rekindled

With fire from above.

1996

Indiana University Campus, Southeast

Back to school twenty-five years after graduating from GSU, I went to Indiana University to get certification in special education and return to teaching. I had been at home with four children, and after the death of the youngest, who had multiple disabilities, I wanted to work with children with delays.

I quickly learned that everything had to be done on a computer. My professor told me to find the youngest guy in our class and offer to buy his lunch if he would tutor me! A wonderful young man was eager to help, but shocked that I didn't even know what a cursor was!

At the end of the semester my professor complimented me for having the guts to jump back in at age 46 and tackle all the new technology. Thanks to my young classmate, I was able to present a lecture on Down syndrome using power point.

For many years, I was a developmental therapist, working with young children with disabilities.
I learned more from those families than I could have ever learned from textbooks. When I went back to teaching in public school in 2006, I had a much greater appreciation for all that my students with disabilities had accomplished..

I shared this to show that God will carry us through tough times and will later use the experiences to help us encourage someone else.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

Give Thanks

The Mighty One, God, the Lord, 
has spoken, and summoned the earth
from the rising of the sun to it setting.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shown forth.
Psalm 50:1-2
Give thanks with a grateful heart

Give thanks to the Holy One

Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son.

And now, let the weak say, "I am strong"

Let the poor say, "I am rich"

Because of what the Lord has done for me.

Give thanks.

Wisdom

By wisdom the Lord founded the earth;

by understanding he created the heavens.

By his knowledge

the deep fountains of the earth burst forth,

and the dew settles beneath the night sky.

Proverbs 3:19

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, 
who became for us wisdom from God—
and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— 
that, as it is written, 
“He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."
i Corinthians 1:30-31