Starting Over

STARTING OVER:  DP Writing Challenge (This was written when the kids and I were staying at a YWCA Shelter for Domestic Violence) SHELTER WOMEN  by Diana Rasmussen We are the shelter women, running fast and far away, For he’s stalking us again, and we are on the run. We are starting over, trying not to live the … Read more

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

We will magnify what we look at, are you seeing the “good”, or the “bad”? As a man thinks in his heart, so he becomes. What are you looking at and thinking about today?

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/lights/

A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

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OK, I’m kinda a cloud junkie…there, I said it! I am just in awe of God’s workmanship and beauty!  I am constantly taking cloud pictures. My daughter even does it now, she sees God in His glory too! This was taken right outside our door in WI.

Psalm 57:9-11

Amplified Bible (AMP)

9 I will praise and give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations.

10 For Your mercy and loving-kindness are great, reaching to the heavens, and Your truth and faithfulness to the clouds.

11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.

A Word A Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

Clouds

Clouds

I used to live on a hill overlooking a BP gas station.

Remember the April 20, 2010 Oil Spill in the Gulf?

A Word A Week Photo Challenge: Clouds

Call Me Ishmael

DAILY PROMPT: CALL ME ISHMAEL Heaven and Earth 1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see.    (MSG) The History of Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (NKJV) The Beginning 1 In the beginning God made from nothing the heavens and the earth. (NLV) … Read more

Keep a Notebook by the Bed

Daily Prompt: Keep a Notebook by the bed

Let God

This is so true. I have notebooks everywhere. It seems that I get the best inspiration when I am NOT trying.  I was surprised to learn that God speaks to us in dreams and visions. I was one of those people that hardly ever dreamt, or I didn’t remember them.  After I found scripture, the Living Word, I asked God to restore my dreams.
 Wow, that’s sure a statement, “God, restore my dreams”…
Well ,He did…in more ways than I could have ever imagined possible.

 PROMISES  TO YOU FROM GOD:

  • “he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.” ” Numbers 12:6
  •  “For God may speak in one way, or in another, Yet man does not perceive it.   In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds, Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction. In order to turn man from his deed, And conceal pride from man, He keeps back his soul from the Pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.”  Job 33:14-18
  •  “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,  your old men will dream dreams,  your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women  I will pour out my Spirit in those days.”  Joel 2:28-29

Just a thought: Maybe this is the only time that I am quiet enough to listen…to just be…thank you Jesus, for sleep!

MY PRAYER FOR YOU:

Dear Lord Jesus, I pray that you restore our dreams, our visions.  Speak Lord, your servants are listening.  Quiet our minds and hearts as we rest in You, and open our eyes to see You, and our ears to hear what the Spirit is saying.  Jesus, you redeemed us at the cross with Your blood, You have paid the price for our sins, we accept your forgiveness and salvation. 

Come Holy Spirit come,  Show us how to dream again…

Quote Me

Daily Prompt: Quote Me Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you? “You can laugh, you can cry,  you can live, you can die, but there’s no love without scars.” (“Scars”, a song in progress by Diana Rasmussen) Funny how the … Read more

Finding Shelter

When you think of the word “shelter” what comes to your mind?  Sometimes when I am sleeping God will put a word in my head . Last night it was the word “shelter”. Throughout the day I started wondering…what kind of shelter?  There are alot of shelters out there… homeless shelter – been there animal … Read more

Happy New Year!

His Unfailing Presence “Christmas Peace” by Diana Rasmussen Another year I enter Its history unknown; Oh, how my feet would tremble To tread its paths alone! But I have heard a whisper, I know I shall be blest; “My presence shall go with thee, And I will give thee rest.” What will the New Year … Read more