Momma called me 'Corn'........ the day I was born;
Poppa picked the banjer and brother blew a horn;
Sissy sang a song ...........and uncle danced a jig-
Aunty baked cornbread and Grandpa killed a pig.
"It's amazin'...I can't believe it!" ...............said Cousin Peg,
When I climbed out of my corncrib, and stood on one leg-
I laughed and yelled...our hound dog heeled...
And the Ears of Corn giggled in our cornfield.
I was hungry for corn.................. right off the bat,
To the cornfield I crawled, wearin' Poppa's old hat.
Granny smoked her corncob pipe & some came to gawk-
At a baby eatin' corn..........................right off the stalk!
I ate a dozen ears..........And weaved a 'Wig of Silk';
Then I found the Jersey cow & drank a pail of milk.
All of this happened..... the day I was born....
I hope you don't think I'm feedin' you corn! by CornFields

My Dieter's Psalm....

MY DIETER'S PSALM....
My Weight is my Shepherd...
I shall not want Lo-Cal Foods...
It maketh me to munch on Potato Chips & Bean Dip...
It leadeth me into 31 Flavors...
It leadeth me in the path of cream puffs in Bakeries.
Yea,though I walk through the Valley of Weight Watcher's, I will fear No Skimmed Milk,For my Appetite is with me...
My Hostess, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, & Little Debbies....They Comfort me....Yea! Surely I could eat the wheels off a Little Debbie Truck...They annointeth my body with Calories....My Scale Tippeth Over...Surely Chubbiness & Contentment shall follow me all the days of my life....AND I SHALL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF MRS. FIELDS COOKIES....FOREVER! LOL

Living The Way We Pray...

I knelt to pray when day was done
And prayed: "O Lord, bless everyone:
Lift from each heart the pain,
And let the sick be well again."
And then I woke one day,
And carelessly went on my way,
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye.
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother on the road;
I did not even go to see
The sick man just next door to me-
Yet once again when day was done
I prayed,: "O Lord, bless everyone,"
But as I prayed, to my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear:
"Pause, hypocrite, before you pray,
Whom have you tried to help today?
God's sweetest blessings always go
By hands that serve him here below."
And then I hid my face and cried:
"Forgive me God for I have lied,
Let me but live another day....
And I will live the way I pray."

Resurrection...Grundy Football's Biggest Win...

RESURRECTION.....A Behind the Action Look at Grundy's Big Playoff Victory in November of 2003....( As it appeared in the Virginia Mountaineer)...written by Larry Frank Fields

After being buried by the Graham G-Men earlier in the season at Grundy, and in the Playoffs the year before, on the same Mitchell Stadium field, the Grundy Golden Wave Resurrected in a 'Big Way' last Friday night.
Several hundred die-hard Grundy fans braved the elements & treacherous roads to witness the game of two centuries for Grundy football. I can imagine thousands more dancing joyfully about their house as they listened to 'Super Sportswriter, Lloyd Combs, bringing the thrilling action into their homes & cars by way of radio. Lloyd told me later that he had the Flu when the game started..."But I had talked myself out of it by game's end."
Snow, mud, cold, wind...A 'Perfect' night for football, some would say. All of the fans I talked to after the game were oblivious to the cold...Victory has a way of doing that...Nothing Hurts When You Win!
The tone for the game was set when the Wave team exited the bus at Mitchell Stadium....long before fans & stadium workers arrived on the scene. The Team walked as One to the middle of the field, joined hands... bowing their heads. From the way they played, I would assume they prayed for Heart, Courage & Teamwork...Someone had placed a sign in the Wave Field House back home that read TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK...Obviously, the Wave Team was on a mission to make their Dream...& Prayer...Come True!
IN THE LOCKER ROOM BEFORE THE GAME...Someone taped up a 'broken window' that was letting in cold air & snow. The Team began to Look Inward, some stretching weary muscles, some "Bouncing' ...as if readying for a Championship Fight. The smell of liniment, pre-wrap, adhesive tape...and sweat mingle...and fill the air. The 'Sounds of Encouragement', and 'Cleats tapping on the concrete floor' fill the air, as does the sound of chalk scratching out a 'Game Plan' on a worn-out blackboard...I revel in this 'elecric atmosphere. There is no place on earth quite like it. Someone mentions that the G-MEN think they have already 'Buried the Wave'...And they just want to 'Throw another shovelful of dirt on the Wave Grave...
The five coaches, with many years of dedicated service to Grundy football, and well over a hundred shared victories, call the TEAM together in the middle of the locker room. Each has last minute reminders & words of encouragement. Finally, someone says, "Four Minutes!"...And Coach Rowe says, "Let's get it in!" The TEAM falls to their knee...And with 'Joined Hands & Hearts' they have another Pre-Game Prayer...
IN THE LOCKER ROOM AT HALFTIME, with a 7-7 tie, Excitement is running high. The TEAM believes they can win...And Vows that They Will. Some shed excess mud, while others search out the Power-Ade. All listen as the coaches make adjustments...The 15 minutes drag by, but the TEAM is Renewed, Chomping at the Bit, eagerly awaiting the command to "Bring the Ship In!"...When it comes, Grim-Faced Warriors storm out to 'Execute the Command'...
ON THE FIELD AFTER THE WAR, the combatants line up to shake hands. A look of disbelief on the defeated G-Men. The Wave Team grins broadly with 'Uplifted heads' They know they have just defeated the 'Best team in the State' (On Paper)...And they also know it was not luck!
IN THE ENDZONE, Jubilant Wavemen are heartily congratulated by coaches, fans, cheerleaders & family members. Sweat, Tears, Mud & Joy are passed around. Cameras flash as the moment is frozen for the ages. After reciting the Lord's Prayer, the TEAM, with helmets held skyward, chants their Post-Game & Post-Practice yell: WORK! WORK! WORK! PRIDE! PRIDE! PRIDE! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! WIN! WIN! WIN!...The Yell is shouted with such intensity that the 'Echo' seems to wrap around each falling snowflake...And Reverberate throughout the stadium. The team seems reluctant to enter the warm confines of the locker room. Victory has warmed them...And it feels so good!!!!
THE SENIORS look around at the emptying stands, and the now deserted field, as if 'Storing up Memories...Of a Run..A Tackle...A Block...A Pass or Catch..A TD...They know they won't be back on this field of Triumph, But Their Mind's Eye will return time after time...Not to remember the 'Big Plays', But the 'Fighting Spirit' exhibited this night...Reborn, they float into the Locker Room on a 'Chorus of Cheers...
IN THE LOCKER ROOM AFTER THE GAME, Wavemen are are looking for the 'Shark' (A cutting tool used to remove pre-wrap & adhesive tape). No one seems eager for a shower. SUDDENLY, the door bursts open....And Coach Rowe enters with the coveted REGION 4 Trophy. The Trophy is Cheered, Held High, Kissed...And Passed Around. The TEAM has 'Brought the Ship In'..The TEAM then kneels once again and thanks God for the Courage & Ability to Conquer!...The State awaits...& the young Wave TEAM is looking forward to the opportunity.

CORNFIELDS...Self-Published every Tuesday...Most of the time...LOL

HAVE AN AWESOME DAY!CORNFIELDS, The Column...for January 24, 2012.....
"There's nothing like getting up at Five O' Clock, taking a Cold Shower...& Going for a 5 Mile Run before Breakfast.....I Start next week!

"In this New Year, may your hand always be stretched out in friendship- Never in want," Moonbeam said. (Oh Yeah! I wish that also!)

"Prosperity comes in Cycles," Coach said, "Generally, after the 'Try' Cycle!"...I had one of those once...thinking it was last year! LOL

"Honey! I need some Sensor Razor Blades!" Jack yelled as his wife left for the store..."You need some 'Sense'... Period!" she yelled back...Ouch!

Rick said he rarely ever heard from 'gruntled' employees....(Bet that's Dis-couraging!! LOL)

Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do, are going to come back to see you do it again...and tell others that they should also come and see what you do. Walt Dizney ( He sure did a lot with a mouse!)

"The roads were treacherous last week," Lloyd said..."It's no fun when your tires are doing 90 going up Rockhouse,,,And your car is backing up!!!"

Past Tense: When I used to be nervous....(I am now 'Calm as a Cucumber'...even got Cucumber slices on my eyes...Just Chillin')

"I'm 'young at heart'," Judy said..."And only slightly older in other places!" Give me a break!

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing. Ben Franklin... Sounds like a plan!

Golden Oldie Observation: Happy Days are 'Old Age's Cushions'......Hoping you're Smothered in Pillows!!......Godspeed

'Y' WORDS...26 DAYS OF ALPHABETICAL RESOLUTING...

IF NOT, Y NOT????
'Y' Day...When I think of Y, I think of YOU, and God does too: "See, I have engraved YOU on the Palms of my Hands; YOUR Walls are Ever before Me. (Isaiah 49:16)

But YOU, as a word, in writing or speech, is generally frowned upon, for the very reason that YOU don't like being 'preached to', or told what to do. Most of us resent it when someone starts a sentence with YOU...To us, it's like the other person is telling us what we should be doing...And it is human nature to resent that. Like the saying goes, "When YOU'RE pointing YOUR finger at me, there's three others pointing back at YOU." YOU know what I mean?...LOL

In preparing for this post, I listened to Elvis Presley sing YOU SEND ME & YESTERDAY. He did a tremendous job on both, but I couldn't help but think that Jesus Sent me.... & YOU in His Great Commission He gave before ascending back to Heaven: Go YE into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature....And YESTERDAY, what a nostalgic song! We all have a tendency to dwell on the past, when times were less fast-paced, and perhaps a little gentler on our mind........But we (YOU) must 'Go Forward'...Today is the Tomorrow we (YOU) worried about YESTERDAY. LOL

There are a few songs with Y words that I love, like the chorus, YOU ARE MY GOD, which is so very awe-inspiring. Also, the song AT CALVARY, which starts off: YEARS I spent in vanity & pride; caring not my Lord was crucified.... and YOU ARE CROWNED WITH MANY CROWNS.....YES!

So, in 2012, I am resolving to use the more inclusive 'We' more often when communicating with others...We can do this...Don't YOU think? LOL

Genesis 3:5 ASV: "The Serpent said to the woman, 'YOU surely will not die!...For God knows that in the day YOU eat from it YOUR eyes will be opened, and YOU will be like God." Satan was speaking to Eve in the Garden of Eden. This was the 'first' temptation, for as we (YOU) know, Eve did eat of the 'one' tree God said not to, and Adam did also, allowing 'Sin'..(transgression of God's Law) to enter the world...Causing God to provide a way through His Son, and His Holy Bible to Redeem (Buy Back!) His 'Crowning Creation'...YOU & even me! Praise God!

Psalm 90:4 ASV: For a thousand YEARS in YOUR sight are like YESTERDAY when it passes by, or as a watch in the night.

Psalm 65:11 ASV: YOU have crowned the YEAR with YOUR bounty, and Your paths drip with fatness.

Matt.6:19-21 ASV: Do not store up for YOURSELVES treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for YOURSELVES treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where YOUR treasure is, there YOUR heart will be also.

Matt. 11:29-30 ASV: Take my YOKE upon YOU and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU will find rest for YOUR souls, for my YOKE is easy and my burden is light. (There is No comparison between the YOKE of Sin and the YOKE of God...The first brings misery & death, the second, Joy & Life, both Now & Forever! Godspeed!)

'W' Day...26 Days of Resoluting 2-22-12

O WHAT A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL DAY...
The Apostle Peter mentions those that have turned away from God, and compares them to a sow that has been WASHED... returning to her WALLOWING in the mire. (2 Peter 2:22)...Lots of 2's there & today is the 22nd of January...'W' Day in my Alphabetical Resoluting. Praying WE WILL turn to God today and WORSHIP Him on this Lord's Day, remaining steadfast all through 2012...WHERE COULD I GO BUT TO THE LORD? Other Songs of WORSHIP: WE ARE ONE IN THE SPIRIT, WE BOW DOWN, WE PRAISE THEE O GOD, WE HAVE HEARD THE JOYFUL SOUND, WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS, WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN, WHERE HE LEADS ME, WONDERFUL WORDS OF LIFE, WHITER THAN SNOW, WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER...(All Teachers love this one & since I taught school for 36 years, just wondering how many Roll Calls I made...LOL, cause most of the time I just looked around the room & noticed if anyone was missing.) But my favorite 'W' Words song is WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS...Hoping to do this later this morning WHEN WE gather around the Lord's Table....

Romans 8:25: But if WE hope for that WE see not, then do WE WITH patience WAIT for it.

In the Garden, Jesus told His disciples to WATCH WHILE He WENT into the Garden to pray...WHEN He returned HE found them asleep, and said, WHAT, could ye not WATCH WITH Me one hour? WATCH and Pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is WILLING, but the flesh is WEAK. (Matt. 26: 40-41)

Psalm 143:8: Cause me to know the WAY WHEREIN I should WALK.

Mark 4:41: "WHAT manner of Man is this that even the WIND and the WAVES obey Him?"..Thus said the men on board the ship WHEN Jesus calmed the Raging Storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Romans 6:23: The WAGES of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesu Christ our Lord.

John 3:5: Except a man be born of WATER and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God...(Every person that became a Christian in the Book of Acts WAS Baptized..)...Hm-m-m..Must have been a requirement for Salvation... as the Ethiopian Eunuch told Phillip, after Phillip taught him: "SEE, here is WATER, WHAT doth hinder me to be Baptized?" ( WHEN WE Obey God's Commands, He performs a 'Saving Operation'...Col. 2:12)

Rev. 22:17: WHOSOEVER WILL let him take the WATER OF LIFE freely.

Gal. 6:9: Let us not be WEARY in WELL doing; for in due season WE shall Reap, if WE faint not. Godspeed! Let us WORK FOR THE NIGHT IS COMING....WHEN man WORKS no more...

'X' Words....26 Days of Resoluting...

X MARKS THE SPOT.......

Today is 'X' Day in my Alphabetical Resoluting..In 2012, I'm Resolved to take Passion for serving others & the Church to an Xtreme level! Like an Xtension ladder, I want to Xtend myself & 'Rise above Xpectations....Xalting Him like I Alt (ought) to, Xercising my body & Xorcising my demons,, Xpressing myself to God & Others while Pressing on toward the mark for the Prize of the High Calling of God in Jesus Christ. (Phil. 3:14)...Giving a little Xtra that I might be Xtraordinary at something beneficial, even though my wife says, "Get yourself X-Rayed and see what people see in you!" LOL...Xpounding on a healthier lifestyle by shedding 30 pounds...

Remembering that I don't hafta be an eXSpurt, cause an EX is a 'has-been' & a Spurt is a 'drip' under pressure...LOL

Just read about a Persian king named Xerxes, who ruled Persia from 486-465. He commanded an army approaching a million in number, and once after failing to cross the Hellenesport in Greece, due to a storm & bridge failure, actually had the waters lashed by his men.. Even putting shackles on the water....Oh well, I guess we all do stupid things, but that was as ridiculous as anything I ever read...Like the guy that ran into a tree & blamed the tree! LOL...

Praying that those with X-Rated mouths will reconsider their word choices, and the Xtent of the impact on others...The English language has So Many Great.... Uplifting & Positive Words!

Now what did I do with my Xylophone????????

'U' DAY....U are the Reason He Came....

ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE...
UNTO YOU O GOD I COME....Peace be UNTO U..Just read the lyrics to the song, UNWORTHY, one verse goes: Amazed that a King would reach down to His slave-This love I cannot UNDERSTAND...UNDER HIS WINGS is another U words song that touches the heartstrings....Jesus cried over Jerusalem and said, "How often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood UNDER her wings, and ye would not!"...I read of a Firefighter that discovered the charred remains of a bird after a forest fire. Upon touching the remains, he said it brought tears of joy to his face to see three pairs of eyes staring up at him. (The mother had sacrificed her life, knowing that her brood couldn't fly, to protect them UNDER her wings.)Jesus offers this Amazing Love, and like the song, THE UNCLOUDY DAY, which tells US there will be no Clouds or Sorrow in Heaven.

2 Cor.9:15: Thanks be UNTO God for His UNSPEAKABLE Gift.

Heb. 13:1: Let brotherly love continue; Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained Angels UNAWARES.

Psalm 47:7: For God is King of all the Earth: Sing ye praises with UNDERSTANDING.

Jude 15: To execute judgment UPON all, and to convince all that are UNGODLY among them of all UNGODLY deeds which they have UNGODLY committed, and of all their hard speeches which UNGODLY sinners have spoken against him.

1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive US our sins, and to cleanse US from all UNRIGHTEOSNESS. (What a Precious Promise! Thank You God!!!)

Heb. 7: 25: Wherefore He is able also to save to the UTTERMOST that come UNTO God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Acts 17:23: For as I passed by, and beheld your Devotions, I found an inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD, Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him I declare UNTO you. (Praying that God will not be UNKNOWN to anyone this Good Friday, that all might go UNTO Him in Prayer.)

Matt. 11:28: Come UNTO Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Luke 2:10: And the Angel said UNTO them: "Fear not, for behold I bring Good Tidings of Great Joy, which shall be to all people."

Eph. 1:22: And hath put all things UNDER His feet, and gave Him to be The Head over All Things to The ChUrch....This is The Reason He came........For 'U'......May God Richly Bless U today & throughout 2012.... Godspeed!

'V' WORDS...ALPHABETICAL RESOLUTING.....'V' DAY...

HAVE A VERY GOOD DAY AND YEAR .....Happy Valentine's Day my Love!...I know that's 'next month', but isn't that what Jesus was saying in John 3:16? and Paul proclaimed in 1 Cor. 15:57: "But thanks be to God, who gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."...Jesus wants to shower us with much more than candy, flowers or jewelry...& since today is 'V' Day in my Alphabetical Resoluting, can we not say, BE MINE VALENTINE...a month early?? (L.O.L. 'Lord Of Lords) VERILY! VERILY! ...THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, PEACE IN THE VALLEY & VICTORY IN JESUS are three of my 'Favorite' songs....

Psalm 98:1: O Sing unto the Lord a new song; for He hath done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten Him the VICTORY.

1 John 5:4: For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the VICTORY that overcometh the world, eVen our Faith.

2 Tim. 2:21: If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a VESSEL unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared for every good work.

Psalm 127:1: Except the Lord build the House, they labor in VAIN that build it; except the Lord keep the City, the Watchman waketh, but in VAIN.

1 Peter 1: 18: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your VAIN conversation received by tradition from your fathers.

Exodus 20:7: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in VAIN; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in VAIN. ( So desire that my friends would use God's name only in praise...Using it in VAIN makes me shudder and shake my head, but God also, for He is Listening & on the Day of Judgment, we will give account for every idle or profane word...(Matthew 12:36)

Proverbs 29:18: Where there is no VISION, the people perish; but he that keepeth the Law is happy.

John 10:4: And when He putteth forth His own Sheep, He goeth before them, and the Sheep follow Him: for they know His VOICE.

Revelation 3:20: Behold, I stand at The Door and knock; if any man hear My VOICE, and open The Door, I will come in and sup with him, and he with Me.

The Apostle Paul says in Phillipians 4:8 to think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, or good report...."If there be any VIRTUE or praise," he said...'Think on these things'." VERILY! VERILY! or Truly! Truly! Have a Day and Year filled to the Brim with VIM & VIGOR because of Him! Godspeed!

'T' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...

NEVER TROUBLE TROUBLE TIL TROUBLE TROUBLES YOU, IS A POPULAR SAYING.....HERE’S ANOTHER: HAVE A GREAT DAY & A HAPPY NEW YOU!
My 'T' Words Resolution for January 19 is THE same as Proverbs 3:5: TRUST in THE Lord with all THINE heart; and lean not on THINE own understanding...Just knowing, THAT if I could kick THAT feller in THE rear THAT'S causing me THE 'Most' TROUBLE,....I wouldn't be able TO sit down for a Month!!!!...Recalling some TREMENDOUS Hymns that TOUCH my Heart Strings....TELL ME THE OLD OLD STORY, TELL ME THE STORY OF JESUS, THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD, THERE SHALL BE SHOWERS OF BLESSING, TO GOD BE THE GLORY, THEY SHALL KNOW WE ARE CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE, TRUST AND OBEY, & TAKE TIME TO BE HOLY...Speaking of TIME, I'm TOLD that Queen Elizabeth said THIS on her death bed: "All my Possessions for 'One More Minute of TIME',"...Seems TO me THAT we all get suckered into THINKING THAT we're going to live forever on THIS earth...Just knowing THAT for a Child, which includes You. & even Me...LOL...TIME is spelled L-O-V-E. Ecclesiastes 3:1: "TO every THING THERE is a season, and a TIME TO every purpose under heaven."..And then THE writer says in chapter 9: 10-12, THAT TIME and Chance happen TO us all, and THAT whatever our hand find TO do, TO do it with 'All our Might'...For man knows not his TIME. Psalm 126:5: THEY THAT sew in TEARS shall Reap in Joy. Psalm 56:8a: THOU TELLEST my wanderings; put my TEARS into THY bottle. James 1:13: Let no man say when he is TEMPTED, I am TEMPTED of God; for God cannot be TEMPTED with evil, neither TEMPTETH He any man. Hebrews 9:16-17: For where a TESTAMENT is, THERE must also of necessity be the death of THE TESTATOR; For a TESTAMENT is of force after men are dead; otherwise, it is of no strength at all while THE TESTATOR liveth. (Jesus gave THE TERMS of pardon TO receive Salvation in His 'Great Commission' as recorded by the Gospel writers)...But since the Book of Acts TELLS how it began TO be carried out, THE 'New TESTAMENT, or Will, was revealed here by the Apostles, & especially Luke, who addresses the Book of Luke To THEOPHILUS, which means 'Lover of God'...Hope & Pray THAT would be us! Luke 6:32: For if ye love THEM which love you, what THANK have ye? For sinners also love THOSE THAT love THEM. 2 Cor. 5:17: THEREFORE, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old THINGS are passed away; behold, all THINGS are become new. Rev. 22:14: Blessed are THEY THAT do His commandments, THAT THEY might have a right TO THE TREE of Life, and may enter in THROUGH THE gates into THE City. Psalm 119:59: I THOUGHT on my ways, and TURNED my feet unto THY TESTIMONIES.

Stomp Out Ssssssssssatan!

The Aramaic Bible In Plain English translates James 4:7 this way: "SUBMIT therefore to God, and STAND against SATAN, and he will flee from you."...The 'Only' way to flee from Satan, of course, is to SPEND Quality time with the SHEPHERD and His SHEEP, while SINGING SPIRITUAL SONGS of Praise, SUPPING with The SAVIOR...& STUDYING the Holy SCRIPTURES...Here are SOME SWEET SONGS with 'S' Words: SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER, SWEET BEULAH LAND, SANCTUARY, SAVIOR LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US, SEND THE LIGHT, STAND UP! STAND UP FOR JESUS, SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL, IT IS NO SECRET, and BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES....( I am Resolving to Do 'All of the Above' in 2012...Please Join me is my 'Plea' & we'll 'Flee' together & be SANCTIFIED in the SWEET BY AND BY.)

Job 38:7: When the morning STARS SANG together, and all the SONS of God SHOUTED for Joy.

Psalm 126:6: He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious SEED, SHALL doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his SHEAVES with him.

James 5:20: Let him know that he which converteth the SINNER from the error of his way SHALL SAVE a SOUL from death, and hide a multitude of SIN.

1 John 4:14: And we have SEEN and do testify that the Father SENT the SON to be the SAVIOR of the world.

Romans 12:1: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living SACRIFICE, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable SERVICE.

Romans 8:35: Who SHALL SEPARATE us from the love of Christ? SHALL tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or peril, or SWORD?

Hebrews 4:12: For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and SHARPER than a two-edged SWORD, piercing even to the dividing asunder of SOUL and SPIRIT, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

John 10:14: I am The Good SHEPHERD, and know my SHEEP, and am known of mine.

Ezekiel 34:26: And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the SHOWERS to come down in his SEASON; there SHALL be SHOWERS of blessing.

Ecclesiastes 3:7: A time to rend, and a time to SEW; a time to keep SILENCE, and a time to SPEAK.

Matthew 19:14: But Jesus SAID, "SUFFER the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of SUCH is the Kingdom of Heaven.

1 Samuel 3:10: Then the Lord came and STOOD, and called, "SAMUEL, SAMUEL", and SAMUEL SAID, "SPEAK Lord, for your SERVANT is listening."

Psalm 107:9: For He SATISFIETH the longing SOUL, and filleth the hungry SOUL with goodness.

Psalm 104:33: I will SING unto the Lord a new SONG as I live; I will SING praise to my God while I have my being.

May God richly bless you as you SEEK the Lord through SCRIPTURE, Song, and Fellowship with the SAINTS in 2012.....Godspeed!

Resoluting with 'R' Words.....

Jesus RESOLVED that He would RETURN again and RECEIVE us unto Himself. At His Ascension, when He was RECEIVED up into a Cloud to the Heavenly REALM, two Angels affirmed to the Apostles that Jesus would so RETURN as they had seen Him RISE,,,Looking forward to 'Stepping On The Clouds' with Jesus & to also 'RISE to meet Him in the Air'...so I'm also RESOLVING to RETURN to the One Who has the 'Words of Life'...Once A Day, Every Day, All Day Long....Today & 'Every Day' in 2012...Here are some 'R' words hymns I REJOICE in: THERE'S ROOM AT THE CROSS FOR YOU, ROCK OF AGES, REDEEMED, RESCUE THE PERISHING, and REVIVE US AGAIN...

Revelation 3:3: REMEMBER therefore, how thou hast RECEIVED and heard, and hold fast and REPENT; If therefore, thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

1 Corinthians 9:24: Know ye not that they which RUN in a RACE RUN all, but one RECEIVETH the prize? So RUN, that ye may obtain.

Romans 1:17: For therein is the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God REVEALED from faith to faith; as it is written, the just shall live by faith.

Revelation 3:3: REMEMBER therefore how thou hast RECEIVED and heard, and hold fast and REPENT.

Proverbs 13: 21: Evil pursueth sinners; but to the RIGHTEOUS good shall be REPAID.

James 1:12: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall RECEIVE a crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love Him. (I Love You Lord!)

1 Peter 1:18-19: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

Psalm 119:101: I have REFRAINED my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

Psalm 46:1: God is our REFUGE & Strength, a very present help in trouble.

1 Peter 3:10: For he that will love life, and see good days, let him REFRAIN his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Romans 12:15: REJOICE with them that do REJOICE, and weep with them that weep.

Psalm 94:22: But the Lord is my defense; and a very present help in time of trouble.

Praying that we will all RESOLVE to REACH out to Jesus every day of 2012...Our REDEEMER is REACHING out to us!

'Q' Words....Jan 16, 2012...

JACK BE NIMBLE! JACK BE QUICK! JACK JUMPED OVER THE CANDLESTICK!...

LOVE THE LINE IN THE SONG,NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD, THAT READS: THERE IS A PLACE OF QUIET REST, NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD. I SAY AMEN TO THAT, BUT HAVE STRUCK OUT ON FINDING OTHER Q WORDS IN SONGS, BUT Q WORDS ABOUND IN SCRIPTURE...PSALM 46:10: "GOD SAYS BE QUIET, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD. I WILL BE SUPREME OVER ALL THE NATIONS; I WILL BE SUPREME IN ALL THE EARTH.".....(TODAY, I AM RESOLVING TO SPEND QUIET TIME WITH GOD...MORNING & EVENING IN 2012.)...1 Thessalonians 4:11: "STUDY TO BE QUIET."

MARK 6:19-29 TELLS THE STORY OF HOW HERODIAS, KING HEROD'S WIFE, HAD A QUARREL WITH JOHN, AND FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING JOHN'S HEAD SERVED ON A PLATTER TO SATISFY HER SICK DESIRE. AS THE 'FORERUNNER OF CHRIST' JESUS SAID THAT JOHN WAS THE GREATEST MAN THAT HAD EVER BEEN BORN. HOW SAD THE DISCIPLES MUST HAVE BEEN AS THEY LAID JOHN'S BODY IN A TOMB....BUT JESUS' MISSION WENT ON....

Ecclesiastes 9:17: "The words of a wise man are heard in QUIET more than the cry of him who rules over fools."

Acts 10:42: "And He commanded us to preach unto the people, and testify that it is He, which was ordained of God to be Judge of the QUICK and the dead.(QUICK being a word that meant 'Living'...but being QUICK. you knew that didn't you?...LOL

Romans 8:11: "But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also QUICKEN your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you."

Psalm 119:50: "This is my comfort in my affliction; for Thy word has QUICKENED me." ASV

Matthew 9:43 -48 gives us Jesus' word that it would be better to lose an eye, hand, or foot, than to go to Hell, where the worm dies not, and the fire is not QUENCHED.

Matthew 12:42: "The QUEEN Of The South shall rise up in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and Behold! A greater than Solomon is here!"

2 Timothy 2:23: "But foolish and unlearned QUESTIONS avoid, knowing that they do cause strife." ( A student told me once that it wasn't the QUESTIONS that caused him trouble, but the answers!...LOL)

Revelation 3:11: "Behold! I come QUICKLY; Hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown."...

1 Corinthians 6:13: QUIT you like men." ( Meaning that we should be Strong and 'Never Give Up')... Courage does not begin to release it's Power until we Resolve 'Not To QUIT.....With that in mind, Happy QUITTING in 2012!

'O' Words...26 Days Of Alphabetical Resoluting...

O WHAT A SAVIOR! OH MY!!!!!

ON this Saturday, January the 14th, 2012, I am Resolving to be an OVERCOMER, because of something I just read in Revelation 2:7...I know Jesus was speaking to the Churches of Asia, but He said, "To 'Him' that OVERCOMETH, will I give to Eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."...What a Promise from Jesus! Makes me want to sing, O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O WORSHIP THE KING, O WHAT A SAVIOR, O BE CAREFUL LITTLE EYES, ONE DAY, ONE DAY AT A TIME, & O HAPPY DAY...All at the same time...LOL...Talk about a 'Joyful Noise' LOL...But let's look at some OVERCOMING Scriptures that have 'O' words...

"Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may OBTAIN Mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need." (Heb.4:16)...I know some that roll out of bed each morning, & land on their knees.... to OFFER up a prayer to God...That's great if you're able, but God looks on the heart, and is more interested in OUR 'Disposition' than OUR 'Position'...Thinking He Greatly Desires that we Trust & OBEY His ONLY Son...that was ONCE OFFERED... for my sins & yours..

"And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled Himself, and became OBEDIENT to the point of death, even the death of the cross." (Phil. 2:8)

"For there is ONE God, and ONE Mediator between God and man, the Man, Christ Jesus." 1 Tim. 2:5)

"Which of you by Worrying can add ONE Cubit to his stature? (Mat. 6:27).....(In Bible times, a Cubit was measured from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, which was generally considered to be 17 to 22 inches) .... Don't you reckon that Jesus was saying that Worry changes nothing, but I (Jesus) can Change Everything???

"ONLY let your Conduct be Worthy of the Gospel OF Christ, so that whether I come and see you OR am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you 'Stand Fast' in ONE spirit, with ONE Mind, Striving Together for the Faith of the Gospel." (Phil. 1:27)

"For all the law is fulfilled in ONE word, even in this: "You shall Love your Neighbor as Yourself." (Gal. 5:14)

"Finally, 'All of You' be OF ONE mind, having Compassion; Love as Brothers, be Tenderhearted... be Courteous." (1 Peter 3:8)

"And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of many thunderings, saying, "Allelujah!,For The Lord God OMNIPOTENT Reigns!" (Rev. 19:6)...

Praying we all have reason to be OVERJOYED , not ONLY today, but 'Every Day' in 2012! Godspeed!

'N' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...(1-13-12)

"I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, NOR FORSAKE YOU"....

Many are awakening this New Day to a New blanket of Snow, making everything look New...Speaking of New, I like the song, I'LL HAVE A NEW BODY...But just because our earthly body is wearing out, doesn't mean our spirits have to wear out: I love Colossians 3:10: "And have put on the NEW man, which is reNEWed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him." Other songs with 'N' words that inspire me: NEARER MY GOD TO THEE, NO NOT ONE, NEAR THE CROSS, NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD, & NOW I BELONG TO JESUS ( I've heard that last one sung thousands of times in my life)...NEARLY always sung when a person is 'Baptized into Christ'. But, let's look at a few scriptures with 'N' words on this Fab Friday....

"Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a 'NEW' creature; old things are passed away; behold all things are become NEW.(2 Cor. 5:17)

"There is NEITHER Jew NOR Greek, there is NEITHER bond NOR free, there is NEITHER male NOR female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3:28)

"Bur whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall NEVER thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a 'well of water' springing up into Everlasting Life." (John 4:14)

"God is Light and in Him is NO darkness at all." (1 John 1:5)..."If we say we have NO sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is NOT in us. (1 John 1:8)

"There is NONE other NAME under Heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)

"So teach us to NUMBER our days, that we might apply our hearts to wisdom." (Eph. 6:4)

"How shall we escape, if we NEGLECT so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him. (Hebrews 2:3)

"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine NATURE, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:4)

"And that knowing the time, that NOW it is high time to awake out of sleep: for NOW is our salvation NEARER than when we first believed." (Rom. 13:11)

Thomas said he wouldn't believe that Jesus had resurrected: "Except I shall see in His hands the print of the NAILS, and put my finger in the print of the NAILS, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe." (John 20:25)...When Jesus came near, all Thomas could say was: "My Lord and My God!" (verse 28)...Praise God for the NURTURE of the Holy Scriptures! Amen.

'M' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...

MAGNIFY, COME GLORIFY...CHRIST JESUS THE KING...Majesty, Mighty! Mighty! Savior, O How Marvelous, IT Took a Miracle, Go Tell It On The Mountain...Move Over Beethoven (LOL) Just a few songs with 'M' words that came to Mind this Morning as I Muse over 'M' words while eating a bag of M&M's....Day 13 in My 26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting & like Shakespeare said, "Much learning hath made thee Mad!" LOL...Suffering from eyestrain & fatigue, but as God said to MOSES when he complained that he was not eloquent: "Who has MADE your MOUTH?"...and as David said in Psalm 52: "The Man that MAKES not God his strength, shall be plucked out of the land of the living." (Ouch!)...MAY MANY MEN & MAIDS MEANINGFULLY MAGNIFY MY MARVELOUS MASTER MEANINGFULLY...

"But as for ME, MY Prayer is unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the MULTITUDE of Thy MERCY, hear ME." (Psalm 69:13)...

"This is the day that the Lord has MADE, we will Rejoice and be Glad in it. (Psalm 118:24)...Just reMembering that Preacher Greenleaf always said this at camp before he sent the campers out onto the MOUNTAIN for a Morning Devotion...(I had a Bumper Sticker once that read: GOD STILL LOVES US...THE SUN CAME UP THIS MORNING)....

"What is MAN that Thou art MINDFUL of him, and the son of MAN that Thou visitest him?" (Psalm 8:4)

"For our light affliction, which is but for a MOMENT, works for us a far MORE exceeding and eternal weight of glory." (2 Cor. 4:17)

"And MOSES wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the MORNING." (Exodus 24a)...

"For I turn their MOURNING into Joy, and will comfort them, and MAKE them Rejoice from their sorrow." Jeremiah 31:13)

"That the trial of your Faith, being MUCH MORE precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, MIGHT be found unto Praise & Honor & Glory at the Appearing of Jesus Christ."

Paul instructs us in 1 Thessalonians 4:1 to abound MORE & MORE in how we ought to Walk and please God...

"Behold their 'sitting down' and their 'rising up'; I Am their MUSIC." (Lamentations 3: 63)

MAY an Angel be a MINISTERING spirit as you MOVE around today.... & throughout 2012...is my Prayer for you. Godspeed!

Cornfields 1-10-12

HA! HA! HA! HA!...HEY! THAT'S TRUE!!!! LOL

HI PARDNER,HOPE YOU ENJOY CORNFIELDS...WOULD ENJOY FEEDBACK! THANKS! Corn
Cornfields for 1-10-12...Some True...Some Funny...You Decide Which....
"People that gossip usually end up in their own 'mouth trap'," my dentist said, as I was trying to talk with her pick & 'tongue prod' in my mouth. "Ouch!"
SMILE....It's the Badge of Contentment.

"Three may keep a 'secret', said Ben Franklin...."If two of them are dead."

Sign at a Service Station: CAPPUCINO AND HOT CHOCOLATE KEROSENE...(YUM!)

"Man's mind, once s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes...(Apologies to Oliver for stretching 'stretched')...lol

Jack said he heard about a 'Skeleton' that went to the movies alone..."He couldn't find 'No Body' to go with him!" he laffed.

"I'll promise you this," Rick said..."If you'll be too busy to worry in the daytime, you'll be too 'tired' to worry at night."...(Might try this!!) lol

" a Smile is mightier than a Grin," Moonbeam beamed...

"Keep on Beefing," Judy told her Hubby...."And you just might end up in the Stew!"...(Now that's Food for Thought!...LOL)

Frank was telling me about a man that was taking Census in a rural mountain community. He stopped at one house off the beaten path, knocked on the door, and a young boy answered..."May I see your mother?" the man asked...The boy answered, "She's in the Asylum."...."Well, asked the man, "May I see your Father?"..."He's in Jail," said the boy...."Well, how about a brother or sister?" asked the man..."I have one of each," said the boy..."My sister's in Reform School, and my brother's in Harvard."......"Harvard?" said the man..."What's he studying?"....The boy answered, "He ain't studying nothin' mister...They're Studying Him!!!!"

Do not revile the king, even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because the bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wind may report what you say. Ecclesiastes 10:20

'L' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...

LET'S LIME IT UP!!!!Love Lifted Me, He Leadeth Me, Let The Lower Lights Be Burning, Looking For A City, The Love of God...Just a few songs with 'L' Words that I Love! Today, I am Resolving to LIVE each day of 2012 LIKE it might be my LAST...LIKE the Proverb writer instructs in Proverbs 4:23, I want to keep my heart with all diligence, for out of it are the Issues of LIFE....For this is the LOVE OF GOD that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous. (1 John 5:3)...Given only to help, if I would only LISTEN, LEARN & Apply!!!!....Other verses with LOTS of 'L' Words:

"We ought to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, LEST at any time we might LET them slip." (Heb. 2:1)

" I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I LIVE; yet not I, but Christ LIVES in me, and the LIFE which I now LIVE in the flesh I LIVE by the faith of The Son Of God, who LOVED me, and gave Himself for me. (Gal.2:20)

'For you were once darkness, but now are you LIGHT in the LORD: walk as children of LIGHT. (Eph.5:8)

'Come unto me all you that LABOR, and are heavy LADEN,and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28)

"Thy Word is a LAMP unto my feet, and a LIGHT unto my path.(Psalm 119:105)

In Job 8:21, even though Job seems to have LOST everything, he still believes that God will fill his mouth with LAUGHING, and his LIPS with rejoicing...(Yep! God Did!)

"But his delight is in the LAW OF THE LORD, and in His LAW does he meditate day & night." ( Psalm 1:2)

"Except the LORD build the house, they LABOR in vain that built it." (Psalm 127:1)..I've heard of several churches that have had God's Word written on the floor, underneath the carpet or tile...Sounds LIKE a LOVELY idea!...

Paul said in 2 Timothy that in the LAST days men would be LOVERS of their own selves & LOVERS of pleasure more than LOVERS of GOD....Praying that we will LAY aside every weight, as Paul instructs in Heb. 12:1... & Run with Patience the Race that is set before us! Godspeed! LOVE Ya!

'K' Words....

Let's KEEP on KEEPING on...But If you try a little KINDNESS, then you'll overlook the blindness...of the narrow-minded people...on the narrow-minded street. (Line from Glenn Campbell's song, Sunflower)..That being said, I am resolving today, to be more KINDLY affectioned toward one another, as Paul said in Romans 12:10...Just KNOWING that Jesus made a Resolution when He said, "I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. (John 14:3) 100% Positive Jesus will KEEP His Resolution...Praying that I will keep all 26 of mine as I Post Day 10 in my 26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...'K' Words...

"KEEP me as the apple of your eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings." David said this in Psalm 17:8...I've heard it said that if God had a refrigerator that our picture would be on it. LOL...as if God would ever need such a thing. David also said in Psalm 34:8.."KEEP my lips from evil & my tongue from speaking guile."...May it be as Paul said in Romans 8:36..."For Your sake we are KILLED all the day long.

"Blessed are they that that read, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and KEEP those things which are written therein, for the time is at hand."....'For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now we KNOW in part, but then we shall KNOW, even as we are KNOWN." (I Corinthians 13:12)...

" That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work & increasing in the KNOWLEDGE of God.." (Col. 1:10)...

"KNOCK and it shall be opened unto you...To they that KNOCK, it shall be opened. (John 7:7-8)...

"But grow in Grace & KNOWLEDGE of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ; To Him be Glory, both now & forever. (2 Peter 3:18)...

Just as Nick Saban honored his earthly father after Alabama's Championship Win last night, and as Tim Tebow honors his Heavenly Father after victories, just KNOWING that it is always good to remember those who help us to succeed , at whatever we're attempting, and KEEP the faith, as Paul told Timothy...

Uplifting to see Tebow take a KNEE after a victory on the field. Please note that David said in Psalm 50:23 NIV..."He who sacrifices thank offerings unto Me, prepares the way so that I may show the salvation of God."...God Still Answers KNEE-MAIL...

KNEEL at the Cross- Leave every care...
KNEEL at the Cross- Jesus will meet you there.

'J' Day....26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting....

JUMPING FOR JOY!!!!!!!

O God, help me to get the exercise I need in 2012.... without JUMPING to Conclusions. Even if I have the truth (All the facts), help me not to JUMP over virtues like kindness & helpfulness.... to say or write something that might be considered hurtful, or JUDGMENTAL, to one of your children...And God, as much as I like JUMPING on my Rebounder, thinking my Granddaughter might like it better, as she had her 3rd Birthday Party at 'The Bounce House' in Knoxville....What a JOY to watch Ellie & her friends JUMP ! JUMP! JUMP!....Today is 'J' Day in 26 days of Alphabetical Resoluting....Let's JUMP Ahead....

Micah 6:8..."What does the Lord require of you, but to do JUSTLY, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.....JUST knowing that Jesus said in Matthew 12:37 that we will be JUSTIFIED... or condemned...by our words.

JUST knowing also, that if I'm not going to JUMP to conclusions, I desperately need to think on the six things that Paul told the Phillipians in Phillipians 4:8....Paul said to Think on whatevever things that are true, honest, JUST, pure, lovely, & of good report...

Isaiah 59:4 says,"None calleth for JUSTICE"...Remembering that my Dad was wont to say that we don't want JUSTICE, We Want Mercy, and really that's a 'No-Brainer'....JUST knowing also that God has offered us all Mercy & Grace through His Son, who said in John 12:48 NKJV..."He who rejects me, and does not receive my words, has that which JUDGES him-The Word that I have spoken will JUDGE him in the last day." JESUS also said in Matthew 23:37...O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!...Praying the same won't apply to us...May we all accept His Word & Precious Promises...

"For The Word of God is quick & powerful, & sharper than any 2-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul & spirit, and of the JOINTS & marrow...And is a discerner of the thoughts & intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12...Wow! So Powerful.... as You are Father!!!!!

"Grace & Peace be Multiplied to you, through the knowledge of God, and JESUS, our Lord. 2 Peter 1:2

"Weeping may endure for a night, but JOY comes in the morning." Psalm 30:56

"Make a JOYFUL noise unto the Lord all ye Lands!" (I want to be a part of this 'Land', don't you??) Have a Great Day & Year!! Godspeed. JOY!

'I' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting....

PRAYING HE COMES INTO OUR HEARTS & STEPS...

Remembering all those days when a 'week of camp' would end at CCYC, where we lived for 31 years. It was nearly always a 'time for tears', ..Those that had cried to go home the previous Sunday, could now be seen crying because they had to go home. Saddened that they would be leaving behind friends, they now felt like they had know all their lives, but 'Tears of Joy' also, for they now felt closer to God than they ever had, and were as 'INSPIRED' as they had ever been, with a Hundred 'new songs' & a Thousand 'new memories' now locked in their heart & mind....One 'Last Thing' to do before leaving the mountain: Campers & Faculty joining hands in a 'Big Circle' (Often over 100 strong), linking hands & hearts as they sang:
INTO my Heart! INTO my Heart!
Come INTO my Heart Lord Jesus...
Come IN today...
Come IN to stay....
Come INTO my Heart Lord Jesus....( The campers would then turn 'Outward & sing the song again), changing the 'IN' to 'Out', as they looked out off Baldwin Mountain,changing the 'Come' to 'Go'... signifying that they would be taking Jesus with them as they went back to their homes, and schools & world... ready to tackle any problem, or swat away any 'fiery dart' that Satan might throw at them...

Today IS 'I' Day IN 26 days of Alphabetical Resoluting...I am Resolving that I don't want to have an IDLE mind, and absolutely don't want an IDOL on my mind! lol...INSTEAD, let me be like David in Psalm 119:112; "I have INCLINED my heart to do Your statutes forever."....At least for 2012, if God allows me to live... & INHERIT eternal life with our IMMANUEL, IF not...

Jesus said in Revelation 22:16: "I, Jesus, have sent my Angel to testify unto you these things in the Churches, I Am the Root & Offspring of David, and The Bright And Morning Star."....Jesus is the Best 'I' Salve known to us mortals, and will enable all of us to Look on the 'Bright Side' of any situation.

When the disciples were frightened out of their wits, when the violent storm came on them as they were crossing the Sea of Galilee in a ship, not so much by the storm, but by Jesus, who was walking on the water toward them, and they thought Him to be a ghost..."IT IS I," Jesus said..."Be not afraid!"....Jesus calmed that storm, and isn't it true that sometimes, Jesus Calms the Storm & Sometimes, He 'Calms His Child'...& lets the Storm Rage!

Peter said IN 1 Peter 1:4: "He gives an INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE & Undefiled, Reserved IN Heaven For You."

There was 'No Room IN the INN' for Jesus when He was Born, but Certainly we can 'Make Room IN our Hearts & Minds' for the One who INSPIRES Scripture ...And Us, and as Paul said in Romans 1:20, "The INVISIBLE things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, so that we are without excuse.

Jesus will say to the Sheep on that day when He arrives, Blazing in His Beauty with His Angels: "I was Hungry & You Fed Me...I was Thirsty & you gave Me Drink...I was Homeless & you gave Me a Room...I was Shivering & you gave ME Clothes...I was Sick & you Stopped to Visit...I was IN Prison & you came to see Me...

Praying we are All 'IN Christ' this second Lord's Day of 2012, and 'Every Day' that God allows us to live on His Footstool. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

'H' WORDS...26 DAYS OF ALPHABETICAL RESOLUTING...

HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!

Hi! Hello! Howdy! How ya doin'? Hope things are Humming right along at your House today, or should I say HOME? Sounds better doesn't it? Probably because it takes a HEAP of Loving to make a HOUSE a HOME...HOPE the HALLS of your HOME are 'Bursting with Love'! HANG with me as my HOT HEART HOVERS over 'H' words in my 26 days of Alphabetical Resoluting....In 2012, I want to be as David says the 'HART(Deer) Panteth after water...Resolving that my HEART will Pant after the Water of Life, Whose statutes are said to be 'Sweeter than HONEY...or the HONEYCOMB' (Psalm 19:1)...And as John said, "Beloved, I wish above all things, that you might prosper, and be in HEALTH, even as your soul prospers." (3 John 2)

In the shadow of HIS HAND HE HAS concealed me; and HAS also made me a 'Select Arrow'. HE HAS HIDDEN me in HIS Quiver. (Isaiah 49:2 NASB)...My times are in HIS HAND. (Psalm 31:15)...When I was a kid, growing up at HARMAN, Virginia, in the 40's & 50's, Dr. J.P. Sutherland HAD this sign on HIS wall: THE BEST PLACE TO FIND A HELPING HAND IS AT THE END OF YOUR OWN ARM...I thought about that a lot while receiving HUNDREDS of Shots from that HUMBLE Doctor, who HELPED many thousands, and was a devout Christian.

"The HEAVENS declare the Glory of God, and the firmament shows HIS HANDIWORK." (Psalms 19:1)...The Mighty HAND OF GOD Created it all! HALLELUJAH!..."I will HOPE continually, and yet praise Thee more and more." (Psalms 71:14)

Jesus said, "If any man HONOR Me, HIM I will HONOR," (John 12:26) and HIS brother James said, "HUMBLE yourself in the sight of the Lord and HE shall lift you up." (James 4:10)...HOPING to be among the Blessed Jesus referred to in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are they who HUNGER & Thirst after Righteousness."

'Today, if you HEAR my Voice, HARDEN not your HEART," Paul said, quoting Jesus in Hebrews 3:15...& Jesus also said in Luke 8:18: "Take HEED HOW you HEAR." Let us HOLD Fast & put on the HELMET of Salvation that we might be a HELPER, and not a HINDRANCE, as we strive for HOLINESS in 2012.

'G' Words...Day 7...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting......

LET'S GO FOR IT!!!!!

GOD is GREAT; GOD is GOOD...Let us thank Him for our food. For most of us, we cut our teeth on this little rhyming prayer. Most assuredly, GOD is GOOD & today is G Day, or GOOD Friday, in my 26 days of Alphabetical Resoluting. I'm resolving to be GOOD at faithfully praising GOD in 2012..."GREAT is our God, and GREATLY to be praised." (Psalm 48:1..And as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10:31: "Whether therefore, you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the GLORY OF GOD...It's not for our GLORY, but the GLORY of our Creator...As James said in James 1:7: "Every GOOD GIFT, and every GREAT GIFT is from above, and comes down from the Father Of Lights."..GLORY to GOD in The Highest!

But, if you think about it, how can we be GOOD, without GIVING, and GIVING has it's reward, for our Lord proclaims, "GIVE and it will be GIVEN unto you, Full Measure, pressed down and running over, shall the Lord press into your bosom."...A GOOD friend of mine is often saying, "There are two kinds of people: GIVERS & Takers, but if we do as GOD wants us to, we'll be GIVERS & GETTERS, especially of the things that really matter.

Proverbs 4:7: "With all your GETTING, GET Understanding." When we understand that GOD wants us to GIVE GENEROUSLY, of not only our Possessions, but also our Time, Talent, Love, and whatever we've been GIVEN, we can feel GREAT only if we're using our GOD-GIVEN GIFTS...Jesus said in Mark 10:43: "They that would be GREAT among you, let them be your servant." (Thinking, however, that if we're doing anything for the sole purpose of being GREAT, we're 'missing the mark')...Let's be 'GOOD for GOODNESS sake', because it's not Santa that we need to be ready for, but the GOOD SHEPHERD is the ONE who's 'Coming to town', for the Sheep of His Pasture...& not the GOATS.

GLORIOUS GOD, I ask not for GOLD, or any other thing that will soon perish, but rather, that all the GUYS & GALS reading this will find GRACE in your sight, knowing Your Son has already conquered the GRAVE, and has ascended back to GLORY, but knowing that he GAVE us marching orders before He ascended: "GO ye into all the world and preach the GOSPEL to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." (MARK 16:15-16)

Praying that we have all obeyed this command, and please GRANT, O GOD, that we will all come to realize that "GODLINESS with Contentment, is GREAT GAIN." 1 Timothy 6:6...For what would it profit any of us, if we were to GAIN the whole world...and lose our own soul...In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.

FORGING ahead with the FATHER in 2012....

GETTING READY TO FLY HOME...

In 2012, I want to FORGE ahead and be a FAITHFUL FOLLOWER of our FATHER God, as we look at 'F' Words in 26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...Consider what Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 2:11..."It is a FAITHFUL saying, and worthy of all acceptation: FOR if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him. (He knows our rising up & lying down, and is FAMILIAR with all our ways. Psalm 139:3)..That's our FRIEND!...Who offers us Loving FAVOR, which the Proverbs writer declares is 'Better than Silver & Gold'...Proverbs 22:1...Consider 1 Kings 8:56..."There has not FAILED one word of all His Good Promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant."
A good acronym for F.A.I.T.H. is Following And Investing Time Heavenward. We won't regret time spent being a FAITHFUL FOLLOWER of our FATHER.

FAITHFULNESS! FAITHFULNESS
Is all I ask FOR.....
FAITHFULNESS! FAITHFULNESS!
Is all He wants FROM me. (Love this little chorus we sang at camp.)

FACE to FACE with Christ my Savior,
FACE to FACE, what will it be....
When with rapture I behold Him,
Jesus Christ, Who died for me?

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter! FEAR God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13

Let us FIX our FOCUS on the FRIEND who 'Sticks Closer than a Brother', as we FLEE youthful lusts to become a FAITHFUL FOLLOWER in 2012....

'E' Words...26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting...

ALL THINGS ARE DIFFICULT...BEFORE THEY ARE 'EASY'...

I RESOLVE TO RISE UP EARLY & EXALT OUR GOD EVERY MORNING IN 2012...
ENDEAVORING TO ENJOY HIS EXCEEDING..........................................................
‘GREAT & PRECIOUS PROMISES’, THAT I MIGHT BE LIKE NOAH, AND FIND GRACE
IN THE EYES OF THE LORD...KNOWING THAT PETER SAYS IN 1 PETER 3:12 :
“THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE OVER THE RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ARE
OPEN TO THEIR PRAYERS.”

THAT I MIGHT BE LIKE PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY IN 2 TIMOTHY 2:3..”ENDURE
HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST.”...EXAMINE ME, O GOD,
THAT I MIGHT BE AMONG THOSE ISAIAH SPOKE ABOUT ‘THAT WAIT UPON
THE LORD, WHO RENEW THEIR STRENGTH, WHO MOUNT UP WITH WINGS
AS EAGLES, WHO RUN AND DON’T GROW WEARY, WHO WALK AND DON’T
FAINT. (ISAIAH 40:31)

HELP ME, O GOD, THAT I MIGHT BE AN EXAMPLE & ENCOURAGER TO
EVERY PERSON I ENCOUNTER WITH YOUR EVERLASTING WORD, THAT
IS SHARPER THAN A 2-EDGED SWORD, KNOWING THAT WE CANNOT ESCAPE
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION, BUT KNOWING
THAT YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS, “EYE HAS NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER
HAS ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HAS PRE-
PARED FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM. (PAUL QUOTING ISAIAH IN 1 CORINTHIANS
2:9).....EVEN ME....MAY WE ENTER YOUR GATES WITH THANKSGIVING....

IN JESUS’ NAME I PRAY,
AMEN.

EARLY LET US SEEK THY FAVOR,

EARLY LET US DO THY WILL;

BLESSED LORD AND ONLY SAVIOR,

WITH THY LOVE OUR BOSOMS FILL.

BLESSED JESUS, BLESSED JESUS!

THOU HAST LOVED US, LOVE US STILL.

CORNFIELDS 1-3-12

(A Hodgepodge of Truth & Humor...To 'Brighten' Your Day.)
"Do Elves have to learn the Elfabet?" Ellie asked...."If they do, I could teach them."

'Ellie's ROBOT KITTY has 'Nerves of Steel'," Laddy said..."Just like Superman!!"

"I saw a basketball team having breakfast at DUNKIN' DONUTS," Rick said..."They were really Slammin' them down!!" lol

"Self-Improvement ain't much if you're just trying to look better yourself," Judy said..."But if you're trying to make others look better, it's a win-win situation, she winked.

"Did you hear the one about the pizza?" Moonbeam asked, and before I could answer, she said, "Nevermind...You'd just try to top it!"...Give me a break!! lol

"Tell me....Those are the two best words to use in a conversation," Jack said..."It's amazing what kind of answers I get with those two words," he laffed.

"It now takes me three days to not do what it usta take me one day not to do," Frank deadpanned....Come again!!!

Dentist: A person that puts two instruments and a hand in your mouth...And then asks you a question...(Ain't that right Bill Cosby??? lol)

Unhoppy: A Frog with no legs...lol

Welcome Mat: NOT YOU AGAIN

Church Sign: COME TO MY HOUSE BEFORE THE GAME...God

'D' DAY...26 DAYS of Alphabetical Resoluting...

DAWNING OF A 'NEW' DAY & YEAR...MAY WE OPEN THE DOOR & DWELL WITH HIM...

‎DESIRING to DEDICATE each DAY of 2012 to our DAYSTAR On High, who DELIGHTS in our DEVOTION to Him. You know, the One who DEFEATED the DECEIVER & DESIRES for us to DRAW nigh unto Him so He can DELIVER us from evil...May we DARE to DANCE when we feel like DRAGGING, by allowing God's Word to take root DEEP in our hearts...May we Resolve to be DISCIPLINED, DEDICATED & DETERMINED as we DISCOVER DORMANT talents in 2012...& as the Psalmist DAVID DECLARED, "They DELIGHT in the Law of the Lord, Meditating on it DAY & Night." Psalm 1:2 NLT

26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting....'C' Words

SI! SI! SENORS & SENORITAS...

‎I Resolve to COMMIT my Actions to the Lord in 2012...The writer of Proverbs said in Proverbs 16:3: "COMMIT your Actions to the Lord, and your plans will Succeed....The highly successful football coach, Vince Lombardi, said, "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their COMMITMENT to Excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."...Just knowing that in the past I have started out strong, and been CHALLENGED to Succeed, but have faltered because of less than 100% COMMITMENT....Praying for the COURAGE to CONQUER bad habits & new in 2012, not only for myself, but 'All' of God's CROWNING CREATION...(All Men & Women, Boys & Girls, regardless of ethnic origin)....He Made us All!!! Experts say that the first 21 days are CRITICAL in 'Breaking' or 'Forming' a habit, in that the brain waves have to be CONDITIONED, or Re-CONDITIONED, as the CASE may be...Godspeed!

HAPPY COMMITMENTING!

26 Days of Alphabetical Resoluting....'B' Words

BEST VITAMIN FOR MAKING FRIENDS...B1

Day 2...2 B or not 2B, That is the Question...I Resolve to BELIEVE more in the power of BELIEF....The Apostle Paul said, "I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me." (Phillipians 4:13) . I've heard it said that when we BELIEVE we can do something, that we Receive the Power to do it, even if we don't have the talent, money, or 'any other' resource. Praying that we will BELIEVE in ourselves & each other as we harness our BELIEFS in 2012....BE BLESSED!