February 20, 2007

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  Well, here I am….again!!
  
  
  
  

  Did anyone know that it’s NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY!!!!
  Well, actually I read that it does last most of this week!
  February 18–24th
  I just found out myself!
  Link to the history of “the pancake”!
  http://www.pancakeparlour.com/Annual_Events/Shrove/shrove.html
  FYI….Free Pancakes @ International House of Pancakes, aka. IHOP!!! 
  
  It is late in the day, but pancakes for dinner never hurt us!! 
  They do have healthy whole grain pancakes for those trying to shed
  those extra pounds…as I am…but we have to cheat just a little sometime, right??!!!
  
  
  

  
  
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  Hope you are all well, and blessed!!! 
  I’m going to start with a much needed prayer request! 
  My son had gone snowboarding about 3 weekends ago, and fell on his tailbone more times then I like to think about, ….I know I’ve shared this with some of you…..well, when they took the initial x-rays, they couldn’t tell if it was broken, or fractured, due to the swelling…it seemed to have been getting a little bit better, although still sore when sitting for too long.  He went to work yesterday, and lifted a compressor…very heavy, and felt sharp pain, so we took him back to the doctor, and got the final diagnosis that his tailbone is broken.  Nothing they can really do to speed the healing process, just lots of ice, and to be more careful working, He’s taking a couple of days off in hopes that it will feel better soon!  They say it can take weeks, even months to heal!  We would really appreciate your prayers! 
  
  

  

  
  

  Well, another week has passed, and I’m finally able to post!  This will probably be a bit lengthy since I’m trying to catch up a whole week here!  I just need to post more often.!!  We’ve been a bit busy since Valentine’s Day, and I hope you all had a wonderful one!   We got quite a bit of snow that day, so we were homebound for the evening!  We had a delicious homecooked meal of baked rosemary & thyme chicken, buttered noodles, and herbed steamed vegies.  No major desserts…just a small Peppermint Pattie, and a cup o’ tea to finish off the dinner!  Love that!! 
  
  It was quiet around here that following weekend…my son left early on the 14th for a weekend overnighter with his best friend…thankfully they got there before all that snow fall!!  They’ve been editing some film footage, and had worked down at the Boat, Sport, & Travel Show, and had a great time.  They were able to run the footage they edited at the show, and that was exciting…brought more business to their booth! 
  
  The following morning, around 4:30AM, we woke up to find that our gas furnace had quit running, and we were freezing….it was -3* with a windchill in the double digits outside!  We had a kerosene heater, that my hubby picked up just before the last winter storm hit, so we were okay, but they didn’t get here to fix it till around 4:00PM the following afternoon.  It took all of 15 minutes to find the problem and get us running warm, and toasty, again!!  I’m not a big fan of kerosene heaters….they just get so hot!  But in emergencies, I certainly won’t complain!  We had another 3 – 4 inches of snow the following day, but I think it’s going to be slowing down now. Spring is definitely just ’round the corner!  It’s raining and close to 50* here today, and, being a “winter girl”, I’m not looking forward to saying buh, bye to the snow, and cold weather!  Oh, I love the spring…it’s the extremely hot and humid weather, that we are so blessed to have here in Indiana, that I hibernate from!  I can handle the heat, if it was dry…it’s the humidity that I don’t welcome!  I know a lot of my friends just love the summers here…they think I’m a bit strange!!   We also got a chance to go to the Boat, Sport, & Travel Show…I love walking through those RV’s…little “getaways on wheels”!  The dog demonstrations are fun to watch, too! 
  

  
  
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  Okay, I’ve got a word puzzle that I’ve been trying to find the name of.  I guess you would call it a ”meaning within a word” puzzle.  I heard Joyce Meyer use these one day, and I’ve searched and searched for the name of the technique. You take a word and write it down horizontally, then you find a word that begins with each letter, that in the end would give that original word it’s meaning.  Has anyone heard of these…or made a few up on your own?  I enjoyed doing this with some words a while back, but I can’t seem to find where I put them now.  Hard to explain this one, but here are a couple of examples:
                         
  FEAR 
  F = False
  E = Evidence
  A = Appearing
  R = Real
  Fear  =  False Evidence Appearing Real
  
  This one I heard in a teaching one time……
  
  DEBT
  D = Doing
  E = Everything
  B = But
  T = Tithing
  Debt  =  Doing Everything But Tithing 
  
  I do love word puzzles…and I know there is a name for this one…
  so if anyone knows, or if any of you have done this, I’d love to see yours!
  
  
  

  
  
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  A Deeper Walk
  Today during my devotions,
  the LORD spoke to my heart on the subject of “Fervent Prayer”. 
  
  We know that David was a man of faithful, fervent prayer. 
  The Psalms are full of his prayers and petitions to God….
  
  “With my whole heart have I sought thee:
  O let me not wander from thy commandments.”
  Psalm 119: 10 {KJV}
  
  He had a strong desire to follow hard after the heart of the living God!
  
  “As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
  so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
  when shall I come and appear before God?”
  Psalm 42:1-2 {KJV}
  
  This is the word of a man who was deeply fulfilled in his soul,
  living in the state of grace!
  I want that same fulfillment in my soul!
  So I stop for some soul searching, and ask myself these questions….
  
  *Am I praying with the same fervency as David did?
  *Do I truly desire it?
  *Do I thirst after the living God?
  *Am I truly thirsty?
  *Do I have a deep hunger for the wisdom of God?
  *Am I truly hungry?
  *Do I have a heart that is truly seeking and following hard after the living God!
  *Am I diligently seeking?
  *Can I say that the zeal of God has consumed me….deep in my soul?
  
  These questions are a barometer for me…each morning I want to wake up
  with that same fervency for prayer, that same thirst for the Word of God, 
  and with a heart desiring to truly seek hard after our Living God, as David did! 
  If I truly walk in these things, day by day, then I can say, without a doubt,
  that the zeal of God has consumed me…..deep in my soul!! 
  
  “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
  after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
  Matthew 5:6 {KJV}
  
  Be blessed, get thristy, get hungry, get fervent in prayer,
  and let the zeal for God consume you!!
  
  Love & Hugs,
  Deborah <><
  

  

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