Please if I didn't like your post yet, don't be mad OK?
I like reading before liking
I better not like than do without reading to the end
I would create time to read your wonderful post to the glory of God the Father
Nite nite
I'll be running the dishwasher later after we eat. Later, I will empty it and put away the dishes. I'm using a new brand of dish detergent pod to see what happens. For me this exciting stuff.![]()
Please if I didn't like your post yet, don't be mad OK?
I like reading before liking
I better not like than do without reading to the end
I would create time to read your wonderful post to the glory of God the Father
Nite nite

Chloe is about 5 years old, Shelly says cats average 3 litters per year. So this is at least Chloes 14th litter..![]()
I woke up early again today, not that I had to this time, but because I got to worship freely on the hill top as it were. Or in my case today on the streets of my city. I walked around outside in my community just praying and enjoying the cool breeze, and watching the community wake up slowly, for it was still dark out turning to dawn. I have prayed up and worshipped hard! I have listened to some music as well and done devotions with people as well - I was touched by this song this morning which I will share with you:
https://youtu.be/Q06Y9X4_DsI
After being graced up for the day thru coming to the river to pray, I realized all this alone time with God only aides me in the times I spend in here and with people, for it gives me perspective and a unyielding hope and enthusiasm of the things of God.
God spoke to me this morning about how God's purpose for us is to have a loving union with Him at the end of our journey. We joyfully detach from certain behaviors and activities for the purpose of a more intimate, loving attachment to God. And as I teared up and thanked God for His relationship with me, He shared we are to enjoy the world, for God's creation is good. We are to appreciate nature, people, and all of God's gifts, along with His presence in Creation - without being ensnared by them. Those who are the most detached on the journey are best able to taste the purest joy in the beauty of created things.
It reminds me of Thomas Merton who summed up our challenge well: "I wonder if there are 20 men alive in the world now who see things as they really are. That would mean that there were 20 men who were free, who were not dominated or even influenced by an attachment to any created thing or to their own selves or to any gift of God.
As I walked, and breathed in the fresh air of Morning, I was reminded that the journey with Jesus calls us to a life of undivided devotion to Him. This requires that we simplify our lives, removing distractions. Part of that will mean learning to grieve our losses and embrace the gift of our limits.
"Dear Heavenly Father, today teach me to trust You even when I do not know where You are going. Help me to surrender and not turn inward into myself out of fear. The storms and winds of life, O Lord, blow strongly all around me. I cannot see in front of me. Sometimes I feel like I am going to drown. Lord, You are centered, utterly at rest and peace.
Open my eyes that I might see You are with me on the boat. I am safe. Awaken me, Jesus, to Your presence within me, around me, above me, and below me. Grant me grace to follow You into the unknown, into the next place in my journey with You. Thank You Father for this Mornings adventure and time alone with You, and I pray from it Your grace gets tossed amongst all Your Saints in loving adornment of You! In Jesus Name I pray - Amen."
GOOD MORNING CREW! HOW RR YOU?
I had to go out to use a phone again today (to call my daughter, who I will not be seeing this weekend due to my being sick), so I went and got coffee also, and visited with a woman who used to live in my building. She was evicted when she was hospitalized over a year ago now I think; I used to see and visit with her at the coffee shop quite often, and she disappeared for a while, so I wondered what had happened to her. It is so nice to see her around again, even though she does not live in my neighborhood any moreI have known her for many years; though she cannot remember when she moved into the building, I have been here since '91, and I am pretty sure she was here then
Okay, funny story. While waiting at the corner for the light to turn green, a guy said to me, "Hello, Dianne?" I immediately countered with, "Magenta" and he said, "Oh, I got you mixed up with somebody else, you look a lot like my friend Diane. I was going to say you look great, because the last time I saw you, you were in a wheel chair." Haha, I said, "I am up and about! (I made the extended bent arms up double fisted champion gesture) I thought you were going to say, 'You look great, you have lost weight!' and I would have told you that you were the first person to notice."
We had a little chat as we crossed the street together and then I allowed him to walk on ahead of me as I continued on to the coffee shop, where I had the little visit with my former neighbor![]()
Then when I go home, another neighbor of mine was waiting in his scooter for the elevator. Three of us got on together, and I asked the guy in the scooter, if this was a new vehicle for him. He replied that unfortunately it was not, since he has been in it for over a year now, and I told him I had not seen him for a while, to which he responded, he had been hospitalized most of last year, so I asked him what happened, and he said it was his heart, and his liver, and his intestines. So then I asked him what his prognosis was, and he said it was good, and I old him I was glad to hear that, and wished him luck. He is hoping that the scooter is a not a permanent aid.
So I would ask any that have read this uncharacteristically long post of mine, to please pray for my neighbor in the scooter (I do not know his name, but God will know who you mean) and also for Angie, who is my former neighbor, and also suffers with various medical conditions. She is 73. Thank you.
Still watching the kittie-cam
We had a nice walk together, did we not?Thanks for sharing with us, Magenta. I feel like I went with you on your walk and got a coffee, too! I will be praying for the "scooter man" and Angie.![]()
Some entertainment while we're waiting for kittens to arrive.......
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Lafftur, none of your images show up for meSome entertainment while we're waiting for kittens to arrive.......
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Lafftur, none of your images show up for me
They are all those dreaded x-in-a-box
We had a nice walk together, did we not?Thanks for reading all that, Lafftur!
And thank you for adding your prayers for scooter man and Angie. I appreciate it
I have lived in this building for 27 years now, and seen a lot of people come and go, and others, grow old and die. Well, not watched them die literally, but seen them grow old, go into a sudden steep and rapid decline, and then disappear only to find out later that yes, they are now deceased. A recent one was a woman who reached her 90th birthday before doing so. She had been quite active, a very tall and big boned able bodied woman who suddenly was shriveled down to tiny and in a wheel chair. I had seen her starting to use a walker, and she had an assistant for some time, and then, I no longer saw her around, but ran into her aid one day, and was informed of her passing. Sorry to get all morbid on y'all.
My daughter's paternal grand dad just turned 96Please pray for him. He gives me a Christmas card at Christmas time and says things to me like, "You are the only Christian I know any more."