Archive | January 2012

Authorizing Update Part One

Jan23

Authorizing Update         

Installing Update

Copying New Files

XYZ is calling for an update – click to continue

 

We’ve all seen them.

Those annoying pop ups when we’re trying to

update our computer to a higher level.

 

We know that their purpose is to be a failsafe so that we

Don’t do or undo something we will regret later.

 

Some things are un-doable.  Undo is often our friend.

Some things are not.  Some things require an Administrators touch.

 

There are times that a program on our computer tells us that an update is available for a

program we are running.

 

If it is a program we run frequently, we will take the update.

If the program is one we don’t use or are unfamiliar with,

 we will ignore it.

 

We see different pop ups when we accept the update.

Once we authorize our update, it will be installed.

 

After installation, we are queried again

 – copy new files – then one more warning, 

XYZ is calling for an update, click to continue.

 

If we click, then we are instructed to wait while these files are being

copied and update is being applied, this may take a moment or this may

take a while it will say, depending on the update.

 

I am not a “Techy”.  I learn by doing.   By putzing around.

Clicking here and  clicking there.

Sometimes this brings great results.

Other times it brings on disaster!

 

I have found this to be true, not only with my computer,

But I found this to be true with my life as well.

Maybe you have seen it in your life too.

 

You are just cruising along.

Everything is going well.

You are content.

You are comfortable.

 

Then, out of nowhere,

You receive the message that there is an update available.

The upgrade is easy to take if it is already on your screen.

It is easy to take if it is something you are already involved in.

 

For instance, you might be a blogger, and this great new update is

introduced that will make your blog look more colorful or focused. 

It’s as simple as clicking a few keys and your update appears.

Your blog looks great.  Your putzing has been successful.

Yay for updates!

 

OR

 

You are just cruising along.

Everything is going well.

You are content.

You are comfortable.

 

Then, out of nowhere,

Comes an opportunity so far off your radar,

That it obscures your vision and sends you for a loop.

 

All you can think is that this is not what you signed up for.

This is not what you studied for.

This is a totally different from the forte you are comfortable with.

 

For instance, you may have wanted to blog about home repairs.

You dreamed, you read, and you studied.

You set your blog up to welcome any one who would like to learn to

Repair their homes themselves.

It is going well.  Everything is running smoothly.

 

Then you realize that on your blog you spend a great deal of time

encouraging your readers.  You let them know that the choices they

make are their own, and yes, those choices are personal, and good.

You may find that you enjoy giving encouragement far more than

teaching home repair.

 

What do you do with this?

          

                                                                                                                        -Part Two on Wednesday-

 

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

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Significant Encounter Friday #9

Jan20

Significant Encounters of the Closest Kind – The Last of the Sisters

 It’s been a sad/happy week.

The last of the sisters was laid to rest.

Aunt Kit In Jersey

Image by Steve Bowbrick via Flickr

 Born in 1927, 1930 and 1937.

The eldest, my Aunt, had her second most significant encounter this week.

The middle, my Aunt, had hers in 2007.

The youngest, my Mom, had hers in 2001.

Second significant encounter you ask?

What was the first?

The moment when they trusted their lives to Christ.

The second , the day they got to enter into His presence forever.

unhindered by sick bodies and the cares of this world.

Entering into the joy of their Lord.

We will miss you.

Daughters, Sisters, Wives, Mothers, Aunts, Grandmothers,

Great Grandmothers.

Isaiah 57:2 (NIV)   Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.

 Philippians 1:21 (NIV)   For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Colossians 3:3  (NIV)  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

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So Much More

Jan16

It has been a heartbreaking time here in our country.

It is no secret that times are difficult.

Everyone reacts to difficult times in different ways.

 

Some use anger or withdrawal to cope.

Two sides of the same coin.  Both lead down the path of death. 

The death I refer to here is not a physical death, but a death of the soul.

Shutting down everything inside that might feel pain.

Some use their addictions to shield them from the pain of it all.

Eating, sleeping, drinking, drugs, sex, and some  things that are more craftily hidden like sports, reading, overwork, perfectionism.

The list goes on and on.  As many people that there are, there are that many combinations.

Sadly, more and more you see that both young and old choose suicide to escape the pain.

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As of late, upon rising in the morning, I have been tuning in to the streaming broadcast of the

Prayer Room at the International House of Prayer, Kansas City.

They have neat DVR feature that goes back seven whole hours.

You can repeat something that you liked or catch something you missed if you come in late for a set.

Beginning this way helps to set the day in a quiet perspective.

From it, comes a peace on the inside that presides during the day, no matter what that day holds.

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Today, Saturday, January 14, 2011, I slept late and turned on the DVR for almost five hours earlier than when I got up. 

(I did not sleep that late, I just saw a set I liked that far back – Just so you know)

Justin’s set was amazing as usual, the it took an amazing turn, to which my heart was instantly drawn.

I worshipped along for a bit, and then began to write down some of the words they were singing.

I want to share some of them with you here.

Justin and his team were not singing ABOUT someone,

They were singing TO someone.

If you need this, then you know who you are.

My heart pounds in my chest as I hear these words again!

(For those who don’t know, this is called prophetic singing.

The singer sings what he believes the Lord is saying at that time.

All can be found in the Word of God, the Bible. 

If it cannot be found there, then we need not listen.)

Do not curse what I have created

You have so much to live for

Face your trials, press on,

Breakthrough is close

You were not created this way

You were created to be full of joy

Silence the voice of the accuser

Prophecy light and life

You have a destiny and hope for the future

Hope and future

You are fearfully and wonderfully made

“Repeat after me

Let me hear your voice

Just say my word back to me”

Says the Lord

“Even if you don’t feel it

I’ll take your words in my hand

I’ll speak the truth over you”

I am a son/daughter of God

(echo) Repeat after me

You adopted me

(echo) Repeat after me

 A resurrection is coming

(echo) Repeat after me

I am being changed

(echo) Repeat after me

In the twinkling of an eye

(echo) Repeat after me

Mortality swallowed up by immortality

(echo) Repeat after me

It is Your good pleasure to give me Yourself

And love me

(echo) Repeat after me

“Just say the word back to Me

Let me hear your voice”

(echo) Repeat after me

“Just say My word back to me”

The Lord is my strength

The Lord is my rock

The Lord is my shield

The Lord is my stronghold

And worthy of my praise

(echo) Repeat after me

He is the restorer of my soul

 

 

I was so moved by this.

I know it helped you.

Whoever you are.

 

(Singers singing again)

You have been marked with the signet ring of the king.

He sees every choice for righteousness.

This changes everything.

    Don’t determine your success by what you feel.

This changes everything.

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There is so much to be lived for.

There is so much more after elementary school

There is so much more after middle school.

There is so much more after high school.

There is so much more after loss of a job.

There is so much more after a catastrophic disease.

There is so much more after the loss of a loved one.

There is so much more.

YOU are so much more.

So much more than you think.

Precious in the sight of the Lord you are.

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Being marked by a signet ring is a significant matter.

Signet rings are generally developed with a personal sign or signature.

They are a signal of wealth and status.

(information from e-how.com)

This changes everything!

You are His!

He has marked you with His eternal personal sign!

Marked you for His joy and love and grace.

Psalm 23  A psalm of David.

1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Psalm 139 (NIV)

1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, LORD, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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