WARBLING WEDNESDAY!

🎶 🎶 Singing along with my ear worm at Deep Creek. 🎶 🎶 

Joy comes in the morning. (Psalm 30:5) 

This very morning with a little toe tapping as well!

This is my story, This is my song,

Praising my Savior all the day long;

Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

What JOY!

Think......Echoes of mercy, whispers of love...@ EVERY TURN!

MORNING SONG!

"You hear me when I call. You are my morning song."

When the day seems gloomy and life seems hard.........

Start each day with a song in your heart. A song of praise.

Be filled with His goodness and lost in His love. 

(Blessed Assurance, Fanny Crosby)

May your amen be "God of the Angel Armies, who is like you, powerful and faithful from every angle?" (Psalm 89:8)

Cer-TEA-tude

Certitude (aka cer-TEA-tude in my "Tea with Thee" times) is a condition of certainty that provides complete assurance. Think "Blessed Assurance."
So...this morning a BIG, strong cuppa certain-TEA is steeping.

Blaise Paschal wrote, "Certitude. Certitude. Feeling Joy. Peace......Forgetfulness of the world and of everything, except God." (Love Aflame, p.3)

I know, that I know, that I know....nothing is more important than knowing God.
God is sovereign!
Thus, there is nothing more important than knowing Him, being His and accepting His sovereignty!

Passages

Passages----Mine seemed pretty dark these past weeks and especially this week-end---- 

Life's journey is full of passages---from one season or event to the next.....until our final passage into the hereafter. 

Passing from one place to another can take on lots of meanings. Often baby boomers see aging as a passage----a prelude to their  "final" season or passage. Since December 14, I have had 7 friends or loved ones of friends enter eternity. A favorite aunt remains in hospice. 

Death is definitely a defining passage.  The life lived between the birth certificate and the death certificate identifies that final place. Knowing the Lord offers hope for one's eternal resting place and for those in the middle of the suffering it becomes a desired destination. From home to hospital to hospice to the arms of the God Himself. Those in "the shadow of death" are covered in grace and find peace as they pass over. They have the "foretaste of glory divine."

Those of us left behind are the ones who are grieving.

But God.....reminded me---be grateful for the life lived. Grateful for the end of their suffering. Grateful that our paths crossed. Grateful for the "blessed assurance" for these heirs of salvation.