A couple of my children and their families - rather, some of them - are heading up north today for different reasons. I've spent some time this morning praying for their vehicles, for travel mercies, and for success of the reasons they are heading up. One to one city, and the other others to another. One will come back tonight; another tomorrow. So today, I get to feed a dog. Bentley. I love Bentley. Especially since I don't have Sheeba anymore. I told my son, when he asked if I could stop by and let Bentley out and feed him, that Bentley loves me so of course I would! Why does Bentley love me? Because I love on him when I go over - which isn't that often, for sure. But, Bentley loves me and I love him. My son's response? "Whatever". LOL Tomorrow I get to go feed my daughter's cats - Lily and Chole - who also love me. Whenever I go over they will, most times, allow me to pet them. Yeah, I'm a pet person. At least for dogs and cats.
It was hard to get up this morning and I did think about sleeping longer... but it's Wednesday and 'pill day' so needed to get up and get it taken care of. Which I did. Hubby has his 2nd training this morning so will be heading out in another hour or so. I hope it makes him less cranky....he again had a bad day of letting me know I 'frown' all thetime. He doesn't consider the fact that he depresses me so with his words and actions and doesn't give me anything to smile about. Ah, enough of that. I didn't go to my daughter's last night and stayed home so heard it all before he left...but when he returned, seemed to be in a better mood.
Yes, I stayed home last night and actually got on the treadmill for 45 minutes. I put my kindle fire on the treadmill stand and watched "Heaven's Fire" (you really need to watch it!!) whiel I walked. Didn't notice the time that much since I was caught up in the movie. Lots of warfare. Watched it on Amazon Prime - only $3.99. Maybe I can get hubby to watch it tonight - I 'get it' for 48 hours after I purchase it. Some movies are worth paying the $3.99 to watch. This is one of them. In fact, if my kids would watch it, I'd pay the $3.99 for each one! It put a lot of things in perspective for me.
Hubby has always complained about his dad yelling at him growing up, especially playing football. I know his dad was proud of him (and that he loved me!) but I guess he had a difficult way of showing it when hubby was growing up. Hubby's dad was adopted so never knew his biological parents. Anyway, this movie showed this man doing the very things his dad had done and not seeing that he was doing the same thing..... and I realize that hubby is doing what his dad did. I wonder if he picked on his wife like hubby picks on me at times. Might be a conversation piece.
I signed us up for Ancestry.com several years ago but I made the mistake of putting hubby and my account as one - when it should ahve been two. Yesterday I was working with them, trying to move his DNA to another account so that he could go in and see who is actually related to him, and possibly work on a family tree. I'm sure I didn't do it right and will need to ask my youngest son, who is on it as well, to come over and help get the accounts straightened out. Of course I haven't been on it long enough to even know how it comes together.
I also checked out 23andMe that we are on. I'm pretty sure hubby has his own account on that one, but we haven't played with it either. Yesterday I looked at it and was surprised to see that they are now saying that with more testing, I am 98% British/Irish. Now that is interesting. Of course there are other 'nationalities' mixed in... it's interesting, for sure. Some day, when I really have the time to do so, I'd like to dig deeper into 'from where I came'. I know my dad's parents, his brothers.... but after my dad passed away, we didn't have as much contact. My mother's side of the family we have all pretty much kept in contact with various ones. Now with all my aunts and uncles (but one sister/aunt on my dad's side), we have lost a lot of contact. My siblings kept in pretty much contact with a lot of the cousins. One of my brothers always said that certain siblings take after our mother's side of the family; and a couple of us take after the other more. There may be some truth in that, although I dearly love both sides of my family. Mama's side was country; dad's side was 'city-folk'. Interesting contrast. I'm a little bit country and city. Isn't there a song about that?
I Thessalonians 4:16-17 (NKJV): "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord."
One thing for sure... it doesn't matter if we prefer country or city, we are all equal in the family of God. Do you know what that feels like? To belong to such a large family? Yeah, there is strife at times even in the midst of the Lord's family, because people will always be people. But when one is completely surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, they walk with Him. I've known a few people who I know walked with Jesus daily. I knew it from their behavior, and their actions. They didn't put on a 'good behavior' for people when others were around; they were always loving and kind and always doing the right thing. They have been my inspirations in following Jesus.
And that is what each of us are. If we profess Jesus Christ as Lord, we should be living as if He is coming back today. We don't know when He will be coming back; our job is to be ready. My sister, when we were talking, and I would always joke that we hoped that Jesus came when it was a 'good day' for us with our spouses! But in reality, we should alwys be ready to be taken up in the heavens to be with Jesus.
And the end times are here. We must all be ready to meet Him. I honestly do not want to be here when the tribulations happen; and I can assure you we are already in the midst of those tribulations, and they are only going to get worse. I don't want to be here for that, and I am already praying that my children will have the wisdom and strength to endure what is ahead. I pray for their salvation, that they will come to depend on the Lord for their provisions, and not think they can do it all themselves. They may think it's nothing now to struggle, but without Jesus to give you the peace that only the Holy Spirit can provide, they will continue to be miserable. I struggle daily to be whom I feel God has called me to be. Why my life is like it is - is becaues of my own choices made when I didn't know Him personally. Head knowledge of God doesn't cut it; you must have a heart knowledge. We often times have to suffer the consequences of our choices. That comes in many ways; in health, in jobs, in spouses... on and on.
If Jesus came back today, would you be ready to be raised to the heavens with Him? Would your spouse and children be ready? Something to think about.
Blessings!
