Sharon Sharing God: MIA

Monday, July 2, 2012

MIA

Sharon's Acrostic Dictionary:

M y
I nternet is
A bsent

If you are reading this, I am currently struggling to figure out the Internet situation up here in the mountains!

This little *homesteader* has gone just far enough away to be remote(less)!

Hope to be back soon...

Miss you guys - I won't be gone long!

"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you." (Genesis 28:15)

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14 comments:

DebbieJuly 2, 2012 at 4:26 AM
Use the time to get settled!
BTW, you never mentioned whether the wooden Indian make the hike up the mountain. I hope so!
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DebbieJuly 2, 2012 at 4:27 AM
Actually, as soon as I hit "post" I realized that what I should have said was that I think God has purposed this internet embargo so that you are NOT distracted as you get settled in the new place.
Therefore, it's a good thing.

Hopefully a temporary thing, but good nonetheless.
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bettyJuly 2, 2012 at 6:57 AM
miss you Sharon but know you'll be thought about as you continue to settle into your new home!

betty
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AnonymousJuly 2, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Get your house in order - we'll all be here when you get back! Oh - I wish you'd post photos of your new place when you're up and running!

Joy!
Kathy
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Chatty CroneJuly 2, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Good luck! sandie
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UnknownJuly 3, 2012 at 6:47 AM
Hi Sharon,

Thinking of you and hoping you will be connected and settled soon.

God Bless - Nita
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WandaJuly 3, 2012 at 5:29 PM
I can only imagine you're having a bit of Internet withdrawals. Hope you enjoy Happy Independence day.
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DeniseJuly 4, 2012 at 1:08 AM
Missing you, loving you, and praying for you.
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Anita JohnsonJuly 4, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Enjoy the quiet and take your time getting settled, but I'll be anxious to see a picture of where you are blogging from when you are back online!
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AnonymousJuly 5, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Just checking in with you, Lady Jane - thinking of you as we're in power supply lala-land here in South Jersey too, after the freak derecho last Saturday morning. War zone destruction. Hope you're up and running soon - meditating on some life lessons through all the ruins this week.
Joy!
Kathy
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JennieJuly 5, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Hope you enjoyed a restful, peaceful 4th of July! Hope you're settling in well! So excited for your new adventure...in the mountains...even closer to God, right? :)
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DebbieJuly 6, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Here I stand with my Fan and no Flame.
It's not Friday without you!!

Fie on internet providers.
Fie, I say.
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UnknownJuly 7, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Hi Sharon,

Just passing by, hope you are settling in and that you will soon be connected and able to share with us again.

God Bless - Nita
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Janis Van KeurenJuly 8, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Hi Sharon,
I wondered if you had made the move up to the mountains. I can hardly wait to hear all about it.
Jordan leaves for Boot Camp on July 18. Things have been a bit rough since his party. Keep us in prayer when you get your internet working again.
Janis
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

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Monday, July 2, 2012

MIA

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