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This is a view from a hill in Highland California.  Below this is the San Bernardino basin.  We have a saying at our church which is "The Inland Empire shall be saved." When I am on this hill and seeing this view that is the thought in my head and on my heart.

 

On Friday's we post 5 of our blessing from the week.  It is hosted by Susanne at https://susannesspace.blogspot.com/

It has been a wonderful week:

1.  I am part of a ministry at church that meets on Tuesday nights. It helps us to overcome and truly forgive the terrible things that people can do to one another.  As a mentor I have not arrived, none of the mentors have arrived.  We all have hurts in our lives and we all at time have trouble truly forgiving.  This ministry helps through a process of getting with God, a journal, and homework questions that lead us to a place of true forgiveness.  We then write a letter, either giving or asking for forgiveness.  We don't send the letter we just write them and let the Holy Spirit work.  The results are truly supernatural God.  I have written two letters in the past two weeks and have seen from God some amazing results.  My changed heart for one, but also the changed heart of one of those to whom I wrote a letter, out of the blue asked me to forgive them for the very things I wrote about.  

2.  Today is my son's Birthday.  I am so grateful and thankful he is still with us and his brain is healing, his body is healing and he is here to celebrate.  Unfortunately he and all his family have the flu. They are vegetarian (actually mostly vegan) and usually well, when everyone around them is ill. But I think the stress of the past months since the accident have taken a toll and they all got the flu. But God is good and He will heal this too. 

3.  I am looking forward to my vacation next month with a lot of joyful anticipation.  More on that in the weeks ahead. 

4. Tonight is GNO (Girls night out) at church and it is always a good time of fellowship and the word and I am looking forward to it.  When we have GNO we don't have WR (Women Rock bible study) on Thursday morning so I got to stay home and sew. 

5. I am going to a retirement party today and I know it will be a fun time.  

Even though most of my 5 faves are about what is going on today It has been a great week thinking about those things coming today.  Also I have had a lot of fun working on some sewing projects.  I LOVE to sew and have decided to get off my duff and get busy doing it.  I will post picture in the weeks to come as I complete items. 

Sewing is a calming hobby for me and I am going to try different types of quilting.  I have boxes and boxes of material, much of it given to me.  I want to use it up and so I am making things I can take to a local Thrift shop run by people who have been on drugs and on the street and who now live in a home and are changing their life to live for Jesus.  The ministry is Set Free and there are many group homes here in So. CA.  I am excited because so far it looks as if I am going to have a nice outcome on several of the blankets I started on yesterday.  

I sure hope you have had a blessed week with much more than 5 favorite things about it. I was listening to Joyce Meyer and she said she studied the prayers of Paul.  She said Paul never asked that we be taken from our problems but that we go through them with Joy.  God asked us to praise Him in the storm.  So no matter how bad it has been just knowing God is enough.

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On Fridays we post 5 things about the week that were a blessing. It is hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story

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This one, Titus, will be 10 soon.  He and I spend Wednesday afternoons together. He does homework, get a snack and we watch Sponge Bob or Phineas and Ferb, then we cook dinner before the rest of the family comes home.   He is so smart and cooks like he is much older.

My Friday's Fave Five are:

#1. See above.  I love that boy and I am so glad he is not interested yet in after school clubs.  We get to spend the time I never got when he was a baby.  His Mom worked while the two older ones were between birth and 5 years.  I got to love on them for her, but with Titus she stayed home.  I feel very blessed to have this time with him now.

#2.  I had lunch with my son yesterday and he is doing so good.  God is healing him and he is now going to volunteer at the hospital.  This will reintroduce him to the work day so that in a month or so he can go back to his job.  He and his wife put a bid in on a lovely home not long before the accident and today they got confirmation that they will get the loan for the house.  We are all happy for them.  God is good.

#3. The week was not so cold.  It is hard to be in California in the cold.  We aren't used to it.  The sun shone a bit more and the white puffy clouds and blue sky were lovely at time this week.

#4.  The fabric cleaner smell in my car is nearly gone.  YIPPEEEEEEEE! Thank you Jesus!

#5.  I went to the doctor today.  I had my blood drawn last week and it was not good.  But my lovely doctor was kind and gracious.  She encouraged me and suggest so much that I can do to bring those numbers down.  In three months they will draw my blood again and we will see how I am doing.  I hope the report is a lot better.  I am sure going to seek God's blessed help to get there. 

Friday's Fave Five

Huntington Beach California, USA.  One of my favorite places in the world.  I have been going there since I was a small girl and last spring my husband and I got to stay there for 3 days.  This was taken about a mile north of the pier.

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Friday's Fave Five.

1. Last week I had cleaned car seats and floor with a cleaner that left a very strong perfume smell.  Each time I got in the car after that, my nose would run, my eyes would water and I would feel terrible.  I am very allergic to perfume.  But this week the smell was much weaker and yesterday there was just a hint of the smell and my allergies were not so bad either but my nose and eyes did itch.  I am so thankful that the smell is going away and I am thankful that the cleaner did a good job on my floors and seats. 

2. My son suffered a head injury in December and was in the hospital for a month.  He has been home for a month and a half and when I saw him this week he was doing much better. He has a ways to go but Andrew Kabala was at our church and he went to hear him speak. God spoke to him to be patient, his healing is coming, and my son felt a warmth in his knee and the back of his head.  My son's neurologist told him to be patient too because he is doing way better than any patient they have had in a long time.  That's God! I am so thankful for my son's progress and God's watchful eye over him.

3. I am thankful for a text I got this past week from one of my grandson's that said "I love you and I miss you." I was so happy about that text that I arranged to pick him up before school and take him to breakfast.  It was a morning of wonderful conversation.  I do love that boy. Later that same day I went to pick up his cousins, as I do every Wednesday after school.  Only one of them was coming home that day.  The two older ones had after school clubs.  So that afternoon I got to spend time with my youngest grandson.  Both of these boys are handsome and interesting boys.  I am thankful to have one on one time with them.

4. I am thankful that the days are getting warmer.  It is still not warm enough for short sleeves and sandals but it is warm enough for sweaters, and to stand in the sunshine and soak up rays feels so good to the bones.

5. I am thankful that today I get to spend some time celebrating a good friend.  Her birthday was on January 31st but things kept happening so we never got to celebrate. Today we will celebrate and visit for a long while.

This is not a picture from today but today is just as lovely. 

Today I joined a group who post five blessing of the week every Friday.  I was so happy my tech-guru husband was here to help me post a button in the side bar.  I had no idea how to do it.

Now for the Fave Five post.  First to see others who have posted in Fave Five go to the sidebar button and it will take you to the host page.  At the bottom of the host page all who participate have made a comment.  You can click on them one at a time to see what they are thankful for this week.  Other commentors are there too.

1. I have been looking for Christian women, about my age, who blog.  I found them in November and have been checking out their blogs for a while and liking what I see. God answers prayers.  All can be found in the Fave Five link in the sidebar button of my home page.  These are some thankful women. 

2. I have been trying to think of ways to be more positive as I can get negative very easily.  This posting of 5 blessings for the week is going to be very helpful in my goal to be more positive. 

3.  I have determined to sew more this year and I have already sewn about 18 purse size tissue holders and given those away.  I loved hearing how excited the ladies were for the small gift.  I was not proud of myself but I was blessed that something so simple was a blessing to them. 

4. My schedule has changed and I am a bit over whelmed but I am adjusting and I look forward to getting it down pat.  I am pleased with the ministries I am involved in and glad to be there.  Last year I took a rest from a lot of things and added it all back this year as planned.  Now I have to get used to the pace again and I know I will because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 

5. I am thankful for Fridays.  I have a bit of cleaning to do and then I plan to sew.  Later in the evening, when I watch TV, I will iron shirts for my husband, and all in all it will be a restful day.  I am always thankful for restful days.  I have this plan but I can change it at will.  That is what I love best about Fridays. 

Psalm 119:74 NKJ  Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,

Because I have hoped in Your word.