Kimmy's Ponderings

leaves nose dive............ unforgiving rain .................... Autumn..........................Farewell

sshhhhhhhhh! lobotomy mind eddy brain squall L-I-G-H-T the storm has passed thoughts down cast watch and pray

red maples aflame Autumn's double entendre my soul's eye candy

Christ beauty crushed not spared Father's Lily Death. but not so not for me ____________________________ Fall maturation net pressed fullness Hope rattled forth as death sings

Reds, Golds and Greens. The Crisp air heralds winter's early coming. Funny Giggle Pumpkin Patches. Storybook Sunflower Fields .....Falling leaves calling, "Today the Harvest." Stop and smell Autumn Along the way....What a wonderful Maker. Creation Yields to the Master's master plan....Season's Change. Do the tree's cry in fear that winter is soon to come? Does the grass whine that the Sun is too hot? Do the Spring flowers refuse to bloom? All go on unencumbered their yielded being at rest. Why don't we? Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Luke 12:27

Found This Tonight..Powerful timely relevant word for the church. In our day of the 'merry-go-round' pursuing of: the next revival, manifestations, miracles, signs, wonders, false prophets. Ric points us to God's word . What does God's word prescribe for His church today? copy/paste scroll down within the first blog entry to link title click to hear: True revival Through God's Word Speaker: Ric Vargas September 2008 http://northwestmusings.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/ric-vargas-true-revival-through-gods-word/

'The fact is that, while certain things characterize the New Testament churches, the New Testament does not give us a complete pattern according to which churches are to be set up or formed! There is no blueprint for churches in the New Testament, and to try to form New Testament churches is only to create another system which may be as legal, sectarian, and dead as others. Churches, like the Church, are organisms which spring out of life, which life itself springs our of the Cross of Christ wrought into the every being of believers. Unless believers are crucified people, there can be no true expression of the Church'. (T. Austin Sparks, November 1952 - Words of Wisdom and Revelation)

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the one I can, and wisdom to know it's me.

I have known for 22 years that we are the church not the building we go to as the meeting place for worship. So when in our culture I state that I am going to the church, I am NOT making a theological statement. I AM NOT MAKING A THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT. I just happen to live in a culture that for hundreds of years when looking at the place where the real church gathers call it a church. Silly right? I am not saying that I am the building anymore than if I said I was going to the supermarket. Would THAT make me the supermarket? It's not to be about the building or the actual church/bride anyway...(why point to ourselves the church even)...there is a greater revealing...GREATER! psssst.....we are to point to Jesus. Stop being silly, we sound weird to the 'unCHURCHED.' God help me hold tongue and smile when the next person corrects me on this point that is so new and revelatory to them.

He giveth more grace as our burdens grow greater, He sendeth more strength as our labors increase; To added afflictions He addeth His mercy, To multiplied trials He multiplies peace. When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere the day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources Our Father’s full giving is only begun. Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision, Our God ever yearns His resources to share; Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing; The Father both thee and thy load will upbear. chorus: His love has no limits, His grace has no measure, His power no boundary known unto men; For out of His infinite riches in Jesus He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.