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Sometimes we just need some good fellowship--sharing our hearts and experiences with one another.... Hopefully, this thread can be a place for that.

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1.) There are no off-topic topics in this thread.
2.) There will be no arguing, theologizing, sermonizing, etc. (Bible verses are welcome as long as they are used to encourage others.)
3.) Everyone will like everyone else's posts. :)
4.) Everyone will have some fun, unless you feel like crying. In that case, we can help you have a good cry.
5.) Seriously, let LOVE be your aim in this thread!!!!!
 
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Sometimes we just need some good fellowship--sharing our hearts and experiences with one another.... Hopefully, this thread can be a place for that.

OFFICIAL RULES:
1.) There are no off-topic topics in this thread.
2.) There will be no arguing, theologizing, sermonizing, etc.
3.) Everyone will like everyone else's posts.
4.) Everyone will have some fun, unless you feel like crying. In that case, we can help you have a good cry.
5.) Seriously, let love be your aim in this thread!!!!!
I hope the Bible will be welcome on this thread! :)
 

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Sometimes we just need some good fellowship--sharing our hearts and experiences with one another.... Hopefully, this thread can be a place for that.

OFFICIAL RULES:
1.) There are no off-topic topics in this thread.
2.) There will be no arguing, theologizing, sermonizing, etc.
3.) Everyone will like everyone else's posts.
4.) Everyone will have some fun, unless you feel like crying. In that case, we can help you have a good cry.
5.) Seriously, let love be your aim in this thread!!!!!
Amen! I am happy to share that God opened a door of opportunity for me and this is my second week on the job....it has been a long time since I have worked. I give Him all the Glory and Praise....(I posted the full testimony in the testimonial forum)
 

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Amen! I am happy to share that God opened a door of opportunity for me anud this is my second week on the job....it has been a long time since I have worked. I give Him all the Glory and Praise....(I posted the full testimony in the testimonial forum)
This is great news! I'll go read about it, but feel free to share about it here too!
 

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Amen! I am happy to share that God opened a door of opportunity for me and this is my second week on the job....it has been a long time since I have worked. I give Him all the Glory and Praise....(I posted the full testimony in the testimonial forum)

That's awesome. Praise God! I am in a very similar situation. This encourages me. Thank you.
 

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What a sweet refreshing thread. :)
I turned out my light at ten thirty...slept for an hour ...and here I am, awake again! :(
Very annoying. I’ve been laying here praying for different needs. Then I thought I would check the Site...and here you are with a relaxing new thread. (About all my brain can take right now.ha!)

God bless you all richly , and visit you with an encouraging word.
 

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I'm glad to see all of you trickling into this thread!

*****Anyone care to share if you have any special plans for Thanksgiving?
 
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Hallelujah! You mean a place that I can relate personal experiences with God and not be told I'm mistaken? Vunderbar!

A place to say God spoke to me and not be called deranged? Superb!

A place to say God stays the same? Excellent.

I'm not certain I feel comfortable without being assaulted with a pillowcase filled with scriptures!

But I'll try. Bless you all that yearn for more if Jesus and his doings.

Jesus asked "what things" ?.

This sprang to mind. Being a lifetime outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, wood cutter, trekker I've seen God in nature many many times. Deer hunting, he sent deer that came from nowhere and stood broadside to me as if to say "here I am, God sent me to you for you and your family". This happens time and again.

Not ALL is harvesting. I've spent hundreds of hours observing nature in remote places. Beautiful things he made. Watching fawns chase each other like playful children as their mothers grazed is a fond memory. They would run so fast they would get very near the ground in a tan blur as they chased one another.

Watching a mother bobcat teaching her two small clubs to hunt while the alarmed Bluejays told everyone in the woods that danger was near.

At twilight seeing a large lone wolf sitting on the crest of a hill as the sun set behind him.

Sitting on our porch as the sun sets and small flights of wood ducks sped above the stream below me looking for a quiet pool to spend the night.

This remembrance leads me to a writing the Lord gave me about flowing waters. Shall I bore you? Of course! After all, he gave it.

This is the story of a River's beginnings as mere raindrops high in the mountains and growing to a mighty flow.


FLOWING
By Frank Lee Jennings
all rights reserved ©2016

Revised Christmas day 2017 4am


Away up high the showers fall
from clouds a rushing by
to feed the little trickles
a falling from the sky

and drenching there the mountain lands
that father sea bound streams
and raise them up to seek their way
and glory in their dreams

beads forming, drops merging
tiny streamlets all sprint down
scores and hundreds fingers joining
in mountain mazes winding round

off gray ledges waters leaping
grown to rushing, skyward heaping
waves whirl bounding, ever growing
cascades riot, rainstorms blowing

a swirl fest, boiling, frothy show
charging jagged flint below
headlong into pools and hollows
motley flotsam riding high

roaring steeply down through gorges
sheer faced mossy granite hands
rays of mist birth peacock rainbows
rush away to delta lands

wider now though often parting
joined again far from the starting
merged again through many turnings
blended waters onward churning

past the farms past the houses
past the little river towns
past the fields of row crops growing
fruit grows up while roots reach down

tribes of waters dance as one
gleaming in the noon day sun
shimmering under midnight moon
stealthy in a cloudy gloom

wheeling, tilting, cupping wings
scant above tan waves
speeding flights of waterfowl
on murky river twilight bays

darkly, boldly moving ever
dawn then twilight greet the river
greet fierce squalls and monsoon bands
flotsam, jetsam joining hands

river dwellers mull the flow
net gray schools that swim below
harvest wood that floats above
glean the harvest coming home

delta river brown and grown
wise with age, youth all sown
toiling toward the sea forever
labors ever, ever flowing
flowing flowing flowing down
 
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What a sweet refreshing thread. :)
I turned out my light at ten thirty...slept for an hour ...and here I am, awake again! :(
Very annoying. I’ve been laying here praying for different needs. Then I thought I would check the Site...and here you are with a relaxing new thread. (About all my brain can take right now.ha!)

God bless you all richly , and visit you with an encouraging word.

Hi, Helen, glad that you made it to the thread! I know what you mean about sleep. My sleep patterns have been whacked out too. I decided a long time ago that if the devil kept me awake at night, I'd use that time to pray for people and make a dent in his plans.
 

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Hallelujah! You mean a place that I can relate personal experiences with God and not be told I'm mistaken? Vunderbar!

A place to say God spoke to me and not be called deranged? Superb!

A place to say God stays the same? Excellent.

I'm not certain I feel comfortable without being assaulted with a pillowcase filled with scriptures!

But I'll try. Bless you all that yearn for more if Jesus and his doings.

Jesus asked "what things" ?.

This sprang to mind. Being a lifetime outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, wood cutter, trekker I've seen God in nature many many times. Deer hunting, he sent deer that came from nowhere and stood broadside to me as if to say "here I am, God sent me to you for you and your family". This happens time and again.

Not ALL is harvesting. I've spent hundreds of hours observing nature in remote places. Beautiful things he made. Watching fawns chase each other like playful children as their mothers grazed is a fond memory. They would run so fast they would get very near the ground in a tan blur as they chased one another.

Watching a mother bobcat teaching her two small clubs to hunt while the alarmed Bluejays told everyone in the woods that danger was near.

At twilight seeing a large lone wolf sitting on the crest of a hill as the sun set behind him.

Sitting on our porch as the sun sets and small flights of wood ducks sped above the stream below me looking for a quiet pool to spend the night.

This remembrance leads me to a writing the Lord gave me about flowing waters. Shall I bore you? Of course! After all, he gave it.

By Frank Lee Jennings
all rights reserved ©2016

Revised Christmas day 2017 4am


Away up high the showers fall
from clouds a rushing by
to feed the little trickles
a falling from the sky

and drenching there the mountain lands
that father sea bound streams
and raise them up to seek their way
and glory in their dreams

beads forming, drops merging
tiny streamlets all sprint down
scores and hundreds fingers joining
in mountain mazes winding round

off gray ledges waters leaping
grown to rushing, skyward heaping
waves whirl bounding, ever growing
cascades riot, rainstorms blowing

a swirl fest, boiling, frothy show
charging jagged flint below
headlong into pools and hollows
motley flotsam riding high

roaring steeply down through gorges
sheer faced mossy granite hands
rays of mist birth peacock rainbows
rush away to delta lands

wider now though often parting
joined again far from the starting
merged again through many turnings
blended waters onward churning

past the farms past the houses
past the little river towns
past the fields of row crops growing
fruit grows up while roots reach down

tribes of waters dance as one
gleaming in the noon day sun
shimmering under midnight moon
stealthy in a cloudy gloom

wheeling, tilting, cupping wings
scant above tan waves
speeding flights of waterfowl
on murky river twilight bays

darkly, boldly moving ever
dawn then twilight greet the river
greet fierce squalls and monsoon bands
flotsam, jetsam joining hands

river dwellers mull the flow
net gray schools that swim below
harvest wood that floats above
glean the harvest coming home

delta river brown and grown
wise with age, youth all sown
toiling toward the sea forever
labors ever, ever flowing
flowing flowing flowing down

Thanks for sharing this poem. I love the rich imagery! And I enjoyed the meter and rhyme. Feel free to share more!
 
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Hallelujah! You mean a place that I can relate personal experiences with God and not be told I'm mistaken? Vunderbar!

A place to say God spoke to me and not be called deranged? Superb!

A place to say God stays the same? Excellent.

I'm not certain I feel comfortable without being assaulted with a pillowcase filled with scriptures!

But I'll try. Bless you all that yearn for more if Jesus and his doings.

Jesus asked "what things" ?.

This sprang to mind. Being a lifetime outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, wood cutter, trekker I've seen God in nature many many times. Deer hunting, he sent deer that came from nowhere and stood broadside to me as if to say "here I am, God sent me to you for you and your family". This happens time and again.

Not ALL is harvesting. I've spent hundreds of hours observing nature in remote places. Beautiful things he made. Watching fawns chase each other like playful children as their mothers grazed is a fond memory. They would run so fast they would get very near the ground in a tan blur as they chased one another.

Watching a mother bobcat teaching her two small clubs to hunt while the alarmed Bluejays told everyone in the woods that danger was near.

At twilight seeing a large lone wolf sitting on the crest of a hill as the sun set behind him.

Sitting on our porch as the sun sets and small flights of wood ducks sped above the stream below me looking for a quiet pool to spend the night.

This remembrance leads me to a writing the Lord gave me about flowing waters. Shall I bore you? Of course! After all, he gave it.

This is the story of a River's beginnings as mere raindrops high in the mountains and growing to a mighty flow.

By Frank Lee Jennings
all rights reserved ©2016

Revised Christmas day 2017 4am


Away up high the showers fall
from clouds a rushing by
to feed the little trickles
a falling from the sky

and drenching there the mountain lands
that father sea bound streams
and raise them up to seek their way
and glory in their dreams

beads forming, drops merging
tiny streamlets all sprint down
scores and hundreds fingers joining
in mountain mazes winding round

off gray ledges waters leaping
grown to rushing, skyward heaping
waves whirl bounding, ever growing
cascades riot, rainstorms blowing

a swirl fest, boiling, frothy show
charging jagged flint below
headlong into pools and hollows
motley flotsam riding high

roaring steeply down through gorges
sheer faced mossy granite hands
rays of mist birth peacock rainbows
rush away to delta lands

wider now though often parting
joined again far from the starting
merged again through many turnings
blended waters onward churning

past the farms past the houses
past the little river towns
past the fields of row crops growing
fruit grows up while roots reach down

tribes of waters dance as one
gleaming in the noon day sun
shimmering under midnight moon
stealthy in a cloudy gloom

wheeling, tilting, cupping wings
scant above tan waves
speeding flights of waterfowl
on murky river twilight bays

darkly, boldly moving ever
dawn then twilight greet the river
greet fierce squalls and monsoon bands
flotsam, jetsam joining hands

river dwellers mull the flow
net gray schools that swim below
harvest wood that floats above
glean the harvest coming home

delta river brown and grown
wise with age, youth all sown
toiling toward the sea forever
labors ever, ever flowing
flowing flowing flowing down
Nice poem Frank!
I can't compete but here is my little autumn poem

As I observed you falling down,
drifting slowly to the ground,
A sense of despair came within
knowing your life had come to end.

I then looked up from which you came
and saw another do the same,
Little leaf from the tree
you have shown me reality...

This here tree from which you came
is the TRUE life and you the beauty of it's name...
 

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God has a definite sense of humour. Today...yes it began early, I received an important email which I had been waiting for. I tried to save it in gmail by putting it in "archive". Little did I know that this feature means delete until response back again.

When God winks at you...you have to wink back! ;)

We are here on God's agenda....not our own. :)