I am so Blessed

   As a new school year begins I am once again faced with having to live with the fact that my beautiful daughter is once again away at college. I was blessed with having her home for the summer, but it just wasn't long enough. There wasn't enough time, time to spend with the most precious daughter in the world, time to hold her in my arms and tell her just how much I love her, time to sit and reminisce about the days of old when she was a little girl with not a care in the world and only love in her heart.  In writing this I remember the day she phoned me so excited that she had memorized this Bible verse and as I read it today I realize that this is my daughter, she is so full of this love, the love that the Lord has ask all of us to practice in our everyday living. I have been so blessed with the gift of a child whose heart is so full of light of Christ that she wants nothing more that to share that light and love with all. God has given me the most beautiful gift a mother could ever ask for, a daughter so full of joy and love and goodness.  

1 Corinthians 13:4–8a  
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance ... love will last forever!

Sorry I've Been Away So Long

  I realized today as I was looking through the past year of blogging and all the days I posted a devotional in hopes of helping someone to become closer to God, closer to loving your neighbor, your family, your friends, that I have failed in almost all of the above because I closed my heart to all of you when I closed my lap-top and put my life on hold just so I could go through the motions of wallowing in my own self pity. There is know excuse for what I have done to each of you but I realized also that I miss you all so very much. There is nothing I can do to bring back the sister that I lost so tragically to an illness that had know remorse for taking such a beautiful life but there is something that I can do to help bring a peace of fulfillment to the living, so please accept my apologies for abandoning you for so long. I have missed each of you more than you could possibly imagine. Many of you have said that just being able to read my daily devotionals helped to bring clarity to your day, a smile to your lips and a joy to your heart but please know that you too have done the same for me. My promise to you for the remainder of this season is to come back to you daily once again to bring you my DAILY BIT OF WORD and to share with you a line of scripture in hopes that in some way I may be able to reach out and touch someones life in a spiritual message from our gracious Lord and Savior.
                               

  Let it be known that he who seeks the world without God in it will travel a long, lonely and unfulfilled life but he who seeks the Lord God daily and whole heartily will find that life is filled with a spiritual bliss, a life filled with love, peace and all that is good.
   

                Daily Bit of Word

 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 
(Psalm 22:26)

 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
(Psalm 37:4)

 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
(Psalm 107:9)

 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
(Psalm 145:15,16)

 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
(Isaiah 55:2)

 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
(Isaiah 58:10,11)