(((((Hugs, and God Bless)))))
Posted on 09/30/2020 9:26:22 PM PDT by JustAmy
We had a snowy Tuesday night, so lots of shoveling and plowing today. Gonna be 10 degrees tonight! Yikes.
Have a good night everyone!
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Brrrr...that’s unreal! Stay warm. I hope you don’t have to get out and go to work tomorrow.
Off until Monday! 😀
WooHoo!!
Good night Kitty!
Happy Last Day of 2020!
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Cold and rainy, burr, turn up the heat. At least we didn’t get the snow E. TN got, sister had to use a motel, couple of days without heat, they live on the side of a mountain in E TN. Crap hits the fan in Jan, I’m headed there, to close to Blue Memphis for my liking.
Ugh...
I’m looking out at freezing rain this morning.
Bible in a Year:
He himself is our peace.
On New Year’s Eve, when high-powered fireworks detonate across cities and towns worldwide, the noise is loud on purpose. By their nature, say manufacturers, flashy fireworks are meant to split the atmosphere, literally. “Repeater” blasts can sound the loudest, especially when exploded near the ground.
Troubles, too, can boom through our hearts, minds, and homes. The “fireworks” of life—family struggles, relationship problems, work challenges, financial strain, even church division—can feel like explosions, rattling our emotional atmosphere.
Yet we know the One who lifts us over this uproar. Christ Himself “is our peace,” Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:14. When we abide in His presence, His peace is greater than any disruption, quieting the noise of any worry, hurt, or disunity.
This would have been powerful assurance to Jews and gentiles alike. They’d once lived “without hope and without God in the world” (v. 12). Now they faced threats of persecution and internal threats of division. But in Christ, they’d been brought near to Him, and consequently to each other, by His blood. “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility” (v. 14).
As we start a new year, with threats of unrest and division ever rumbling on the horizon, let’s turn from life’s noisy trials to seek our ever-present Peace. He quiets the booms, healing us.
Reflect & Pray
What “fireworks” are shattering the calm in your life? When you give them to God in prayer, what peace do you feel?
Comforting God, when life’s fireworks shock and unsettle me, draw me to Your peace.
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Ping to #751 because...I forgot to ping y’all. LOL!
“Chillin” is easy when it’s 30 degrees outside.
Totally! It’s 36 here. Supposed to snow, but so far I haven’t seen one flake. LOL!
That is so cool. Kitty Cookie Monster! 😀
Happy New Year 🥂
Freezing rain is the worst! Hopefully it has warmed up by now and melted.
Happy New Year
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Indeed!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year!
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