white as snow

the other day riding on my golfcart, back roads all i heard was "quiet". with songs bubbling out of my heart as praises to my heavenly father, i saw this:

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He said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field Matthew 9: 37.

So my question to self, kay what is your part in this? kay what are you doing to do about this? you know God opens the door for each of us but in a different way. sometimes it is one person at a time. like Compassion. my little girl esther of togo is my "one" person at a time. how about you? volunteer with children's church "innergize". maybe in our nursery, one baby at a time?. or maybe one person a time "celebrate recovery" addiction recovery program. so what is your "choice" of one person at a time.

i love you Lord and may i hear your voice and respond quickly. may i keep my heart clean and see you in all your perfect ways and not put you in a box. help me so i am not legalistic but forever grateful for your grace and mercy. i have bound these as a necklace around my neck and pray they are not chokeholds that i have created. i love you .

your daughter

old things new things

psst , step over here please so i can smack you. the ones that write all those instructions do this now follow this step down now step up, ugh!!! all in trying to add music to my blog..... do you know how to add music? how about how to add widget? what is a "widget".

continuation of my thank you's


fans that work
a pastor that speaks the truth of Gods Word
friends that just listen
friends that share their bounty
pajama's
quilts
fur
grandchildren
satellite
microwave
10 fingers
keyboard
ministry of the Holy Spirit as I sleep
clear mind when bedtime was a mess in my head
love
reminder of great grace


Make every breath your yes to God
Surrendered lives see all of life’s why as simply writing the first letter of “yes” to God
Only when have eyes to see God’s grace in everything, can we say yes to God in anything
Say yes to love. Count all of the gifts---say yes to all the ways He loves you!!

I love you Lord. May I never be an embarrassment to you!!

Best "friends and tomatoes"

BEFORE

AND THEN

a year gone by with my dear friend in tennessee. we keep in touch by phone but not the same, is it, as face to face? how about august 11th thru the 14th? yeah!! it is like we pick up right where we left off. our other friend charlene was able to come.

it had been 15 yrs since their toes lapped water filled with salt. went to jekyl island and had a great time. old house, all the antiques, shops and great po boys sammich, yum. then on to st. simons. pier filled with fisher people. crabs all over the place. sting ray waiting on the chopping block. food for the sharks, eek!

then the farmers market jax. unbelievable produce. the mass amount is beautiful. that explains the pictures. avocado's, hugh sweet peppers, big lemons, eggplants, tomatoes and hugh baskets of peaches. this explains the pictures.

before and after.

Speaking about before and after, Gods word is very specific and clear how important we are and His plans before and after for each one of us. in Jeremiah 1:5 and Psalm 139: 13. sometimes i get lost in my "own" world and forget that my heavenly Father wants to talk to me and remind me of His plans for me. do you? remind me not to look behind me as to what i've plowed.

i think maybe a refresher course on Jeremiah 1:5 and Psalm 139.13 for me.

compassion child

by Kay Elrod Dallas on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 11:28am

THE ONE QUESTION YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND REALLY AS

How could I have known how I’d be ripped open, made to howl too

It has no running water — or insulation, drywall, flooring, paint, chair, window or kitchen. There is tin.

Their home of tin sheeting, that tilts so precarious off the edge, that it makes my hog barn look like a palace, my chicken house look like a mansion. There's a bed and one chair and light seeping in from gaps around the tin roof. There are no windows. Three children live here. The mother, her voice is soft, her eyes large.She prepares food for this family in shadows. There's an egg carton on the floor, a bowl of rice on a shelf.

How does my theology press through the grid of this geography?

How does my faith in a land of iphones and ipods and ipads respond to a whole city of people in ramshackled tin and relentless rain washing them away?

Because whether consciously or not, intentionally or not --- faith is always responding. Either with indifference or with intercession, either with apathy or aid.

Faith cannot have a non-response.

Once we have seen, we are responsible --- we will make a response.

One way or the other

"Is it still about Jesus?"

pleading ,can't we talk about something happy and i'm torn, my eyes spill? thoughts whirl of my seed, my DNA, shallow.

Maybe we don't need to know the names of the men, women, children, fastened to the edge of the world. Maybe we only have to look in our own mirrors and ask the of the faces there, ask of the way we invest our money, ask of how we live and spend and steer our lives:

"Is this about Jesus' name?"

Or the comfort and ease and furtherance of mine?
Then he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me...Lk. 9:48

Won't you sponsor a child with Compassion!

Pray that the body of Christ would really get RADICAL

REMEMBER HER NAME IS ESTHER FROM TOGO-I love you Esther, my compassion child

My name is now Mema Kay. Nice ring don't you think. Monthly pictures adorn my desk.

　

6 days of creation by ME!

.by Kay Elrod Dallas on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 9:59am.How important is the word "THE"? How important is the meaning of "evening" and "morning". How important is the "age" of Adam and Noah. Are we to add "in the day" YOWM: when they were 930 and 950 respectively? Maybe it wasn't literal. Maybe they were really 930 thousand or 950 million years old? What does "IN THE" beginning mean? Are we to believe that beginning has another meaning? Maybe the author meant another "word"? "ereb" . To further complicate my "reasoning", is it literal "Sabbath", one day to rest. So on THE seventh day God ended His Work and rested on THE seventh day. And God blessed THE seventh day and sanctified it .The, there is that word again, THE fourth commandment. Keep the Sabbath, (THE seventh day that our heavenly Father rested and "sanctified "it) or maybe it means every thousand years or million years to keep "that"SABBATH holy? The Word is the same in verse 31 of Genesis as in Genesis 1:1? I choose to believe the Bible in the literal sense at The beginning. That way I haven't made a choice of when to start believing the Bible and its literal sense? Does that make sense? I believe in THE BEGINNING. I COME TO THE LORD AS A LITTLE CHILD. I trust what the Word of God says in the literal sense!



I know it is not a heaven and hell deciding vote but I believe that without believing the "literal" words of The bible and to "BEGIN" in "The beginning", it will create doubt with believers and non believers. You have to set your faith in stone so you have a ready answer. What else, if any, do you say "could be"? (sic) shrug of shoulders? Coming from a very dark place and science has shown there are different levels of darkness and now I speak of the literal "spiritual" deep deep deep dark, it was one of those deciding votes to believe absolutely everything in the literal sense of all that was written in the "Bible" as a little child.

Throw out what you don't like and I'll keep all of this!!!

old things new

can u imagine living in this tiny house. but many memories here, i'm sure.

love these old buildings

sometimes there are hazards!




i love riding down these dirt roads on my golf cart. it allows me to be quiet and listen to the voice of my beloved. time to worship my beloved. praise my beloved. hope you like these pics. part of why i love this life.

blood food

This morning I decided to check on the blueberries (organic and wild) close to my house. Sadly I only collected about 1/2 dishpan. But on the bright side, it looks like I'll be having some delicious deer burgers this winter. Catch the pyramid effect here, ha! More than one way to skin a "cat". Probably about next Wednesday I'll go out and check on the rest that were not ripe at that time. The rain or lack of should I say has seriously hurt our blackberries and blueberries. Sadly it will probably effect the rest of our crops that our starting to come in.

On a side note, it seems I've been working on regret, envy or whatever you want to call it but sin will do in my heart. Everytime I turn around, it seems that its ugly head (regret, envy or?) pops up. Well my pastor (Chris Watson) had no idea what was going on in my heart. This Sunday he preached on "The Assassin" and what he uses to get your eyes off of God. To start with that morning before Church, The Spirit of the Lord impressed in my heart to "impress Him". I'm like what? Impress you? Well it wouldn't leave me. Then lo and behold the message and it was all about envy, bitterness, regret, the whole nine yards. Let me first say truly I have never been a victim to those issues BUT; I lost a ton of stuff ie: business, money, friends, stuff back in 2008. At that time I thought everything was fine. I did my best and the Lord saw fit to have my offices close and me to move on. I left with a good reputation and clean heart. Then silently "stuff" started creeping up in my heart. Someone with a very large NICE house invited me over. (I had to sell my 7,000' foot home with a nice pool), the list goes on. With all the Lord allowed me to keep and all debt free and I still had envy? It was crazy! Even the bank accounts and I still was envious, crazy!. That was Sunday, the message. Monday, Tues, and Wed, different times of the day and different pastors, this is the scripture that was quoted and repeated. You are never going to believe this. YEP! 1st Timothy 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain. You could have knocked me over with a feather.

All I can say is that the Lord is good and He is good all the time. He doesn't want us to settle for anything but accept 100% what He wants to do in our life.

This is exciting. My second no maybe third post. As I go along I'll probably add music, yeah!!! Scriptures, yeah!!!! incidentals things. oooh so excited.

Fluffy dipping sauce