January 7, 2017

Greetings My Friend, For awhile now Junior has been saying "If you don't believe the first sentence in the Bible you don't believe God." Each time he said it I thought "well, yeah". As it does when Junior says things like this I know that it will start to gel in my mind. Sunday morning I started my journey through the Bible again which took me right to the first words written in the Bible, "In the beginning God created..." There it was that sentence and it was speaking to me right off. As I read the first two chapters I found myself highlighting all the sentences that started with that and then I "saw" "And God said it was good." God created, God called it good and then there was that one mind boggling sentence "Then God said 'Let us make man in our image." Who is us? I learned through the years that "us" is Father, Son and Holy Ghost." I stop and think about what Junior was saying and if I don't believe these first few words and sentences it will be hard to move any deeper into the Word and I believe in God's Word with all my heart. It took 6 days to create the world and creation was spoken into existence because God created with the spoken word. God spoke all of creation but when He got to man God created man from the dust of the earth and Eve from Adam's rib. That act of creation shows me that God creating man from the dust of the earth meant God placed a higher significance on man and woman than He did in all of creation. We were given the job of taking care of God's creation. We were created to work, I love to work and I know that when we work we please God which always feels good to me. I read a bit more when I come across God resting on the 7th day. I learn God wants me to take time to rest and I am starting to see part of resting is resting in God. This past year or so I have discovered resting in God. Chronic Fatigue means you feel exhausted even when you have done very little and part of my vegging has found me praying often falling asleep as I pray then one day I discover I am learning to rest in God. While I sleep I am comforted, I sense I am being comforted and slowly my energy level came back to the point that I may need only one nap during the day and I am able to do a full days work. Most Saturdays or Sundays, even both days I need to slow way down, sleep a little more then come Monday I start working again. Our home is cleaner, I am able to cook more and at times I ft in some sewing or decoupage which is nice. God also reminds me that He does not want me all involved in active ministry, He wants my ministry to fit around my Parkinson's Disease. Today I got up, got ready to go to Sunday school and church, I came home and took a 2 hour nap then went back to church for Bible study. When I got up to leave church I noticed getting up that I felt weak, walking was a little shaky and when I got home I was going to write but God kept pointing to me that it was not time. Finally it came to me that I had not done any balance routines or rode the recumbent so off I went to get these things done. I feel a bit better and now writing, I see God is right. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet