"People Who Need People" Updated for RJD

I just discovered that today is our very last Random Journal Day. (click on link for more details)..after four years of sharing our hearts from our journals, we've decided to bring this little journey to an end. But it has been a journey of love and dreams and hopes and adventures shared between friends who, for the most part, have never met each other in person.  Just a group of "friends" who discovered each other through our blogging...and God has blessed us with a friendship that I sincerely hope will continue on long after we close this chapter in our lives.  I feel a little sad even writing this. My thanks to Dawn Paoletta of http://enthusiasticallydawn.com/, for being the hostess with the mostest on this journey. She has kept us motivated and inspired and connected, often when we were lacking the enthusiasm necessary to keep going.  Dawn is a true encourager and motivator, and her blog title "Enthusiastically Dawn" is a perfect description!  Thank you, Dawn. You are such a blessing to all of us!

Susie Klein, our lovely co-host, is also known as "Recovering Church Lady", and she has just graduated from blogger to bonafide author!!! Her new book, "Walking Butterfly-Comfy Cocoon to Flying Free" has just been published this past week and can be purchased at Amazon.com today! I can't wait to receive my copies in the mail this next week!  I've already had a sneak preview, and I can assure you it is a love story you won't want to put down.

Please check out the rest of our wonderful blogging/journaling friends at the link up here:http://www.inlinkz.com/new/view.php?id=605689.  

Now, here is my entry for today.  This was originally written exactly four years ago, when we were getting ready to move into our current home.  We've been through a lot of changes since this was written, but I can assure you that we are still "People Who Need People"...and we are the "luckiest BLESSED people in the world!".  God has blessed our home here in so many ways...and beyond the actual relationships with people in our immediate world, He has blessed us with these marvelous cyber-friends as well.  Some day we will all meet for real, whether here on earth, or in heaven above, and we will rejoice in the gift of friendship for eternity.




"Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!  They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted.  for You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn is exalted."  Psalm 89: 15-17


Barbra Streisand singing "People"   Remember this song? Click on the link to take a step back in time...and then please come back and finish reading this...


Last night I was having a time of reflecting over the past few weeks' activities, and I suddenly became overwhelmed with joy at what the Lord was doing in our lives.  Although you may think this is crazy, I was in the shower cleaning up from a long day of painting and cleaning at our soon to be new home...and as I thought about all the people in our lives who have been bending over backwards to help us get ready for this big move, and for those people who actually have made it possible for us to even consider such a move,  I suddenly broke out into singing "People Who Need People are the luckiest people in the world..." Barbra Streisand style...   No, I don't proclaim to be as good of a singer as Barbra Streisand, and I am certain my family members sitting in the other room trying to watch TV will agree to that, especially when I sang it over and over and over again, louder and louder...mostly the same words over and over because I couldn't remember all the verses...but it was a celebration of joy...I was actually thanking the Lord for bringing people into our lives...other "people who need people" just like us...and I realized what that song was really all about.  "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world", (although I would probably say they are the most blessed people in the world since I don't really believe in the word "luck"). 

There is something wonderful about needing other people...and other people needing you as well...and when God brings those people together to encourage one another and actually help out when someone is in need, both parties benefit from the united effort.  The people who needed the people are blessed, and the people who responded to help are also blessed. I really think that's what God intended for His people to do...need each other, and then do something to help each other. 

Our new house is actually a fulfillment of a life-long dream...perhaps in a small way, but also in a beautiful way. http://pamelasopenwindow.blogspot.com/2011/02/some-yearnings-of-my-soul.html  This reference is a link to a previous post that I shared with you last year about "my dream home".  That particular post was kind of skimming the surface of the whole dream of the kind of home I wanted to have someday...and although this particular new home does not quite meet all of those specifications, I have begun to realize that God is in fact answering my prayers.  He is creating a "home that is a haven for people who need to feel ‘at home’", just like I requested.  The people He has already brought into our midst who are right there helping us get the house ready to move into are exactly that..."people who need to feel at home", and we are more than happy to welcome them into our home.  I guess the realization of this is why I was just so elated that I had to break out into singing last night! 

"Oh sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. sing to the Lord, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.  Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.  For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods."..."Give to the Lord, O families of the peoples, Give to the Lord glory and strength.  Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.  Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!"

Psalm 96:1-4, 7-9

Our "Camp in the Woods" House...Don't judge a book (or a house) by its cover...the love inside may surprise you!
"Mi Casa es su Casa", which in Spanish says, "My house is your house"...so y'all come! Oh, and bring your best talents and ideas, 'cause we are "people who need people" with good ideas and abilities!  :)

Thank you Lord, for bringing "people who need people" into our lives, because we too, are a needy people, and we consider ourselves very lucky (BLESSED) indeed.  I can't wait to meet all the new people You are going to send our way.  Thank you, Jesus, for answering our prayers. Amen.

This is how our home looks now, 4 years later!
 (picture taken in the summer when the sycamore trees where in full foliage)