Weakness and Strength...and A Little Adventure Just for Fun!

 Just some turkeys crossing the road...a great way to start our Monday!

Here's a quick Monday morning check in! I hope you are all doing well and that you had a good weekend. My weekend was good for the most part. Had a few glitches with the neck spasms on Friday during therapy and also on Saturday, but by Sunday I was feeling much better, praise the Lord!  Good enough to go to church and worship with our church family...

The Praise Team singing "There's Power in the Blood" was actually recorded last year. But the Pastor's sermon from Philippians 3:1-11 is current.

If you want to sing along with us, here are the words to this old time gospel song:

"Would you be free from your burden of sin?

There’s power in the blood, power in the blood.

Would you o’er evil a victory win?

There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the blood of the lamb

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the precious blood of the lamb.

Would you be free from your passion and pride?

There’s power in the blood, power in the blood.

Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide

There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the blood of the lamb

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the precious blood of the lamb.

Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow

There’s power in the blood, power in the blood.

Sin stains are lost in its lifegiving flow.

There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the blood of the lamb

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the precious blood of the lamb.

Would you do service for Jesus your King?

There’s power in the blood, power in the blood.

Would you live daily His praises to sing?

There’s wonderful power in the blood."

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the blood of the lamb

There is power, power, wonderworking power in the precious blood of the lamb.

Amen!

After going out to lunch at our local True Grits restaurant with some friends and family, we came home and rested up for a while.  Then Lily Grace was begging to go for an adventure...a Scavenger Hunt, to be exact.  You can read all about it over on her page: https://adventuresoflilygrace.blogspot.com/2021/07/lets-go-on-scavenger-hunt.html

We had so much fun doing this, that we thought you might want to join in the fun! This would be a great adventure to do with your grandchildren or just by yourself.  Then be sure to take pictures of your discoveries and share them in your next post!  Here's the list, which actually came from the August edition of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and you can upload it on your phone here:

https://static.onecms.io/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sites/37/2021/07/09/BHG-Budget-Adventures-bingo-card.pdf

It will look something like this:  

There you see all the items you are to go searching for! Don't forget to take a picture when you find it! I think it would be fun to see how many different ones you can find in your neighborhood/town. Then please let me know when you do it!  Hey! If I can do this, so can you! Enlist a cooperative husband or friend to go along with you.  I think my hubby had just as much fun as we did. I am amazed at his patience with me and my little friend Lily Grace.  Gotta love a man who will drive all over town with his crazy wife and her cute little doll, stopping the car every time she yells "STOP!  I want to take a picture of that!"  Sometimes we had to make a few u-turns to go back to the spot because he couldn't stop as fast as I could yell for him to stop.  You get the picture I am sure.    Oh, here's a few pictures that I didn't share on Lily's page:

When we had stopped the car on one of the back roads where we like to go walking to take a picture of a fire hydrant, I looked down the road and saw what I thought at first to be a bunch of buzzards gathered around some good road-kill.  But on second glance I realized these were turkeys! A whole big flock of turkeys!!  I'm thinking someone must be feeding them for them to all gather in that spot, boy did they start strutting across the road in a hurry when they saw me:

Sorry this isn't better quality, but it was my cell phone and that's as far as it goes for distance.

These pictures do beg the question:

Why did the turkey cross the road????

To get to the other side, of course...and away from the crazy lady with the doll and the camera, I'm sure!

On that note, I think I will say have a good day!

I'm off to therapy again this morning. Praying it doesn't get my nerves and muscles all in a spasm again. I know you gotta have some pain to make things get stronger, but jeepers...

One of the fellas in Sunday School yesterday made this observation, which I thought worth quoting:

"Pain is the body's way of getting rid of weakness."

Come to find out, that is a variation of a famous  quote by someone named Chesty Puller:

I had no idea who "Chesty Puller" was, so I looked him up:

"Chesty Puller, in full Lewis Burwell Puller, (born June 26, 1898, West Point, Virginia, U.S.—died October 11, 1971, Hampton, Virginia), United States Marine Corps officer who was the most decorated and venerated Marine in the history of the Corps. Across three wars and two counterinsurgency campaigns, Puller won five Navy Crosses and earned an unrivaled place in the hearts of Marines as the quintessential Leatherneck—“hard as the frontal armor of a tank, tenacious as a bulldog, courageous to a fault, and scornful of anyone or anything that did not wear the eagle, globe, and anchor insignia.”

I might have known he was a Marine.  Sounds like something a Marine officer would say to his recruits.

But hey, it makes sense. So if I want this weakness to leave my body, I guess I need to suffer a little pain in the process.  So say a prayer for me!  Thank you.

I prefer what God says to us through His Word:

9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

II Corinthians 12:9-10

Maybe there's a blending of thoughts here...through my physical weakness, Christ's power will become more perfect in me. He will give me the grace and the strength I need to face this challenge and any other challenge that comes in the future.  This is another kind of strengthening exercise.

Okay...now...go find those items on the Scavenger hunt, and have a blessed day!!!