Welcome to my "Open Window"...a place of hope, encouragement, and adventure as we journey down the road from "Closed Doors" to the new opportunities God places in our pathway. I hope you will take the time to go back and follow the trail of mixed blessings and fears, failures and triumphs from the past and side-trips in the present. Perhaps it will conjure up some of your own special memories, and be an invitation for you to share with others. I look forward to spending this time with you!
What Do You See Outside YOUR Open Window Today?
Remember: "When God closes a door, He always opens a window!" You never know what might be out there waiting for you!
This old hymn came to my mind as I was enjoying this beautiful sunrise this morning...
When morning gilds the skies,
My heart awaking cries:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Alike at work and prayer
To Jesus I repair:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
2
To Thee, my God above,
I cry with glowing love,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
The fairest graces spring
In hearts that ever sing,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
3
Does sadness fill my mind?
A solace here I find,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Or fades my earthly bliss?
My comfort still is this,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
(I left out verses 4-5)
6
Be this, while life is mine,
My canticle divine,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this th’ eternal song
Through all the ages long,
May Jesus Christ be praised!
You may not be able to see it in this picture, but there is a big Pileated Woodpecker sitting in this tree below:
Now you can see him!
Up, up, and away! There were actually two of them flying around, and maybe even another one in the trees back behind us as we took our morning walk Saturday morning. If you aren't familiar with this prehistoric looking huge woodpecker, you can read more HERE. It's always a thrill to see them.
I guess I am full of music in my mind this morning. Why? Well, this song above in particular...You see, yesterday morning, (Sunday, to be exact, Father's Day, and the first day of summer), when we got to church I was told that yet another of my dearest friends had just that morning "flown away" into heaven. My dear sweet Opal, our former pianist and choir member and very dear friend had left her earthly body, and she entered her eternal home on "God's celestial shore", and she, like that "bird from prison bars has flown"..."to a land where joy shall never end."...
and she had been recuperating so well from the past couple of years since she had a stroke and other complications. She'd been at home for the past few weeks and doing really well. We talked on the phone every week and she was making such good progress. But then, yesterday morning God called her home. Apparently a massive heart attack. It was time for her to "Fly Away"...we sang that song together as she played it on the piano for our church so many times in the past years...and finally it was her turn...like that big old woodpecker we saw flying away...Opal heard her Master's call, and she answered and flew away to glory.
Needless to say, I was a bit of a cry-baby in church yesterday morning. It was quite a shock for all of us, as we all loved Opal. But I can see her healthy and strong again, running through the fields of heaven, and also able to play and sing beautiful music once again. Oh, how I will miss her! But I am SO happy for her! Please remember her dear husband Larry and her daughter and family out in California in your prayers, as they mourn her loss.
I'm so glad I listened to the Lord prompting me to do something special for Opal on her birthday on May 1st. One thing I've learned in the past month regarding friends...listen to the voice of God when He prompts you to make that phone call, write that card, visit that person...we just never know when it will be the last time we will see that person or hear their voice.
So, after an emotional morning, we came home from church and the boys were here for lunch to celebrate Father's Day with us. Rose had to work, sadly, but we are going to meet up with her and Benton this morning and drive south to The Mason Jar to meet John's brother Billy and his wife Peggy for lunch, so I have to get a move on!!
We had grilled chicken thighs, scalloped potatoes, corn on the cob and tossed salad. It was wonderful. So happy our boys could be with us.
And Blackie says hello this morning from my desk...
He's looking out the window into the dark to see what's going on...
And he took over my desk chair...He's a rascal...but we love him.
And look at that rose! It came from the same bush as the other two...totally different! God's gift to us today.
Okay, I must run.
Hug your family. Call your friends. Visit the sick. Send cards to those you can't visit.
Life is short. None of us knows when it will be our turn to "Fly Away". Be ready to meet Jesus every day.
Happy Monday evening! I'm just getting around to sitting down here at the computer and trying to think of what to say! Hope you have been having a good Monday, and that your weekend was special in every way. We had a wonderful Father's Day get together with the kids yesterday. Our son Scott came and grilled boneless/skinless chicken thighs for us. I made potato salad and corn on the cob, a tossed salad, and a blueberry pie at hubby's request. Rose brought the deviled eggs. I forgot to take a picture of our meal, but here's the blueberry pie right after it came out of the oven. You can see it was bubbling over with blueberry juice!
Hubby declared it was the best blueberry pie he'd ever eaten!
I was happy to hear that, because these were blueberries that I'd gotten fresh (already picked) from the blueberry farm last month and froze them. Unfortunately, they have a picking machine that tends to leave a bit of the stem on the berries, and I had to hand pick the stems off of almost every single berry! Imagine that when the blueberries were thawing and becoming a bit soft...yeah, it was a tedious job, but no one found a stem in their piece of pie! LOL. Next year I guess I will have to go and pick my own blueberries so I can be sure there are no stems left on them!
Who knows, maybe next year I'll be able to pick enough blueberries off of my own bush to bake a pie! This is a bush I planted a few years ago, and this is really the first year it has had so many berries.
I just went and picked this little handful of ripe ones. Maybe not enough for a pie, but they will taste good in my yogurt or on some cereal. There's just something very satisfying about picking your own fruit and eating it! I consider it a gift from God! I know I sure didn't do anything to make these grow, except water them when it was so dry. But God did everything else.
Anyway, I digress. Back to yesterday...here's the "kids" with "Daddy"...
And here's the whole bunch of us.
This is one of my most favorite pictures of my hubby, reading Bible stories to our little boys in bed at bedtime. As you can see, Scott is just a baby, then Benton was about 5 &1/2, and Matthew was 4. These are very precious memories.
And here's a picture of "Daddy" and his boys and our one grandson Noah, taken back in February of 2014 at the last time our whole family was together before Matthew passed away from cancer in May of 2014. It's sad to me that we will never be able to have a "complete" family portrait again...but we will all be together again in heaven some day, and that celebration will never end!
And speaking of other great fathers...Here's hubby's father and my hubby John and his little brother Billy. This was taken at Daytona Beach back in the late1950's. Notice the Studebaker car behind them. That was their car. Our family had one of those too back in the day! They were built like a tank! LOL.
And here I am with my Daddy. This was taken on a Sunday afternoon. I think he had been reading the funny papers to me and we fell asleep. I was pretty young. LOL.
So after our kids left we took a nap too. Then when we woke up, there was quite a thunderstorm brewing.
The rain was so heavy at times it was like a "white out" on Still Waters Pond!
And yes, it did help to start refilling the pond! WooHoo! We are very thankful for that!
At one point, I could actually see and hear very small bits of hail hitting against the front picture window!
And although you can't see it here, we had two umbrellas open on the front porch, one on each table, which helps to shade our front window/porch on these very hot and sunny days. I usually try to put the umbrellas down when a storm is coming, but this one blew up so quickly I didn't have time, and the umbrella from the table on the left literally was lifted up by the wind and blown over the top of the other umbrella...
And landed on the other side of the deck outside of the porch railing on the ground! That was quite a blow!!
Thankfully no harm was done to the umbrella or the tables, but it just shows how quickly things can change in a bad storm!!
But thankfully, when we know we have Jesus with us in this "boat of life"...we do not need to fear what the winds and waves and storms of life can do to us...He rebukes the wind and the "sea", and says, "Peace be still!", and the storms will cease...
Mark 4:35-41 NKJV 35 On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” 36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.
37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling.
38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” 39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace,be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
40 But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?”
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
Even though there are still times in life when I may feel fearful and anxious about things that are happening around me or in my family, (or in the world at large), I am reminded of this story where Jesus rebuked the disciples and asked them why they were so fearful..."How is it that you have no faith?" He wanted them and us to know that when you have Jesus in the boat with you, there is nothing to fear. The important question to ask ourselves is if we have Jesus in our boat with us. If not, there's no time like the present to invite Him to join us in our life's journey. When Jesus is with us, we can sleep in peace while the storms are raging. God is in control.
Like these porch kitties...Blackie and Sunshine...sleeping in perfect peace...
And just for fun...these were taken last night after the storm...Sunshine sometimes likes to jump up onto the porch railing and watch the world go by...
"Hey! I see you looking at me!"
"Am I yawning because I'm bored with looking at you? Or am I laughing at a good private joke? I'll never tell."
"There's nothing too exciting in there to see, so I'll just lay down here on the this railing ignore you!"
And with that, I think I will close this for tonight.
Happy first day of Summer! Not sure how I really feel about that...summer is not one of my favorite seasons since we live here in the "Sunshine State", and summer is HOT, HOT, and MORE HOT! And HUMID too! But if I can list at least one thing I am very thankful for, it would be our central air conditioning...and also the fact that since we replaced our old AC unit last June, we have noticed that our electricity consumption so far in these past few warmer months has been considerably less, and our electric bill has literally been cut in half from what it was during the same period of time last year!! Now that is a blessing I can really be thankful for! It also goes to show you how much electricity the older less efficient appliances really use, and when at all possible, it is worth the expense of replacing them with newer models.
It sure beats having to fan ourselves with hand fans and other kinds of fans...Like I wrote about HERE a few years ago when our AC broke down. However, we were thankful then and would be thankful now to have those fans if we needed them again.
That hand made fan above belonged to my husband's grandmother, and I expect it is quite old, but it still works! And those coasters that say "Life is BETTER on the porch!" would be true, if it wasn't 90 degrees outside! LOL. Our porch sitting season is actually in the fall, some of winter, and spring. But definitely not summer!
Because it has been so hot, we haven't been outside much. We did take an early walk this morning before it got too hot, and yesterday we went to Walmart and walked around the store doing our shopping for a while, so that was our exercise for that day!
This week has been rather quiet compared to most weeks lately. Tomorrow we do have to travel all the way to St. Augustine for hubby's eye appointment with the Ophthalmologist. They are still trying to determine if he needs to have his cataracts removed yet, or if they need to treat another eye condition first that could be more serious than the cataracts. Hopefully we will get some answers tomorrow. Praying for clarity. (Hey! That's a good word to use in this situation! LOL).
Speaking of hubby, this past Sunday was Father's Day. I've already posted these photos on Facebook, but not here.
Here he is with his gifts from the kids...new lights for the yard. He LOVES these lights. He has them all around the yard, and he loves to go outside at night and look at them. So they couldn't have given him a better gift!
2 Corinthians 4:6 NKJV
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Our family gathered for lunch after church...Scott, Benton, Rose, John and yours truly. We had a Chinese Stir Fry dinner...partly cooked by me, and partly picked up at the local Chinese take out place. They provided the egg rolls, rice, and crab rangoons and fortune cookies. I cooked a chicken and vegetable stir fry, which was very good. We had that peach cobbler that I baked the night before for dessert.
Here's "Daddy" and his boys...well two of them. We always miss our dear son Matthew on these special days (and every day).
Here is a favorite very old picture of Daddy and his three sons, taken during the Bible Story reading time at bedtime each night. This is a priceless and precious picture to me. As you can see, Scotty was just a baby, and Benton and Matthew were in Kindergarten and Pre-school. Those were such sweet times.
(Sorry for the reflections on the glass...I didn't want to take it out of the frame)
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it."
I am very thankful that our sons have a Daddy who loves them and who took the time to teach them about Jesus from a very young age. They were given a strong foundation on which to grow and develop and build their lives. Were they always perfect? No, they were normal little boys and teens and young men who tested the waters and sometimes made wrong choices in life, but when all is said and done, they have a faith that still sustains them in their adult years, and also that carried our son Matthew into heaven when he was 41 years old. I am so thankful that he knew and believed what Jesus said:
"6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV
I have no doubt that we will see Matthew again one day in heaven.
I guess I will sign off for tonight with those thoughts. I don't have any new photos yet for "Friday Foto Friends", so we shall see what develops tomorrow. We have to take that ride over to St. Augustine for the eye appointment, but there won't be any time for doing anything extra as hubby will probably have his eyes dilated and we will want to come straight home after the appointment. The sun will be too bright for him to do any sightseeing! (And I will probably be driving home, so no chance for me to take pictures along the way!)
So, good night for now! I'll catch up with you later!
Happy First Day of Summer!
This was the end of the school year class picnic in 6th grade. I'm the crazy one on the left with the bubblegum cigar in my mouth and the feather in my hat. The other sweet girl is one of my best school buddies, Mary. We were both redheads, and when we got together, anything could happen. "Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end..." Mary and I do still stay in touch via Facebook, but she lives in another state and it's been way too many years since we actually got to be together. Maybe one of these days we can make it happen. I hope so. We aren't getting any younger.
Wow! what a whirlwind of activity this past weekend! I hardly know where to begin, so I think I will start at the end and work backwards! Does that make sense to you? Well, even if it doesn't, hopefully it will all come together cohesively by the time I am finished with this post! I know yesterday was Father's Day, and I didn't post anything at all about fathers, etc. It was a busy day and I just didn't get around to it, but I'll try to make up for it by the time this is done. Bear with me, please!
We had a couple of big events last evening going on.
As you know, we've been watching the progress of the Bluebird nest for several weeks. I've been anticipating the fledging of the new brood of babies for a couple of weeks, but it just seems like it has been taking forever! However, like I learned the hard way many years ago while awaiting the birth of our firstborn son...who waited an extra two and a half weeks beyond the due date to make his appearance in the heat of summer...sometimes you just have to be patient and wait for these things to happen!
So last night was the grand entrance of at least one baby bluebird from the nest. I say at least one because I don't know if there were others that "escaped" the nest while I wasn't looking or not, or if there are any others still in there waiting their turn, but we got to witness this one, and it was quite an exciting event!
Not at all unlike the thrill of a baby making his way into the birth canal and finally crowning and making his appearance into the world and welcoming arms of his adoring parents...this baby bird took his sweet time working his way out of the nest...
He seemed a bit uncertain as to what to do or where to go...but he kept listening to his parents' voices calling him from the treetops above him.
They were up there cheering him on and beckoning him to emerge and join them...
Come on, Junior! You can do it! That's right, poke your head out a little further...get your feet out of the opening...come on...that's right! You can do this!
"Oh, I don't know, Mama and Daddy. It looks like it's a long way down and up...I'm not too sure about this yet..."
"It's okay, son! Keep coming out! We are up here ready to catch you if you fall! That's right! Get both feet out and give yourself a little push. You can do it!"
"Are you sure? You won't let me fall? Are you sure I am ready to fly? Oh, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..."
This reminds me of Psalm 27:7-10
7 "Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me."
And he did. That's me trying to capture a picture of him flying, but he was much too fast once he made up his mind to go...and all I got was a swirling picture of something in the garden below the birdhouse. But he was already safely up in the big holly tree beside him, and his parents were up in the tops of the trees watching for predators who might try to get too close. As a matter of fact, they saw me standing on the back porch (I only came outside after the birdie left the nest, not while he was still trying), and they swooped down toward me to give me a good warning not to come any closer! I stayed back a respectful distance after that, believe me! I could hear the baby chirping at his parents, as he was still in the lower branches of the tree, and they were calling to him to come higher. Now, mind you, this was all taking place around 8:00 p.m. last evening, and it was starting to get dark, so the lighting wasn't very good and I decided to go back inside and let them continue to encourage their baby to fly to safety without my interference.
This morning I just stepped outside (it's still only about 6:30 a.m. here right now as I write this), and I can hear the bluebirds in the surrounding tree tops and see some activity, but so far no activity near the nest. I don't know if there are any more birds in the nest yet or not. We shall be watching to see. But in the meantime I need to move on to some other things...
In the title of this post I said "Empty Nest(s)" and so much more...
You may be wondering about the plurality of "nests". Well, for the first time in quite a few years we also have an empty nest. I mentioned in my last post that our son has just gotten a new job in a different city further away, and that he also has a place to live in the home of a friend much closer to his new job. And so yesterday was the day to move out and get settled in his new location before starting the new job today. He spent the weekend cleaning his room and packing clothes and personal stuff to take with him. He's not taking everything as he is just renting a bedroom, and so will have limited space, but for the first time in a LONG time I can actually see the floor of his room. (not taking any pictures of that, however). LOL But like the Mama and Papa Bluebird cheering their offspring onto freedom from the "nest", we were also cheering our son on as he loaded up his truck and took off for his new adventure.
As he got into the cab of the truck to fly, I mean drive, away, I took one last photo of him:
I didn't realize all the reflections that would show up in this photo. It was kind of cool. And then I started playing around with the picture to try and enhance it to get the full effect, and this is what I ended up with:
Look it over carefully. Do you see my hubby standing in the background on the steps, and me in the reflection of the glass taking the picture, and our son's eyes looking out at us from inside the cab of the truck? I thought it was a very interesting photo of us as we watched our son "leaving the nest".
Oh, btw, this isn't the first time he's left the nest, and I don't know if it will be the last time...but we wish him well and pray for him as he begins this new chapter of his life. And, he's only an hour away so it's not like he's going very far. He promised to be back to bake the Christmas cookies like he always does for the family. LOL. I expect he'll be back sooner than that in and out to get more stuff...but until then we rejoice in this next phase of his life.
Even if the house does seem awfully quiet...
Okay, moving right along...
I said I would work my way backwards through the weekend.
Yesterday was a special day at our little church as we celebrated not only Father's Day, but also there was a birthday party/luncheon following the service for a dear lady who just turned 90! Her sweet daughter in law prepared a feast for their family and friends and invited the whole church to participate. It was a surprise party for the birthday "girl", and a wonderful time of celebration. Here are a few pictures I captured along the way:
Someone gave her a crown and banner as we sang Happy Birthday to her in the church service:
And here she is enjoying her lunch: She looks pretty marvelous for 90, don't you think?
And here she is with one of her granddaughters and great granddaughters. Yes, those two young ones are twins:
There was SO much food...the basics prepared by her daughter in law, but the church ladies all brought food to share as well, so it was quite a feast:
And this lady is the daughter in law of the year! She truly is a loving daughter in law, who loves her mother in law as if she were her own mother. What a blessing!! I think you can see she does look a wee bit tired, however...and she managed to do all this and keep it a surprise! I was quite impressed!
And I want to also acknowledge this other dear lady and friend in our church, Norma.
It was her birthday yesterday as well, but she's just 73! Looks pretty amazing too.
Norma is the lady who just gives and gives and gives in our church and community. She heads up the drive to collect school supplies and Christmas gifts for our school children in the community. Thanks to her leadership, our tiny little church provides school supplies and Christmas gifts for every single child in our elementary school, and also for children who are homeless, etc. Norma is an amazing lady!
Our little church is full of amazing people. We are blessed.
And last but not least, yes we did celebrate Father's Day this weekend. We had our own family celebration here at home on Saturday evening because of the event going on at church on Sunday and also because of our kids' schedules, etc.
On Saturday evening the family gathered here for hamburgers and hot dogs cooked on the grill by our son Scott...(we will miss his cooking skills now that he's moved away)
We had quite a little feast as well...in addition to the hamburgers and hot dogs we had potato salad, deviled eggs, corn on the cob, watermelon, blueberry pie, oatmeal cake, and my sweet daughter in love made some delicious cupcakes with blueberries in them and topped with a lemon cream frosting. I should have taken a picture of them...they were beautiful and delicious!
One funny story was that I had purchased a less expensive cut of ground beef because it was such a good price, but the fat content was a bit higher, which is okay for good hamburgers because it makes them much juicier. However, when Scott put them on the grill to cook and walked away for a minute he came back to a fiery inferno! However, with his quick thinking he saved the day and the hamburgers.
He grabbed my container of salt and poured it all over the flames and it put out the fire. However, it also got a LOT of salt on the burgers, so he brought them in and washed them off and then put them back on the grill to bring them back up to temperature and finish cooking. Everyone said they were very good burgers! I ate a hot dog instead, so I don't know. But the hot dog was good. Oh, I need to put salt on the grocery list too, as that was the end of my larger container of salt. LOL. But it worked and saved the day!
A cool piece of watermelon was the best way to wash down all that good food.
Happy Father's Day to my sweet hubby. He's not only a sweet hubby, but he has always been a great father to our three sons and a wonderful grandfather to our one grandson.
Oh, and he's a great grandfather to the grand puppies too! Sugar and Spice had to come and help us celebrate!
Okay, with all of that good food this weekend I had to get back on my special diet today:
This was my breakfast this morning: Yogurt with cheerios, pumpkin seed and flax granola, strawberries, blueberries and chia seeds! Very tasty!
Okay, to close out this post so we can get on with our day, I wanted to share these pictures I took yesterday afternoon of the beautiful Monarch Butterfly that has been flitting around our butterfly garden all week. I do hope she has laid some eggs on those milkweed plants so that more butterflies will be coming in the future.
But, in case you didn't notice, this butterfly has a broken wing...
In spite of her infirmity, she continues to gaily fly about the flowers and trees, sipping nectar and enjoying the beauty surrounding her.
She gracefully shares her beauty with us even if it has been at some cost to her.
I don't know how long she can continue on like this, but I am thankful for her sharing her life with us during these days of some anxiety and uncertainty about the future on different fronts.
She reminds me of the verses in the Bible that I know I've quoted often, but they bear repeating in the current state of affairs in our nation and world:
Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
It's easy to get anxious and worried about our future when we listen to the news today. But Jesus reminds us that He's already got our needs taken care of...we just need to trust Him...seek His kingdom and righteousness first, and He will take care of the rest. That is very comforting to know. I can commit my future, my children's futures and even my grandchild's future into His loving hands and know that we will be taken care of. It takes a lot of faith to leap out of that birdhouse/nest/comfortable home/job/whatever the situation may be when we can't see what the future holds. But God is already there waiting, cheering us upward and onward. We need not fear what we cannot see when we place our trust in the One Who has already planned our lives to the last detail. So if you are teetering on the edge of a proverbial cliff today, not sure what to do next...put your hand in the hand of the One Who stilled the waters and calmed the sea...How many of you remember this old song?
"Put Your Hand In The Hand" by Ocean Lyrics:
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from-a Galilee.
Ev'ry time I look into the Holy Book I want to tremble (tremble)
When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple (temple)
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas
Than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be.
So put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By putting your hand in the hand of the man from-a Galilee.
My mama taught me how to pray before I reached the age of seven
She said, "There'll come a time when there'll probably be room in heaven"
But I'm feeling kinda of guilty 'bout the number of times
To do what we must do
Oh we forget what he said when we figured that he'd still make room
(So, you gotta)
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself and-a you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee
(everybody come along)
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water (stilled the water)
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea (calmed the sea)
Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently
By putting your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee.
So let's put our hand in the hand of the "man from Galilee"...Jesus Christ...and He will take care of the rest. Have a blessed and wonderful week my friends. And thank you for all of your kind comments on my last post. You are all so encouraging and kind. I thank God for each one of you.
