ANOTHER THANK YOU JESUS

I know.  This picture probably would not mean a thing 

to you.  It's just a cut up tree.  But let me explain why it 

makes me happy, happy, happy.

You see about five years ago when I was only seventy-nine

years old I came down with "Aplastic anemia".  That means

that my body quit making blood.  I hope you know, you have

to have blood to live.  And I did not remember it, but being 

as I cannot spell all these neat words like, "Aplastic" and

"anemia" I pulled out one of my "primary care physician's"

reports to see how to spell it.  It also listed me as having

"Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic chronic kidney

disease,"  what ever that is.

Yes, I had to live on other people's blood for about two

years.  That was a lot of hospital time.  But, I and a lot

of other people pray.

Back to being happy.  About four years ago if I wanted

to go down to my shop and do something, I could not even

walk it.  I would drive my truck the 150 to 200 ft. down or

back.  But God has been healing me.

The tree.  Last Friday night we had the worst storm I 

remember having here in the last forty-five years.  That

tree was blown over in the front yard.  So I decided I

wanted to get it out of the yard today.

Yep.  I cut it up as you can see, AND moved the three

truck loads of brush from it over to the burn pile all

today with time to spare.

Do you see why I am happy, happy, happy and have 

been thanking God all afternoon.

THE RIVER

"He told me of a river bright

That flows from Him to me,

That I might be, for His delight,

A fair and fruitful tree."

- Tersteegen

[ Hudson Taylor's favorite poem]

THE BLESSED PERSON

"Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel

of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD;

and on his law he meditates day and night.

And he shall be like as tree planted by the rivers

of water, that yields his fruit in his season;

his leaf also will not wither;

and whatever he does will prosper.

The ungodly are not so: but are like chaff

which the wind drives away.

Therefore the ungodly will not stand

in the judgment, nor sinners in the 

congregation of the righteous.

For the LORD knows the way of the 

righteous: but the way of the ungodly

will perish."

(Psalms ch. 1 AKJV) 

ANOTHER PRAYER ANSWERED

God answered another prayer for me.

This tree was struck by lighting last year.

At that time all it did was knock our internet out.

It only took someone who knew what they were doing

and a new router.

When I discovered the tree that was hit, it was

just across the fence in the neighbors field.  If it fell,

it most likely would hit our place.

I have spent many years cutting fire wood.  If you 

look at that tree you can see the danger involved with it.

No matter where you cut it, something will break loose

and either drop it on you or knock you clear across the field.

I began to pray that the Lord would not let any one get hurt

with it when it either fell or was cut down.

The neighbor hooked a large tractor to it with a

long logging chain.  But it could not pull that stubborn old 

tree down.  It just pulled the tractor off the ground.

The other night a storm came through.  As usual I ask God

to protect our place.  He did.

The storm blew the top out of the tree.  It fell  right

between our chicken coop and a tree.  There was only

one small limb of the little tree broken.  And the 

chicken coop was not damaged in any way.

The chickens did not say if it scared them or not.

I could not have picked a better place for it to fall.

After I cut it up in little pieces all I had to do was

 straighten up the old rusty wire fence. 

PRAISE GOD FOR HIS PROTECTING HAND.