"I am always with you"

The Moon and Star on Earth

"I am with you always" Matthew 28:20 NKJV

What is God telling us when He says “I am with you always?” Here are some things I hear Him saying…

I am near. Don’t doubt my presence for a single moment. I have promised you. I am the true and faithful God. Be as certain of Me fulfilling my promise as I was when I first spoke it. Don’t doubt it. Let your heart be quiet with this assurance! I am with you because I care about you. I am with you because I love you. I am with you because I want to be with you. I am with you because I desire to have fellowship with you. There will never be a time, a moment, a second when you are without me. I am with you now. With you tomorrow. With you in the dark times. With you in the hard times. With you in the glad times. With you through all the times of your life—when you are young, when you are old, when you are busy, when you are still, when you journey and when you return home.
~meet me in the meadow

Fun long weekend with Sister Sandi and our Great Nieces

Taylor and Maddi at the beach on the Northshore

Maddi, Sue Sue and Taylor

Sisters~ Maddi age 5 and Taylor age 7

Sandi make hats for us

Maddi and Taylor

Tettegouche arch falls into Lake Superior

The much photographed Tettegouche Arch has fallen into Lake Superior.

Located on the north shore, 30 miles north of Two Harbors.

this photo taken in 2007 of local kayaker's

going thru the arch

Pruning with Purpose

Letting go isn’t easy—of our expectations, our timelines, our future. It sounds crazy to suggest letting go of our future, but the truth is, it doesn’t belong to us. The part we have to play in the way our lives will unfold is to put our days into God’s hands—and we can only surrender them one at a time. As much as we’d like to sometimes, we can’t rush them or slow them down. I’d love to experience joys in slow motion and trials with my thumb on fast forward.

But I’ve learned that I can learn the most when life gets difficult.

I’ve learned that God is always about changing me, not the people around me. No finger pointing allowed in our walk with Him. The people in our lives belong to Him, not us. We are called to love them and trust Him.

I’ve learned that God seems like a silent partner at times, but it’s often when we’re being pruned for the production of more fruit. Even then He’s as close as ever, trimming things we didn’t think we could let go of but needed to; holding us tightly when the pain felt unbearable; and waiting to reveal to us that we could not have bloomed as abundantly without the careful work of His hands.

And I’ve learned that the revelation brings rejoicing.

We could not love so fully, trust so completely, or live so joyfully without the process of the ‘cutting away and letting go.’ What God removes from our lives He does so with purpose, and He will always, always follow it with a greater harvest of good things than we ever thought possible.

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples.
JOHN 15:8 NIV

~Bonnie Jensen

My Annual Visit with Rachel

Rachel has come for a summer visit by herself this our 13th year! We love to drive up the shore, watch movies, drink tea (too hot this summer for hot tea for me!), visit and laugh! God has been so good to bless me with her!
Rachel on the South Shore of Lake Superior

We are having lunch at Emily's on the North Shore!

An old 1 room school house on the North shore that was built in 1912!

The School Teacher Miss K welcomes you to first grade!

This will be her 4th year teaching in the St. Paul school district.

2010 Mt. Tabor Bible Camp Reunion Take 4

Camp Activities

Beautiful Camp Hiawatha on Deer Lake
Kids love to play in the sand and water

and adults love to watch them!

Game time!

We had 20 children 11 and younger and 29 adults that came to camp for at least part of a day! A great time was had by all and God met us there! God is so so good!

2010 20th Mt. Tabor Reunion Take 3

Alex and one of his prizes... he was trying to sneak out of town!!

2nd cousins~ Brianne, Ashley, Maddi and Taylor

Poor Hannah hurt her knee before camp

Brian and Stacy treating us to Indian Fry Bread...

Ami (my niece) with Baby Kaden (my great nephew) with Grandpa Great (my Dad)

We are a 4 generation Bible Camp!

20th Mt. Tabor Reunion Take 2!

Great nephew Trenton

Great nephew Preston

Twin Cousins! My great nieces Ashley and Brianne

Karl and Gerrilyn Kanowitz and the 4 boys they are adopting~
Peter, David, Johnnie and Tommy

My brother John and wife Linda

20th Mt.Tabor Bible Camp Reunion at Camp Hiawatha

The front of the bags Linda had made for camp, still some left $3 each or 4 for $10

The Bandana Sisters! Toni, Susan and Delia
Daughter and Mother! Stacy and Cindy
Brother Jason and wife Carol
Sister Sandi with our great nieces Taylor and Maddi