Notes from the Northland

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Simplicity and Wonder

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive and accept and welcome the kingdom of God like a little child [does] positively shall not enter it at all. Mark 10:15 AMP

As we begin our walk with God in 2011 we need to guard our hearts against certain attitudes that will keep us far from His heart. These include the mind of the proud who wants to know it all; the opinion of the critic who wants to judge it all; the attitude of the narcissist who wants to be it all; the desire of the covetous who wants to have it all.

Instead, walk with God in 2011 as a child. Never lose the simplicity of trust and the world of wonder that a child lives in from day to day. Walk with your eyes on your Father—happy in His presence, content in His care, awed by His greatness, delighted by His surprises, secure in His love.

Let your prayer be similar to one spoken by Vance Havner, “Lord, let me never get used to living. Keep afresh in my heart a childlike wonder. Above all, let me never get used to being a Christian. Let me walk with a constant sense of surprise and expectancy. Why should there be a dull moment in the life of a Christian when every hour is a fresh adventure in faith and love?”

The following quote became the signature of the life of Gypsy Smith, the well known evangelist who lived into his eighties, “I have never lost the wonder.” May you never lose the simplicity of trusting His love and the wonder of watching Him work in marvelous ways.

~meet me in the meadow

....This spoke to me today and tugged at my heart so I wanted to share it with you. May it tug at yours.

Love, Susan

Thursday, December 30, 2010

12 Things God Wants You to Remember in 2011

~photo taken by william conk

Tiffany window at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-NYC

Encouragement for 2011
God is for you.
God loves you.
God will guide you.
God will not fail you.
God will be with you.
God will provide for you.
God will bless you.
God will give you rest
.God will strengthen you.
God will answer you.
God will uphold you.
God will keep you.

All we need is to ask Him....Blessings on your New Year.
with love, Susan

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

A New Great Nephew~~ Peyton Robert Reed Born November 26, 2010

Sweet Baby Boy born to

Robert and Mandy and

Big Brother Preston.

Weighing in at

6lbs 12 oz

and

21 inches long!
A Gift from God!!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

When You Sense Him Most

~photo by william conk in nigeria, africa

It is often in the hardest place that you hear God’s softest voice;

in the weakest moment that you find His greatest strength;

in the loneliest hour that you sense His closest companionship;

in the deepest sorrow that you feel His gentlest touch;

in the darkest time that you see His brightest light;

in the fiercest trial that you find His fullest peace;

in the harshest rejection that you know His warmest embrace.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God [Who is the Source] of every comfort (consolation and encouragement)Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction).

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 AMP

~meet me in the meadow