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MY OBSERVATIONS  The wind is blowing, The limbs rush bye, The fluffy white clouds, Look like cotton balls, Sprinkled all over the sky! The May flowers are, Starting to bloom, Along the driveway, The yellow daffodils, Grow on my lawn, Sadly, Soon they will be gone. The robins sing its Spring, its Spring! God speaks in the breeze  And whispers through the pines, I’m here, I’m here for you, All the time, all the time! ~Winston Staples

Today friends let’s look a little further in God’s word to find more about Jesus. Hebrews 2:17Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. As followers of this man from Galilee we are to be merciful as He was and what a difference that will make in the world around us. Matthew 27:14; Isaiah 53:7 tell us Jesus the Christ was patient in nature. Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Aren’t you glad that Jesus was patient and merciful and is still today giving hope and salvation to the lost as He saved me in 1958.

Psalm 129 King James Version 129  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3  The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. 4  The  Lord  is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5  Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6  Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7  Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8  Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the  Lord  be upon you: we bless you in the name of the  Lord .

It was 11 PM and I was enjoying listening to Lynda Randle singing from the CD “Ageless Hymns”. I reached for my Bible and it fell open to Psalm 19, last verse stared me in the face. Let my words and meditation be on the Lord, who is my strength and salvation was the message ringing loud and clear. He has been my strength all the years I have had chronic pain and I can proclaim the strength and salvation He gives. ~Winston Staples

It was late, late in the day; I got on the wheeler, and drove slowly on the way. I quickly saw two doe, not spooked, as I drove slow. I love this old road, that leads me, to my favorite spot, the spot where the red pine, red pine trees grow. I, now sit, at the old beaver pond, where the beaver play, and the brook trout spawn. I sit, listening, to the gentle breeze, as it whispers through, those red pine trees. I hear the crickets, as lazy I grow, as I hear the cawing, cawing of the crow. I meditate on God’s word, and say thank you, for the sights I see, and sounds I have heard. I say thank you, for giving me your Son, and the victory won. Thank you for my friends, and family here; now I drive slowly back, knowing God will keep me, keep me on the right track.  ~Winston Staples

Special Hills! There is a hill out back, that has felt many a track, both from animals and me, as I hunted out there and cut Christmas trees. I went out, in sun shine or rain, whether I felt good, or had many a pain, to sit in my rickety tree stand, and wait to see, a white tailed buck, as he tried to stay, stay clear from man. Now the deer are getting tame, and are found in my back yard, safe and secure, because I don’t hunt any more. I don’t walk now very far, I go on wheeler or car, to see those things precious to me, and dream about white tailed deer, and Christmas trees. I think of a special hill, Mount Calvary, How Jesus carried a cross, and died on it, for you and for me, so by putting our faith in Him, He gives our soul and spirit liberty ~Winston Staples