Do You Believe It? [Prelude]

The Bible has number of "old stand-bys", phrases that we all clench in our figurative fist and hold on to for dear life: Verses like, "Trust in the Lord, with all thine heart", or perhaps "All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God", or maybe even John 3:16 - the gospel in a nut shell, and "In the Beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth." We all have our comfort zone verses, our preaching verses, and our verses that we cling to.

Or we don't.

Have you ever thought about that?

What if you didn't have the verses that you cling to?

Many of our minds are rapidly switching to thoughts of others, who don't know Christ, who don't have the comfort we know. Who..... are lost sinners in need of a Saviour.... they don't have the verses. Ah, our hearts go out to them, do they not? Ours fervent minds cry out "It's time! It's time to reach out to them, before its too late!"

But I'm not thinking of them this time.

"What?" You ask me.

No, I'm thinking of us -

What if you didn't have the verses that you cling to?

We love to play games and the What If game is one of many silly, fun, hilarious pastimes. We play "What If", but we don't like seriously asking what if. "What if " is scary.

So, the questions are:

1. If you didn't have your Bible -- Would you miss it?

2. If you didn't have your verses hidden away in your heart, would you flounder?

3. If you only had your "cling-to verses", would you miss the rest of the Bible?

Are you reading your Bible enough to miss it if it were gone?

Well, as you can see from the title of this post, this is the prelude to a number of thought that have been tumbling through my head recently. Our Bible is fading away, and I hope to explain how.

Pray About Everything

Time is tight and money's short
River's up and the weatherman
He's calling for another storm
Pressure's on, the margins thin
Gotta figure out a fix for this awful fix I'm in
Oh Mama, what am I gonna do
She said, "Child there's only one thing you can do"
Chorus:
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tomorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Pray about everything
Pray about everything

Love is blind,fate don't care
Lose your grip
And your balloons go sailing off into the air
Oh Mama,what am I gonna do
She said,"Child,there's only one thing you can do"


Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tomorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout it stress about it,fret about it
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Let it go, see what tommorrow brings
Don't worry 'bout nothing
Pray about everything
Yeah,pray about everthing

Bombay India & Colonial Briton Decor

Since it is now mid summer, I am writing even less than I was before. Summer in my mind is a time for books and sun tanning. I've taken to the outdoors in the sunshine, and the sewing table in the rain. Scattered across my virtual desk, I have left remnants and snid-bits of posts & would be posts. And here is one of the snid-bits.

I am not the adventurous interior decorator that Kammy is (check out her amazing projects here http://kammyskorner.blogspot.com/), but every once in a while I take the time to work on a "big" project - aka one that is not finished in a day.

I was shopping around, mindlessly, looking for dishes in Value Village (secondhand store) when I saw this amazing little desk for $60 dollars. I'm not positive but it looked Bombay Inc worthy. The legs were a bit wobbly and the finish was a medium brown color that was scuffed a bit. 60 was definately more than I wanted to pay, and I wasn't sure if it was worth it.

My solution was to drag my dear mom to the store. She was cautious - a desk that needed work? "Ashley, you don't even use desks, you had one and never used it." She had a point.

I would rather sit on the floor, on my bed, etc.

I guess the desk is properly called a Secretariat. She new at once it was worth fixing. (Mom's a genius in refurbishing ) Since I still wasn't happy with the price, I talked the fellow down to $40.00. I think in all it took 3 days to finish, sanding and a couple coats of stain and it was finished.

And no, I never use it as a desk -- but it does look very pretty :)