I recently was watching the horse movie, The Dreamer, and it was a about a father/daughter relationship, and I was missing my earthly dad. I lost him 18 years ago to cancer. The girl, Dakato Fanning, is blonde, and she liked to hang out with her dad, and she even looked like me when I was her age. She loved horses, like I love horses. My dad used to take me fishing on vacations from his job so I hung out with him. I would also ride with him in his small Stinson airplane almost every evening when I was young. My dad loved airplanes rather than horses like in the movie.
My dad would let me take over the control of his airplane to fly it. I was my dad’s co-pilot at times. In the movie, the dad let his daughter be a co-owner in the training and ownership of a horse. I find the same thing true in my life with the Lord. God is the pilot of my life, and I’m a co-laborer (co-pilot) with God. My dad was a better pilot than me and I find my Heavenly Father is a better navigator and pilot in my life. I’ll stay with me being a co-pilot of my life.
My father always wanted me to marry a man who had a college education. I finally got it right when I married my husband. It was because my dad wanted the best for me and he wanted me to have a man who could take care of me financially. I had a man who was a good provider like my dad. My Heavenly Father is my provider. My heavenly Father wants the best for me in life like my dad wanted the best for me.
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15
I think a lot about my heavenly Father and the close walk I have with my dad (God) in life. I say to my Heavenly Father…You are my Daddy! We cry “Abba Father.” (Daddy Father) as in the scripture above.
I listen to many Christians who live under condemnation. They have a sense of sin consciousness, guilt and inferiority. I hear constant preaching of condemnation that makes Christians shrink from understanding that they can ask God for anything and understanding God loves them because they think their heavenly Father is down on them all the time for their disobedience. I recognize that Jesus walked in perfect obedience for me. I do my best to follow the voice of my spirit, but I recognize that I identify with Jesus in that he walked the perfect walk that I can’t walk. I depend on the grace of God not only for my salvation, but also as a Christian and I can come boldly to the throne of God as if I was President Obama’s daughter who wants to come into the Oval Office to hang out with her dad who runs the U.S. government as Commander in Chief. My Father runs the universe as Commander in Chief.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
Pride got between my relationship later in life when I was a teenager, and we argued over politics since my dad was a staunch Republican, and I was a Liberal. I have to be careful that I don’t let pride get in the way of my fellowship with my Heavenly Father.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
When I became a Christian, my dad and I argued over religion since he believed in reincarnation. My earthly father went to heaven from pancreatic cancer at 77 years old, and prayed on his death bed to accept the Lord. What healed my relationship with my father was not my becoming a Christian as a teenager, and accepting him the way he was with God’s unconditional love. I believe the big healing came when I went through a divorce at 28 years old. My dad raced down to Florida, almost a 1,000 miles to drive my four kids and I to Indiana to live with him. That was the developing of a healing and closeness with my parents. Through that tragedy of a divorce, the Lord starting healing my relationship with my dad. I also started college which my dad always wanting me to do.
In my relationship with God, I’ve argued with God like I argued with my earthly father. I argue with God, when bad things happen to me that I don’t see how the bad will work for good in my life.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8: 28
I’m not a mindless slave of God. I follow the voice of my spirit is because I know it’s finding the best that my father God has for me. Before I became a Christian, I was under the power of Satan and it was like Darth Vader had his mind control over me, and I obeyed the dictates of my flesh, but thank God Jesus Christ sets me free/delivers me from the dictates of the flesh that now as a daughter of God I’m learning to walk according to the voice of my spirit.
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Roman 8:4
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-24
When I lost my mother, the Lord healed the relationship with my sister who was jealous of my relationship with our dad. When I lost my father in February, God brought my husband in my life and we married a month later the year he passed away. It’s very similar to how Isaac was comforted by Rebecca in the death of his mother.
Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Genesis 24:67
God’s word says that God turned the captivity of Job and God takes away the “reproach” of being a widow. This is a same reproach of being divorced! I’ve decided to believe God’s word and not my circumstances.
Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. Isaiah 54:4
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Job 42:10
I lead worship on Father’s Day today for a single’s group, and I like to sing the song like last Father’s Day: “Heavenly Father I appreciate you.”
Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And every many that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself even as He is pure, 1 John 3:2-3
I serve the Lord with gladness. Going through a sudden death of a husband has been like Peter Pan lost his shadow or Austin Powers lost his Mojo, but I certainly can't imagine what it would be like going through it without having the Lord in my life as my comforter. I'm a forerunner for anyone who has lost a loving spouse in their life.
The daily devastation, I and others, who have been through this experience in missing a person. I thought a divorce was bad, but this was 100 times worse to the 100th degree of devastation of my soul. In God’s book this is a “light” momentary affliction compared to when I will see Jesus in heaven, and I’m working on conquering grief. In Mary's and other widow’s book we see this as a total annihilation of our souls. Anything….anything at all that happens to us on this earth is a "drop in the bucket" compared to eternity. No matter how tragic it is.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 Cor. 4:17
Each morning I say:
“I am loved and blessed with all spiritual blessings, and that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me,” because every fiber of my being is screaming that I’m cursed in life by losing my husband early. I consider that my husband was the cream of the crop, the best of best of anyone I have met on the entire planet for me. I don’t walk by sight in life, I’m walking by faith. Sight says I lost ¾ of my income in life and my husband paid the major bills. God says, “And my God meets all your needs according to his riches in glory.” I'm going by what God's word says in my life, because I don't live by circumstances.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philp 4:13
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philip 4:19
We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. 5:7
Some people did not have a good relationship or never knew their earthly father. Mine was not a Christian when he raised me, but he did his best as an unbeliever and I'm thankful, because I know many people have to overcome that God is "down on them," because they never could please their earthly father so they feel like they never can please God. It's important if our earthly dad mistreated us to forgive him. I was afraid of my dad because of his anger problems and he would spank me hard with the belt, so my mother took over disciplining me, because of my dad's temper. I'm glad my mother took over the discipline, because I knew how to "push my dad's buttons" and make him angry. My mother had a lot more patience with me.
God's word says that in the beginning God made them male and female in his image and God blessed them and called their name Adam. I believe my parents presented me with the image of God as far as how my father provided for me, but my mother had compassion on me. The image of God is both male and female. Jesus spoke about how he wanted to take Jerusalem under his wings as a mother hen. Mothers provide more of the unconditional love that we don't see many fathers have. We hear many times, "Only a mother could love him." Most mothers have compassion and empathy, they are the tender side of God. Single mother's may be tougher on their children, because there is the lack of a role model of a father figure in their children's lives.
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5:1-2
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Matthew 23:37
The song below talks about living, loving, forgiving and never giving up.
We Live by Superchick
There's a cross on the side of the road
Where a mother lost a son
How could she know that the morning he left
Would be the last time she'd trade with him for a little more time
So she could say she loved him one last time
And hold him tight
But with life we never know
When we're coming up to the end of the road
So what do we do then
With tragedy around the bend?
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
There's a man who waits for the tests
To see if the cancer has spread yet
And now he asks, "So why did I wait to live till it was time to die?"
If I could have the time back how I'd live
Life is such a gift
So how does the story end?
Well this is your story and it all depends
So don't let it become true
Get out and do what we were meant to do
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
Waking up to another dark morning
People are mourning
The weather in life outside is storming
But what would it take for the clouds to break
For us to realize each day is a gift somehow, someway?
To get our heads up out of the darkness
And spark this new mindset and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet
And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
And wake up and live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
My dad would let me take over the control of his airplane to fly it. I was my dad’s co-pilot at times. In the movie, the dad let his daughter be a co-owner in the training and ownership of a horse. I find the same thing true in my life with the Lord. God is the pilot of my life, and I’m a co-laborer (co-pilot) with God. My dad was a better pilot than me and I find my Heavenly Father is a better navigator and pilot in my life. I’ll stay with me being a co-pilot of my life.
“For we are laborers together with God...”— 1 Corinthians 3:9
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." Romans 8:15
I think a lot about my heavenly Father and the close walk I have with my dad (God) in life. I say to my Heavenly Father…You are my Daddy! We cry “Abba Father.” (Daddy Father) as in the scripture above.
I listen to many Christians who live under condemnation. They have a sense of sin consciousness, guilt and inferiority. I hear constant preaching of condemnation that makes Christians shrink from understanding that they can ask God for anything and understanding God loves them because they think their heavenly Father is down on them all the time for their disobedience. I recognize that Jesus walked in perfect obedience for me. I do my best to follow the voice of my spirit, but I recognize that I identify with Jesus in that he walked the perfect walk that I can’t walk. I depend on the grace of God not only for my salvation, but also as a Christian and I can come boldly to the throne of God as if I was President Obama’s daughter who wants to come into the Oval Office to hang out with her dad who runs the U.S. government as Commander in Chief. My Father runs the universe as Commander in Chief.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
Pride got between my relationship later in life when I was a teenager, and we argued over politics since my dad was a staunch Republican, and I was a Liberal. I have to be careful that I don’t let pride get in the way of my fellowship with my Heavenly Father.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
When I became a Christian, my dad and I argued over religion since he believed in reincarnation. My earthly father went to heaven from pancreatic cancer at 77 years old, and prayed on his death bed to accept the Lord. What healed my relationship with my father was not my becoming a Christian as a teenager, and accepting him the way he was with God’s unconditional love. I believe the big healing came when I went through a divorce at 28 years old. My dad raced down to Florida, almost a 1,000 miles to drive my four kids and I to Indiana to live with him. That was the developing of a healing and closeness with my parents. Through that tragedy of a divorce, the Lord starting healing my relationship with my dad. I also started college which my dad always wanting me to do.
In my relationship with God, I’ve argued with God like I argued with my earthly father. I argue with God, when bad things happen to me that I don’t see how the bad will work for good in my life.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8: 28
I’m not a mindless slave of God. I follow the voice of my spirit is because I know it’s finding the best that my father God has for me. Before I became a Christian, I was under the power of Satan and it was like Darth Vader had his mind control over me, and I obeyed the dictates of my flesh, but thank God Jesus Christ sets me free/delivers me from the dictates of the flesh that now as a daughter of God I’m learning to walk according to the voice of my spirit.
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Roman 8:4
Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7:24-24
When I lost my mother, the Lord healed the relationship with my sister who was jealous of my relationship with our dad. When I lost my father in February, God brought my husband in my life and we married a month later the year he passed away. It’s very similar to how Isaac was comforted by Rebecca in the death of his mother.
Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Genesis 24:67
God’s word says that God turned the captivity of Job and God takes away the “reproach” of being a widow. This is a same reproach of being divorced! I’ve decided to believe God’s word and not my circumstances.
Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. Isaiah 54:4
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. Job 42:10
I lead worship on Father’s Day today for a single’s group, and I like to sing the song like last Father’s Day: “Heavenly Father I appreciate you.”
Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And every many that hath this hope in him, purifieth himself even as He is pure, 1 John 3:2-3
I serve the Lord with gladness. Going through a sudden death of a husband has been like Peter Pan lost his shadow or Austin Powers lost his Mojo, but I certainly can't imagine what it would be like going through it without having the Lord in my life as my comforter. I'm a forerunner for anyone who has lost a loving spouse in their life.
The daily devastation, I and others, who have been through this experience in missing a person. I thought a divorce was bad, but this was 100 times worse to the 100th degree of devastation of my soul. In God’s book this is a “light” momentary affliction compared to when I will see Jesus in heaven, and I’m working on conquering grief. In Mary's and other widow’s book we see this as a total annihilation of our souls. Anything….anything at all that happens to us on this earth is a "drop in the bucket" compared to eternity. No matter how tragic it is.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 Cor. 4:17
Each morning I say:
“I am loved and blessed with all spiritual blessings, and that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me,” because every fiber of my being is screaming that I’m cursed in life by losing my husband early. I consider that my husband was the cream of the crop, the best of best of anyone I have met on the entire planet for me. I don’t walk by sight in life, I’m walking by faith. Sight says I lost ¾ of my income in life and my husband paid the major bills. God says, “And my God meets all your needs according to his riches in glory.” I'm going by what God's word says in my life, because I don't live by circumstances.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philp 4:13
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Philip 4:19
We live by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. 5:7
Some people did not have a good relationship or never knew their earthly father. Mine was not a Christian when he raised me, but he did his best as an unbeliever and I'm thankful, because I know many people have to overcome that God is "down on them," because they never could please their earthly father so they feel like they never can please God. It's important if our earthly dad mistreated us to forgive him. I was afraid of my dad because of his anger problems and he would spank me hard with the belt, so my mother took over disciplining me, because of my dad's temper. I'm glad my mother took over the discipline, because I knew how to "push my dad's buttons" and make him angry. My mother had a lot more patience with me.
God's word says that in the beginning God made them male and female in his image and God blessed them and called their name Adam. I believe my parents presented me with the image of God as far as how my father provided for me, but my mother had compassion on me. The image of God is both male and female. Jesus spoke about how he wanted to take Jerusalem under his wings as a mother hen. Mothers provide more of the unconditional love that we don't see many fathers have. We hear many times, "Only a mother could love him." Most mothers have compassion and empathy, they are the tender side of God. Single mother's may be tougher on their children, because there is the lack of a role model of a father figure in their children's lives.
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5:1-2
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Matthew 23:37
The song below talks about living, loving, forgiving and never giving up.
We Live by Superchick
There's a cross on the side of the road
Where a mother lost a son
How could she know that the morning he left
Would be the last time she'd trade with him for a little more time
So she could say she loved him one last time
And hold him tight
But with life we never know
When we're coming up to the end of the road
So what do we do then
With tragedy around the bend?
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
There's a man who waits for the tests
To see if the cancer has spread yet
And now he asks, "So why did I wait to live till it was time to die?"
If I could have the time back how I'd live
Life is such a gift
So how does the story end?
Well this is your story and it all depends
So don't let it become true
Get out and do what we were meant to do
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
Waking up to another dark morning
People are mourning
The weather in life outside is storming
But what would it take for the clouds to break
For us to realize each day is a gift somehow, someway?
To get our heads up out of the darkness
And spark this new mindset and start to live life cuz it ain't gone yet
And tragedy is a reminder to take off the blinders
And wake up and live the life we're supposed to take up
Moving forward with all our heads up cuz life is worth living
We live we love
We forgive and never give up
Cuz the days we are given are gifts from above
And today we remember to live and to love
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