Happy Cold & Wintery Sunday

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Happy New Year Once Again,

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Happy Sunday as well,

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So how are you today???

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I can tell you we are cold tonight!!

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I hear you laughing all the way in Florida,

all you folks who have snow and blizzards.

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Take pity on us poor Floridians who have

such thinned out blood, and light clothing,

and poor heating compared to yall.  lol

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I know your heart is just dripping with compassion,

right??   I understand, I really do!! lol

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Course, it's your fault we think all that snow

and stuff is sooooo much fun,  cause you are

sledding and building snowmen and shoveling

and visiting with neighbors,  and drinking hot chocolate,

what's to complain about right??? 

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Just Kidding,  we appreciate your positive

approach to all that cold white stuff on the ground,

we really do and you know what............

yall are troopers,  cause not one whiner in the

bunch I have to say!  I am impressed.......truly!!

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Well, remember just a few days ago I showed

you our winter yard with the bougainvilla

and the powder puff tree,  and said that is

our winter for now,  course, we haven't had

a freeze yet! 

Well........guess what we are having tonight???

We are going to 29 degrees,

again,  I hear you laughing,  it's not that

funny!! lol

We are in for 5 nights of freezing temps,

I think I have died and gone North!! lol

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I am really glad I showed you my pics

because today we had to cut off a lot of

our pretty bougainvilla in order to get her

in the garage to protect her.

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I was throwing it in the garbage can

when I thought this is too bad,  and I

thought why not take some in the house

and make a nice bouquet,  so I did!

and here it is!

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Isn't it beautiful,  so hopefully we will be able to enjoy

it a lil bit longer,  course,  the heat may do it in so

we will see.  Did you notice that my header pic

and this pic look a lil bit alike,  well that is because

the header pic is a photograph just like this with

a posterized effect on it,  neat huh!!

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I love those effects that you can use,  they can

make for some really neat pics.

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Sorry I am just going on and on.........

I feel like it has been a century since I have

been blogging,  so this feels sooooooo good!!

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Guess I better hush and leave you with some

verses for the day

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Now when you see what they are... you are

gonna say to yourself " Hasn't this woman

heard Christmas is over!!"

She is just a tad late,  well,  truthfully,  I am

not,  the "Wise Men or Magi" were late,

in fact,  some scholars and bible teachers

think that they could have come to see

the baby Jesus as much as 2 years after

his birth, cause notice they call him a child

not a baby........and I woke up with it on

my heart to share this portion of the Christmas

story,  so If the Lord says, I gotta do!

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So hope you enjoy it!!

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Verses are from Matthew 2:1-13 (NIV)

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After Jesus was born in Bethlehem Judea, during the

time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to

Jerusalem

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and asked, "where is the one  who has been born

king of the jews?"  We saw his star in the east and

have come to worship him.

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when King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and

all Jerusalem with him.

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When he called together all the people's chief priests

and teachers of the law, he asked them where the

Christ was to be born.

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In Bethlehem in Judea they replied, "for this is what

the prophet has written:

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"But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no

means least among the rulers of Judah;

for out of you will come a ruler who will be the

shepherd of my people Israel."

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then Herod called the Magi secretly and found

out from them the exact time the star had appeared.

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He sent them to Bethlehem and said "Go and make

a careful search for the child.  As  soon as you find

him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

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After they had heard the king, they went on their way,

and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of

them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

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When they say the star, they were overjoyed.

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On coming to the house, they saw the child with his

mother Mary and they bowed down and worshipped

him.  Then they opened their treasures and presented

him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

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And having been warned in a dream not to go back

to Herod, they returned to their country by another

route.

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When they had gone, and angel of the Lord appeared

to Joseph in a dream.  "Get up, he said, take the child

and his mother and escape to Egypt.  Stay there until

I tell you,  for Herod is going to search for the child to

kill him.

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Well,  Sweet friends, it seems that right from His

birth our Sweet Lord had someone wanting to

kill him, and many other times throughout his life

 as well,  but that never happened before God's

perfect timing and for God's perfect plan.

Because God the Father was on His throne,

and God the Father was in Control,

just like He is Now!

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I just want to encourage you that with all the

sad, discouraging, fearful, terrible things that

are happening in our country and world today,

that God is Still on His Throne, and He

Is Still In Control of Everything!

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Cling to that thought,  and Cling to Him.

He loves His Children,  and He takes

care of His own.  Our job is to stay

close to Him by reading His word and

praying,  giving thanks,  and being as

obedient as we can possibly be!

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Happy New Year My Friends

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May Love, Joy and Peace chase

you down the street!!

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Hugs, Nellie