Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 797
July 21, 2026///
If I misled some of you with my 80th birthday picture last week I apologize. I was using a picture made almost two years ago. I will be 82 in September, but I wanted to use a different picture and picked that one not thinking that it seemed I just turned 80. Just chalk it up to my age!!!
Now to my thoughts today. When I was a young girl, my mom worked in the daytime and my dad at night. One of them was almost always there but there was a small stretch of time in the late afternoon when I was alone!
I remember that after that small stretch of time, when my mother walked through the door it was like the world became a place of love and care! The atmosphere changed and I felt safe and secure!
That came to mind as I was thanking the Father that I can walk in the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. If you are reading this and have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, you may not understand but a relationship with the creator through Jesus Christ is an amazing gift!
Some of you have accepted Jesus, attend Church but do not invite Him into every part of your life! That is like walking in that span of time between when my dad left and my mom got home. I did not feel in danger or neglected, I just felt emptiness in the house, and it changed when either of them was there.
You can be busy and have people all around you and many things to do but if you have not allowed the Holy Spirit to fill you with Joy, Peac, and Power you feel the emptiness!
Perhaps you feel that spiritual things should stay in the church, but Jesus said to come to Him and He would never leave you but would be with you always! Perhaps you only acknowledge God when things are terribly wrong but what about all the daily duties, jobs, children, laundry, driving cooking? Oh, how He longs to be part of it all and if we invite Him to walk and talk with us life will become easier and the situations and problems not so overwhelming!
When a child needs to cross a busy street, holding the hand of a parent gets them safely to the other side.
We need to travel this road of life with the absolute best in our lives and that means holding on to the hand of the one who created you and knows you best!
THE OLD HYMN SAYS:
Oh! How sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His word!
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know, thus says the Lord!
CONSIDER THESE VERSES:
John 10:10 (KJV) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Psalm 37:11 (KJV) But the meek shall inherit the earth; And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
John 3:16 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 4:14 (KJV) But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Jeremiah 31:3 (KJV) The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: Therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
There are so many more scriptures that tell of His Love and His longing for us to come to Him and do life with Him!
May we understand that the Father Loves us and has a life of Joy for the journey! Joy that does not depend on circumstances but comes from the deep peace within!
“DRAW NEAR TO HIM AND HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU!”
INVITE HIM INTO EVERYTHING YOU DO!!
Father, I worship you for who you are and who you are in those who trust you and surrender all they have and all they are and are not to your Lordship! Forgive us when we live so below the life of surrender that you have provided! You help, give favor, and fight our battles when we realize and walk in the truth of who you are! Lord, we worship you with all that is within us every day of our lives! We Love you, Lord! Amen!
Love, MeMaw!
THOUGHTS FROM SKYDIVING MEMAW 