I posted this several years ago on this last day of June. It popped up on my reminders today. I decided it was worth posting again:
“There’s nothing like a tender touch to chase away the blues. You need someone who really cares – BEE the tender toucher!”
I hope you have a tendertoucher in your life!
Have a Tender Tuesday!
Love, JanBee
In my devotional, “When God Thinks of You, He Smiles,” the message fit perfectly for us today. I was invited to “Think of a time when God rescued you.” Yesterday I mourned the loss of one of our beautiful big evergreen trees. It blew over in a 50 mph wind storm. God heard my unspoken pleas. Obviously Bob & I needed help cutting up and removing that fallen spruce. We didn’t have time to think about that task before three different friends reached out and offered to come and help us. It was certainly something they (and for sure God) knew we could not do ourselves. Our bodies just lack that capability at the ripe age of 87!
So, that tree that once stood at least 20 feet tall snapped off right at its base… and lay there Sunday pathetically waiting to be removed… and dear friends came Monday to cut it up. A big job for two men with chain saws, a pick up and a borrowed trailer. Took three trips to the dump to get most of it removed. Tomorrow the rest will go and the trailer will be returned to the generous owner. We are so blessed to have such caring, capable friends!
The devotional this morning began with, “God’s love leads Him to do more for us than we can envision.” Certainly the Godly servants of the Lord that He sent our way did more than I could envision.
The message went on to say, “No matter how often you need Him, He will always be there. Trust in Him, for He is faithful and true.”
Thank You, God, for rescuing us. I do trust in You. Thank You for sending Your beloved followers to help us. We delight in You.
My devotional says, “When God thinks of you, He smiles.” Well, guess what, when I think of God, I smile.
Do you?
Love,
JanBeek
The gift of hospitality
Cannot be taken for granted
It’s a gift to be treasured
A gift that cannot be measured
and…
Tonight we’re headed to a Pittsburgh baseball game. So, stay tuned! I’ll be back!
Love, JanBeek
We live in a beautiful place with a beautiful view and wonderful neighbors.
Our property has about 4 acres and in the center of those is where our house sits surrounded by 13 evergreen trees.
The lawn and trees require a lot of care to keep the trees healthy year round and the sprinkler system working in the spring, summer and fall.
This is the time of year when turning the sprinklers back on and repairing broken ones and adjusting the direction of the water’s flow has to happen.
We couldn’t possibly do all this by ourselves.
Thank God for the helpful guys in our “hood” who volunteer their services annually because without their help, I’m sure we would find it very difficult to live here!
Treasure every day
Know it will not come again
Make sweet memories
Thank you, dear Lamiel
For your encouraging words
Applicable now!
❤️👌🏽❤️
My friend, Lilie, posted a comment today touting her belief in “fairness to all, and justice.” I responded in affirmation. Wouldn’t our world be a better place if everyone practiced fairness to all, and justice?
Promote fairness for all. Exhibit unconditional (Agape) love!
And hugs 🤗 from
JanBeek ❤️
I discovered a new challenge. From inlinkz, there is a weekly invitation to write a “Six Sentence Story.” Each week the word prompt that must be included changes. This week it is the word NEED.
Here is my 6 sentences to go to the “Blog Hop” –
Take my hand, I’m a stranger in Paradise.
I’m lost in a Wonderland.
It’s just being with you.
Tell me everything will be alright.
I need to know that’s true!
Love from
JanBeek
I can pick a fight
No, it won’t be that kind of fight!
I’m picking to fight for more
love
unity
and respect
in this world!
With gentleness and respect
I choose to fight for
a better world
Fight to
replace controversies
and arguments
with more
love and joy.
Love,
JanBeek
ben Alexander (David)
from the Skeptic’s Kaddish blog
https://skepticskaddish.com/
invited us to write a poem or prose
with exactly 49 words today.
So, the blog above does that.
Thank you, David, for the challenge.
I took my sermon notes as a series of Haiku
today in church.
Let me share those notes with you.
It was a wonderful message
delivered by our interim pastor,
Brian Conklin.
Live in unity
Choose love over labeling
Walk in the spirit
Be a peacemaker
Listen to one another
Hear others’ stories
Share humanity
See Christ’s imprint in others
Exhibit goodness
Show agape love
It’s the highest form of love
Unity and grace
Two hundred forty
Plus nine years ago there was
Freedom declared here
Our nation declared
One land – indivisible
But, we divided
We let politics
Rule over our heart, soul and
Our identity
We need freedom TO
Exercise our highest good
Not just freedom FROM
We need open hearts
Hearts that seek to heal others
Not drive them apart
Stop all the fighting
Show love, not hated discord
Celebrate freedom
Hear one another
Just lift one another up
Be calming healers
Unoffendable
Means listening openly
Try understanding
Openly share faith
Faith in each others’ goodness
Hope for our future
Live in hope and peace
Just be unoffendable
Wear love on your sleeve!
Amen?
Love,
JanBeek
Romans 12:18Â
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Using the prompts from @sanctifiedart,
I am enjoying the opportunity to share
the “Words for the Beginning”
each day with you during this Advent season.
Today’s Word is:
GOODNESS
When I put the prompt in AI, it generated
an assortment of blond, blue-eyed,
smiling 20-year-old females.
I kept asking AI to try again until finally it
generated something different.
I got this!
Goodness me!
That’s not what the word conjures up in my mind.
When I think of goodness, I think of the innocence
of babies and young children
and the unconditional love of our furry friends
(maybe that’s what that AI image is depicting).
These are the images that come to my mind
when I think of the word GOODNESS.
I also think of the goodness of a meal lovingly prepared
and shared generously with friends.
I asked Bob what image comes to mind
when he hears the word GOODNESS.
His answer surprised me. He said,
“Mothers… and the loving environment a good mother creates.
THAT’S GOODNESS!”
The goodness a good mother exudes
is certainly multiplied when she has
the support of her children’s father, too.
Loving families RADIATE goodness!
What does the Bible say about goodness?
There is more about the root word, GOOD,
than there is about GOODNESS.
So, goodness is a God-like quality in people.
It is a purity and innocence in children and animals.
It is a gift of delectable taste from a skilled chef.
It is a unifying force in a family.
You don’t have to be a 20-something, blue-eyed blond
to exhibit goodness!!
You are in the land of the living…
and goodness is in you
and all around you.
All you have to do is open your heart to it
and exhibit the goodness that is in you!
Aren’t you grateful for that?
What image does the word GOODNESS bring to your mind?
Join me again tomorrow for another
Word of the Day.
Love ya,
JanBeek
P.S. My maiden name is DeAngeles.
It means “Of Angels.”
Do you see the angelic goodness in me?
Hugs to You !!
Inspire to Love
Let the SonShine!
You inspire me to respond
Learning to Live; Living to Learn; Learning to Love; Living in Love
