Yes I am still alive!

Hello,

So yes it has been a while since I have written. A very long while.
Not because I have been empty-brained. No. On the contrary, I have been overflowing with thoughts I have on one hand been most eager to put down on paper while on the other hand I have been extremely hesitant to do so. OBVIOUSLY. Thus the day after day after day gone by without update. sigh.



Such the quandary I have found myself in.

I suppose it all "just hit me" as I was driving up the road the other day. I was talking to my best friend, Yeshua....about, well, a little of everything. I guess my whole life.
So many things going on in my life right now, ya know? Good things....all wonderfully, awesome, good things.
Of course, I can see (understand) how, many people might not "see" things the same way as "I" do. See everything that is happening in my life as a "wonderfully good" things. But then that is fine. (I am learning to accept this truth - that it is okay, that not everyone "understands I really truly am at peace with all the tragedy that has taken place in my life")

So anyway, as I was be-boppin' along with My Lord ALL OF A SUDDEN it just  HIT ME! I saw the number of hits my blogs get everyday...(it may seem silly I know) but I actually saw a #...a very large #....and I realized (I think for the very first time) how many of my family and friends were actually reading what I am writing!
As much as I absolutely love my new family at Beth Messiah and all of my family at I have been blessed to have come into my life through out the years in various other church bodies - I suddenly became acutely aware of how transparent I was on here.

Not that I mind.

Being transparent.

I think there should be more transparency among the brethren. given the right circumstances.
However - I got to thinking about why it bothered me - and - I asked the Lord - and got some feed back from HIM.
This is what I came up with - I think it's pretty good stuff. 

The reason I stopped writing on here - the reason I felt so uncomfortable.
Wasn't because of the hundreds of reads I get a day by strangers.
Nor was it because I have a problem with sharing my feelings. (I think we all know that to be a true statement - lol)

I discovered, after talking with the Lord about this at length, that, it was the fact that I was bearing a great deal of my soul to a good portion of people who I saw in my every day life. People who read my posts and flipped through my blogs. People who saw me enough to feel comfortable enough to believe they now "knew me well."...Just by reading about me and seeing me here on my blog.
But really don't "know me at all."

Bottom line?

I felt slighted. Cheated out of ever having the privilege of getting to know those people.

Now I understand blogging is a "one way relationship".

So, no harm - no foul.

But, again....this is a strange new world in which we live....at least I am finding for me it is.

I love to write. I love to blog. I love the fact that it blesses all of you that it blesses!

But I love people in person even more! The Lord has brought me into a new place in life....He is stretching me...and it's NOT easy on me!

I am done with ONE WAY relationships.

So I am starting with this blog!

I will continue writing and blogging - just maybe not so personal? We'll see....

Let me know if you have anything you'd like me to write about!!

Leave a comment below!

I'd love to hear from you!

Love you all!!

Shalom

Thank You for ALL you do !

Rabbi Michael Wolf

 Beth Messiah Congregation 

L♥veland, Ohio

My Rabbi

 By:Amy Colleen Klapp

My Rabbi is like no other.

I've looked far and wide and can see;

My Rabbi is like no other.

Yet, he seems familiar to me.

My Rabbi loves without measure;

takes care of his flock selflessly.

My Rabbi lives what he teaches.

Gives grace to all men equally.

My Rabbi gives without ceasing.

He cares like I've never seen.

Staying up nights for the brethren;

up before dawn, on his knees.

My Rabbi is like no other.

Every day he amazes me.

But I can’t help but wonder,

about the familiarity.

Lord, you know my Rabbi.

You created him one of a kind.

Why does he seem so familiar to me,

if he’s the only one of his kind?

Your Rabbi, dear child, is quite special.

He’s one of a kind as you see.

The reason he seems so familiar to you;

is because he’s so much like me.

And My Lord said to me....

 

Expect the unexpected 

I will bring forth all I have promised.

The words I have spoken over you, will not return unto me void, without accomplishing that which I have sent them forth to accomplish.

Behold

I am doing a "new" thing.

Will you not see it?

Keep your eyes focused on me,  that you will see it come to pass.

Do not be distracted by man's ways.

For I am not a man;   but GOD.

And "My" ways are NOT man's ways.

"Show me your ways O Lord."

I WILL show you my ways.

Seek my face...

and...

Behold the Lamb of God in all His Glory.

 

 

 Following in HIS Footsteps

My Cup Truly Over Flows 

 

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And the old is made new.

"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some people think of slowness; on the contrary, he is patient with you; for it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed but that everyone should turn from his sins."

2 Peter 1:3-2

I was pursuing through my stuff and came upon these and BURST out into laughter!!

I am sure you can see why!

I JUST HAD to share!! 

Family Photos!!!

THIS is where I LOST IT!

I am sure can see WHY?

My daughters?

Perfectly normal 

(well in public anyway ;)

Can you TELL who MY JOKERS are in the family?

If not yet - let me give you another little hint.

RUNS in the Family - IT DOES 

 Driscoll line

THIS would be THEIR Grampa Jim and Great Uncle Jack!

This is Their Uncle Mark, Aunt Bobbi and Grampa Jim!

So you See They really had no choice!!

Guess WHO?