The Walk

 Wow, so...I got to thinking  today...again.

About that day. That GlOrIoUs WoNdErFuL DAY! I remember it like it was YESTERDAY.

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I was walking down the street and I heard my name, 
"Amy."

Okay, you're probably wondering what I'm talking about right? Well I am referring to the day I audibly heard the LORD call my name and save me from eternal damnation.

You see there is a lot of history leading up to that . moment in time. Bringing me to just that place,
on that street in Santa Barbara in 1976. Those circumstances, though quite dramatic, are not what stand out to me. No, it's the walk down Anacapa St that chilly afternoon having lost all hope and in complete despair. On my way to take my own life.  It's The walk I remember and it's the voice of the LORD and what he said to me, I will never forget. 

The experience literally saved my life and that day was the beginning of a whole new me. A new journey.

It was brief. It was powerful. It went like this.

I was 15 years old. I was sitting in  what is probably one of the most beautiful Catholic Churches I have ever seen. Yes, I was raised Catholic.

Huge and glorious.  Arrayed in every way that one would imagine for a Catholic cathedral established in 1782. One might describe it as majestic.
There were stations of the cross that surrounded the pews on both sides of the church. As well as corridors on either side of the church that contained statues of saints with candles for knee pads for lighting and praying. The ceilings were high as the sky and the choir loft was home to a grand pipe organ that filled the cathedral from the back of the altar. Where the outside light shone through a most inspiring, glorious and ominous painting of majestic colors!  I remember this because I spend HOURS just staring at it. Truly....hours. I remember seeing the Star of David.
This was truly, and still is truly a most beautiful sight!

I sat in the church for over 6 hours. I prayed and prayed and prayed. I prayed every prayer I was taught. 

Then I just fell on my face before G-d. Literally fell on my face and began to weep. I cried out to the LORD. I was desperate from all I had gone through in the past 15 years. All I had done. All I had experienced. All I was feeling.

At this point I felt nothing at all but completely alone. Completely lost. Completely desperate. Knowing no other way to escape my torment other than taking my own life, I cried to G-d one more time hoping he might answer and save me,
"Please G-d I don't want to die....But I don't want to live like this anymore....PLEASE G-d if you are CARE make yourself know to me."

I waited a while longer and heard nothing.

I gave up.

I left the church and started The Walk. I just took one step at a time and headed for the beach.

That's when I heard my name,
"Amy."

I stopped and turned around looking for someone as I heard my name.
I didn't see anyone so I continued The Walk.

I heard again,
"Amy. I'm here and I do care. I love you."

That was all it took. At that moment I knew it was G-d and I knew I wasn't alone anymore.

 Ephesians 1:4
In the Messiah he chose us in love before the creation of the universe to be holy and without defect in his presence.

As a believer in Yeshua/Jesus...ever wonder why...

You stumble? 

We all do it. 

Ever wonder how to keep from stumbling...so much?

As I was reading this morning I came across this little gem.

It's found in the book of Peter.
Straightforward - Peter tells us how it is - what we need to do to keep ourselves in check so we don't stumble in our walk with the LORD. 

Have a look and be encouraged.

I was!

2 Peter 1

1 From: Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah

To: Those who, through the righteousness of our G-d and of our Deliverer Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours:

2 May grace and shalom be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of G-d and Yeshua/Jesus our Lord.

3 G-d’s power has given us everything we need (wow) for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness. 4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in G-d’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world. (wow)

5 For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if you have these qualities in abundance, (so important) they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. 

9 Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. (if we forget from how great a height we have fallen then there is no hope for us)

10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. (this is the key) For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble. 

11 Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah.

*An amazing thing happened at the doctor the other day.*

We ALL need a little good news now and again - ESPECIALLY now!

So I shared the story of what happened when my husband took me to the doctor the day, in his full  camouflage military uniform, on facebook. There was such an AmAzInG response - I felt I needed to share it here as well! 

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As we were getting ready to leave, my husband stood there dressed in his camouflage military uniform, getting ready to wheel me out in my wheelchair.One of the ladies in the waiting room called out to us and said,

"Thank you sir for serving our country."

This struck up a conversation between us. One thing led to another, and the woman said,

"Can I pray for you and for your safety?"

My husband nodded, "Yes."

The woman laid her frail little hand on my husband's shoulder,  and began to pray

 like the lady in the movie war room! 

The entire waiting room came to a hush.

I sat there in my wheelchair, laying my hands on my husband as well, quietly agreeing in prayer. When she was finished I just said, "Amen"

Suddenly another older woman came shooting across the room. With a heightened tone in her voice she shouted, almost scolding us, and said,

"Did I just see you all praying over here?!"

I said, "Yes?"

The little (literally she was like 5 feet tall and weighed about 90 pounds and probably was about 90 years old to boot ) woman continued, she said,

"Then can you please tell me why you didn't come on over there and get me and ask me to join in with you and pray for this man? Don't you know there's power when more than one person joins in and prays?"

I apologized and explain that I didn't know she wanted to pray with us.

At that her daughter called her back to her seat and told her that she was embarrassing her.
THAT got her going all the more (little fire cracker)
Her mother told her,

"Don't ever be embarrassed to pray in public! You never know who may need a prayer and you never know when you may not  be able to pray in public anymore!"

WoW

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Your Mumsey