Where Can I Turn for Peace?

I found this while reading today and loved it.


“Indifference to the Savior or failure to keep the commandments of God brings about insecurity, inner turmoil, and contention. These are the opposite of peace. Peace can come to an individual only by an unconditional surrender—surrender to him who is the Prince of Peace, who has power to confer peace. One may live in beautiful and peaceful surroundings but, because of inner dissension and discord, be in a state of constant turmoil. On the other hand, one may be in the midst of utter destruction and the bloodshed of war and yet have the serenity of unspeakable peace. If we look to man and the ways of the world, we will find turmoil and confusion. If we will but turn to God, we will find peace for the restless soul.”  - Howard W. Hunter

I love the Lord. His is SO GOOD! We hold ourselves back. He stands there waiting for us to seek,  ask, and knock.  I have learned more lately about seeking,a sking and knocking. I need to put it into practice more than I do...

Gratitude

I am so grateful for the Lord's patience with me. I need to be be patient and learn to wait on His timing.
I also want to more often express the gratitude I feel for all He blesses me with.

I read this thought a while back -"What if when you woke up in the morning all you had was what you had thanked the Lord for the night before?"

I felt like I had been hit in the stomach when I read this. I need to pray more prayers of gratitude.

"but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."  - Phillipians 4:6

I need to emphazize the thanksgiving part. I am grateful. I like to hear my children say "thank you". I'm sure he likes to hear it too!

I am grateful for all that I have!!! Especially the spiritual blessings. Temporal blessings are great but I do not know where I would be with out the spiritual blessings.

Let's try this again...

Has it really been almost four years since I tried to start this? I thought it was two - maybe three.
I have missed so many opportunities to share the blessings and teachings I have received from the Lord these past four years.

Here is to a fresh start! And that is what I am grateful for today. New beginnings.

I just had one of those cool moments when I am looking for a scripture verse and turn to what I thought I was looking for and it was just what I need to hear and then I realized it was the wrong verse (if you can say that...) and then I turn to the one I am looking for and it just adds to the first. I love tender mercies from the Lord.

1st verse - (the one I was looking for...): Yea, He saith: Come unto Me and ye shall partake of the fruit of the tree of life; yea, ye shall eat and drink of the bread and the waters of life freely;

2nd verse - Yea, for this cause I have said: Stop, and stand still until I command thee, and I will provide means whereby thou mayest accomplish the thing which I have commanded thee.

I love the peace I feel when I read these verses.

A Newness of Life

I looked out my kitchen window and what did I see? Popcorn popping on my apricot tree! Spring is here! I love spring!
My bulbs are up and I have two daffodils open and other flowers soon to follow. I love the newness of life and all that it symbolizes to me.
I am in awe of the Lord's magnificent creations.

Psalms 8:3-9

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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Late but finally here

I am thankful for the Lord's patience with me. When I feel prompted to do something it seems to take forever before I finally do it. I have felt for awhile (since summer!) that I needed to do a blog like this.
I look at the title of this entry and hope that does not mean my entrance to heaven! Well, at least if I get there... but I don't want to be late! (I'm not usually late getting to places - just doing things!)
Anyway, as I was finally seriously contemplating this blog I wanted a catchy name. I like catchy names and phrases. I started looking through Psalms for something. I decided on "Praise ye the Lord". It wasn't catchy or clever but it is how I want my heart to be -always singing His praises.
But, that blog title was taken so I had been thinking about using something to do with "whispers" and decided I would combine the two.
I will try to post once or twice a week and just share something I have felt or learned and I always want to give the Lord all the praise I can. He is the source of all the good in my life.
I will also share some favorite scriptures. I thought I would start out in Psalms because it is full of verses that say what is in my heart.

Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I am still working to achieve this. Wouldn't it be wonerful if we pushed all the sordid details of the world out of our minds and just meditated on the Lord's law day and night? Whenever I hear the phrase "always remember Him" I wonder how I can do better in this. I do ask what He would do or have me do in certain situations but I know He is not in my mind every single minute or I would be a much better person.

Something to pursue...

Sorry, I will try to keep future posts a bit shorter!