Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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January 24, 2008

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Today’s Stories

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Little Girl Moved
Bill Walker
missourisage@yahoo.com

Well not really, she just did the girl thing. Awhile back, she moved a cushion from one of the Boys beds into the front room. I didn't notice it until there it was. She put it by an air vent. So she has a soft place to lay while getting heat in winter, and A/C in summer. Smart Little Gal I would say. I just figured she grabbed it and carried it in, it don't weigh much, some of her toys is weigh more.

Now she is just like the gals that walk on two feet. For some reason things has to be moved. Don't ask why, but things have to be moved. Every once in a while the cushion is some where else, sometimes it travels quite a ways from the favorite spot, other times it is just a couple feet. I still figured she grabbed it like one of her toys. She thought it would look better in a different place, just like the big gals. Let’s see how would it look over here, or over there?

I come along, pick it up and put it back by the air vent. Well that is OK for a bit. She might move it a few inches to suit herself, and plops down on it. Today I saw the moving. She didn't like it by the air vent after all. Let’s see how it will look in the middle of the room. She gets on it, back legs off, but the front ones working it to the rear. I mean to tell you this is hard work, she is really getting into it. I just watched, she never told me where she would like to have it.

After a bit there it is in the middle of the floor. She steps back, looks it over, and then piled down on top. Gives me the look, now that is better. Guess it is just a girl thing.
Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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~ Securely Loved ~

 Joyce C. Lock

If you have a biological child, that child is your literal blood lineage.  They may become your pride and joy, or even your worst nightmare.  But, they are still your child.

You can given them up for adoption, disinherit them, otherwise disown them, and never see or speak to them again.  But, nothing can erase that blood lineage; not even a transfusion.

Your child could be of a saintly sort, a mass murderer, or anywhere in-between.  But, no matter what might separate you from them (no matter the type of hell they choose to live in, no matter how they disgrace you) that blood lineage can not be erased.

You can choose 'not to be' a party to their waywardness.  You can let them make their own choices, and either suffer or be blessed as a result.  You can chastise them.  You can cry and scream in your wrath.  You can thunder down on them and even let them die in their sins.  But, you cannot erase that blood lineage.

God created man ... and all of you are children of the most High. Psalm 82:6  Do we really believe God could stop loving us, that He created man more righteous than He?

Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. Habakkuk 1:12

Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. Psalm 96:10  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation ...
the living God, is the Saviour of all men,

specially of those that believe.

1 Timothy 4:9-10

© by Joyce C. Lock
http://iam.homewithGod.com/glimpsesofgod/

Thank you!

Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for

thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity,

to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for

thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

Lamentations 2:14

There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

~ False Ways ~

He that speaketh truth sheweth forth

righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

Proverbs 12:17

Some say God created man in His image, not woman.

God is not a man.  God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created ... Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. Numbers 23:19a, Genesis 1:27, 5:2, Colossians 1:15

The righteous men, shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. Ezekiel 23:45

Some say man is the head of the woman.

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:32

By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Colossians 1:16-18

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. 1 Corinthians 7:23

Some say a woman cannot teach a man anything.

It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. Acts 2:17-18

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Exodus 20:16

Some say a woman should know her place.

Thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. Isaiah 54:5

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. Exodus 23:1

Some say women cannot preach.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.  Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. Galatians 3:28, Isaiah 32:20

A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Proverbs 20:23

Some say a woman is required to be silent in the church.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Take heed that the light which is in thee be not darkness.  If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. Luke 11:35-36

Some say, "Have nothing to do with that Jezebel."

He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.  John 13:20

They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. John 16:2

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Luke 6:26

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth.  Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.  A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.  A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Then they suborned men, said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.  And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council, And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man.  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.  Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift

is like clouds and wind without rain.

Proverbs 25:14

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Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits

whether they are of God: because many false

prophets are gone out into the world.

I John 4:1

~ The Test ~

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:

against such there is no law.  Having crucified the flesh

with the affections and lusts, it is they that are Christ's.

Galatians 5:22-24

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If ye be led of the Spirit,

ye are not under the law.

If we live in the Spirit, let

us also walk in the Spirit.

For by the works of the law

shall no flesh be justified.

And they, whether they will hear,

or whether they will forbear,

yet shall know that there hath

been a prophet among them.

© 2007 by Joyce C. Lock, KJV
http://iam.homewithGod.com/glimpsesofgod/

Scriptural Methods of Bible Study illustrated.  As it is

written in the prophets, they shall all be taught of God.

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