Thoughts for Today

THURSDAY! Good "cold" morning from "middle Georgia"! Heat on, and feels good,, WOW! We are blessed in our old age,,,, dry house, warm house, feeling great and loved in this house, and most of all, and most important thing in this house,, God, and Jesus are here, and will always be welcomed here, no matter the country's' politics, nor satans wants,,, God always wins out, He is the greatest,,, and today I ask you... how is the order of your house and WHO & WHAT comes first in your house? RING OF JOY! I know , most of you have already forgotten what a ring of a phone is,,,most of you have some sort of ring tone of something out of the box of an old fashion ring.. right? Well I grew up with the ring of a regular phone,, and we still have our land line as it is called now. It still rings just like it the one we got on the ole farm,, only when it rings ,, we know it is for us.. for on the first one at the farm,, we had to wait and see if it was four short rings,, then it was for us... yes, we had not a four party phone, but an eight party,, to start with,, now if you could have been there to see all the faces as that phone rang... and if Mom or Dad was in that room,, you had better keep your hands off the phone,,, for one of them would answer it, Dad first, Mom if Dad didn't move, but us young ones, not a move, and when we heard their voices,, say ,,,"may I ask who's calling?",,, we all waited to hear our name , in hopes to be called,, and if it did,,,did everyone leave the room, nope,, they just set and kept on doing what ever it was they were doing... but rest assure,, Mom & Dad, heard ever word of your side, so you had to be very careful,, and wow,, did you get ribbing, if they turned and said your name, and said a girls name wanted to talk to you... you wanted more than ever to hear that, yet ,you were scared t death to talk,, for what would follow you after,, the teasing, and the finger pointing,, but with our sister,, that was not allowed.. just on the boys.. yes, there as honor in our house,,, for it was led by God fearing parents. who did not spare the rod,,,, the belt,, but never abused it either, and gave an abundance of love out... more than at the time we gave back,, so now, when that phone rings, and of course we have "caller ID",,, and one of our children's name appears on that screen ,,, and no matter how often it is that one of them calls,, or it is a brother, a sister, a love one, a good friend, my heart still jumps at the sound, and now in this time, seeing the ID,, yes, it is surely,,, a sound that some day we will hear ring, that will be even a bigger and more important ring,, yes THAT RING OF JOY FROM OUR LORD....FOR WE ARE HIS CHILDREN, THANK ABOUT IT... and if you are old enough to have had an old type phone,,(land line) that rang,, think of the times you got calls of joy, and what I call a "heart rush" in hopes it was just for you,, maybe for the boys, a girl-friend, or for the girls,,a boyfriend!!! "heart rush!!!!" "heart rush"!!!!" Lord, thank You for the mind to still remember all the good times of our days, just like as yesterday,, a neighbor driving by, stopping to just say,, nothing more than a hello, and give a big ole smile,, ad on their way,, for Lord it is You,,, who give us these moments, these rings into our hearts and souls,,and I say with a loud voice this day,,, thank YOU! amen John HIcks Thankful , for being able to express my thanks to my God for the memories, good and bad,,, and I try to put the bad ones behind me, as I learn from them all, but makes one feel better to remember the good ones, and let me tell you all,,, God loves to see you and I smile , and feel good!! Trust me ,, HE does,, so feel good today, and call someone, and make and make them smile too!!!      Wine   