I am Back....

Hello All....

Well I am finally back from a much needed break although I have not been resting at all. Today I am taking the day off from most of my endeavors and just staying home. I have been running my self in circles with Hospice and such and am just plain tired. A good tired but tired none the less.

So what is new? Well let me see....
It is spring now and it looks like it has kicked in for real... pollen and all. However I am really enjoying listening to all the birds and soaking up all the colors springing forth from this tired old earth. It amazes me how this planet manages to push out so many wonderful things in spite of mans determination to destroy so much of it.

It has been about a year since that horrible tornado hit Mena... still a lot of gaps where trees once stood as well as empty lots where houses once sat. A lot of people left Mena after the tornado. Many just rolled up their sleeves and plowed on rebuilding and replanting, but the scars are there reminding us how life as we know it can change in a matter of minutes.

I am not a seer or anything but I do not think it takes one to realize how fast things are changing. In my mind I do not see anything remaining the same on this planet with life as we have known it, being here much longer. The fact that it has lasted this long is amazing to me.

I wonder about the great 'American Dream' and wonder if it was more like the great 'American Illusion' ?

We as humans do not learn our lessons very well and always seem bent on making the same mistakes over and over. I hear people say how some groups of people had a great way of life until the white man came... but in reading about our past on this planet.... well it seems to me all humans have the same flaws. It does not matter what color,what culture, what religion.... humans are what they are. The good, the bad and the ugly. I see no superior race of people at all. People are just people....

I do believe however that some people are evil to the core and have no good in them, period. On the flip side I believe there are some people who seem to have a loving nature that just flows out from them and blesses everyone in their wake.

So what does any of this matter? I guess it is my same old rant.... don't start chucking out everyone and labeling everyone by their race, religion or culture. We all have a lot to learn from each other... we even need to learn from the bad stuff.

This planet knows that... it takes the fire and starts over by soaking up the nutrients from the ashes and using that fire to refresh the ground.

So during this time on our planet when the fires are getting more frequent and much hotter, look at it as a time of renewing. This is a time when everything that is rotten in going to purged so wonderful new things can come again.

Spring is coming to planet earth... to our solar system.... to this race of people called humanity.

John 3:16 (Amplified Bible)
16For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([a]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.


John 12:46-48 (Amplified Bible)
46I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me [whoever cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me] may not continue to live in darkness.

47If anyone hears My teachings and fails to observe them [does not keep them, but disregards them], it is not I who judges him. For I have not come to judge and to condemn and to pass sentence and to inflict penalty on the world, but to save the world.

48Anyone who rejects Me and persistently sets Me at naught, refusing to accept My teachings, has his judge [however]; for the [very] message that I have spoken will itself judge and convict him at the last day.

One thing I am beginning to understand in a very small way is that the Son comes to people in very different ways... and His name is not always Jesus... but He speaks to our spirits and our spirits know His voice...and if we are His.... we listen and follow. He never loses one of His own.... NEVER!!!

Love & Prayers,
Judy