Turkey Talk

Now are the days of  inside winter decor,  mostly snowmen & snowy trees. 

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Can you spot the tiny little snowman in the picture? 

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I did the largest size picture on this so you could see all of the cute snowmen! This is a hot chocolate pot. Fun!

Little Snow Peep, has his sheep! 🐑 I just love this sheeps eyes! Kind of lop-sided. 

This is actually the only Valentines Day decoration I had put out this year. Notice the basket of hearts?

& roses of course!

After being sick for half of December, almost all of January & half of February, as someone said, my get up & go had got up & went, bad grammar notwithstanding. Actually, my get up & go did not even exist. No energy, no ambition, no interest, not with standing or in any other position! Just plain old yuksville. 😖I am finally, albeit slowly, feeling like I'm ready to rejoin the land of the living again. 

Patsy & Clooney did provide great comedy relief for me, being firm proponents of laughter being good like medicine.

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A new celebration event to add to February's repertoire, after my husbands birthday, Valentines Day, is our only son got married! which makes me for the first time in 53 years, an empty nester!! Wow! I really haven't processed that yet except in the area of 'cleanliness next to godliness'. "I can see clearly now ( as in the last two kids' bedrooms) the kids have gone." 🎜🎝🎜🎝 (A song from the early seventies with slightly revised words.😁)

I had forgotten that their bedroom floors had carpet instead of  'al a clothes'. Dirty or clean, irrelevant.   Sigh of contentment... & now we are brought up to date, which is Washington's birthday.

"HaPpY BiRtHdAy President Washington....🎵 "

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Boy, I've really been doing some rabbit trailing from the main topic, soooo, time to do some 🦃 talk!    We  have had many brutally cold days this winter so we have kept plenty of food for fowl, including turkeys. Their population has increased this year (those long, cold winter nights you know. 😏) so they make their rounds to different homes, & ours is one of the stops along their daily 'constitution.'  Turkeys, as I have probably said before, are definitely every turkey for him or herself, which means they usually shove the younger, smaller or more timid out of the way to get to the food first. Then, they would rush on to the next feeding station, the stragglers lagging behind. This is when my husband would get into the act, by getting more food & quietly enticing the scrawny, scraggly, mostly hens, to come back so they could eat their fill. In doing this, with great patience, he trained one, who he named Gertrude, to eat out of his hand. She was very tentative at first, but then grew to trust her source of food, so when the turkeys would come into the yard, he would just call her name & she would come running for her dinner. Now, which shows her absolute trust in my husband, when the turkeys come to call, Ron will sit in a chair with the seeds in his hands, & wait for the turkeys to come to him. They stand & wait for him to throw the seed. Except for Gertie. She elbows her way through the reluctant crowd,  "Pardon me, excuse me, coming through, out of my way please,..." to get to the hand that feeds her. (This is a case that biting the hand that feeds you is ok!) When I was observing this, I thought there's a lesson here. Jesus came to give us life & give it abundantly according to John 10:10. But what does abundant life mean?  Since we are three part beings, spirit, soul & body, I believe abundant life applies to all three, the entire person. Jesus enabled those who are 'called by His name', or born again, (refer to Romans 10: 9 & 10) to inherit the fullness of salvation, which means, healing, deliverance, prosperity, on & on because we could never come to the end of it! Salvation is the gateway to access our inheritance which is all of these blessings & more! Not to mention having intimate fellowship with the Father, Jesus & the Holy Spirit. There is no such thing as 'better than that'!! Then how is it that so many are reluctant to "eat" from the provision of His hand, that He is waiting to give willingly to His family? & even to those who aren't His family, but His love just can't help it?

"Healing is not for today."

"I don't trust Him."

"I'm afraid."

"What if He doesn't come through?"

"What if it's a trick?"

"What if He gets mad?"

"I don't deserve it." 

(as if anyone does.)

Any excuse we have to refuse to accept what Jesus died to give us is sin. SIN...

Sobering, isn't it?

Soooo....don't.

Don't refuse what Jesus died to give you.

Don't refuse the provision of His nail scarred hands. or, like those feather-brained turkeys, you can go hungry. & miss out on abundant life. Are you willing to risk it? really? 

One other thing, because of Gertie's tenacity to trust, now there's another timid, scrawny, turkey, that has come & is tentatively learning to trust the hand that will feed her. Her name is Myrtle. The ones who trust not only get food, but a name. Their very own name given by their source of blessing. Do you think Gertrude & Myrtle had some Turkey Talk? 

"Pier pier." 

I wouldn't be surprised.

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Raintree Perk of the Day:

Jehovah Jireh: Provider

Jehovah Rapha: The God Who heals

Jehovah Shammah: The Lord is there

Jehovah Raah: The Lord my Shepherd

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord our Righteousness

Jehovah Nissi: The Lord Is My Banner

I love the last one especially because it means He will spread His Hand of protection over His people & keep them safe from their enemies. 

Time to do a little biblical archeology of your own for your provision treasures!! Happy excavations!!

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