What do ya think about the fact I titled this post distortion…and I used a distorted picture for the featured image? I am feeling rather pleased with myself right now. 😜 Feeling like that is using smarticles.
Boy isn’t that blurry photo PAINFUL to look at? Whew! I think I have a photo of the boys at their violin recital that is NOT blurry. However, it is probably in the boys’ scrapbook albums. I used the good photos for their albums and kept the garbage for myself.
I have some words to say about distortion and blur…but let me touch on the photos in this post first.
Family
This first photo is of my grandpa and three of his siblings. The oldest sister is not present in this photo. I believe she had already passed by this time.
All three of the girls played piano. Grandpa the mandolin. Harlen played a lot of instruments. Violin/fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and accordion are the instruments I saw Uncle Harlen play throughout my life. He may have played more…don’t remember.
Grandpa and Harlen played a lot of music over the years together. Some of the photos in this post are of the two of them playing in some group somewhere.
Grandpa always said…there are many musicians in this world who are NOT famous…and play just as good or better than those who are famous.
Leah Mae
My Aunt Leah Mae lived in California. She lived about 20 minutes south of LA and 2 miles from the beach. In 2009, I flew out to spend a week with her. I will never forget stepping out of the airport into that weather. I thought I had died and went to Heaven. Leah Mae told me…as long as she lived there, she always opened up her front and back door each afternoon to let the ocean breeze go through her house.
I got to experience that wonderful ocean breeze while hanging out with her that week. I experienced first-hand why she loved the weather.
For many years we wrote letters back and forth. Leah Mae was a letter writer. Once she got a computer, we switched to email. I was thrilled to have the time to spend with her in her home. I will never forget she took me to a pet cemetery. She thought I should see it. Leah Mae knew this poor country girl would be quite in shock by how rich city folk bury their pets.
Completely different than the pet cemeteries I am used to seeing on the farm. A stark contrast. 😂
She was a funny and ornery woman. Loved her dearly.
Convinced
Every morning, I wake up and do a run-through of a checklist in my head. I never know from one day to the next how I am going to feel about each of the items on the checklist.
This morning, I was 100% convinced I need to get married. I am highly amused by this. Haven’t a clue how that is going to happen, play out, what that looks like in either the spirit realm or the natural realm. Completely and utterly clueless. I think that is the amusing part. Don’t know what Father is doing. BUT…I am 100% on board.
AND…I am super excited about getting married. How bout dem apples? It sounds like an amazing adventure whatever that looks like. 🤷♀️ I am always up for an adventure.
I sound crazy on a daily basis…but boy…His adventures…are always fun. They really are. Decided I need to get married. No changing my mind. Feeling a bit giddy. 😜
At different times in my life, I would load the kids up in the vehicle and take them to watch their great-grandpa play at an opry somewhere.
They were always termed opry whichever town they were located in. Poor folk’s version of the Nashville opry. 😜
Distortion
But wait…there is more.
I tell ya…I am so encouraged. I am done with the enemy. Done fighting him. Done being tricked by him.
Crazy good.
It is a long story actually…but I am going to shorten it for this post.
If you will look back on my blog, you will see this LONG, SLOW battle within self and with Father to believe things He has promised me. LONG…SLOW battle.
In my defense, I was on board in the beginning, but the enemy came in and destroyed every bit of good vibes I had going on. Ya know?
It has been a long climb out of that dark pit.
Well…I am out. I have seen the light, love, and life.
The distortion…the blur is gone. I see clearly now. WOWSER BOWSER! SO happy about this wonderful development.
Had a convo with a long-time friend last night. He had a lot of things to tell me. He is a man who is in the New Apostolic Reformation part of the Christian Religious System. (Kingdom people as I call them.)
In the convo, he shared his belief system of what he thinks is going to transpire in the future. I took copious notes at Father’s direction.
Processing
It was close to 11 pm when we got off the phone. NOW…my mind is WIDE AWAKE. I had little hope of getting sleep knowing I had all this info swirling around in my mind. My mind has to process it all.
I flip over onto my stomach in bed and begin checking my calculations to all these spiritual mathematical story problems. Every single one my friend spoke of…was a problem I had already worked through…many times in the last seven years.
My default setting has always been…doubt. Doubt myself. My ability to hear and understand what Father is saying. It was destroyed by the enemy.
This time…I went through each story problem one by one and each one I said to Father…nope…not budging on the answers I have already gotten.
I then had peace…and went to sleep.
Something has radically changed inside. I no longer doubt the plan. No longer doubt the promises. Christ has healed me of things I can’t even see.
I am so encouraged. Super stoked about whatever is getting ready to happen. Feels good. Feels positive.
Thrilled to know I am totally set free of the enemy now.
I am ready for the river of lies and deception the dragon spewed out of his mouth to destroy me…to be swallowed up by the Earth. I am going to have a party and celebrate.
Crystal Clear
I believe things are crystal clear for me now. A great feeling to be sure.
What is even better…is that soon…the distortion for the kingdom people…is going to be fixed. Father has a plan to expose to mankind their own pride and arrogance. To expose to them their own desperate need of Christ. Man needs a Savior…the Savior.
So much wonderfulness coming soon. Thrills my heart. I love the truth, and I look forward to the world finally being able to see it clearly. Crystal clear. Father isn’t going to leave room for doubts.
It feels like a Mount Carmel moment between Elijah and the prophets of Baal. Father is going to light the sacrifice on fire and show the world clearly who is His chosen one.
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Going to sign off there.
Have a MARVY day!!!