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Hello Tennies, my old friends....

So, I gotta say, I am blessed with the best parents....and brothers too. : )

Dad always had music playing in the background so as a result it seems I always have a tune in my head and make up songs : )  So, here's the latest...sung to an old Simon and Garfunkel song dad used to listen to..."The Sound Of Silence"...I think.  : )  Hee, hee, hee....

Hello Tennies my old friends...

It's time I meet with you again...

because my tummy softly creeping,

over my waistband since I've been eating...

Just one more bite of pumpkin crunch...how I love to munch...

but now it's time....to get moving...

My training grounds for the Great Aloha Run 2011!!  Come join us!

You're Beautiful!

Okay...so it's been waaaay too long since I last posted. Just listened to the lyrics of this song the other night and something inside went YES! Yes, not just for me, but way, way, way more importantly, for you...for everyone on this planet. It was one of those moments when I realized that I have believed this for as long as I can remember about people. I can't credit this to my own goodness because apart from Jesus, well...it ain't that nice. (my goodness, that is)  No, this is something HE must have placed within me, within the NEW creation that I am in Him because I am convinced of this...even when people don't act so beautiful. He knows who they are, what they've experienced even from the womb that may have beat them up before they were even born. He knows them and gets them and totally loves and has always loved them. So amazingly cool!  THIS is the GOOD NEWS of the gospel of JESUS CHRIST ! Without His eyes, there is no way I could see that. So, I'm praying that I can continue to see with His eyes, understand with His mind and LOVE with His heart. Hope someone gets to read this and gets to see this video and believe it for themselves. Its true, my friend...You are BEAUTIFUL because you are His. He created you to do great things.  He really did...and if you don't know you are His or don't believe you are beautiful....please contact me...He wants you to know...male and female alike...He loved you, created you and redeemed you in Christ...You ARE beautiful because HE IS!  Love you!  : ) xoxo

PS...Put a big smile on your face and SHARE this GOOD NEWS!!

I Can See Clearly Now...

Woke up feeling a little burdened this morning. Kept my head under the covers repeating, "I love You Jesus" over and over again. ... Wanting to hear nothing but His voice. Didn't even wanna step out of bed until I heard Him. I wish I could hear His audible voice... don't we all...that would be so much easier, but usually, its that still small voice deep within. Of course, I'm having to learn to just be silent before Him so He can get a word in edgewise.  I got up and grabbed a cup of coffee and my Bible and started reading from 1 Samuel. GOD chose Saul to be the first king of Israel. From what I understand, Saul vacillated back and forth between believing what God had said about him but then questioning it and having a major wrong perspective to say the least. In the end, after much inner turmoil and lots of fleshy yuck, leading from one bad decison to another...he gets replaced by David.

This spoke to me...when I doubt and question myself at times and focus on my inadequacies, I question GOD ALMIGHTY, Who created me anew in Christ. Silly me. There is no time for that when He has so much love and healing to give to a hurting world through us, His kids, by and through HIS POWER in us. There's a world who needs to hear this good.... HIS good news! It's such a continuous, familiar scheme of the enemy to distract our focus off God and what He's said and onto ourselves or our circumstances, questioning what God has said.  satan (he gets no capitalization in my book) has been doing it since the creation of man.

God is my TRUTH!  NOTHING is greater than God and truly if HE IS FOR US, who or what can stand against us?  Whew! The burden I woke up with was lifted! I was lifted! I could see clearly from HIS perspective!  Should've read my previous post to myself...ha, ha, ha...

Then a song came into mind and I googled Jimmy Cliff's version of "I Can See Clearly Now" and rocked out with God!  So much FUN!

Once again, as it will always be...its HIS WORD that speaks louder than any lies of the enemy that Jesus defeated.  It's HIS WORD that makes us see right...see clearly...gotta keep remembering to behold the new me in Jesus.  I pray you are too.  

Gotta keep up this blog...thank you for reading it...to anyone who does...: )

Love and hugs to you beautiful people who God loves so so so so much!  Yes, that means you! : )

Ps...Hope you enjoy the video above...my 2nd one made on iMovie..just today!!! Wish I had more people pics but that's all my Mac library has...since the ccccrashhhh...... : (

My First Women's Retreat...Behold the New !

Yep, I'd never been to a women's retreat before as an attendee and certainly not as a Women's Pastor! : ) Didn't quite know what to expect but was SO excited to see the women arrive, and so grateful and in awe to witness all the amazing girls God has placed around me, using their awesome skills and talents to help make things run smoothly when I am not the best at planning things smoothly...hee,hee, hee... Thank you all you "Lions and Beavers" (personality profiles I just learned at "Everyone Plays" at HCKB) for your excellent organizational skills. I soooo owe you ! God is sooooo GOOD! You are HIS beautiful MASTERPIECES indeed!

So this picture was taken on Saturday morning...I was sitting on the beach, watching Patty, Sue and Sherry going for an early morning beach walk, smelling the fresh air, watching the waves gently roll onto the shore as I praised God for all that and for the night before. It was like I was with a bunch of girlfriends that instantly became sisters I will truly love and treasure forever. God is so totally cool to connect us that way! Instant family because of Him!

We focused on learning to "behold" or to see with understanding, the beautiful new creations we are in Christ because of what He did for us at the cross through His death and resurrection...His finished, complete and perfect work of salvation. This picture reminds me of that newness...when the morning comes, its a fresh new start...a new beginning to a brand new day...the old has gone...the new has come. Sometimes its easier to focus on that and sometimes, its just plain difficult, depending what we've allowed our minds to dwell on. The more we renew our minds with what God says about us in His Word, the better we will see with His eyes of faith, hope and love...His perfect 20/20 vision...His perfect way of thinking, seeing, speaking and being....I sooooo want that !!!

The retreat, His retreat... was all Him, all over Him...and I am in awe of the intense love He has for us...and for the amazing plans He has for each one of us...all unique and specifically designed to fulfill our hearts desires within... while all the while fulfilling HIS purpose and desire for us. He is THE most AMAZING, COOLEST, LOVING and WONDERFUL Father God ever !

Love and hugs to Him and to you...Eh...Behold...the new, okay?  HE paid the highest price for that newness !  xoxo  : )

First official blog post... Jesus is new school... : )