Praise for Women Adapted from Psalm 135

(I wrote this waiting for women to come to evening prayer at my house on the eve of Succoth.)

Praise the name of the Lord! Give praise ladies who gather in His
name! Who stand in family rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens or
back yards! Give Him praise! Sing to the Lord because He chose you for
Himself as His own possession--the special treasure He keeps in His
very special place!

Father God does whatever He wants concerning you. His hand of
greatness reaches all over the earth to the heavens and down under the
seas in your behalf.

He makes everything good* happen for you. Think of all the messes He
has gotten you out of in the past! Lousy boyfriends, horrendous jobs,
physical ailments, mental anguish about situations that never even
happened--just stressed you out for nothing! He got you out of them
ALL.

Most of all, when you were at your ugliest and most rebellious He
looked upon you with eyes and heart of love and wooed your stubborn
self to His GLORIOUS self and here you are! A worshiper!

Oh give Him praise ladies!

Re written with much love, total liberty and apologies to those King
James Only and Don't Mess with My Bible folks!

*good--His idea of good and our idea of good are often two different
things because His goal is that we become conformed to the image of
His dear Son!

Fasting Facebook October 1 8:pm to Oct 31

So this is my first evening of fasting facebook. How does it feel? It feels uncluttered. It feels that a whole bunch of stuff hasbeen scooped out of my mind. I don't have to check fb and wonder how everyone is doing, seeing all the photos, listening to all the songs they post.

It's quite nice. I emailed people that I want to contact throughout the month...family, a couple of friends who don't use FB anyway, and a special friend I want to assure that I didn't forget.
So this is evening one.

I know I would write with more gut honesty if I just wrote between me and God in a notebook. But I want to share at least some things with anyone who chooses to read.

Deactivating is easy. Four steps. Yet the result is monumental. I don't want to be found. I want to be resting, refilling.  This is good, like detaching from people who take and take and take and never even ask 'how are you?" It's free. So that is about it for now.