Word-Filled-Wednesday ~ Psalm 139 " Lead me in the way EVERLASTING..............I WILL PRAISE YOU.....!" !

14 I WILL PRAISE YOU

FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND

WONDERFULLY MADE!

Word-Filled-Wednesday is hosted by the lovely Amydeanne at The 160 Acre Woods. This week, please join us for God's Word at Susan's blog Forever His.

No matter what this day will bring...........I will lift -up my hands and say.............!!

THE POWER OF GODS LOVE

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Birthday Girl !

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For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.Proverbs 9:11

Want de wijsheid verlengt uw leven en God zal er jaren aan toevoegen. Spreuken 9:11 

Yesterday we celebrate our daughters birthday to have fun as an family at an favorite place of her in a zoo. She is so fun of animals and and outside life.

The zoo we went " Oudehands Dierenpark " we never went before and had an beautiful day and lot of fun.

Fearles Friday ~ PRAYING..........and looking over our borders.......~

Today is Fearless Fridays! A day where I commit to pray for you. Other precious prayer warriors have also committed to pray for you. To participate in Fearless Fridays please leave a comment at "FREE SPIRIT HAVEN". I hope you will join Fearless Fridays and see the power of prayer in your life and others.

If the Lord so leads you, grab the Fearless Friday button and bring it to your blog, letting others know you too will stand in the gap for others through prayer.

I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loose in heaven. Again I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them. Matthew 18:18-20


“They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly.” ~ Psalm 112:7-8 NLT

"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 NLT

Last week our host Angela put this picture up and said this

"When I look at this picture above my spirit just rises up!
BACK OFF!
I bind you in the Name of Jesus Christ!
We submit to God.
We resist you Satan. and you HAVE to flee!
We come near to God.
And He comes near to us.
This picture reminds me that we are from the tribe of the Lion of Judah!
We look to our enemies and say: DON'T MESS WITH ME!
We are God's holy children! "

Yes our spirit is rising up today within us and any day we have to to stand and stay firm...
This picture stayed in my minds eye and i pray and hope it will in yours!


I was contemplating this morning what i should put up as prayer requests and what to put under attention for other bloggers to lift up in prayer.


There is a lot of need and also a lot of praise in blogland

Let's rally around the family's and friends who are in need feel weak...need encouragement

You can find in my side bar link's to the blog from Andrews Mum BELLA MELLA,and to the blog of the wife of Ron.
Please pray for Andrew and his family and for Ron and his family
A lot of praise went up on the blog of Mc Mama for the healing of Stellan from his SVT........my heart also went up and stil when i see pictures of his smiling face....In my side bar you can find links to the whole story and video's when his parents tell about everything......


I was thinking this morning i do not want to direct only to bloggers and family's who need healing.......
No idea came up but just before starting to compile this blog an email from an very dear friend in India( Mumbai) caught my attention.....

I am so busy for these cancer patients I caring and preaching among them. last two days for the whole day I was helping those.  today i am going to mission field for Gospel camping from 20 too 22 November.  Please forgive me, I didnt have much time for our beautiful Ning page.  Pray for us, our preacher could be Mr. Ravi and I woul be councellor and many other missionaires.

Pray many call gal, back slider, hindu/muslims come to Jesus.

I will update you all.

Blessings

Muani

I said God what message you like me to post...to pray for my dear friend Muani and her newly wed husband Rev David Whitener?

 Yes join me in praying for them BUT i believe God want us to pray for our selfs also when we look at how f.e this couple is working and bringing God's work to HIS PEOPLE in HIS WORLD!

The lessons we get when we look see and hear about mission work for our own life and daily walk as Christian

Be blessed by the day to day Life of David and Muani in Mumbai!

You can find my dear sister's page overhere


Both there blogs for ministry you can find here

You add SUNSHINE to my day!!

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It is not "by chance" i come across this award.....At Christy Rose  from "The Secret Life of an American Wife and mom". She really deserves this award what she gave away to all her readers last sunday.Why i say that she deserves also this award is because her blogpost "I am leaning" gave me today the first ray's of sunshine in my day!Her transparency about her struggle with her teenkids stirred respect in me and her attitude in this season how to handle get through it i read in her  last words in the last sentence " only God can empower me when i am weak" i needed to hear that today to keep the good focus...Thanks Christy Rose!



And reading further in her blog i found this award an answer to my thoughts already for some weeks to find an award for 2 special "newbiebloggers" to my heart....
I could not find the fitting award......Beside blogworld i know them also online...and no matter if we chat or when i read or listen to the songs in their blog.....They warm my heart also...
So when i saw this award " You add sunshine to my day" i thought " THIS IS IT.......THIS FITS..
HOLLY from "Letting Go and Letting God!" and
My friend at " Mountain Tops and Valleys: My Growing Walk"
Take a peek in there blogs and leave a comment at it .....I want others to get to know them better and experience the rays of Sun(Son)shine they are bringing in the day.......


To put this award up in your side bar or give it away in a post you need to

use this code to take this bling of an award!-- <"img src="http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt308/TheRedHeadRiter/commentboxBUTTON-1.gif"/"> you have to remove the quotation marks at the beginning and the end of the html in order for the button to pop up wherever you want to put it.


there are no rules to this award. it is just a blessing to those who have blessed you with their comments, encouragement, or inspiration from a writing in their own blog.

Have an blessed day!

Spiritual Sunday's ~ My Sunday morning reflection...~

 Today is  

Sunday, November 15  
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

 
Watchword for the Week
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for God who has
promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23

Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16
Hebrews 10:11-14,(15-18),19-25; Mark 13:1-8

Ah Lord God! It is you who made the heavens and the earth by your great power
and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. Jeremiah 32:17

Our Savior Christ Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10

O Creator God, we are in awe of the beauty and wonder that surrounds us. Knowing
you enables us to imagine the unimaginable. Inspire our visions; ignite our
dreams. Amen

This  morning and to be honest until this moment i feel like this lady in the picture

And if i do not watch-out i will  give in to different negative thoughts and beat myself up.......

• You went to bed to late after work.........
• You are not giving your kids and family attention or make breakfast when they make themself ready for church
• Look outside what an dark cold weather....not good for your mood
• You need to work later....again till late......

• Look around you....see what need to be done in the house.....

And so on and so on.......I wanted to jump in bed again after these thoughts crossed my mind while having breakfast in front of the computer reading blogs........

Speaking to myself PLEASE.....do yourself a favor...get a grip over your feelings( mood) 

DIVE in GOD'S WORD........

" THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN HIM " isn't it.....??!!

BE GLAD IN HIM and HIM ALONE!!

Not in circumstances not in things not even in yourself!!

HE IS .....must be YOUR STRENGHT your HOPE........., COUNSELOUR

He is FAITFUL to keep His promises to you......

If You are tired or even feel like not being a life.....

He can make You a life.........!!

Did His word not said  Our Savior Christ Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel. 2 Timothy 1:10

 

This is what happenend to me this morning PRAISE God and i see and experience what He is saying in His word ...That it works like that.........

He says to His children read my Word cling to the gospel of Christ .....no matter your thoughts feelings or circumstances even if you dis-appoint yourself and hold fast and believe what it says!!

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Blessings.

 

Fearles Friday ~ What If His People Prayed ~

Welcome to Fearless Fridays!
A day where I commit to pray for you and join with other precious prayer warriors who are also committed to pray for you.
To participate in Fearless Fridays please leave a comment sharing your prayer request overhere or at "FREE SPIRIT HAVEN" the home of this special day set a side every week. I hope you will join Fearless Fridays and see the power of prayer in your life and others.

I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loose in heaven. Again I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them. Matthew 18:18-20


“They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and can face their foes triumphantly.” ~ Psalm 112:7-8 NLT

"Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14 NLT

What if the armies of the Lord

Picked up and dusted off their swords

Vowed to set the captives free

And not let satan have one more

What if the church, for heaven's sake

Finally stepped up to the plate

Took a stand upon God's promise

And stormed hell's rusty gates

Chorus:

What if His people prayed

And all who bare His name

Would humbly seek His face

And Turn from their own way

And what would happen if we prayed

For those raised up to lead the way

Then maybe kids in school could pray

And unborn children see light of day

What if the life that we pursue

Came from a hunger for the truth

What if the family turned to Jesus

Stopped asking Oprah what to do

He said that they would hear

His promise has been made

He'll answer loud and clear

If only we would pray

If My people called by My name

If they'll humble themselves and pray

If My people called by My name

If they'll humble themselves and pray

a slide show to the song what if his people prayed by casting crowns

When You Are Low on Hope

When You Are Low on Hope
by Max Lucado
Water. All Noah can see is water. The evening sun sinks into it. The clouds are reflected in it. His boat is surrounded by it. Water. Water to the north. Water to the south. Water to the east. Water to the west. Water.
He sent a raven on a scouting mission; it never returned. He sent a dove. It came back shivering and spent, having found no place to roost. Then, just this morning, he tried again. With a prayer he let it go and watched until the bird was no bigger than a speck on a window.
All day he looked for the dove's return.
Now the sun is setting, and the sky is darkening, and he has come to look one final time, but all he sees is water. Water to the north. Water to the south. Water to the east. Water to the ...
You know the feeling. You have stood where Noah stood. You've known your share of floods. Flooded by sorrow at the cemetery, stress at the office, anger at the disability in your body or the inability of your spouse. You've seen the floodwater rise, and you've likely seen the sun set on your hopes as well. You've been on Noah's boat.
And you've needed what Noah needed; you've needed some hope. You're not asking for a helicopter rescue, but the sound of one would be nice. Hope doesn't promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.
That's all Noah needed. And that's all Noah received.
Here is how the Bible describes the moment: "When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf!" (Gen. 8:11 NIV).
An olive leaf. Noah would have been happy to have the bird but to have the leaf! This leaf was more than foliage; this was promise. The bird brought more than a piece of a tree; it brought hope. For isn't that what hope is? Hope is an olive leaf—evidence of dry land after a flood. Proof to the dreamer that dreaming is worth the risk.
Don't we love the olive leaves of life?
"It appears the cancer may be in remission."
"I can help you with those finances."
"We'll get through this together."
What's more, don't we love the doves that bring them?
Perhaps that's the reason so many loved Jesus.
To all the Noahs of the world, to all who search the horizon for a fleck of hope, he proclaims, "Yes!" And he comes. He comes as a dove. He comes bearing fruit from a distant land, from our future home. He comes with a leaf of hope.
Have you received yours? Don't think your ark is too isolated. Don't think your flood is too wide. Receive his hope, won't you? Receive it because you need it. Receive it so you can share it.
Love always hopes. "Love ... bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (1 Cor. 13:4-7 NKJV, emphasis mine).

From A Love Worth Giving
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2002) Max Lucado

A song for YOU!!

Read along with me today... GODS WORD !!

 My reading for today are Psalm 124
Daniel 2:1-33; 1 John 3:11-24

It is long time ago i posted them on my blog and read it together with you.

I don't know if you have the same experience as me .., that to SEE God's WORD to speak it out and personalize it...brings forth powers.....in and around me...It is as i can see the devil is running away and can't stand to hear it and get dis-couraged to try to manipulate my set of mind!

Read with me today God's word my friends and be blessed!

Psalm 124

A Pilgrim Song of David

 ^1-5 If God hadn't been for us —all together now, (........)Israel, sing out!—
   If God hadn't been for us
      when everyone went against us,
   We would have been swallowed alive
      by their violent anger,
   Swept away by the flood of rage,
      drowned in the torrent;
   We would have lost our lives
      in the wild, raging water.

 ⁶ Oh, blessed be God!
      He didn't go off and leave us.
   He didn't abandon us defenseless,
      helpless as a rabbit in a pack of snarling dogs.

 ⁷ We've flown free from their fangs,
      free of their traps, free as a bird.
   Their grip is broken;
      we're free as a bird in flight.

 ⁸ God's strong name is our help,
      the same God who made heaven and earth. 

Daniel 2

King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

 ^1-3 In the second year of his reign, King Nebuchadnezzar started having dreams that disturbed him deeply. He couldn't sleep. He called in all the Babylonian magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and fortunetellers to interpret his dreams for him. When they came and lined up before the king, he said to them, "I had a dream that I can't get out of my mind. I can't sleep until I know what it means."  ⁴ The fortunetellers, speaking in the Aramaic language, said, "Long live the king! Tell us the dream and we will interpret it."
 ^5-6 The king answered the fortunetellers, "This is my decree: If you can't tell me both the dream itself and its interpretation, I'll have you ripped to pieces, limb from limb, and your homes torn down. But if you tell me both the dream and its interpretation, I'll lavish you with gifts and honors. So go to it: Tell me the dream and its interpretation."
 ⁷ They answered, "If it please your majesty, tell us the dream. We'll give the interpretation."
 ^8-9 But the king said, "I know what you're up to—you're just playing for time. You know you're up a tree. You know that if you can't tell me my dream, you're doomed. I see right through you—you're going to cook up some fancy stories and confuse the issue until I change my mind. Nothing doing! First tell me the dream, then I'll know that you're on the up and up with the interpretation and not just blowing smoke in my eyes."
 ^10-11 The fortunetellers said, "Nobody anywhere can do what you ask. And no king, great or small, has ever demanded anything like this from any magician, enchanter, or fortuneteller. What you're asking is impossible unless some god or goddess should reveal it—and they don't hang around with people like us."
 ^12-13 That set the king off. He lost his temper and ordered the whole company of Babylonian wise men killed. When the death warrant was issued, Daniel and his companions were included. They also were marked for execution.
 ^14-15 When Arioch, chief of the royal guards, was making arrangements for the execution, Daniel wisely took him aside and quietly asked what was going on: "Why this all of a sudden?"
 ^15-16 After Arioch filled in the background, Daniel went to the king and asked for a little time so that he could interpret the dream.
 ^17-18 Daniel then went home and told his companions Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah what was going on. He asked them to pray to the God of heaven for mercy in solving this mystery so that the four of them wouldn't be killed along with the whole company of Babylonian wise men.

Dream Interpretation: A Story of Five Kingdoms

 ^19-23 That night the answer to the mystery was given to Daniel in a vision. Daniel blessed the God of heaven, saying,

   "Blessed be the name of God,
   forever and ever.
He knows all, does all:
   He changes the seasons and guides history,
He raises up kings and also brings them down,
   he provides both intelligence and discernment,
He opens up the depths, tells secrets,
   sees in the dark—light spills out of him!
God of all my ancestors, all thanks! all praise!
   You made me wise and strong.
And now you've shown us what we asked for.
   You've solved the king's mystery."

 ²⁴ So Daniel went back to Arioch, who had been put in charge of the execution. He said, "Call off the execution! Take me to the king and I'll interpret his dream."
 ²⁵ Arioch didn't lose a minute. He ran to the king, bringing Daniel with him, and said, "I've found a man from the exiles of Judah who can interpret the king's dream!"
 ²⁶ The king asked Daniel (renamed in Babylonian, Belteshazzar), "Are you sure you can do this—tell me the dream I had and interpret it for me?"
 ^27-28 Daniel answered the king, "No mere human can solve the king's mystery, I don't care who it is—no wise man, enchanter, magician, diviner. But there is a God in heaven who solves mysteries, and he has solved this one. He is letting King Nebuchadnezzar in on what is going to happen in the days ahead. This is the dream you had when you were lying on your bed, the vision that filled your mind:
 ^29-30 "While you were stretched out on your bed, O king, thoughts came to you regarding what is coming in the days ahead. The Revealer of Mysteries showed you what will happen. But the interpretation is given through me, not because I'm any smarter than anyone else in the country, but so that you will know what it means, so that you will understand what you dreamed.
 ^31-36 "What you saw, O king, was a huge statue standing before you, striking in appearance. And terrifying. The head of the statue was pure gold, the chest and arms were silver, the belly and hips were bronze, the legs were iron, and the feet were an iron-ceramic mixture. While you were looking at this statue, a stone cut out of a mountain by an invisible hand hit the statue, smashing its iron-ceramic feet. Then the whole thing fell to pieces—iron, tile, bronze, silver, and gold, smashed to bits. It was like scraps of old newspapers in a vacant lot in a hot dry summer, blown every which way by the wind, scattered to oblivion. But the stone that hit the statue became a huge mountain, dominating the horizon. This was your dream. 

 1 John 3:11-24

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 ¹¹For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.
 ^12-13We must not be like Cain, who joined the Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice of evil, while the acts of his brother were righteous. So don't be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time.
 ^14-15The way we know we've been transferred from death to life is that we love our brothers and sisters. Anyone who doesn't love is as good as dead. Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know very well that eternal life and murder don't go together.
 ^16-17This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God's love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.

When We Practice Real Love

 ^18-20My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.  ^21-24And friends, once that's taken care of and we're no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we're bold and free before God! We're able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we're doing what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this is God's command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command. As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.

My week of THANKFULNES

I must believe it it is THANKFUL THURSDAY again!!

To me it does not feel like a week is gone again.....My days where so packed with activities.....Over the weekend i had even no change to come to my blog....

Planned to post everyday ( left side-bar) this month an point of thankfulness to achive and keep an attitude of gratefulness. So i walked it in on tuesday ....

This is my list until tuesday:

#5 For my 2 "arrows" he blessed us with

#6 For his provision daily; f.e bringing daily custumors to our business

#7 For family and sharing with eachother on birthdays and get-togethers

#8 For my health

#9 For having a job

#10 Miracle result during the operation of STELLAN'S heart

Yesterday on the 11th of November........I was thankful for being able to REST; no work ...,kids at school.........,having an house and a bed to rest in........,having food in the pantry and leftovers...so no shoppings and no cooking.....
Having internet to catch -up with online friends...........and in the evening we where blessed with beautiful weather to have an great evening walking with the kids outside and celebrating St Martinsday...


When i look good and recapture a day it is amazing to see how i am surrounded with a lot to be thankful for
Say with me together:

This is the day the LORD has made;

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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WFW ~ If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? ~

Welcome to  Word-Filled Wednesday!

Matthew 5:14 (The Message)

 ^14-16"Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I'm putting you on a light stand. Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

St. Martin's Day Is Celebrated Throughout Europe today on the 11th of November. This picture is seen tonight in my neighbourhood

Posted about this celebration yesterday for some info and recipies you can go here

For more WFW

You can find McLinky at our hostess Penny’s blog Lori at  www.allyouhavetogive.com
next week our hostess will be  Christy’s blog  Critty Joy
God Bless!

To God be the glory, great things He hath done!

That is what happenend yesterday with STELLAN!!
Good answered ALL the prayers around the world going up for him.
Keep praying further for all the side effects of the treatment and that his body will recover completely

PEACE in the hustle and bustle of activities........

St. Martin's Day Is Celebrated Throughout Europe

St. Martin's Day is celebrated on Nov. 11 throughout Europe. Named after St. Martin, the 4th-century Roman Catholic Bishop of Tours, France, this holiday spread from France to Germany, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe.


It celebrates the end of the growing season and the beginning of harvesting. It also marks the last day to celebrate before the fasting of Advent begins. Children and adults walk down the streets with lanterns and torches, and sing St. Martin songs. The children visit neighborhood houses singing and reciting poems, which earns them sweet treats, not unlike Western Halloween.

Poles Have Two Reasons to Celebrate

Nov. 11 is Independence Day in Poland, but it is also St. Martin's Day and in Poznan, Poland, the Roman Catholic saint's name day seems to take precedence.


Every year on Nov. 11, thousands of Poznan residents attend a high Mass in St. Martin's Church followed by a parade through St. Martin Street led by "St. Martin" sitting astride a white horse. St. Martin rides up to the square in front of Zamek Cultural Centre and is handed the keys to the city by the mayor. Then the celebration begins in earnest.


Inside Zamek, there are exhibitions, concerts and performances, while outside, there’s a street market with knights reenacting medieval jousting tournaments. A splendid fireworks display ends the day.


Pozanians treat themselves to St. Martin's Croissants - rogale swietomarcinski also known simply as marcinski. These crescent-shaped pastries filled with poppyseed and almond paste are consumed by the hundreds of thousands.


Legend has it this centuries-old tradition commemorates a Poznan baker's dream. His nightime reveries had St. Martin entering the city on a white horse that lost its golden horseshoe. The very next morning, the baker whipped up horseshoe-shaped croissants filled with almonds, white poppyseed and nuts, and gave them to the poor.


Another story cites the Rev. Jan Lewicki of St. Martin's parish appealing to his congregation in 1891 to make something for the poor for St. artin's Day. Baker Jozef Melzer is said to have made croissants which were given to the poor or bought by the wealthy.


Some bakeries have started to produce these pastries year-round, but the "best ones" are considered to be those available only on Nov. 11.

Traditions in Slovenia and Croatia

In Slovenia and Croatia, St. Martin's Day marks the day when the must traditionally turns to wine. The must is usually considered impure and sinful until it is baptized and turned into wine.


St. Martin's Day Festivals -- -- Martinje-- include a "baptism" performed by someone who dresses up as a bishop, usually the host, and blesses the wine. It is definitely a time to eat, drink and be merry with a feast consisting of goose and mlinci -- a type of dumpling.

Czech Traditions

A Czech proverb -- St. Martin is coming on a white horse -- signifies the snow that begins to fall in November. Some Czechs hold a festival - posviceni - with roast goose as the main course.


Also in Germany  Martin's-Goose, is served

to commemorate the life and legend of St. Martin.

The history takes us far back to the 4th century and to the young Martinus, who served as an officer in the Roman army. One night he was riding on his horse through a town and was approached by a beggar asking him for warm clothes, since it was freezing cold. Martinus split his coat with his sword and gave a half to the beggar. Later Martinus quit his job in the Roman army and became a soldier of God and lived a life of an anchorite. When the story of his good deed spread he should become a bishop. Legend has it that Martinus was too shy to take this honor and tried to hide in a goose hutch. People equipped with lanterns, searched the half night for him and were finally alerted by the twitter of the geese. The geese were butchered and eaten, Martinus became Bishop Martin and was later canonized and still today his story is told and celebrations take place to remember the good deed of St. Martin.
Although this is a nice story to explain why a goose is on the menu on this particular day, there is a far more rational explanation to that. In the yearly calendar of the church- and farmers, the 11th of November marks the beginning of the winter and the 40 days lent before Christmas, where no fat food is allowed. It was also the day, when the farm laborers were laid-off, got paid and received a present and when the annual land lease had to be paid. As currency and presents a goose came in very handy, since money was not often used in the Middle Ages.
All that is left today, thinking of the goose, is the traditional way of preparing this festive meal. Basic rule is, the more aromatic the filling, the better the taste of the meat. In the north of Germany it is common to fill the Martinsgans with a mix of ground pork, onions, garlic and herbs while in the south soaked buns, chestnuts, roasted nuts, apples, plums, sugar, salt, vinegar and red wine are widely preferred. The goose is placed in an oven and constantly basted with its own stock to ensure the meat doesn't dry out.

Well tomorrow night i will walk with my son  and my daughter with her friends ...just like in the picture above

The last two month's of the year are so packed with festivities and in-between family birthdays or fare-well celebrations as we did one last sunday....

That and the normal weekend activities ( soccer  on sat. and church on sun)  followed by two days of work where the reason of not posting on my blog........

I'm still too tired of the last days....but wanted to post about tomorrow activity and celebration what is going on overhere

Coming weekend is the ariving of St Nicholas in Holland

All schools are decorating and making presents for the 5th of december

After tomorrow we as Christians are entering the SEASON of ADVENT

To reflect and meditate on THE REASON for this season is what i appreciate and love to do THIS season of the year. Really every year it surprises me over and over how the message is pure and simple....

THE BIRTH of THE PRINCE of PEACE our PRINCE of PEACE JESUS CHRIST

He wanted to be birthed in our hearts so PEACE can flow in and stay...

PEACE that surpases all understanding

PEACE amids all the hustle and bustle in what the world make of this season......

NOVEMBER.......bringing THANKS!!!

We entered this week THE month of NOVEMBER<<< 

Purposefully we must focus on it because everyday we need to give thanks!

@ South Breeze Farm is

 the
3rd Annual
Giving Thanks Challenge! 

Is going on

"All you have to do is post one thing you're thankful for each day somewhere on your blog. It doesn't even have to be an actual thought-out post. Just start making a list on your sidebar ( That is what i did...see it on top....) - somewhere you can see it every day to encourage an attitude of thankfulness."

If you plan to JOIN her, go over to link up and grab her button.

"It doesn't matter if you start now, November 5th, or sometime mid-month. It's never too late to acknowledge God's love for you and His faithfulness to you!"

TODAY is THANKFUL THURSDAY 

over 

@

SONYA from "Truth4theJourney"

AND 

@ 

Iris from "GRACE ALONE" the home of

To look back on this week

I am so thankful for

• Christians blogfriends and Christian online friends from my P31 online groups to growing together with them in the Lord.........
• For God blessing my husband with another birthday yesterday and changing him in the Spiritual leader of our home as HE promised it will be some day.Thank You Lord for answering my prayer.
• For my kids
• For healing my shoulder completely
• For the food we had on our table this week
• For the custumors send to our business
• For being able to pay our bills and to soften some hearts of the persons we owe money to be more patient or make an agreement together.

For a warm house and clothes now the weather is changing...

GOD IS SO GOOD!!

I can go on and make the list longer.....

In case you did not make your own start making it give Thanks in the big and the small things .............and link-up with one of our hostesses

On your feet now—applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter,
      sing yourselves into his presence.

 ³ Know this: God is God, and God, God.
      He made us; we didn't make him.
      We're his people, his well-tended sheep.

 ⁴ Enter with the password: "Thank you!"
      Make yourselves at home, talking praise.
      Thank him. Worship him.

 ⁵ For God is sheer beauty,
      all-generous in love,
      loyal always and ever. 

(PSALM 100 MSG)

  

WFW ~ SPECIAL MEAL Psalm 104 :24~

Psalm 104:24 (The Message)

 ^24-30 What a wildly wonderful world, God!
      You made it all, with Wisdom at your side,
      made earth overflow with your wonderful creations.
   Oh, look—the deep, wide sea,
      brimming with fish past counting,
      sardines and sharks and salmon.
   Ships plow those waters,
      and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them.
   All the creatures look expectantly to you
      to give them their meals on time.
   You come, and they gather around;
      you open your hand and they eat from it.
   If you turned your back,
      they'd die in a minute—
   Take back your Spirit and they die,
      revert to original mud;
   Send out your Spirit and they spring to life—
      the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.

This meal i made as an celebrating dish for my dh's his birthday.

This is the recipie in case i swing your appetite!

2 (3-pound) whole fish, such as striped bass, tilapia, flounder, or sole, cleaned and scaled
2 limes, juiced
3/4 cup Spanish olive oil, divided
2 onions, peeled and thinly sliced, divided
1 large green bell pepper, cored, seeded, and thinly sliced, divided
1 lemon, sliced thin
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
1 cup tomato puree
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 cup dry white wine
Sliced green onions for garnish

Rinse the fish well under cold running water and pat dry on both sides as well as inside the cavity. Make several slits about 1/3-inch deep on both sides of the fish. Place the fish in a non-reactive shallow dish or platter and pour the lime juice over the fish. Set aside while you continue with the preparations.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Rub the bottom of a shallow glass or ceramic dish large enough to hold the fish with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Saute 1/2 of the onion slices and 1/2 of the pepper slices in 2 tablespoons olive oil and then place along the bottom of the baking dish. Lay the lemon slices over the vegetables, but reserve a few slices to stuff inside the fish. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons more of the remaining Spanish olive oil and season with salt, black pepper, to taste, and crushed red pepper flakes. Place the fish on top of the sliced vegetables.
Using a mortar and pestle, combine the garlic, kosher salt and oregano and mash to form a paste. Spread the garlic paste inside the cavity of the fish and into the slits on top. Place the remaining lemon slice inside the cavity of the fish. In the same small bowl that you used to make the garlic paste, combine the tomato puree and vinegar and stir to combine. Pour this tomato mixture all over the fish. Top with the remaining onion and pepper slices and drizzle the remaining olive oil and the wine over the top. Season again with salt and black pepper, cover the dish loosely with aluminum foil, and bake until the fish flakes easily when pierced with a fork, 45 to 50 minutes. Garnish with the green onions and serve hot or warm, with the pan juices drizzled over all.

 Hop on to Penny Reine's for more WFW entries. God bless!!

O the deep,deep love of Jesus!!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!

Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!

Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love.

Leading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,

Spread His praise from shore to shore!

How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore!

How He watches o'er His loved ones, died to call them all His own!

How for them He intercedeth, watcheth o'er them from the throne!

O the deep, deep love of Jesus,

'Tis a heav'n of heav'ns to me

And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!

Thanks to the Lord

Today i had church at home and listend to this song and the preachings......
Through a status message from a sister on FB i went to the site of the "COTM website" Church on the Move....
( Putting it on my blog is to remember them and to come back to listen again to get more out of them!)

You stood before creation
Eternity within Your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand

You stood before my failure
Carried the Cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand

So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

So I'll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand

So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You

So I’ll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all

So I’ll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours

Following the Footsteps of Jesus - Part 3 (2.16.09) from Church on the Move on Vimeo. Following the Footsteps of Jesus - Part 4 (2.22.09) from Church on the Move on Vimeo. Things My Father Taught Me from Church on the Move on Vimeo.