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About Nannette

Wife to The Sweetheart, Mom to the Fantastic Six, Nana to six of the cutest littles on the planet, Author, The Daniel Fast, A Devotional. UPCI ministers.

Friend…it’s not what you think

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It’s Five Minute Friday! Today’s prompt is “Friends”. This one is a fave. Would love to hear about your best friend!

Writing about “friends” is risky. You could leave that special someone out of your post and offend them. You could not include a family member and face “the look” for the next ten Thanksgiving holidays.

If you choose one of your children…well…I think you know where that would get you.

Of course you would expect me to write about Jesus! I do that several times each week and He definitely is ALWAYS there for me. He never lets me down, never offends me, and never forsakes me, no matter how many mistakes I make.

This other friend has been there for me for 38 years.

Day in.

Day out.

And he definitely is not God.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.

That’s from Shakespeare. He nailed it.

We were kids when we met. Then we were friends. Quickly we became boyfriend and girlfriend.

[Tweet ““I like you. Do you like me? Check this box.””]

Okay, we were a little too old for that but since this was the age before texting, we did have to rely on notes.

We left them everywhere. Since we were in high school together for one year, we would leave them in each other’s lockers in between classes. Highlight of my day was to see a folded up smidgeon of a note sticking out of the vents in my locker!

I would find them dropped through the window of my 1971 Nova (Yeah, be jealous).
I would leave them inside of his 1977 Firethorn Red Camaro (Okay, NOW you can be jealous).

Then of course there was snail mail.

These “love letters” were not things we couldn’t say face to face. But since we didn’t see each other every minute of the day, or even every day, they were the avenue to keep in touch.

We couldn’t wait to be together, we always had so much to talk about. To plan. To dream.

This man has always accepted me for what I am, encouraged me in everything I have ever attempted, and loved me in spite of my plethora of flaws.

We have been through LIFE together.

 

Shared the joy, heartache and memories of helping grow Our Three Sons and the blessing of a beautiful daughter-in-law, who has been a part of our family for so long we cannot imagine life before Rachel.

Thirty eight years later we are together every day.

All day.
24/7.
365.
Together.

We’ve changed. ALOT. And yet we are still the same.

Come July we will celebrate 35 years of marriage. The 38 includes ALL of our togetherness! Now that we have entered the Empty Nest, it’s back to the two of us again. It’s not so bad, really. This love is what made a lifetime of memories for us and gave life and meaning to three others. We started out as friends. It’s a good thing to go back to.

Think I will go write a note, find someplace to hide it and surprise my friend.

38 years

 

 

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Pick Your Plum-Deal of the Day!

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Faith worth talking about!

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“Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.” Romans 1:8 NLT.

So, is your faith worth talking about? It is amazing in this scripture in Romans, written a couple of thousand years ago, that Paul tells the Church in Rome that their faith is being talked about all over the world. This is before television, before Facebook, the internet, and Twitter, and yet whatever they were doing was spreading like wildfire!

The Bible says, “…These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” Acts 17:6 NKJV.

Something was happening among the disciples, the believers, The Church, that was causing them to want to share it with others. They didn’t have to be prodded, poked or pushed, they were so excited with what God was doing in their midst that they just had to tell everyone they met!

The Gospel, the Good News, should cause us to want to spread it around. It should fill us with “joy unspeakable and full of glory”!

“When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 

They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus.  Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, ‘My child, your sins are forgiven.’” Mark 2:1-5 NLT.

Here is a wonderful example of faith worth talking about!
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This paralyzed man had some pretty great friends that were desperate for him to get to Jesus and were not going to let a full house keep him from getting his miracle. If they couldn’t get in through the door then they would just make a hole in the roof! Their faith was rewarded with a miracle, their friend was not only healed instantly of his paralysis but he was also forgiven of his sins!

“Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.” Matthew4:24. KJV.

If God has done something great for us, we should share it with others!

Your life itself is a living witness for God. Some people may never enter a church building; they may not hear a message or sermon preached about the love of God.

[Tweet “You may be the only “Jesus” the world will ever see!”]

That’s why we must be careful about our actions and words because they do impress people, either for the good or the bad.

A.B. Simpson said, “The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God, give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

If we have His mind, His heart, and strive to be like Him, we will live each day to please Him and our faith will be something worth talking about.
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