Jeremiah 46:13-28

The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt. Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you. Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because the LORD did drive them. He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword. They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by. As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant. Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn’t stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation. The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD. But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.




(Jer 46:13-28 HNV)

Dream 2010 January 4

I was driving down the interstate in my red car.  I was tired and pulled off the shoulder and drove right up to a snow bank in front of me, parked and fell into a deep sleep.  I woke to try to drive off, but was difficult to get started.  Then I realized there was traffic backed up.  As I drove on I saw the trouble.  Just ahead of me was a huge buckle in the road which had caused a huge accident.  I had stopped to sleep just in time to avoid it.  I went on and drove into the countryside and tiny farm animals were in the road.  I went to a house and asked a man for something and he ignored me. As I passed  I saw he had left his car open after cleaning it.

Winter Wonderland 9 December 2009

Roy working hard...

...then throwing a snowball at the photographer...me.

Photos of New Home

Living Room with breakfast bar on right...


Dining area with breakfast bar on left...

Hiawatha Tuscan Villa

We have been in our lovely new 1280 square foot mobile home since mid-August. I am finally feeling organized and like I am nearly done decorating...but we will naturally always maintain that lived in feeling...I don't like houses that look too perfect like you will get in trouble for breathing!



I fought the mere thought of a mobile home for a year...though I spent my first year of life in one...and kept looking for a stick built house. They were all either big echoey energy wasters in need of repair in 'full time ministry neighborhoods' or tiny with bad floor plans with awful or no basement in our price range. Now I don't mind all that exactly...I like the idea of full time ministry where one must rely on YHWH...but nothing seemed quite like home till now. You just know when you are home, you know?



Roy said YHWH told him his job was tied to the FEMA trailer and would get laid off when we moved. Yup...YHWH speaks to us and it comes true. I told YHWH to fix our porch or move us...the flood UNEXPECTEDLY came all the way to our house within 48 hours! But it is also true that HE takes care of us really well...so we went on with plans to move. Boy, have we been blessed!



We knew as soon as we walked in the place. The open floor plan...Tuscan themed sunny faux painted kitchen and living room, deep chocolate suede faux painted bathrooms, big kitchen open to living room, golden color hallway. I have been decorating with a lot of real and fake greenery, trees, found great used furniture with more style than new...found any woman's DREAM baker's rack for a pitance!



We painted the bedrooms our desired colors, periwinkle for ours and medium aqua for the spare...I mixed my own colors from the dump! Loved to be that creative...happier than I ever was with store bought colors!

Painted Roy's den olive with brown and black furniture and frames...navy, burgandy and gold accents, portraits of Norman Rockwell Baseball prints, Daniel in Lion's Den, Native Americans on horses on sacred ground, 250 year old quaker church we were married in painted by Roy's mom in the 60's and family photos. This is our main theatre, music conservatory and office.

We are on the edge of a forest in Hiawatha...our most desired location. Not too far from the interstate and stores, yet off the beaten path just a bit, in a quiet neighborhood with nice people. We like the mix of socioeconomic classes here so it is not stuffy, but friendly and helpful.