biblebuffjournal99 - I AM A PILGRIM - GOD'S WORD MY MAP AND GUIDE

WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

I AM A PILGRIM 

WHEN NOAH ENTERED THE ARK, GOD SHUT THE DOOR.

                HE WAS SAFE INSIDE, WITH HIS WIFE, WITH HIS SONS, AND WITH THEIR WIVES.  EIGHT PEOPLE.

  

            I AM SAFE INSIDE THE "ARK OF SAFETY" FOR I HAVE PLACED MY FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR MY SALVATION.   IT IS BY HIS UNDESERVED FAVOR IN MY LIFE, THAT I HAVE RECEIVED FROM HIM, THE CLEANSING OF MY SOUL FROM ALL SIN, AND I AM NOW BOUND FOR HEAVEN AS A PILGRIM.

         

KEN HAM - ANSWERS IN GENESIS - KIDS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR A PILGRIM: 

   TRAVEL LIGHT.

                 HEBREWS 12. 1,2   

               "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, dispising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."  

     

        I MUST KNOW WHO I AM.  I walk ever onward, shining His light in the darkness.   

             John 17.20   Jesus prayed "neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word."   

             John 10.27 "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me."   As a member of His flock, I know His voice, and will follow Him.

   

Wherever we roam

We may call it HOME

Mountains and lakes

Rivers and streams

Valleys and meadows

Shadows and sunlight

              I John 4.15  "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God."  

              John 8.12 "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." 

    I MUST KNOW MY KING.  - The Shepherd. -  Wherever, whatever happens as I pilgrim in this world, Jesus is the King of my life.  He is with me wherever I am.

                John 10.14   "I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine."   John 10. 4 "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice."

                 John 17.3   "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent."   

Abraham left Ur knowing God had promised

a place.  

     I MUST KNOW WHERE I AM GOING.   

         Hebrews 11.10  By faith Abraham..."looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God." 

          John 14.3   "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: that where I am, ye may be also."   

      I MUST KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE.  

          I Peter 3.14,15   But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear."  

         John 2.14  "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."    

        I MUST BANK ON GOD'S PROMISES TO BE WITH ME IN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO ME.

         Romans chapter 8.14 "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."    

         Romans 8.28 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His Purpose."   

         John 6.39   "And this is the Father's will that sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."  

               I MUST DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR 

                     THE JOURNEY.     

           Ephesians 6: 10 - 20   Put on my spiritual armor

           Matthew 6.33    Seek God first 

            Matthew 7.1 - 12   Keep the right attitude

          I MUST KNOW WHERE MY RESOURCE IS FOUND.

             Galatians 2.20 God's Faith in me.

              Philippians 4.13   For anything God asks me to do, He will enable.

              Ephesians 2.14 - 18   

                            He will give peace, because He is peace.  

           TRUSTING THAT I WILL ARRIVE AT

            MY FINAL DESTINATION, I CHOOSE TO PUT

             MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD ABOVE EVERY

             OTHER RELATIONSHIP.

      Colossians 2.6,7 

                     AS YOU HAVE THEREFORE RECEIVED 

CHRIST JESUS THE LORD, SO WALK YE IN HIM, ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN HIM, AND STABLISHED IN THE FAITH AS YE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, ABOUNDING THEREIN WITH THANKSGIVING.  

            IN MY NEXT POST, I WILL SHARE MORE ABOUT  THE PILGRIM JOURNEY.   

   

biblebuffjournal99 - CLIMBING IS AN ESSENTIAL- Walking by Faith I Keep Climbing

 WALKING BY FAITH - I KEEP CLIMBING

CLIMBING IS AN ESSENTIAL.

LIVING AT BLAINE I GO PAST 
BIRCH BAY, AND SEE THE 
SEMIAHMOO RESORT FROM THE HWY

October 15, 2017  I am now successfully back to living
in my little apartment here in Blaine WA.   My hip operation
revision was a success, and it has been more than a year now 
and it looks like I am able to do most things.
I intend to keep climbing.  
The Shepherd loves for me, and yes, He cares for you.

JUNE ESTELLE CASH 
ALIAS 
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    DO YOU KNOW THAT THE SHEPHERD LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU?
     Here are some things to reflect upon:
   
  1.   The PAIN that Jesus suffered on the Cross for you and I was not in vain.  He did suffer, and He took on all the mental, emotional, physical, and hurtful pain that ever has or will be experienced by anyone, and took it on Himself, that we may be His Children.    Isaiah chapter 53 tells us that 700 years before He ever came, He would do just that.
 

  2.  The Precious Blood that Jesus shed as the Lamb of God given for our Sins, is more than anything the ONE CENTRAL ISSUE in Christianity that some have set aside, the Cross on which He died is only important because He did indeed shed His blood for you and I.    John declared BEHOLD, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of  the world.   John 1.29

   3.   The Payment that Jesus paid for our sins and sorrows is complete and finished.   He cried from the Cross, IT IS FINISHED  -  a mathematical term for a completion of something.  It is Done.   Nothing more has to be paid to make it possible for someone to be saved.  It was what Jesus said when He told Mary, I am the Resurrection and the Life."    Again, He said  "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one cometh to the Father but by me."  John 14.6.
         
   4.   The Power of the Resurrection is as effective today as it was when He rose from the grave  He told the disciples several times that He was going to be taken, killed, dead, buried and that He would rise again the Third Day.     Not just once did He tell them.   He told them and told them.           As I read the Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, I see that again  and again He told them that these things were WRITTEN OF LONG BEFORE HE CAME and that HE WAS GOING TO THE CROSS,  but THAT HE WOULD INDEED RISE ON THE THIRD DAY.   My prayer and my goal is that "I may know Him and the power of His Resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His
 death."  Philippians 3.10.    
 
  5.   FINALLY,  last, but not least IS THE PROMISE OF HIS RETURN !
       JOHN 14. 1 - 3    LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD,
        BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.   IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS.   If it were not so, I would have told you.   I go to prepare a place for you.   And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, you may be  also.  

       JESUS IS COMING FOR YOU AND ME -   

THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR HIM  TO COME, 

WHO LOVE HIM, 

WHO ARE LONGING FOR HIS APPEARING, 

WHO ARE THE BLOOD - BOUGHT ONES WHO HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR,

       AND FOR WHOM HE CAME AS A LITTLE BABE IN A MANGER 

OVER  2000 YEARS AGO.    

 
      HE IS COMING.    ARE YOU READY?
 
    YOU CAN BECOME A CHILD OF THE FATHER BY TRUSTING IN JESUS TODAY.
     HE IS THE MESSIAH, THE LORD, THE ADONAI -  LORD AND MASTER -  WHO  WAS, AND IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE GOD THE SON REVEALING THE FATHER  IN HIMSELF, AND WHO HAS PROMISED THAT TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES  IN HIM WOULD HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN TO THAT ONE WHO BELIEVES.
 
     IT WAS JESUS HIMSELF SAID 

           "  GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE

      HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON 

THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT

     PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." 

 JOHN CHAPTER 3. VERSE 16

 

I AM GOING TO HAVE A "REVISION" OF MY LEFT HIP AND WILL BE IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THREE DAYS, AND THEN IN REHAB UNTIL I CAN PROGRESS TO GETTING BACK TO WALKING.   

    Count on it.

   I am taking a S I D E   T R I P  to the hospital, and then to the Rehabilitation  Center,   but someday YES SOMEDAY   I WILL TAKE A TRIP HOME WITH JESUS WHEN HE COMES TO CLAIM THE BRIDE, THE CHURCH, THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND WHO ARE LOOKING FOR HIM.  

AFTER MY OPERATION IN MARCH

IN THE NURSING FOR FIVE WEEKS, I CAME HOME

THIS PHOTO OF ME WAS TAKEN JULY 24,2016

 

THEN SOME OF MY FAMILY CAME TO VISIT ME 

HERE IN BLAINE  SPRING  2017 

IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE THE OPERATION.

I AM WALKING ABOUT WITH A WALKER

AND AM PROGRESSING TO 

WALKING AGAIN.

WHAT A MARVELOUS THING 

THAT I CAN SAY

JESUS CHRIST MY LORD AND KING

HE IS THE ONE OF WHOM I SING

HE IS THE ONE 

WHO HEARS 

AND ANSWERS PRAYER. 

JOHN 15.7

IF YE ABIDE IN ME,

AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU,

YE SHALL ASK WHAT YE WILL,

AND IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU.

THIS PHOTO WAS OF OUR VIEW AT LAKE EASTON, WA

DURING OUR YEARS OF MINISTRY WITH TOURISTS AND NURSING HOME RESIDENTS.  I THOUGHT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.  

NOW MY VIEW IS DOUBLY BEAUTIFUL

TAKE A LOOK AT MY VIEW FROM MY STUDY DESK 

AND MY KITCHEN SINK.

DRAYTON HARBOR SEEN

FROM MY APARTMENT

2017 

biblebuffjournal99 - LIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW - LEISURE by W H Cash Jr 1949

By Wm. Henry Cash, Jr.  1927 - 2012 

LIVING TODAY AND TOMORROW - LEISURE 

Written in 1949 

All American communities have a highly developed social life.      Social life is important to everyone, but too many activities are as harmful as not enough.

               

We must determine what type of clubs or groups will give us the most satisfaction and confine our interest to them.

      Recreation is a common element in community life.

Movies [Videos] can be a very force for good or evil, only desultory attempts are made at regulation or supervision.

                                         We must guard against such places of 

                                         entertainment, as pool halls, cocktail bars,

                                         parties which have no rules they lead

                                         to difficulties.

                             Henry's Own Thoughts on Leisure

      Churches should provide the right type 

      of recreation for the children and young people.

                    If we are busy for the Lord, we will not have time to do things that 

are questionable.

We should choose the type of recreation

that helps us both in body and mind.

Reading good books and magazines

is a good way to spending one's leisure.

One should spend part of his leisure time 

just resting and relaxing.  

WHEN HENRY WAS WITH US, HE OFTEN
WAS FOND OF REPEATING THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO FIND TIME TO RELAX AND TO BE ABLE TO SLOW DOWN.
            
                   
WHEN CONSIDERING ACTIVITIES AND LEISURE
IT IS IMPORTANT TO PLAN TIME FOR THE FAMILY
TO BE TOGETHER.  

A PERSON NEEDS TO 

BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET SO BUSY YOU

DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR YOUR FAMILY 

MEMBERS

MY BELIEFS ABOUT GOD-WM-H-CASH-JR-FAITH - biblebuffjournal99

 wish to walk with me, and also Christians who want to climb higher with me as I walk with God. Jesus said I am the Way the Truth and the Life, no one can come to the Father, but by me. John 14.6

MY BELIEFS ABOUT GOD

by William Henry Cash, Jr 1949

1927 - 2012

*   I believe that there is only one true God. 

*  I believe in the Trinity, that God is revealed in three 

personalities; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but there

is only One God.

*I believe that all three personalities of the Trinity are 

equal in power, but that each has a specific task to perform.

*  I think of the Father as the Creator, The Son as the Savior,

and the Holy Spirit as the Comforter.

*  I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was in the beginning with God the Father.

*  I believe that the Lord Jesus was incarnated in the form of

man 1900 [in 1949] years ago to save man from their sins.

*  I believe that when Jesus was on this earth that he was both God and Man.   

8*  I believe that Jesus had temptations and was conscious of all physical surroundings, the same as any other man.

* I believe in all the miracles that Jesus performed on this earth.

*  I believe that Jesus went to the cruel cross to pay the price 

for our sins.

*  I believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead, and that

He is preparing a place for those who love Him.

*  I believe that this same Jesus will come again in like manner.

*  I believe that only those who trust Jesus as their personal

 Savior will ever see the kingdom of God.

*.  I believe that the whole Bible is the inspired Word of God.

*  I believe in the eternal security of those who have made a true decision to follow Christ as their Savior.    

                                               -----------------------------------------------
               

I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU

Sunday, January 19, 2014

re-posted on  SEPT 4,2017  

    JOHN 14.1 - 3  LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.  IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. 

     IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU.  I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.

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        When Jesus told this to the Disciples, He knew that they needed comforting.   He took this time to explain that His relationship to them was like a Bridegroom leaving for His Father's House to prepare a place for His Bride.
        You and I who believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior have entered into that relationship.  Christ is the Bridegroom of the Church - the Called Out Ones - and we are the Bride, readying ourselves for His Soon Coming, and occupying our time doing His Will.
       He promised us that He is coming.    Let us look for Him.   We are to fill our days with the quiet ever constancy of a loving heart of a Bride for Her Bridegroom.    We are to live knowing His Return is Certain, and it is Soon.
      My love for Jesus grows day by day.   He who said "I AM" is YHWH, or, Yahweh, the One WHO IS.   Let us rejoice that we have His dear Spirit to guide and direct us as we Look for His Soon Return.  

REMEMBER 

WHEN HE COMES TO TAKE US HOME 

THERE WILL BE THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET

AND IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE 

WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TO MEET HIM

AND THOSE WHO HAVE GONE ON BEFORE US

AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED 

I THESS CHAPTER 4. 13 - 18  

WE WILL BE WITH HIM IN REVELATION CHAPTER FOUR, JOHN IS CAUGHT UP
INTO HEAVEN, AND FROM THAT VIEWPOINT
SEES WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT

7 YEARS OF TRIBULATION

A TIME OF JUDGMENT UPON THE EARTH

AND MILLIONS WILL BE SAVED BY 

THE SAME GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 

AS SAVED ME

WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS 

THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, 

GOD DWELLETH IN HIM, AND HE IN GOD.

I John 4.15   

 We love Him, because He first loved us. I John 4.19

           John the Baptist said of Jesus, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."  John chapter 3.36  

           

In a moment He will come

 WILL YOU BE READY?

 BY FAITH IN JESUS, THE MESSIAH, YOU CAN BELIEVE RIGHT NOW.    HE WILL CLEANSE YOUR HEART WHEN YOU TURN TO HIM FOR WASHING BY THE BLOOD HE SHED ON THE CROSS.  ONCE FOR ALL HE PAID THE PRICE OF OUR REDEMPTION.

             I AM RESOLVED NO LONGER TO LINGER CHARMED BY THE WORLD'S DELIGHT, THINGS THAT ARE HIGHER, THINGS THAT ARE NOBLER, THESE HAVE ALLURED MY SIGHT.   I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE; JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.  

              I AM RESOLVED TO GO TO THE SAVIOR, LEAVING MY SIN AND STRIFE, HE IS THE TRUE ONE, HE IS THE JUST ONE - HE HATH THE WORDS OF LIFE.  I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              I AM RESOLVED TO FOLLOW THE SAVIOR, FAITHFUL AND TRUE EACH DAY, HEED WHAT HE SAYETH, DO WHAT HE WILLETH, HE IS THE LIVING WAY.  

                 I AM RESOLVED TO ENTER THE KINGDOM, LEAVING THE PATHS OF SIN, FRIENDS MAY OPPOSE ME, FOES MAY BESET ME, STILL WILL I ENTER IN.

                    I AM RESOLVED, AND WHO ? WILL GO WITH ME ?  COME, FRIENDS, WITHOUT DELAY....TAUGHT BY THE BIBLE, LED BY THE SPIRIT, WE'LL WALK THE HEAVENLY WAY. 

                          I WILL HASTEN TO HIM, HASTEN SO GLAD AND FREE, JESUS, GREATEST, HIGHEST, I WILL COME TO THEE.

              

 JUST AS GOD TOLD THE HEBREWS TO PUT THE BLOOD ON THE LINTEL AND THE DOOR POSTS WHICH MADE THE CROSS OF BLOOD - SO THAT THE DEATH ANGEL "PASSED OVER" THEIR FIRST BORN, SO TOO, WE MUST LET THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASH AWAY OUR SIN.   

                

        GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.    ROMANS 5.8 

COME JOURNEY WITH ME - BIBLEBUFFJUNEBUG99

At Rockaway  OR  - Wm Henry Cash, Jr with our three daughters.

Over the years of our marriage Henry drove us everywhere -   I took photos.   Nothing great, but as I look at these photos, I see a way to share my faith with others.   

To celebrate our Anniversary one year, Henry took me

to the Space Needle for a steak dinner - I took awesome pictures

back in the days when we did not have digital cameras or cell phone cameras.

Every photo had to go to the Drug Store to be developed.  

This was a view we saw from the Space Needle.  

Then there are his sermons, and my poems, and much to ponder on.  So here I go into the BLOGGING WORLD with God helping me.  

Henry and June at the  Last Resort Cafe, Easton WA 

On his 68th Birthday 

     

We served in the Lake Easton Resort for 18 years

with an 8 a.m. service on Sundays,   from 1988 to 2006.

Our Motto was "to minister to those who are on 

the move, 

and to those who cannot move."

A wonderful way to serve in his retirement years. 

        Believing as I do that God's Word is my source and all I need for direction - I am counting on His dear Spirit to lift up the Savior in my blogs that even should the LORD JESUS CHRIST come for His Bride and take all the Believers up with him - the Blogs will still be on line for whoever wishes to read and look at and find the same faith in the Lord Jesus and that His Blood is the only way that a sinner can be saved.  His sacrifice was enough once for all, for each one who will 

turn to Him.  

SUDDENLY HE IS IN THE ROOM

This photo is just a glimpse of how it must have felt 

to SEE THE RISEN SAVIOR.  

My heart's desire is to portray our Lord Jesus Christ

and to render my dear husband's sermons to thirsty souls 

who long to know God.

COME JOURNEY WITH ME

AND SEE

WHEN TWO OF JOHN'S DISCIPLES HEARD JOHN SAY

"BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD." 

THEY FOLLOWED JESUS.

HE TURNED AND ASKED, "WHAT SEEKEST THOU?" 

THEY SAID, MASTER, WHERE DWELLEST THOU? 

HE SAITH UNTO THEM, "COME AND SEE." 

BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN - My Story part 2

BLESSED BE THE FOUNTAIN 

     

1942  We moved in a trailer to Watertown, MA - outside of Boston MA. Here I am at 9 almost 10.   We moved just before Christmas, with the Christmas Tree already up, and I remember how hard it was when we were traveling INSIDE the trailer, to go to our new place.    

        Dad was working on Construction, which meant moving a lot. Mother did well in teaching me, but I had lots of questions.   My little brother would be 6 in November.   We spent a lot of time together.   

        

Skip and I played a lot together, and because we moved so much, he would find in me his support and help.   There was a River there.  

WATERTON, MASSACHUSETTS NEAR WORCESTER AND WALTHAM

There was a river there.   Our trailer was parked on a vacant lot,

we had no utilities, and it was not directly in the city.   Skip (Harry) and I would scramble up the hill back of our trailer, and we played in the woods and the large TREE.   Pretending we were 

Tarzan and Jane, we were happy.    I remember that Skip saw a swing - from the tree - and wanted to get on it -  I thought he should not do that, but he persuaded me.   Then I remember telling him 

"HOLD ON TIGHT"  I all of a sudden SAW HOW HUGE THAT RIVER WAS and thought, OH DEAR !  What if he falls into it?

I knew I had to get him off that swing.    So I remember thinking, Please, God, don't let him fall.   Get him back safe."  I waited until he came close and then I told him, "you must get off, now !"  He was not happy with that.   He did what I said.   I took another look at the River and thought - God helped us.  He listened.   Skip is alright. 

        At nine years of age, I was "a little mother" to my brother.  He liked to play cars, and to pretend.   It was not easy.   

         It must have been summer when that photo was taken, for we would have no school then.   I remember how 

 E M P T Y my heart was for having a REASON behind my life, and WHY ? WAS I BORN ?   

          I remembered what Mother had said to me at age three.  "When you grow up and find out WHO God is, I want you to tell me and then I will believe too."   

           So let me reflect on that a moment.   

            When I was Five years old, my Aunt Althea took me to church.   It was the First Baptist Church in Adams, MA.   It was 1938 when I was five years old.   It was EASTER.   And so I clearly remember, Mother speaking to me, before I went, that she wanted me to listen and learn, and tell HER what I found out. 

             

First Baptist Church,

Adams, MA 

still looks the same today as it did then.

Notice the four windows in front.

That was the NURSERY where I went on that Easter Sunday morning so long ago.    I remember my expectation of a STORY...but all I saw was a lady on the floor helping a little boy build with the blocks.   Other children were coming in.   One child sitting in a small rocker with a doll.   I decided, "that is not what I want to do."   I was looking FOR A STORY.

Well.   All of a sudden I stopped, and looked at something 

right between each of those four windows.

three pictures taped to the wall - of THE LORD JESUS.

Now you understand, I did not know who Jesus was, but 

I knew Mother had said the stories would be about Him.

So I looked and it was like I was in 

a CLOSED ROOM SHINING AND GLOWING

WITH THE PICTURES TO LOOK AT,

I DID NOT HEAR ANYTHING 

I ONLY SAW THE PICTURES.

THERE WERE 12 OF THESE PICTURES.

I do not know much else.

I remember them.

The first was this one.   

It was as if there was A HUSH WITHIN ME 

AS I LOOKED AT THESE PICTURES.

I STOOD AT IT LOOKING, WONDERING

THEN WENT ON TO THE NEXT.

Mary was going somewhere.  And I knew she was 

expecting a Baby.   

These pictures are not the same as the ones 

I saw that day, but they were similar.  

I knew from the Christmas Songs that this was Baby Jesus who was born so long ago.

The Second Window had three more pictures. 

I saw the Shepherds worshipping the Baby,

and knew from the Christmas Songs that they had been 

told by the Angel that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

There was Jesus, with the Wise Men who had come a long way to worship Him.   

Here I knew somehow it was young Jesus.

.
 The next picture was of Jesus in the Temple.

Now I turned and went to the spot between the second and third window.

I saw Jesus being baptized by someone.  I did not know at that time who John was, but the pictures were telling me it was Jesus who was here being baptized.

I knew Jesus was in this photo calling for followers. 

Here is a picture I drew of the painting that I saw in Jesus with the children.    I remember looking at the picture a long time.

So now I was at the last panel of three pictures.

He made the blind to see.

 Jesus on the Cross died.   I pondered on that.

on the road to Emmaus

This picture held me in its grip

Last of all, this picture 

I KNEW HE ROSE TO HEAVEN.

I KNEW THAT WAS JESUS WHO 

HAD COME AS A BABY 

WAS NOW GOING TO HEAVEN.

Then

S U D D E N L Y  

DddddddinnnnnNNNG !  

SUNDAY SCHOOL BELL JUST RANG

voice 

talking       some child crying      blocks noisily being put away.

The holy hush and quiet that had wrapped me in it 

was 

gone.

I saw my Aunt Althea come to get me.

Or was it Grandma? 

I do not know.

I only know that I knew God had visited me

in those pictures.

When I got home, Mother asked me,

June, What did you learn today?

I said, Mother, I do not know, but it seems like God has sent Jesus to tell me about Him, and when I grow up I will understand it better.   I want to be like Him.

This was my Aunt Althea who took me to church that day.

At 95 she still lives in Savoy MA and is in touch with me.

I will never forget that day when I went on Easter Sunday to the First Baptist Church in Adams, MA.  

It may have been my Grandmother who took me that day, I 

only remember that I was so glad I went.

This 

At five years of age, I knew somehow

that WHEN I GREW UP 

I would KNOW HIM.  

June Estelle Donato 

was my name.

This was my Graduation Picture in 1951.

I found Christ as a girl at age 11 1/2.

That will be my next post.  

bye for now.

The blood of Jesus Christ

washes away 

all sin

completely

and 

forever

I am washed

and made clean.

Jesus said, in John chapter 14,

"He that seeth me, hath seen the Father,"  

I have placed my trust in the Living One

who came and humbled Himself

to become a Baby, grow up, 

show us The Light, and 

saved us by His death, burial and resurrection 

from the dead ! 

He is alive.

He is coming again.

I am waiting,

looking,

trusting,

in Him.