For Lettie

God says, "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn you."

          Jeremiah 31:3, Old Testament of Holy Scripture.

Buffy the Kitten - My Nurse

In 1968, due to orthopedic surgery, I was completely bed-ridden for two months so was allowed to adopt a kitten!

Since a friend's cat had kittens I chose an orange kitten named Buffy to be my companion, actually Buffy chose me! As soon as I sat on my friend's floor to inspect the kittens, Buffy, an nine week old crawled right into my lap and would not leave. So actually Buffy chose me!

Buffy had an uncanny sense about my needs for he stayed by my side 24 hours a day. Every morning, at exactly 7:00 a.m., he would awaken me by first meowing, then by sitting on my stomach, then by sitting on my chest, then by patting my nose, and finally by sitting on my face! Quickly I learned to wake up before this last step!

God was so good and kind to give me such a loving companion!

Angels & the Gentle Ones

God smiles upon the humble and gentle ones who follow closely in the footsteps of the Master. Angels are attracted to them, and love to linger about their path. They may be passed by as unworthy of notice by those who claim exalted attainments and who delight in making prominent their good works, but Heavenly angels bend lovingly over them and are as a wall of fire round about them.

The Sanctified Life, p 13, E G White

Pursued with Loving Kindness

God says, "I love you with eternal love, pursuing after you with loving kindness.

Whoever believes in Me and keeps My Commandments loves Me, and My Father will love those who love Me and I will love them and manifest Myself to them.

 For God so loved the human race that He gave His only Son, that anyone who believes in Him will not suffer eternal death but will have eternal life."

This is love: not that we love God, but that He loves us, and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. No one has a greater love than the One who lays down His life for His friends.

Dear Friend, since God loves us this much, we should love each other. We love because God first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates someone, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. Jesus said, "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for others."

Dear Friend, I close my letter with these last words. Be a mature Christian, pay attention to what I have written, be in unity, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you always.

 And to know the love of Christ, which surpasses all understanding….

 Now to God who is able to do all things super-abundantly beyond what we think or ask...to Him be the glory... throughout all generations, forever. Amen!


The above quotes come from these Bible texts (variety of versions): Jeremiah 31:3/ 1 John 14:21/ John 3:16/ 1 John 4:9-10/ John 15:13/ 1 John 4:11,19-20/ John 13:35/ 2 Corinthians 13:11/ Ephesians 3:19-21

Thanksgiving

I bless the Holy God with all my heart. Yes, I will bless the Lord, and not forget the glorious things He does for me.

He forgives all my sins. He heals me! He ransoms me from death. He surrounds me with loving-kindness and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like a strong eagle! He gives justice to all who are treated unfairly.

He is merciful and tender towards those who don't deserve it. He is slow to get angry and full of kindness and love. He never holds a grudge nor remains angry forever. He has not punished us as we deserve for all our sins, for His mercy towards those who fear and honor Him is as great as the heaven’s heights above the earth. He has removed our sins as far away from us as the east is from the west. He is like a Father to us, tender and sympathetic to those who reverence Him.

But the loving-kindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting to those who love and reverence Him. His salvation is to...those who are faithful to His Commandments and remember to obey Him.

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to God till my dying breath. May He be pleased by all these thoughts about Him, for He is the Source of all my joy!

The above quotes are taken from these Bible texts: Psalm 103:1-22; 104:1, 2, 24, 33, 34.