Marysville the daunting pretty place was a colourful beauty as I remember it in 1996, it used to be a place for retreats, Christian retreats. On this occasion it was a women’s camp. Walking down the hill round the pretty little shops was a treat and then round to the falls. It was treed, green and cool. Vicki D’Orazio, now Simpson had given me a word from God about there being a bird in my tree. I took it to mean a child. I had had two miscarriages and at 40 plus I had now given up.
Marysville, the driving range where we met teens Doug helped years later.
What brought us there that time. Not sure. What a place. Marysville was just like its name, sweet as Mary but part of the name meant bitter waters. All the Mary’s I knew including my grandmother and mother and sister were sweet.
Well there was the word from God through Vicki about the bird in the tree. Spring would come. I drove off happy round the black spur back home. The word came to pass in 2003 when I had a little boy, I was 46 years old. Hey God doesn't lie.
So Marysville will be rebuilt. It will return with a new heart after the bushfire took the old heart away.
Sunday 22 February 2009
Friday 9 January 2009
POUR YOUR HEART OUT
Good News Bible: Ps 61:8 ‘Trust in the Lord at all times… TELL HIM ALL YOUR TROUBLES, for he is our refuge.
Men are all like a puff of breath: great and small alike are worthless.… Don’t put your trust in violence; don’t hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don’t depend on them.
More than once I have heard God say that power belongs to him and that his love is constant. You yourself, O Lord, reward everyone according to his deeds.’
A bit about the author. The majority of Psalms were written by David. He was a simple shepherd, a young son of Jesse. When Samuel went to anoint one of Jessie’s sons they were all lined up. He bypassed them all and said ‘Have you got any more sons?’ Only young David out in the fields with the sheep. Samuel went on to anoint David. This anointing carried David through from harp playing to the troubled King (Saul) to defeating Goliath and the Philistines with a stone from a sling, to fleeing from Saul’s jealousy and eventually becoming King by God’s sovereign will and his own popularity. David’s weaknesses are well recorded through his own songs, the psalms and through the books of Kings in the Bible. He was not allowed to build God’s Temple because God said he was a man of war. His son Solomon built it. David teaches me lots of things but mainly to pour out my heart. Let God know what you think, need and so on. David was known as a man after God’s own heart. His relationship with God as a shepherd and his TLC for his sheep led him to kill a bear and a lion with his nifty sling. What can you do with His help? Let God know whatever.
Men are all like a puff of breath: great and small alike are worthless.… Don’t put your trust in violence; don’t hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don’t depend on them.
More than once I have heard God say that power belongs to him and that his love is constant. You yourself, O Lord, reward everyone according to his deeds.’
A bit about the author. The majority of Psalms were written by David. He was a simple shepherd, a young son of Jesse. When Samuel went to anoint one of Jessie’s sons they were all lined up. He bypassed them all and said ‘Have you got any more sons?’ Only young David out in the fields with the sheep. Samuel went on to anoint David. This anointing carried David through from harp playing to the troubled King (Saul) to defeating Goliath and the Philistines with a stone from a sling, to fleeing from Saul’s jealousy and eventually becoming King by God’s sovereign will and his own popularity. David’s weaknesses are well recorded through his own songs, the psalms and through the books of Kings in the Bible. He was not allowed to build God’s Temple because God said he was a man of war. His son Solomon built it. David teaches me lots of things but mainly to pour out my heart. Let God know what you think, need and so on. David was known as a man after God’s own heart. His relationship with God as a shepherd and his TLC for his sheep led him to kill a bear and a lion with his nifty sling. What can you do with His help? Let God know whatever.
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