My dad left such a good comment on one of my other blog entries. I found it so good I wanted to copy it and post it so everyone could read the words of wisdom. It is ALL so good, but especially the last part about the Sun and Moon just really hit home with me. Thanks dad! I love and miss you so much! I hope you don't mind me doing this. *grins* ((((HUGS))))

Posted by wawhoo

finally made it here (grin) Loved your thoughts and poetry, you can still write I see (smiling) well done Dot!  1 quick comment about tough times.... I have found that it is at the time when I have done all i know to do....at the times when I have been brought low...at the times when I have no strength and give up, that HE is found more deeply, more compassionately, more intimately than I knew Him before. In those times when I am weak, He is found strong; in times when I dispair, in Him is hope; in times when I am faithless, He is found faithful. It is in these times that I am found still, to find He is GOD...not me. In these times I am humbled, for I KNOW I have come to the end of myself, and find that is just where He wanted me all along- totally dependent upon Him. Not in my own abilities (which HE gave in the first place) but in Him alone. For in HIM we live and move and have our being. As a branch firmly looking to the Vine for it's nourishment and life itself, for apart from Him I can do nothing but wither away; I cannot add a single moment to my life by worry, nor a single inch to my height by fearful concern.....but just be still and learn HE is God. All I survey and percieve is there by His word alone. The stars and the moon, hung there by His command; the sun placed just the right distance to warm and not to destroy with fire. To grasp the invisibly minute vapers of moisture and draw them into the heavens to gather and then to pour rain to water the earth. So what sort of man am I? To have no fear that the moon suddenly fall to the earth, or to have no fear of the sun sorching the planet, or that the skies dry up? And yet I doubt His care and provision promised by THE SAME MOUTH which formed and placed in the heavens all the wonders I take for granted? He is found by the humble, for He opens Himself to them, and then we are more humbled still because of His presence with us.... Love you Dot, love your blogs, love your heart..........praying for you still   I love you too dad, and miss you SO very much!! Thanks, your words were perfect.  ~Dot "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life." ~Matthew 6:26-27   "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."  ~John 15:5   "For the word of the LORD is right and true;        he is faithful in all he does. The LORD loves righteousness and justice;        the earth is full of his unfailing love. By the word of the LORD  were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth." ~Psalm 33:4-6