Update :: Continuing the quests... WT, Patreon, and CHRISTMAS !! :-)

I was busy with my emails again... and the links that lead to social media... and then social media... and then, suddenly, I remembered it was THURSDAY !!     :-)

One of my sons became my first Patreon supporter the other day.  On my end, it is a way to see how the Patreon system works with real people...  there is so much to learn about all the online connections and how to reach your goals with them.

In questions of Faith, and how GOD works in the middle of all our problems and desires, it is still a one day at a time plan, the only reality we can do.

I didn't get to my prayer journals today... I don't think.  Sometimes that happens... I get to them as soon as I can.  Prayers are not always an immediate topic.  I try to make a note of the time and date when I enter a late prayer, so I know it was a long day and busy.

I just shared (today) on Toby Mac's regular weekly Facebook post for audience prayer needs about how my journals have changed my life, and what they can mean to other Christians.  I hope others will try it.  I added my prayer needs at the bottom.

Prayer has always been a hard topic to deal with.  There are a lot of different view on it... and we all want GOD to give us what we pray for.  When He doesn't... it creates a theology problem.

I was busy with food today... I got to go to the grocery store, then had to decide what to do with what I bought.  I started keeping track of how many times I go to the store for food.  I want to go weekly, to certain stores throughout the month.  My food budget is government food benefits.  I have been trying to decide the best way to shop, store, and eat food within this very tight budget.  

Time just gets away from us.

I have problems I am working to overcome.

The battle between what I WANT to do and what I actually get done seems like a constant war.  Progress gets made, but in very tiny steps.

Working on CHRISTMAS is taking over my days, sometimes my nights.  I have been working on how to keep track of what I do, and deadlines for things.  I can only do my part.  GOD has to do His part.  What the results are reflect His Plan and Purpose for this time and place.

We all create the future... our choices, our actions, our opposition, our problems, our supporters, our goals, our failures, our faith....  it all leads to the bigger future.

I think my efforts to make paper mache items will be worth the effort. I am making them thick, and looking for my sanding paper supplies.  Once they are smooth, I will head into a primer layer then figure out some kind of design.  I am trying a "vase" and a bowl shape... plus some bracelet options.  I think smooth will be the critical issue with bracelets.  Then design.

My son has been sending me photos in emails.  Today they were like a blog on how to refurbish a wheelbarrow.  Inspired me to get better at my blogging.

So, for today, that is about it.

Sign up with my Patreon page, if you can.  Only $5.  That is the goal. 

You can do more if you want to, but the goal for 2020 is ONE MILLION supporters at the $5 level.  Think about it.  Thanks.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

work2gather.us

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Sunday, 11 March 2018

What a morning to wake up early... very early!  :-)  I thought it was 3am when a pet was in sudden distress and I got up to see what was wrong... later, I realized I hadn't moved my watch and clock ahead yet.  I've had to wash my blankets, eaten what I could find, and am ready to get back to sleep... but I was here at my desk so I thought I would add a blog post.

Christian radio is on.

It is Sunday.

I am planning to get my driver's license again, as soon as I can, so I can go shopping, get my mail, visit my son in prison, find a church, and do so many things non-drivers can't easily get done.

2018 is a big year for me.  I have made decisions that I have been praying about for a long time, looking for GOD's answers, His path, His wisdom.

Discovering the evil that is in our world, that affects our lives, is a difficult transition for each person to make.  I have seen how vulnerable we are.  I have seen how evil likes to isolate the good people who cannot fight against them.  I have wondered how we can change the way the enemy of our souls too often wins the battles we don't even know we are in the middle of.

This is the goal of Working Together... to make places of safety to turn to... where we can find GOD's people, find help, find fellowship and protection and some kind of earthly safety in this spiritual battle.

It is a daily war.

It never goes away.

There is no place I can go to hide from it.

I am still looking for that Body of Christ that was created to overcome some of these human challenges in our world.

I am not talking about prayer.  I pray all the time.  Prayer is our seeking GOD for these answers we search for.  It is the answer to prayers that I am looking for.  Answers have to come from human sources, most of the time.  :-) 

In some of my prayers and searching for GOD's answers, I think about the consequences of Christians NOT doing what GOD asks them to do... I wonder how to be sure we are doing OUR part, what GOD wants US to do... What happens when we don't do what we think the Holy Spirit is telling us to do? 

I had one experience in my life that showed me one way the Holy Spirit works... I was in a group study class on a Sunday and I felt the Holy Spirit rise inside me - telling me to share a certain thought with the group.  I often speak too much in groups, which causes other problems.  I don't recall all the details, but this time I decided not to speak.  In just another moment the comment I declined to make was uttered by another person in the group.  To me, that was the Holy Spirit finding another way to reach HIS goal.  Since then, I have wondered what happens when there is only one person to do a task that GOD wants done... and they don't do it.

There isn't any way to know for sure, but we have the story of Jonah as one example.  I guess Moses is another.  If Mary said no, would we be lifting up some other female name?  I'm not sure who would best show the consequences of saying no to GOD's promptings... in the Bible.  In our daily lives, those consequences are hard to discover, too.  I see the issue as being what GOD calls ME to do... not what everyone else may want from me.  Finding and doing GOD's Will is not an easy task.

These are the things I am thinking about in this season of my life.

For now, I will go back to bed and try to rest.  When I wake up, the world may look better.

Until next time,
In Christ,

Deborah Martin
work2gather.us

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May we all be able to discover GOD's special tasks for us to do... and choose to do them.  Amen.