BLACK FRIDAY IS TURNING INTO THE SECOND DAY OF HALLOWEEN!

OK I've been online reading about stampedes, pepper spray, physical altercations, robbery at gunpoint, and other nonsense that happens on every Black Friday. It can be potentially dangerous to even take a small child with you on Black Friday with all these crazy people acting up! Going to Wal-mart or any electronic store can turn into a life or death situation, if you meet up with the wrong kind of people! There can be some bad spirits intermingled with obtaining Black Friday Deals! I'm starting to liken Black Friday with the second day of Halloween-trick or treat, a day when all the evil spirits come out! Black Friday can be a profitable, worthwhile adventure, if you are aware of who you are; if you are in control of what you value; and if you know the priority of your values; before heading out. If you don't have an understanding of your values beforehand, you can leave Black Friday broke in more ways than you anticipated! Just a little humor mixed in with some common sense.

GREATER BLESSINGS IN THIS LIFE & LIVING WITHIN GOD'S PARAMETERS

How well we succeed in pleasing God in our actions, our words, & our faith here on earth will determine how well we will succeed in heaven after Christ returns. I keep going back to my original conversation with God where that in heaven, there won't be any pixie dust passed out. We are going to have to pass and master Christianity 101 before we get there.  Jesus said he did all things to please the Father & that he imitated the things He saw the Father do. So I am more convinced, that those little sins the world says are just part of living life here on earth, & that God can't possible expect us to cease, or master, are actually expected by God to be mastered. And, that by doing so, I can live an even more abundant life with greater blessing than I thought were available. Because, God telling me not to do something in His Word is not Him being petty or picky, but about greater blessings in this life. It is about how we are expected to flow in His kingdom. When you live under someone else's roof, you are expected to act within the parameters they have established, in order for their household to exist, and ensue in an orderly manner. God's home is where Jesus will be taking us when He returns again for His righteous ones. It is time for me to prune myself of the little sins, always striving to please God, and in return receive greater blessings here on earth for an easy transition into His kingdom.

I LOVE TO COOK. ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS COLD OUTSIDE

Today is our first frost. Which means everything in my garden is done for the season. So sad! I had the presence of mind to bring in my scented geranium yesterday before the frost hit last night. The building where I work was all a buzz talking about the end of the growing season and the first hard frost coming overnight. When my lil dog Caity and I were out early this morning you could see the effects. I salvaged 3 baby eggplants and 10 cherry size green tomatoes off my plants. I'll fry the baby eggplants and mini tomatoes for sure. They'll not go to waste. By the way I love fried green tomatoes and am on a hunt to find some much bigger ones salvaged. I have the best cornmeal seasoning ready to do its "thang."

Early this morning I put a cornish hen in the oven in my cast iron dutch cooker and a pot of green beans and potatoes on the stove top. Those green beans are good enough to make me stamp my foot and stamp it more than once. They are that good!  I am so glad my mother and grandmother believed in cooking good food. I cook for nourishment and for fun.

Two household items I am buying me after the first of the year. One, is a new gas stove and the other is a front loading washing machine.  I've put aside all year and it is time to buy. Tomorrow I'm going "looking" and see whats out there.

My oven knob keeps coming off and the stove is just too small. I've been without my washing machine for about 3 months now and have decided not to fix it.  So I'm springing for a front loader without the "thingy" in the middle. That "thingy" is forever tearing my clothes.

Oh for the day of washing my clothes in my own home with dinner in the oven of my new stove.

THE ODDEST STUFF HAPPENS TO ME.

O.K. Caity and I went out early a couple of mornings ago around 5 a.m.  So I am standing around waiting for her to find her perfect spot that does not exist, as usual, and I look up and running at neck breaking speed toward us are what I think are 6 pitbulls without a leash or their owners!  The "business owners" on the corner of my block own pit bulls. They are the kind of owners who are open 24/7, if you get my drift. So I yell, "In the name of Jesus you will get, as I point my red Maglight flashlight at them!"  Well as they get closer & before I get my command out fully, I start to recongnize they are not pitbulls, instead they look like Whippets! Whippets are very docile dogs and would not hurt a flea, so I am much relieved.  But as my eyes adjust better, I recognize they are 3 small deer and 3 adult deer! LOL But, I still am quite concerned, because I have never been charged by deer before in my life, especially since I live smack dab in the city! With my red maglight extended like a rod, I am speechless, however, the deer stop immediately! I'm like, alright Jesus, thanks for letting me borow You mighty name! Except all 8 of us are having a Mexican stand off and nobody is moving!  So I get my biblical "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed and I then say, "You will not disobey."  Next, the funniest thing happens, they look around at each other as though conferring as a group, then take off running across the street, and down my dad's empty lot! 

With my red Maglight flashlight still extended and pointed in the direction they were to go, I am completely speechless, no words forthcoming! Caity and I just stand there in awe!  

I'll have to tell you later about the falcon/hawk I found perched on my mailbox facing my front door one day last month. LOL That was an odd experience as well! LOL

"BLUE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR, WHY CAN'T YOU BUY ME SOME BLUES?"

Flipping thru a LL Bean catalogue (deciding whether to keep or throw) and remembered a conversation last year around Christmas or Fathers Day. Mom and I shop LL Bean when buying for dad for the free shipping, and there is one catalogue where they offer radical great deals before the holidays. Mom had ordered dad some clothes and they were all shades of brown. Earlier in the year, I had asked dad what his favorite color was. He said navy blue and light blue were his favorites. He has this one shirt that he found after the house fire to wear at the Dollar Store, that Sista absolutely hates! Its a Bugle Boy sweat shirt and it is light blue. He wore it every chance he could. It has Bugle Boy on the front. I think Sista does not like it because she does not think Bugle Boy written across his chest is age appropriate. But its blue. This one particular occasion, I guess he made up his mind to make a stand! "These are all brown, or different shades of brown. I don't like brown and I don't like Khaki, I like blue, navy blue and light blue. Why can't you buy me some blues?" Of course I was cracking up, because mom was so shocked that he had a preference of any kind, because he had never been really vocal about it before. I remember telling him, when asking what color t-shirt he wanted for his birthday, (which is another issue Sista and mom have, I keeping buying him his favorites, T-shirts with cool logos) "Dad, if you prefer blue, then tell people blue is your color!" "Its not that difficult to find what you like in blue." So essentially, I was responsible for the little outburst that liberated my dad from browns and khakis last year. In flipping thru the LL Bean catalogue, I found a light blue sweatshirt with LL Bean written across the front for dad for Christmas! I guess since I started my dad's liberation, I'll make peace with the heads of state and replace the Bugle Boy sweatshirt with the LL Bean sweatshirt! Light blue of course! LOL

GOD PROVIDED THE OPTION, NOW YOU CHOOSE

"If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak." http://bible.us/John12.47.ESV

It just hit me! Jesus IS SAYING, He did not come to judge the world, but if we choose to NOT follow what God spoke in His Word-the bible, NOT follow Him and repent of our sins, NOT commit long term to Him being Lord of our lives, that it will be us who will condemn ourselves to eternal life without Him! He is letting us choose!

Even today, we choose. Jesus Is here to save.  He is one of our choices. It is His first order of business-His assignment from God. We condemn ourselves, and we condemn others, but Jesus offers us a free-will! Jesus will judge us all in the End, that is His second order of business.

As believers, God's Word and His laws judge us now. We are to honor our commitment. We've taken that next step with God! Following God laws written in our Bibles is what keeps us out of the quagmire of the consequences of our contrary actions. His written Word is our blessing, not our curse.

Unbelievers feel as though the Bible is of no consequence to them. They choose not to accept Christ, and they choose not to follow God's law. They feel they are not effected. But that is faulty logic. The consequences still exists. That is where the curse comes from. Whether unbelievers or believers choose to follow God's laws or not, the consequences of not following them remain unchanged.

As believers and unbelievers, understand this, Christ and the Father are not beggars. They appeal to us and they offer us a choice. Choose Christ! Who else do you know who will die for you?  Be blessed!

TEACH ME O GOD HOW TO BE LIKE YOU

Securing your private thoughts with God can be quite liberating! You can be apart of a world gone crazy and have peace in God and your thoughts. Once you understand you will be misunderstood, you won't always be liked, and that you will be unjustly criticized by others at times, you then move on to a level where your main goal is to not impress, but be impressed by God, and what He has to say and ask of you. It is here that the drama of life begins to decapitate. I am learning to commune more with God and receive more of His inner peace. God is teaching me and I am learning. Proverbs 3:5 & 6 "Lean not on your own understanding, {or that of others} but trust in the Lord; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make you path straight."

In my recent study and walk with God I have been changing things up in how I commune with God. So day before yesterday I asked God to teach me Prov 3:5 & 6. Well yesterday was the day from Hell where nothing went well. I was not liked, misunderstood, and critizised, but I kept my thoughts on the matter to myself, chose not to defend myself, with an expression of I am sorry...but that's just the way it is and moved on with my day! I had to reign my anger in, and you know what, it was doable! I ignored a lot of disagreeing comments, and facial expressions, and I am sure hand expressions as I walked away! Guess what, at the end of the day I was tired, but I found out I could do things God's way as He requests and advises to live an abundant life.

Just like rule #2, I am, as hard as it may be, going to incorporated this into my walk with God too.  I won't nail it down perfectly, or one hundred percent of the time, but I got a goal to accomplish, in the name of Jesus!

When the end of my days come, I am going to enter the gates of heaven with my eyes wide open, with as much of God's Word and will incorporated in me on the front end. No way am I going to miss out, and be deceived by the devil thinking there will be pixie dust to straighten me out once I get there. LOL Nope, nope, nope, I plan to work The Plan and have IT work me, so I can sail past the gates of hell and through the gates of heaven!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY! LOVE YOUR PET DAY!

Ziggy Zigfield

Caity CeMori'

It's not officially "Love Your Pet" day, but it is in my home!  Caity and I are just in from the park.  We had a blast!  She ran, and ran, and ran some more!  She tumbled, and flipped, and jumped all over the park.  Earlier this month I bought her a retractable leash fit for a 77 pound dog and it pretty much contains her, or does its best.  After all of that, we sat on the new benches the state provided, and boy they are nice to sit in.  We sat by the french door, and enjoyed the view, as well as, the nice breeze.

Oh, for those of you who have been following my training Caity to ride around in the car, she did great today.  Only once did she finagle her way out of the car.  After that, with lots of, "No s " and firm, "Sits" she finally caught on.

We went to Micky D's drive thru and got ourselves ice cold liquids before we headed out to the park.  It was so funny!  I always get us drinks to wet our whistles before we walk.  I usually get ice tea and Caity gets just ice or this time ice water, "You can keep the straw," nice person working the window.  Today Caity was extra thirsty, just panting away.  So I pull off to the side, and I only have one cup holder that works.  Actually if you own a Ford Mercury, no matter how old or recently purchased, you know that after about a year that flimsy so called cup holder breaks.  I created a makeshift cup holder for my drink, but now that you know who is riding shotgun, that is where she has decided her ice water goes, right at doggie nose level.  I take the lid off and she drinks till her heart is content while I hold mine as I drive.  Car rides with Caity are a give and take experience.

When we came into the bedroom, Ziggy was relaxing in the best seat in the house, the faux leather club chair, I had the audacity to ask if I could have for free; from a business that was closing its doors, for good.  Sista says I never post pictures of  Ziggy, so that's him with Caity placed at the beginning of the blog.

Not much else going on!  COME TO THE PURPLE DOOR again and we'll find something to chat about.

PEACE out, LOVE ya, and stay BLESSED till we chat it up again!

FLOWERCHIC

GENERATIONAL BLESSINGS! CAITY AND HER SNIFFER!

There is a such thing as generational curses and generational blessings.  Thank goodness I have a generational blessing of found money.  I can find money in a budget, clip some coupons, find a sale, buy second hand, attempt to negotiate a discount, or make and sell some stuff.  But the one thing my dad and my sister are blessed with is finding actually bills of money on the ground, next to their car, or blowing in the wind.  Well, my dog Caity found some money and it stayed there 2 days snagged in my hydrangea bush by my front door. Yes, she did. Day before yesterday in the evening she was nosing around my bush instead of going up the front steps to go inside. Her command to go home is "home, home."  I gave her command and she kept nosing around.  I kept giving her command and finally she complied.  Yesterday, same thing.  Today she had moved on to a new spot to delay going in.  I got curious and decided to see what was once so interesting, but abandoned today.  What did I see?  A twenty dollar bill just waiting to be discovered at about doggie nose high from the ground!  I said, "Caity we got $20, found money!  I'm sure her response was, "Oh that, I found that days ago, and what do you mean we found $20?"  I gave her a good dog rubbing and we went inside to put it away for a rainy day.  So far I, I mean we have a $20 bill and a $10 gas card sent to me from BP gas station for shopping there four time for gasoline. Plus, I have an envelope full of coupons Kroger's sent me I haven't taken advantage of yet.

I going to add finding actually dollar bills to my list of generational blessing from God.  See my grandfather on my dad's side of the family had the blessing of finding money and the ability to live within a budget and be able to cut corners and find money in a budget too.  On my mom's side of the family they have the gift of stocking a pantry, make and save, and buying only on sale.  My uncle on my mom's side of the family always would tell Linda and I about how to buy cars, and to never live within your actual budget, but to always live under budget.  Then you take your savings and buy what you want.  But you can't get everything you want all of the time.  You got to find out what it is you really want, lay-away it or tuck the money aside, and every penny, nickel, dime, and dollar counts that much closer to getting what you really want.

The one thing both sides of my family did and instilled in us, whether we were their kids or not was to always pay tithes. I was forever losing my tithe money between them giving it to me at home and the offering plate.  Finally daddy came up with this idea of tying my coins in one end of one of his handkerchiefs.  Then when turning flips in the grass before Sunday school, it was much easier for me to find my tithe money!  They had to be quite creative with me as their child!  One day I'll tell the story of how I ended up with more candy money than Linda did when we were kids.  It was quite ingenious of me, but I got in trouble for it. Smile.

Now it is your turn.  Think back over your family history and come up common blessings that flow through your bloodline.  It is very interesting stuff.  One person prays for a blessing and that blessing keeps getting passed down.

COME TO THE PURPLE DOOR with FLOWERCHIC again and we'll explore the many wonders of life together.

FLOWERCHIC

THIS AIN'T NOTHING BUT A "SMACK" TALKIN DEVIL! I'M TIRED OF BEING "CORRECT!"

God never leaves his throne unattended, He never loses focus, He never looks the other way. He never blinks in the midst of man's plans.  He always, always, always is on point, and on time, and He has the final say in all things. Man makes his plans and God just shakes His head, moves His finger from side to side, and  laughs out loud!  No man, no woman, no nation, no mob, no government is greater, nor more powerful than God.  Dictators come, dictators go, nations rise, nations fall, people lose their direction, God leads them back.  Like a boomerang, it all comes back to God. We think we got it all figured out, down to a fine science, but God is the Creator of all things, how we gonna get around all That?  Loathe Him, Hate Him, disrespect Him, He'll wrap you in His mighty arms and love you till the end of time. Won't nobody else do that for you in your brokenness. Can't nobody but God!  He got your back. It's all under control. Just show up when the time comes and do Your thing!  God's got this!  He had IT then, but we didn't all do our thing.

Please click on and view the link below.  It is a wonderful, thought provoking video.

http://vimeo.com/6444901

Thanks Virginia for sharing!  I'm doing the same.