The day  of thunder,  9/11 changed the life's of people all over the world. It is a day that will be remembered until the Lord calls his children home, a day not unlike "The shot heard around the world."  {The British are coming'!  The British are comin'!} On April 19, 1775, the Americans were prepared to, and did, fight for their liberty and freedom and  9/11 2001 Brought America to arms once again. My heart goes out to all the people who lost loved ones when the twin towers were rammed by airplanes high jacked by crazy men who thought to put fear in the American people. A people who doesn't know the meaning of QUIT!!, GIVE UP, BACK_DOWN! and war came.  A war like none other, in the history of the world. The economy has been going down and down  and  I for one believe 9/11 was the  beginning of birth pains and will get even worse. The tribulation people is coming, get ready, get ready!! for the coming King ..don't be left behind to face a world of darkness and despair. 
September 11/2001 and or the aftermath has brought with it a new way of thinking, more poor people then ever before, jobs lost, homes lost because of the downward spiral of the economy and businesses failed. Milk in some states cost over $4.00 a gallon, gas is the same way. Home heating is at a record high. Just a little over two years ago, my highest gas bill to heat my home was around  one hundred dollars, lights and water was another hundred. This year alone it rose to three hundred and fifty  for heating and more for lights and water. 

I was born in a time of no indoor plumping, no tvs and no stores at every corner. Cars were few and far between. I never saw a television until i was in my teens and it was a very tiny  round, black and white one. Man I thought that was the grandest thing:-) all these little people caught in a tiny box. In today's world  the invention of the television  makes me think of the verses in the bible, because it is through that median...  the bible can be fulfilled. Rev 1:7 "Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be! Amen." NIV 

Matt 24:30 "At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory." NIV 

Ezek 30:3 "For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near- a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations." NIV. With  television people all over the world will see his coming. Philip. 2:9-11 

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

I guess to make a plain story as short as I can, I need to get to the point. The world is moving at such a fast pace that it is hard to keep up with the changes but sometimes we have to give it a good try. I remember talking to my friend Claire a while back, about being able to live with much of nothing.  She and I had both heard that terrorist were looking at our water and food supply. I told her that I could make it if something did happen, because of the time i was born into. When I was little I learned to hunt in the woods for food. My mother or grandmother would give us all a sack and off to the woods we went to forge for greens and or roots. Poke was plentiful in spring time and could be fixed in many ways. Poke was and still is a poisonous plant but  the young leaves can be eaten after cooking them using three changes of water. Poke is still used medicinally. "My brother-in-law still eats one pokeberry a year as a preventative to treat arthritis." also for other reasons i won't go into here. 

Dandelion blossoms  can be made into a very tasty jam and or jelly. The root is an herb. Dandelion seeds are carried by the wind and spring up everywhere the seeds land, look in your yard, they can be very troublesome to get rid of.  Lamb's Quarters and Dock are also early spring greens. Winter turnips are the best of the lot though. Cornmeal gravy, corn meal coffee and also cornmeal mush..oh and never forget the beans, oats and potato's. Wild onions grew in abundance, so did Gooseberry bushes, apple trees and pears. We got water from a spring and or well, no running water in our house. The only bathroom that I ever knew until i reached the age of  12 was a  6 foot  4 by 4 outhouse with two holes cut in a plank lying over two deep holes in the ground. 

Oh! boy how times have changed though, I sometimes forget how old i am now and as long as i have lived with modern indoor plumping and stores on almost every corner it's hard to go back. The reason I am telling this story is that a few weeks ago my plumping went bad on me and nothing I can do will fix it.  There isn't enough money in my income to pay for it.  The cost is all most two thousand dollars and not one plumper i called will fix it and take payments. Therefore i have had to find a few places to go away from home. Yes, it is hard but i just thought of what i had told Claire, that I could make it where others couldn't and the Lord  is showing me that life as it was in the so called old age, isn't the same now  and neither am i. To speak  something into the air will oft times bring it to past.. {Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for  the service of the Kingdom  of God." Luke 9:62, NIV. 
If you have ever plowed a garden up then you know what  the verse  means .  If you made a crooked furrow then you have to keep making the same mistakes. I bragged about my ability to  live  without the things that i have had for the past  thirty-five years. The Lord didn't do this to me but allowed it to get rid of  pride in self.  (Matthew 5 let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.) Oh, yes there are still the greens and apple trees but they are so far and few between now that I would have a hard time finding them.  Progress is good but it also brings changes  to the older generation, I for one, don't even know where there are any woods left:-) My children wouldn't know a green from a flower. 
I have spoken many things into the air, not thinking carefully about what words i choose and even in my prayers i used to do that also. Thank God for his Holy Spirit who knows that we at times do not even know what to pray.  (Romans 8 

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. ) There is a time coming when a loaf of bread will cost twenty dollars. I never thought I would live to see that happen but it is so fast approaching and prices are going up and will keep doing that until the day of the Lord. Proverbs 8 
13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech. Pride is not spoken well of in the Bible. 

Pride is of the  head, it has no place in a heart that belongs to the lord. Did Jesus have pride when he went to the cross?  (Father, look what i am doing, i am so proud of me.!!) No Jesus went to the cross, out of pure love for mankind. I don't think there is a verse in the bible that ever spoke of pride in himself. 
My mother never had any pride but my dad was a deferent matter and I think that is where mine came from, but only out of fear of him. We were always very poor, not my dad as he was a tattoo artist, he went to all the big cities with bases and the soldiers paid him good money to put tattoo's on their bodies. He almost never brought a dime home to his nine kids nor wife. Getting back to pride..one day I went to school wearing the same clothes i had worn for two months (I washed them ever night in a pan of water and hung them to dry by the cook stove.) I was taking a class in sewing and the teacher and kids had made me two skirts and two blouses, I was so happy about those  clothes and when school let out, I ran all the way home to show my sister and mom but Elestrail (My dad) was home and he threw a fit. He screamed at me and hit me a few times to get his point a cross and ask me, "Don't you have any pride?  you will after I get through with you. We don't take charity from no one. Take these back and tell your teacher I said stay out of my family business.!!" Boy after the blood stopped running down my legs he took me to the store and bought me two outfits plus shoes. From then on it was hard for me to take anything even kindness until I met the Lord:-) The Lord has shown me in so many ways that I am to depend on him for my every need. I have this friend who over the years has helped me financially. no i didn't ask her and many times i was upset at her because she just jumped in and did it. God works his wonders in so many ways. Why does God do this for me? because he loves me and wants to meet my every need. I have also found out from the Lord that this is a job I am doing, a job of love.. to win people to jesus Christ, before the last day and tribulation comes. Yes I will accept a helping hand because the hands are sent by Jesus, so that I can have time to work for his kingdom. Pride in self, no not anymore but I do love myself enough to know that I am a servant worthy of hire. Thanks for reading this page. 
 

Get ready for the King is coming, in great glory!! 

Corinthians 13: 1-13: 
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." Charity means to love someone more then self, to be willing to go that extra mile. Hope is a pocket full of faith and when troubles of this world get you down, you just reach deep in that pocket and pull forth a little more hope. "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God."--Rom 10:  17." 

P.S, 
Please people if you have heard and or hear that still small voice, speaking to you, don't wait another day to repent of your sins and be born again to a new life in Christ. The edge of eternity is looming on your doorsteps. Time is running out, the trumpet is going to sound, where will you be? I have a new home in glory and you can too!!! Pray the sinners prayer and if you need any help or just want to talk, email anna@vci.net. 

ADDED a little later: 

Praise the Lord, my plumbing is fixed!!! if my son in law and i had went a few more feet, the problem would have been repaired, but the task seemed impossible to us after working on it for weeks. We give up!! isn't that just like some christains? 
               We don't work hard enough to get the prize at the end. Oh I don't mean not saved and going to heaven but the little joys and rewards we get when are job is done and everything is in order. We give up to soon!! I for one am going to take the title of this message to heart and live by it daily. With God all things are possible!!!
 

"I Think, I Can, I know, I can!!"

**Look for Recipe below** 
 
 

 Do you hear Jesus knocking? 
Open the door and he will come in and sup with you
 
 

Recipe 

Ingredients: 2 pounds of fresh poke greens, young and tender. 
10 Slices of bacon. (I don't eat pork, so i  always make two batches) 
Salt and pepper to taste. 
8 eggs, beaten. 

Instructions:

Check poke shoots carefully; remove pulpy stems and discolored spots on leaves thoroughly; wash through three waters and drain well. 
Place poke shoots and water to cover in an 8-quart pot; bring to a boil. 
Cover; reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes or until poke is tender. 
Drain well and chop. 
Set aside. 
Cook bacon in a medium skillet over low heat until crisp. 
Drain bacon; reserve 3 tablespoons drippings in skillet. 
Crumble bacon. 
Add chopped poke and bacon to bacon drippings; cook over medium heat 15 minutes, stirring frequently. 
Stir in eggs; cook over medium heat, stirring often, until eggs are firm but still moist. 
Add  the salt and pepper to taste. 
I also use a bottle of Louisiana HOT SAUCE and pour it all over my poke greens and make a batch of country biscuits to top it off.