By Mary C. Juarez
Hello everyone! I hope you had a thankful and beautiful
Thanksgiving. Victor and I spent Thanksgiving in Buffalo , NY
Jeremiah
1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.
Before you were born I dedicated you.
I was not born into an ideal situation, for the woman who was
carrying me in her womb was a young single woman who was not ready to become a
mother, but I find comfort in knowing that the Lord said to her, “I will help
you in this situation.”
Jeremiah
29:11 For I know well the plans I have in mind for you says the Lord, plans for
your welfare, not for woe! plans to give
you a future full of hope. God had
plans for my life, and He had it all figured out even before I was born, and He
took a difficult situation and He made good of it.
Proverbs
22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he shall not
depart from it. God chose my parents
for me, Virginia and Hinie Cape Cleveland
Matthew
19:19 Honor your father and your mother. My parents gave me so much growing up. It wasn’t the material things in life that
children find important today. It was the compassion and respect that they
unselfishly poured upon me that gave me the desire to honor them in everything
they did.
Psalm
8:4 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that
you set in place.
Genesis 9:13 I set my bow
in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Growing
up in the country gave me a real sense of God’s presence in my life. I still remember the feeling in my heart when
I would see the sun setting across the corn fields, or witness an indescribable
rainbow hand painted across the sky after a storm. God’s nature has been a
priceless gift to me in my life.
Ecclesiastes 4:10 Two are better than one, if the one falls, the other
will lift up his companion. God sent
me precious friends during my grade school years at St. Mary’s, and also in
high school years who are still close to me today. He sent me the right friends at the right
times in my life. Those friends laughed and cried with me, and picked me up at
times when I fell. Some friends walked
with me on some journeys that I didn’t want to travel, but they helped me stay
focused at times when the road ahead was blurry with tears.
Matthew
6:30 If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown
into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, o you of little
faith. Throughout my life there have
been times when I would wonder how I would pay the next bill, but somehow God
would always come through and provide. It would leave me wondering why I had ever
worried.
Luke
23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them,
they know not what they do.” I cannot comprehend the unselfish love that
God has for me that He would send His only Son to die upon a cross for my
sins. I am a sinner, but I am forgiven.
Matthew
5:4 Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. God brought me comfort at the times I
fell to my knees in sorrow with a broken heart. When I thought I could not go
on, He held me.
1
Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written:
What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered
the human heart, what God has prepared for those for those who love him. I cannot imagine anything more
magnificent than the rising sun in the stillness of the morning, or the
majestic purple and orange sky as the sun begins to play hide and seek as it
sets in the horizon. Yet, Heaven will be
more beautiful than all of His creations on earth.
Psalm
30:5 Sing praise to the Lord, you faithful; give thanks to God’s holy
name. I thank Him for all that He
has given me.
Until we meet again, may God’s rainbow
fill your hearts with the promise of His peace.
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