I have decided to change my Blog a little bit. I do hope you will like it. I will write about a person in the Bible and use stories to tell these biblical people are just like us, as far as eating, going to bed, having troubles, getting married, being tired or discouraged, and so many other things. We, in 2024, are reading them without thinking of them as real people, like your neighbor living next door.

Our neighbor’s name is Noah. He lived many years ago and he had a wife and three sons. These were Shem, Ham and Japeth. They were married so there were eight in Noah’s family. The Bible doesn’t tell us what they did for a living but did tell us they were all righteous people and that the rest of the people were corrupt.

The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, yet Noah found favor in the eyes of the eyes of the Lord. One day He said to Noah. “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood. The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high and you are going to build it. You will enter the ark, you and your son and your wife and your sons wives. You will bring a male and female of every kind of animal and the food that will be eaten and stored.”

Noah was surprised to be sure, but he listened, told his sons, and went to work. Now, let’s pretend that it is 2024 and God is saying those things to you. Would you think, I sure had a dream this time! Noah went right to work even though folks around him were jeering and laughing. Noah’s family did everything just as God commanded.

The commands you hear in your head are probably less demanding. How many times have you thought should do something and instead you have shoved that thought right out of your head. We are often asked to do something for God. It might be just something like asking your neighbor if he or she knows Jesus. or else visit someone in the hospital. I have been asked to do some simple things and I’ve thought it was just in my head. Perhaps all of us could listen to those little things and say “I should do that!”

Many folks were asked to do various and big things for God. Maybe this might be the question, ”Why don’t we get big orders like that? I wonder if we would have the answer.

You can read the whole story about Noah in the Bible in Genesis chapters 6 and 7.

Perhaps I ‘d better explain. I had two falls, both of which were un-avoidableI I had been painting a picture of a barn when my easel fell on my back. I went to the hospital and was told I had broken my left hip. I went into surgery and stayed at the hospital to a week then I went to an orthopedic place where I learned to walk a little, and even made a small painting during the month I stayed there and before I was told I could go home, All of my children were sure it was too early. My right foot dragged when I tried to walk and I felt there was something wrong with my right side.

I was home for two whole days before I fell again. The doctor told me I had broken my right hip! (ouch) It was the same old thing, surgery and a week to recover from that. Off I went to the orthopedic place to (I hope) learn how to walk. but before I got settled in, someone pulled me and my bed down one hall and up another and finally put me in another room. two days later, I got the news that I was isolated for 10 days because I now had Covid! What more could an old lady take? Well anyhow it took another month before I could go home!

I am now home and still hope I will be able to improve my walking. I have been told it will take another two or three months! But God and people have seen me through. I owe everything to my son, Ron, and my daughters, JoAnne and Bobbe. The nurses and their assistants are wonderful! Of course the doctors are great too! But I believe that God has put something big in those nurses and their assistants. How they can do all they have to do and still have a smile on their faces is more than I can understand! I thought a young man was an angel all the time I was there. Josh did so much more for me than he had to, and I am forever grateful to him.

I’m glad it’s over, but happy with all I’ve learned. folks like my children and the doctors, nurses and their assistants are all like God made us to be, I will try to be more like them in the days I have left.