Colors: Grey/Navy/standing firm, stability/reliability/ and professionalism. Sherwin-Williams has some amazing colors to frame today’s devotion.  Sea Serpent (a navy blue shade), Wall Street (a grey shade) and finally Modest White..to pop a light neutral.

Value of Concentration: When I can’t stand, You lift me firmly.

Memory Verse: Lift me softly,  yet boldly, Lord.

Good Morning, ABBA, Father,

As I sip my Cup of Fancy (Starbuck’s Mocha), I notice that fall is readily falling asleep and signs of winter are  quickly becoming visible.

My palette speaks of standing firm….of remaining stable. I have a pants suit of those colors. Grey slacks, navy top with a grey button in decolletage; it spoke professionalism as I was a summer instructor, teaching teachers for The Communicate Institute.

I am a huge believer in the following: at my lowest point, ABBA, You will provide a Holy Boldness that comes from The Holy Spirit.

I’ve seen it…experienced it.

*Are you grieving the death of a loved one?

                  He will lift you.

*Are you going through an illness, divorce, marriage counseling, parenting issues, career changes, spirituality issues?…..COME TO YOUR ABBBA.

           HE WILL LIFT YOU.

My Sister Dr. Gail (RIP) fought cancer for years. It got to the point that I prayed for God to take her out of that body.  Jan. 27 she entered Hospice. Jan 28,22 was a day that Holy Boldness carried me…. And my ABBA lifted me….gently.

I was 3 weeks out of knee surgery. My Farmer took me to PT, and out to lunch for the first time in a month. Then a quick grocery stop.

We got home…he got me iced up in my chair, and I was headed for sleepytime.

The plan was to travel to Hospice on Sat. morn,

The phone rang …It was my nephew…. “You need to get here..ASAP.”

It was 6 p.m. before we reached the Dayton, Ohio Hospice.

My nephew greeted me in the parking lot. “Nana is with the Angels.”

As I entered..the tears were nonstop as I held her hand.  My tears return now as I write this. 

In Holy Boldness, she was my role model and defender against our mentally ill father.

For the last 30 years since our parents passed we were together daily via phone or visits.

All of the memories flooded me, as we recited the Catholic Divine Mercy Novena…which is said over the death of a loved one.

That day..in Holy Boldness, I left Hospice now earning the title of “THE LAST LIVING MEMBER OF MY BIRTH FAMILY.”

Believe me; I was in perfect peace. 

Never quit praying.

Never quit Seeking.

Never quit believing.

Never quit waiting upon the Lord.

He will gently lift you through your trials and give you a strength and Holy Boldness that you have never before experienced.

Praise you, Father, for blessing me this day.

MY CHILD: YOU ARE MINE. Continue to confess your sin, daily…and praise my Son, Jesus Christ, who washed that sin away with his Precious Blood. You are my beloved child who lives her faith,  ….Boldly.

I love you.

Your,

ABBA Father

Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

Joshua 1:5 “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life.  As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Isaiah 49:15-16 Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has born? Tho she may forget….I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.