tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717344431028414682024-03-13T12:05:33.502-04:00Walk WiselyNathan Talbothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040487367017510127noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-90486005851335347252009-10-18T13:56:00.005-04:002009-10-18T14:07:35.297-04:00Peace OutWhile many of you won’t believe we haven’t already been doing this … not for one second… I maintain the accuracy of the statements. :-)We are moving to a medium where we can let it all hang out. Free-to-be-me kind of stuff. No checks. No worries. No couching words. No holding back on our faith and personal convictions. It will be personal. It will be intimate. It will be the nitty-gritty of life.Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-87055579738605973052009-09-23T01:10:00.001-04:002009-09-23T11:15:34.639-04:00Salvation Has A NameSalvation Has A Name33miles lyrics I come to the altar and I bow before youYou are everything my heart desiresA friend that is closer than any brother could beI'm so amazed I can call out to youAnd you hear me Salvation has a NameMercy has a faceHoliness was crucified, rose to give us graceSalvation has a NameMercy has a faceJesus, our holinessWorthy of all praise Every moment that I come to knowMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-29118889559634818312009-09-18T09:00:00.003-04:002009-09-18T10:07:01.943-04:00No One Said it Was the Easy PathNo question the path a believer is supposed to walk is a narrow one. The initial entry requires an honest decision of soul surrender to a Lord we cannot see with our physical eye. The subsequent walk on the narrow path is in absolute contrast to the wide path of destruction we were on only seconds before.That wide path offers every distraction (and destruction) imaginable.Our faithful Lord said Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-31674760771935206972009-09-16T16:20:00.006-04:002009-09-18T09:33:41.593-04:00When You Don't Like YourselfEver been around someone who just doesn't know how to like themselves?Perfectly normal looking people we walk around with day in and day out have this problem. Intelligent people. Creative people. Even workaholics and successful people. Lazy people, too. It shows up in all kinds.You might not know it until you have a relationship of some sort with one of them. But you can be sure this issue Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-46563793138597423342009-07-24T05:50:00.001-04:002009-07-24T05:53:01.320-04:00Counterfeit"The reality of God's presence is not dependent on any place, but only dependent upon the determination to set the Lord always before us.When we are in an unhealthy state physically or emotionally, we always want thrills. In the physical domain this will lead to counterfeiting the Holy Ghost; in the emotional life it leads to inordinate affection and the destruction of morality; and in the Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-84073775101476060732009-07-04T00:01:00.001-04:002009-07-09T01:21:48.922-04:00Proud to be an AmericanGoDaddy has created a wonderful video celebrating our great United States of America. So nice for an American company to be unapolgetic about the great accomplishments of our history. Click over and have a look.Happy Independence Day from GoDaddy.com!And Happy 4th of July from Walk Wisely.Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-89961314534930348462009-06-30T21:12:00.004-04:002009-06-30T21:16:40.462-04:00Government Is NOT the AnswerFoster Friess is a successful businessman, patriot, and champion of the conservative cause. For more go to www.FosterFriess.comMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-6202275508038714652009-06-10T13:36:00.009-04:002009-06-10T13:51:13.721-04:00Making Me LaughAll my kids know it doesn't take much to make me laugh. I'm a happy girl (most of the time). Besides that they are all pretty witty and I have a simple sense of humor.There is a really hilarious blog out there that is a spoof on Barack's teleprompter. I've been reading it for a while now because ... well, it is very funny. With Obamanation steam rolling over our conservative values at break neck Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-74243813822545938332009-06-05T18:25:00.012-04:002009-06-05T19:09:22.586-04:00Simple TruthsMaking notes in a prayer journal is so helpful. I've been keeping them for many, many years now. It is just good for the soul to go back through them to read how God's unfailing love has been the pervading thread of strength throughout my life.It is that love that supplies me with the confidence I need to face each day. So many people talk about it but don't experience its life-altering power. Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-82912278294493300032009-05-13T06:54:00.003-04:002009-05-13T06:56:33.793-04:00A Good Conscience"A conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." Acts 24:16God's commands are given to the life of His Son in us, consequently to the human nature in which His Son has been formed, His commands are difficult, but immediately we obey they become divinely easy.Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-70018280689216985502009-05-06T05:30:00.000-04:002009-05-06T05:30:01.816-04:00Just ONE PassageDo you ever run across a scripture - just one scripture- that in and of itself (and I'm not talking about taking it out of context) encompasses so much Truth and it causes such pause in your spirit as to stop you in your tracks?Of course, all scripture is right and true and to be taken seriously. But I'm talking about one scripture that makes you think... gee, if I could "get" just this one thingMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-19267720810975026132009-05-04T23:30:00.004-04:002009-05-05T23:06:07.101-04:00Things you won't see in the MSM about ObamaHere is a blurb from writer Andrew Smith in an opinion piece published in the Chronicle Herald online. Full article can be found here.I find it amazing that the MSM continues to absolutely ignore Obama's lies (yes I said lies because there is no other word to describe his blatant dishonesty), ignore his aggressive and massive move toward a socialist state, and his outrageous hypocrisy. Just todayNathan Talbothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040487367017510127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-60243015830222792982009-05-04T10:09:00.003-04:002009-05-04T10:13:10.019-04:00TearsEver wonder how many tears can be cried in one blubbering spell?Do our bodies only have so many allotted for any one of those sessions?Sometimes I wonder. Are all tears the same? You know the tears that come from joy are they the same as, say, the ones that come from heartbreak or sadness or even self-pity.I guess there are scientific answers for all my wonderings.One thing I do know but not sureMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-69714634375516446522009-04-22T08:03:00.006-04:002009-04-22T08:16:11.272-04:00Slipshod?"You no more need a holiday from spiritual concentration than your heart needs a holiday from beating. You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual.God wants you to be entirely His, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit."*******************************"The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-28708492123688041812009-04-08T10:26:00.001-04:002009-04-13T07:42:08.070-04:00I Will NEVER Deny YouDuring this week preceding Easter I like to re-read the account of passover week from the four gospels. It stirs my soul to a depth of gratitude no words can express to imagine my Lord anticipating the cross, burial, and resurrection. He was a man like me. (Well, I'm not a man but, you know what I mean.)So many facets of these scriptures to gain insight and understanding into our Lord's Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-83462531346295692852009-04-07T07:22:00.005-04:002009-04-07T07:52:47.719-04:00Brighter and BrighterThose of you who know me, know I am a die-hard advocate of mental toughness. What we use our precious thought-life energy on is what we will likely begin to believe. So to change what we believe we have to change what we think about. What we think is what we eventually (if we haven't already) become.I've chosen to share a daily writing (occasionally) from an email newsletter I receive.The premiseMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-90648946116619917142009-04-01T10:12:00.002-04:002009-04-01T10:18:06.799-04:00Love Is Not Love Which AltersLet me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove;O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-43351524123804403992009-03-29T10:55:00.009-04:002009-03-29T11:44:52.942-04:00Freedom From WorryThose of you who know me, know I am a die-hard advocate of mental toughness. What we use our precious thought-life energy on is what we will likely begin to believe. So to change what we believe we have to change what we think about. What we think is what we eventually (if we haven't already) become.I've chosen to share a daily writing (occasionally) from an email newsletter I receive.The premiseMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-5064682011441666822009-03-26T06:51:00.014-04:002009-03-26T07:40:19.878-04:00The Bible is the MirrorExplanation here of the readings being copied to this blog for your encouragement. Again Walk Wisely is not the writer of the following information. We are, however, gaining lots of support to our beliefs and faith from these daily e-mails being delivered to our inbox. You didn't think I could just copy and paste someone else's words only did ya? I've got a little something- something to say at Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-46680460017940048912009-03-24T08:56:00.009-04:002009-03-24T09:21:41.540-04:00Get The Focus Off of YOU!YOU HAVE THE POWER!Today we’re fasting from the thought that says, “Why me?”. When something doesn’t go our way, its easy to feel sorry for ourselves AND to feel that God and life are not fair. And while life isn’t always fair, God will always be good to you!Lets change this mindset TODAY:1. Prepare your mind for battle. The devil wants you to question yourself and question God. 1 Timothy 6:12 Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-62804769780342366912009-03-23T11:38:00.009-04:002009-03-23T12:04:11.386-04:00Mental Strength Do you get lots of daily reports from various ministries? I've narrowed my incoming e-mail newsletters down to two. I'm going to share one with you. These short but concise encouragements are easy to read and easy to grasp. I've thought so many times about posting them here and today is the day I could resist no longer. Those of you who know me, know I am a die-hard advocate of mental toughness.Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-69339250057061200382009-03-11T09:46:00.012-04:002009-03-11T10:37:47.034-04:00Comfort: Worship Song of the WeekThere are times in life when we turn to music for comfort. It will lead us to places in God we know we've been before and we know we want to go back to. Worship music is kind of like choosing the interstate to get with God instead of the backroads.Music is God's creation. I believe He designed it for a few reasons but one of them is to give His children a tool that directly connects our soul and Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-45642818306209507132009-03-08T16:09:00.006-04:002009-03-08T16:30:10.517-04:00Spring Garden WorkLet me start this off by saying I am not a big fan of yard work. However, I do love having an attractive yard, and my wife absolutely loves to garden and does an amazing job of making our yard beautiful. She has immersed herself in gardening books, magazines, and garden web sites since we bought our house. This winter was particular hard on our garden as we had a lot of hard freezes, many coming Nathan Talbothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040487367017510127noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-63697130015180852762009-02-27T09:11:00.005-05:002009-02-27T09:56:28.144-05:00Out of the Mouth of BabesLast night at the dinner table when I reminded my (just turned) 3 year old grandson that he could get down and play “after” he finished his dinner he had some words for me. Without hesitation he rattled off, “First you do what you don’t want to do then you get to do what you want to do.”To that I smiled with glee. If only every child was being taught this kind of character. If only every adult Meemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-371734443102841468.post-40355466044168983262009-02-21T00:58:00.006-05:002009-02-21T09:23:44.600-05:00To Know God Is To Experience GodThis story is continued from a previous post you can read here if you need the backstory.What followed were tears of repentance. Repentance for my selfish clambering and my own striving.“There is only one thing worth being concerned about… IT will not be taken away from me.”All at once those four words “one thing is needful” melted my heart and made me feel as if I was literally being held in theMeemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05461998581947056739noreply@blogger.com6