Changed blog name today

Good morning on this last day of 2012!

Well, today I got up and knew I wanted to change my new blog's name.

"run to the Fountain" has, over the last couple of years, become a sort of recurring spiritual theme in my journey with the Lord; so, it seemed only right that this online journal should reflect that.

A little two-sided 4 1/4 X 4 1/4 greeting card I make with this theme:

Have a Blessed New Year!

Jayne

"Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never be thirsty forever."  John 4.14

March of 2011

March, 2011:

Little did I know how significant a gift from my niece, Debby, would be. Shingles were just  beginning when she gave me "One Thousand Gifts" by Ann Voskamp. I'll bet many of you have read (or at least heard of) this lovely book. I read it in late March and instantly began my journal of 1,000 things for which I'm thankful. I did not know (yet) the path God and I were beginning.

Some things I jotted down in my journal in the very beginning days of this affliction:

1. shed tears today (I never cry!)
2. doctor's visit
3. meds to help? (they didn't)
4. was able to sleep last night
5. ice cream
6. prayer from family
7. pain - it's enhancing my empathy for others (I have been a "you just need to handle it" kind of person for years - not good!)
8. good books
9. kind boss
10. sweet phone calls

This spiritual journey was just beginning, but I can look back and see that Jesus was pouring out grace and mercy on me every day.


December 30, 2012:

"You shall take delight in the LORD."  Isaiah 58.14

This verse has taken on deep meaning to me in this past two years! My journey has made a verse like this become REAL to me. Do you ever read a verse or hear a sermon or pray a prayer without thinking about what it REALLY means? Think about "take delight in the LORD."  What does that really mean? It is no small thing.  Think about it!

Blessings,
Jayne

Why this blog?

Hitherto hath the Lord helped . . .
1 Samuel 7.12


The word hitherto seems like a word pointing in the direction of the past. A few years or many years, and yet 'hitherto the Lord hath helped.'  Through good times or hard times, riches or unemployment, wellness or sickness, joy or affliction, we are told in Scripture that 'hitherto hath the Lord helped.'

But, the word also makes me know to look forward. As long as there is life 'hitherto the Lord helps' His own. More trials, more joys, more learning to do, more to share, more of Him to joy in! Until He calls me home 'hitherto He will be my help.'

2011 - March 11 - God was providentially about to change my life. 

Very ill Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Learned on Monday that it was shingles - yes, that condition you've been seeing commercials about on TV.  I had a wild and woolly case of the shingles followed by the post virus neuralgia condition (most people who have shingles don't have this post-condition).

It's now December 29, 2012, and the pain has never gone away.  Left side - center front to center back just above my waist - feels like fire burning and can't stand for cloths to touch my back (especially).  Just a very brief history of how my 'spiritual journey' began.

I'll be going to go back and forth (in time) here in this little blog and record the awesome blessings along with the rather stressful adventures the Lord and I have been on for the past 22 months.

God knows and He is always good.