My Granny

she was the grandmother that I was around most growing up.  I miss her and hope she is dancing right now with Jesus, Joshua, and the other forbears who have gone before.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WwpDg5p58X2HV85b7

We all need a refresh of our heart by God.  Create in us a clean and new Heart O’ God!  Renew a right spirit within me.  in Jesus name, Amen

http://joshuahargrove.org/poems/

too quickly gone

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Psalm 51:10 ESV 

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

 

Things Haven’t Always Been This Way

 

taken from a Walter Williams article

excerpt….”

Prior to the 1960s, many public high schools had shooting clubs. In New York City, shooting clubs were started at Boys, Curtis, Commercial, Manual Training and Stuyvesant high schools.

Students carried their rifles to school on the subway and turned them over to their homeroom or gym teacher. Rifles were retrieved after school for target practice. In some rural areas across the nation, there was a long tradition of high school students hunting before classes and storing their rifles in the trunks of their cars, parked on school grounds, during the school day.  Today, any school principal permitting rifles clubs or allowing rifles on school grounds would be fired, possibly imprisoned. Here’s my question: Have .30-30 caliber Winchesters and .22 caliber rifles changed to become more violent? If indeed rifles have become more violent, what can be done to pacify them? Will rifle psychiatric counseling help to stop these weapons from committing gun violence? You say: “Williams, that’s lunacy! Guns are inanimate objects and as such cannot act.” You’re right. Only people can act. That means that we ought to abandon the phrase “gun violence” because guns cannot act and hence cannot be violent.”

 

Luke 6:45 ESV
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Truth and reality seems to be concepts which are no longer held as something we can know

Politicians pronounce that people can murder their newborn children and call it women’s health and a choice,

Tresspass is now called undocumented entry,  illegal immigration is called undocumented immigration

Politicians promise free stuff that is paid for by the evil rich,  the deadly sins of envy and greed are used to stir up votes and bribe the followers to vote for them.  This used to be called a bad thing to be avoided and also in most cases stealing

Anyone can decide to ignore their biology and pretend to be something else and too many people call it good and right and if you cannot celebrate this….you are labeled as evil.

Strange and troubling times

The Man of Lawlessness
…6And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7Forthe mystery of lawlessness is already at work,but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.…

June 22 2002 1250 am CDT

This is a personal time fracture that marks the life I thought we had..

1249am – we had a family of three,  we called it our little family   John and Leisa and Joshua.

1251am – We were still a family but Joshua was moved to paradise with Jesus in the blink of an eye.

Spiritual Wisdom
…8None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9Rather, as it is written: “No eyehas seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those wholove Him.” 10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.…

Each June 22,  leisa and I will remember,  THe Lord puts work before us to focus on so that most of the time it is past us before we realize exactly what time it is or sometime even what day it is.

June 22 2003,  we are busy building an prayer Labyrinth

Many of the June 22’s of the 17 years since June 2002,  we find ourselves working a Chrysalis weekend serving youth.  We cry a little and smile a lot.  We believe Joshua would be doing this if he were still here.

Another year passes,  another Mother’s day in May and now Father’s day in June.

Just remembering and honoring those who have passed before

Frances Doggett Smith May 3 2002, Leisa and Paula’s mom. https://photos.app.goo.gl/v1pqXTNNZ3xyyEcg8

Robert E Hargrove Sept 6 2013  https://photos.app.goo.gl/mBW4Usqr51mcB1HH9

Truman (https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z6Uf6aJHjWZjaiZX7) and Mozelle Richbourg (https://photos.app.goo.gl/5zLAwSokTwEEtMv56)  in April 1983 and October 2004.  My maternal Grandparents

James G and Mellie M Hargrove (https://photos.app.goo.gl/LDtEWhsyakYSE67Z7) in 1964 and August 1981, my paternal Grandparents.

They marked my life and helped write my story.  Good Memories and Good people.  They each in their own way helped me reconnect with Jesus.

and finally… as a proud father – Joshua Blake Hargrove,  you left this world too soon.  I am grateful for the time God gave us with you.  I will see you in heaven.  https://photos.app.goo.gl/FzDtivUB9myKKFYF6

if your father or son is with you, hug them or call them, let them know you care and love them.

Memories

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/tf7gH4s3YVXWP8FfA

Joshua Hargrove

A “Prayer Tip” from E. M. Bounds:

Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying. 

  While many private prayers, in the nature of things, must be short; while public prayers, as a rule, ought to be short and condensed; while there is ample room for and value put on ejaculatory prayer — yet in our private communions with God time is a feature essential to its value. Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying.  Prayer which is felt as a mighty force is the mediate or immediate product of much time spent with God.  Our short prayers owe their point and efficiency to the long ones that have preceded them. 

     The short prevailing prayer cannot be prayed by one who has not prevailed with God in a mightier struggle of long continuance.  Jacob’s victory of faith could not have been gained without that all-night wrestling.  God’s acquaintance is not made by pop calls.  God does not bestow his gifts on the casual or hasty comers and goers.  Much time with God alone is the secret of knowing him and of influence with him.  He yields to the persistency of a faith that knows him.  He bestows his richest gifts upon those who declare their desire for and appreciation of those gifts by the constancy as well as earnestness of their importunity.