Playing catch up

So the weekend was a good one and I was just so busy with yard sale preparation and cooking for the newest LaFalce baby that I just didn't take the time to keep up with my blog. This was a great weekend though. Saw the lowest number on the scale this far! But it was short lived. So here we go playing catch up!

Saturday 2 Samuel 2:09 -  ⁹ He made him king over Gilead, Ashuri and Jezreel, and also over Ephraim, Benjamin and all Israel- So this is the verse where David becomes King.  Not sure that I would ever want to be King! That seems so hard! I of course would try but I don't think I would be that great at it..LOL  David was the most influential King next to Jesus in the Bible-although it looks like he only served 7 1/2 years.


Sunday- 1 Kings 2:08- ⁸ “And remember, you have with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, who called down bitter curses on me the day I went to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will not put you to death by the sword.’ So this was all said by David as he was dying to his son Solomon. I like the beginning part of this chapter and wish it had been my verse- When David’s time to die approached, he charged his son Solomon, saying, “I’m about to go the way of all the earth, but you—be strong; show what you’re made of! Do what God tells you. Walk in the paths he shows you: Follow the life-map absolutely, keep an eye out for the signposts, his course for life set out in the revelation to Moses; then you’ll get on well in whatever you do and wherever you go.




Monday - 2 Kings 2:09-
⁹ When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”
Elisha said, “Your life repeated in my life. I want to be a holy man just like you.”
¹⁰ “That’s a hard one!” said Elijah. “But if you’re watching when I’m taken from you, you’ll get what you’ve asked for. But only if you’re watching.”
^11-14 And so it happened. They were walking along and talking. Suddenly a chariot and horses of fire came between them and Elijah went up in a whirlwind to heaven. Elisha saw it all and shouted, “My father, my father! You—the chariot and cavalry of Israel!” When he could no longer see anything, he grabbed his robe and ripped it to pieces. Then he picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him, returned to the shore of the Jordan, and stood there. He took Elijah’s cloak—all that was left of Elijah!—and hit the river with it, saying, “Now where is the God of Elijah? Where is he?”
When he struck the water, the river divided and Elisha walked through.So that is a pretty powerful verse. What would it have been like to see the chariot and all of the clouds and smoke as Elijah went up to heaven.

It isn't like that in real life. I was by my papaws bed when he passed and he just kind of went to sleep. Same with Joe. As I said yesterday that whole situation has been very bittersweet but I am glad I got the time that I did and met the family that I have out of that situation. Definitely a God moving story if I ever heard one!