'Kimmie Sue's "LIFE LESSONS"'

🖤🙋🏻 More oftentimes than not, upon leaving someone's presence, we assume that, we shall see him/her again, sometime, somewhere.  However, every now and then, our assumption, concerning him/her - with this, is, unfortunately, DEAD wrong! 💔😢😔 And NOW that, I am older and wiser, and, have had this realization, I try to remind myself of this - often, especially concerning people who tend to "get on my nerves!" 😉🤣...just kidding (sort of)!! 😉☺️ Anyway, many of my "loved ones" (great grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.), passed away whenever I was a young girl, and, all of their deaths saddened me (whenever I was old enough to know that, they had left us), however, it is as though, God, somehow, put a "kind of" " protective, guard or blanket" (if you will), around my young, mind and heart, as to soften the severity of DEATH. 🖤 I hope that, what I just expressed - makes sense! 🤣 It is difficult for me to put into written words, exactly, the...

✝️🇺🇸 Achieving and maintaining, a consistent, victorious, Christian lifestyle, in today's American society, is not an easy task, to say the least! 😐 And, being a saved, consistently Spirit-filled, prayer warrior, "Bible thumping," etc., Believer, does not give one immunity from temptation, trouble, tests, trials, etc., because, he/she, is not only going "against the grain" of society's mainstream, but, he/she, is also, affected by "spiritual warfare" being fought by unseen (to the mortal eye) forces, in the realm of the spiritual (Ephesians ch. 6) surrounding him/her! 👻 Thus, trying to avoid the intense "spiritual battling," which is happening around him/her, even a, strong and serious, warrior for Christ, sometimes chooses to "lay low," "hunkered down," and/or, completely hide and avoid, being a bold witness for Christ, so as to "fit in," be comfortable, avoid conflict, persecution, and the such. 🥊 And,...

💜👩🏻🐦🐧 "Goodness gracious sakes alive" (I hope that this is a real saying, and, means what I think that it means, because, I've been saying it as long as I can remember - 🤣), as I sit out here on the deck (in the back yard) this fine "overcast-skied" "morn'n," the BIRDS (multiple kinds) are - very - busy and noisy (Wednesday a.m.)! 😮 Observing them reminds me of whenever I observe the congregation at my church, before and after, services (tweet, tweet, tweet! 🗣👂🏼👀🙍🏻🙎🏻‍♂️😘😂)                    (1 Corinthians 15:39+40)! 🐧🐦👩🏻 (Thursday a.m.) Humm (? 🤔), the "birdies" must be "sleep'n in" this morning, because, they are as quiet as "church mice!" 🐀 I find it very cool that, the little devotional booklet that I was reading, as I spent time alone with 'The Lord' on Wednesday, was concerning how that "everyone should work," because, birds "seem" to be industrious, little c...

🏡☕️ As I sat on the deck Saturday morning, sipping on a cup of - strong, black, hot - coffee, praying, thinking, and enjoying, etc., the splendor of God's creation that surrounded me, "socializing" on social media - some, and the such, a small, WHITE FEATHER, 🕊 gently descended from above (off of one of our "feathered friends"), the contrasting of the white against the other colors, highlighted the feather brilliantly, with the gorgeous backdrop of today's, wedge-wood- blue shaded sky, and, the many hues of green on the trees! 🌲🌳 And, I sincerely believe that, it was one of God's "love-signals" about which I often write, due to the nature of the personal thoughts upon which I was pondering, at that exact moment. 🙌🏼 Whenever I was younger, I didn't appreciate God's goodness in this world, as much as I should have...things such as - the vivid colors in nature (flowers, birds, etc.), air with which to breathe, water to drink, and the...

🌊🏊🏼‍♀️ Have you ever swam out in the ocean, in extremely deep water ("spiritually speaking" here)?!  In this scenario of which I'm writing, your feet cannot touch the floor of the very deep ocean, while you're treading water, and, doing your very best to "stay afloat!" 😧🏊🏼‍♀️ You are trying to obey your "head coach's" (representing The Lord) instructions! 🙏🏼 Your partner has gone "AWOL," attempting to help someone who needed assistance with his surf board, 🏄🏼 which is NICE, but, NOT in obedience to the company's "lifeguard protocol!" 😗 YEP, you're a lifeguard...a "lifesaver," who needs her life "saved"..."at the moment!" 🏊🏼‍♀️ 😏 People tend to assume that the "lifesavers" are always okay!  However, sometimes that assumption is incorrect!  The truth is that "lifeguards" are just as "human" as everybody else! 🚣🏼‍♀️ Nobody realizes that, one of ...

👩🏻 As I was driving home from church this evening, my thoughts were racing...mostly concerning my "present tense" LOW level of self confidence. 😔 For so many years, I had an abundance of it, and, of course,  it was just one more "gift," which was taken for granted by "LIL OLE ME!" 😕 You can bet that, IF, I am ever allowed by God to be self confident again, I'll NOT take it for granted, and, I'll give HIM ALL of the glory and honor for it, and, for restoring it!! 😘☺️ For a long time, I really believed and assumed (with every fiber of my being) that, anything I desired to do...I was able to actually DO (without questioning myself about it).  As I continued driving, I asked myself (mentally) things - such as, when had most of my self confidence left me, why did I let it leave me, and the such (?).  I suppose that, with the passing of time, it gradually dissolved, like a cube of sugar does - whenever it's dropped into a cold glass of iced tea,...

💙🦋 The royal blue (of various hues) and black, ornate Butterfly, fluttered around me, that hot, humid, and sunny day, as if it were trying to deliver a "Heavenly message," which, I believe that "he/she" actually accomplished! 🦋 It was Tuesday - the day after 'Labor Day,' and, believe it - or not - the first time during the "Summer of 2018," that, I had enjoyed a "pool day!" 🌊🌞⛱ I had not even been out by the pool - the entire season (due to a very difficult "season" that I am experiencing in my life). 😕 Anyone who really knows me - knows that I love "the water," and, thoroughly enjoyed the pool - the first eight years we had it!  However, this and last, Summer - not so much! 😔 My family often called me a "water dawg" throughout my childhood (to highlight how unlike me it is to not enjoy a pool in my backyard)! 😏 Whenever, I was literally down there, and, in the lovely water, I couldn't believe it,...

👗💃🏻 Back in my "glory days," (referring to high school, and a few years after it - for this post), whenever - I was exuberantly enjoying many experiences of my youth, I had NO idea - THEN, that, many times, futuristically speaking - including - this present tense - "most difficult valley (personally) through which I have traveled - in my life season," that, reminiscing upon those "days of glory," would be so very helpful in - uplifting and encouraging - me! Who knew?! 🤷🏻‍♀️They really have lifted me up...OFTEN! 🙏🏼 This is yet, another "gift" to me - from God, for which I am grateful! 🙌🏼 The obvious example about which I am both, thinking and writing - today, as I watch my hometown's, annual, 'River Days Festival's,' parade, which has been held over 'Labor Day' weekend, for many years.  This post is concerning this festival, and, a couple other subjects, pertaining mostly to my h.s. days.🎡 My focus here is actuall...