Love, marriage, revelation

There is nothing about this woman that I am not completely in love with. All efforts of life seam as a drop in comparison to her companionship. Life is good because God chose her for me, my Eve, my beginning. She will be the completing factor of my life as long as we shall both live and then on into eternity with Christ. The bitterest of life's trials were sweetened by her presence, and the best that life has to offer pales in the shadow of her. I have no thought, nor is it any effort that I should expose this admiration for her as it is as natural as breathing to me, it is as vital as my heart beating. Love is life and I have received of it's immeasurable abundance through her and I am "full."
Full of life, full of love, full of joy. Full forever.
She is my "help meet" in every sense of the word.
She is my life's companion, my adviser, my joy when I am down, my aid when I am burdened, the one who shares in my joy. We are inseparable in the flesh and when we are physically apart she is with me in heart. "Oneness" is the garment we wear, and we change it not. In the beginning it was a simple cloak, but over the years Love has bejeweled it to a rob of elegance. It fits us well, keeping us together by it's singularity but with enough room for us to grow within it's fabric. We live as one!
One purpose, one life, one God, one hope, one prayer, one person. Two body's united by God's design in marriage and one expression of Christ and His church. There is great freedom in this oneness as each plays a turn in the advancement of the other. Undying support, loving help, sincere heart for the betterment of the other. We are two oxen yoked together fitting the same field for harvest. A harvest to be seen by all of Love, joy, and peace in the Holy Spirit. Fruits acceptable to God and promising to this creation as needed nourishment, ripened in "it's time."
I could of hoped to learn all this for myself but God seen fit to give it to me as a revelation so that I wouldn't slow down the process of it's reception and placement. "In Him we live and move and have our being." In Him: His love, mercy, joy, peace, forgiveness, grace and long suffering, which is toward us the very example that He shows for us to "follow after." A marriage made in heaven by design of the Father of all creation. A marriage made heaven before the words "in the beginning" were ever spoke by the foreknowledge of  Our Father, set by His aforethought that we might Magnify His name and glorify His purpose in Christ.
Love never fails..............and this is what marriage is all about. He first Loved us and commands us to Love one another with the same passion. Marriage is the "proof" of that Love, both the Love of God and the showing it forth in the Love of man toward his wife. We are only made complete by Love. Love of God, Love by God, and Love for one another. This is true for Elise A. Cavasin​ and I. Of all the many things that marriage is supposed to reconcile the greatest of them is Love.
Love is proof that God exists because He first Loved. There is no "true" Love without God because Love as God (for God is Love) is eternal. It's practice transcends time and failure. If we love not then we know not God for God is Love. Our marriage has been nurtured on His Love by revelation in the heart (not head knowledge) so it's endurance is sure, timeless.
As the Lord lives, He will be the Love that binds this cord both now and in eternity.
I thank God for His most perfect Gift of Love and the command to "Follow Me."
Life is good because Love is real through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thank you Elise for "entering in" by saying yes all those years ago, and growing in grace and Love with me ever since.
Love
Moi

The gratefulness of Love and Longevity

We are thankful to have lived long enough, to not only realize, but to actually experience, (in my daily life), the true value of "Unconditional Love." How once it wraps it's arms around you you are bound by that Love to pass it on. "For the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit" is not just a verse to preach off of, but a promise to engage then promote. It has taught us that we are all on the path to "be conformed to His image and likeness" if we allow it, and seek it as if it's the desire of our hearts.
We know that many a reader of this page may not agree or have any inclination to follow this biblical practice. That's ok. Before 1981 we would not have thought that this is worth the effort it took to read. But, "I once was blind and now I see." By the grace, Love, and mercy of God His great love won us over, washed us of our sins and gave us hope of a new and better life. His promises has not failed us "ever" though we have failed Him and His promises many times.
Just know this.............no matter how you feel about all the subjects covered on this page, agree or disagree, we love you and will be there as much as God gives ability for you.
God is our "reality" and in Him "I live and move and have my being." Without Him we are and have nothing! Our lives have been a miracle since our first meeting (with Jesus) and Elise A. Cavasin, family, friends have all been part of that miracle. Those who will not embrace us because of differences ought to know that only your half of the hug is missing.
"Love never fails!"
Love
J&E in Tn

An act of faith = miracle.

I know that I write a lot on faith and miracles for today. God loves to "manifest" His glory to anyone who will ask according to His will. So here is the story of a miracle that happened in our family on Monday night 1/5/15. 

One of our daughters is pregnant and near full term. She was told that she had a "heart shaped" uterus which makes the baby lay horizontal as there is more room side to side for the baby to stretch out. The baby was breach when it should of been "head down" for birthing by this time. Over the course of the conversations I mentioned to her husband that he, being the father, should lay hands on her belly taking authority over him commanding him to turn the way he is supposed to be. This conversation was had on a couple of occasions so on Monday night he took the advise and laid hands on his wife and prayed that the baby should be obedient and turn. (If the baby didn't turn soon they would schedule a C-section, something that they would want to avoid.) 

That mere act of faith was honored by God and the baby turned. On Tues when our daughter went to the doctor he confirmed the change and the C-section was not necessary to be scheduled. 

Elise and I have experienced the same thing during our "childbearing" years. (Not that they ever end, looking at Abraham as an example.) We had several home births and one of them was in the breach position. Again, "pray without ceasing making your requests before God," I laid hands on Elise and took authority over the baby and commanded he change positions for a proper birth. Withing hours he did and we then could participate in a natural home birth.

Knowing God's outline for authority and implementing it through prayer should be a "basic instinct" for every believer concerning every situation. "We have not because we ask not." "Pray without ceasing", know Gods will by His word and ask in Jesus name and you will have what you ask for in accordance with His will.

The ramifications of what we reap when we don't do this are just unacceptable.

No matter what:

Pray first.

If that's not enough then fast and pray.

You can add to that weeping.

God will see your need and meet it.

He will glorify His name and manifest His glory.

You will be blessed.

Experience the power of your faith through prayer.

Encourage others to do so also.

Love 

J&E 

Being a child............

1 Corinthians 13:11-12
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now I see as through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even also as I am known."
The carnal view of this:
The ageless progression of the human application has always been slowed by the lack of desire to "grow up."
In times past the "need" to be committed and thought out about the very immediate future was non ignore-able. You either put your back to the plow for food or heat or any other "life necessity" or you suffered the consequences, you and your family. This has a great maturing effect on men and women who lived during those days. Life was short and hard but the general society was a more mature early on, again because life was short due to hardness.  
There wasn't much time to "stay a child."
Today with all our so called "advancements" that have made life easier (I am not against those advancements) as a society, with more time on our hands for relaxation, we have been allowed to "stay as children" as long as we want only as long as it doesn't crowd our need for "continuance."
The lack of the need for "growing up" has had a profound effect on our society especially in the area's of morals and roll models. It is a fact that when "moral values" start heading south so does commitment and ethics.
This is clearly shown in the number of divorces, diverse sexual freedoms, crime, and a higher expectation for our employers to put up with our immaturity in general. There are other areas but these are the ones that cover the most ground when expanded.
Is all of society like this? No "or we would of become as Sodom and Gomorrah." But enough of society has grasped this excuse to continue in "child likeness" to effect every facet of our lives. Just consider the effect of this "thinking as a child" has had on the performance of our gov't, public education, marriage, work ethics, and general moral practices we enforce by law today.
We have become so lopsided as a society that whoever disagrees with our ever increasing moral collapse we deem a "hate crime."
I am sure there will be a lot of argument here and different opinions on this topic but just remember this: most all our arguments against a moral background comes from the need to defend or own positions or practices. No one wants to really wants to hold the candle of Truth in our own closet of allowances.
I used to tell our children this: "The worst lie you can tell is the one that you tell yourself ............then believe." Most all our calamity comes from just that. Convincing ourselves, against our good conscience, to do that which we know is wrong defiantly.
If this is the roll model we are offering our children then we are reinforcing our rebellion to good moral character in them, and our reaping down the road will be 30, 60, or 100 fold.
Again not all people are like this, but the numbers are increasing in this practice daily. Again: look at our leaders, look at the condition for more and more allowances around us.
I could go on and on but that gets the picture across of "maturing out of childhood" and becoming a man of responsibility and commitment, to wife, children, work, governance, ect.
Now for the spiritual application of 1 Cor 13:11-12
The whole chapter is talking about True Love, Unconditional Love and certain gifts of the Holy Spirit given to believers. These verses come after a long litany of what Love is and how that Love needs to mature in us out of the "child" state into the Unconditional state. This is done when the "Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit" and we see "face to face" instead as "through a glass darkly" the redeeming Love of Christ.
We make the decision to mature in Christ and in His Love that we have received and pass it on to others. We will no longer "know in part" the Love of God but we will "know it even as we are known" in the reception of it. Love will become automatic to others even as it was  thus given to us. It will mature pass the child stage from being a decision to an instant reality.
Lets face it our spiritual maturity produces our carnal actions. Becoming spiritually mature will influence our family's, our gov't, our marriages, in fact all of society. It will bring moral cognizance to a higher level and in time alleviate much of the moral dissidence we have as a society today. The more people who "grow up" and "become a man", putting childish things away, the more our society will rise up and bless all of its participants.
Remember that whatever you see going on around you is a direct representation of  the moral condition of man that makes up that society.
True morality is only found in the One that never changes: Jesus Christ. When more Christians start maturing in the faith and leaving childhood there will be a greater influence for good on our society and the maturing thereof.
For every question Christ is the answer.
For every problem Christ is the solution.
Christ is God and God is Love.
Love is the answer.
Let us put aside childish things and Love one another "face to face."
love
J&E in Tn

God is..........

I believe in Love:
I believe that Love never fails.
I believe that Love heals.
I believe that Love covers a multitude of sin.
I believe that Love cares.
I believe that Love is kind.
I believe that Love gives purpose.
I believe that Love promotes hope.
I believe that Love is Life.
I believe that Love is all these things because:
"God is Love."
"God is good."
"God cannot fail."
"God cannot change."
"God does not withhold His promises."
"God will not leave or forsake us."
"God our Father is attentive to our needs."
"God "completes" us."
We invite defeat in our lives when this list is not enough to satisfy our longings.
I believe that my Heavenly Father "is" the answer to all my questions, and the solution to all my problems.
Of all that I have need of, my greatest need is more of Him.
I must decrease, He must increase.
If He is the "way, the truth and the life":
Than I am the "traveler, the seeker, and the one embraces."
Because "all things are possible in Him", then He can conform me to His image and likeness as I walk this vale.
My mission is to do the things that He did and greater because He has gone to the Father and promises to answer prayer in accordance with His will, to glorify His Father in Heaven.
My life is valuable to Him, me and others equally to His "filling" and using me.
Consider the above truths
Walk in Love.
J&E

What to love

God do I love life.
Thanks you Jesus for life and that more abundantly.
The love of God and the love of life go hand in hand.
What is there left to love if God has not provided it?
Savior, life, wife, family, friends, benefits, are all a gift from God.
Love those things you have been given, not those things you want.
Love
J&E in Tn

Waking up

If you wake up this morning then know:
You have been given another one of Gods gifts, another day.
I you wake up today joyful:
You have been given another one of the blessings God bestows on us.
If you wake up next to the one you love:
You have been given one of Gods many examples of His love.
If you wake up in a home with a car:
You have received "above and beyond" His promises.
And if you wake up with hope for the day:
You have gained grace in your heart for the purpose of service.

So what's the best part of waking up?
Waking up!

Love
J&E in Tn