Some Things I Questioned---While In The Garden

Sunday, 11 March 2007


Some Things I Questioned---While In The Garden


3rd Sunday of Lent / 70th Day of 2007 / 28th Day Till Easter Sunday 2007


"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16

The photo...is in "either" The Garden Tomb or in The Garden of Gethsemane in Israel.

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As I was in my "garden" of prayer last week, I thought about some things. Things that I questioned about my life... Here's just a few.... I will add my response later... Selah.

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What if I did not come to church for weeks? Would anyone notice or even care that I was not there? Selah


What if I stopped blogging for months? Would it make any difference or Am I making a difference by what I am sharing on my blog site? Selah


What if I cease doing some things that I normally did at times? Would anyone notice or have any concern to why I stopped doing what I use to do? Selah

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Father God, I thank You for Sunday, the first day of the week. A day in which we come together as a body of Christ to celebrate the VICTORY that Jesus defeated death, satan and sin. I thank You for those victories Lord! I thank You for this very day and every day of LIFE that we have in You. I thank You that You give us the gift of eternal LIFE through Your Son, Jesus Christ.

I thank You for the covenant blessings of WISDOM, ANOINTING and LIFE that You have given us who believe. I praise Your name. For You are the God of what LIFE is all about and is meant to be.... Victorious living in Jesus' Name.

Lord, HELP us to surrender our lives to You on a ongoing basis. Help us to surrender every area of our lives... yielding everything to You...our spirit, soul, body, our hopes, dreams, concerns, our finances, family, jobs, our abilities, talents, ministries, our joy, weakness, strengths, our pains, sorrows, shame, our past, present, future.

Teach is to open our hearts to You while we seek after You. Lead us to repent and to rethink our lives on a regular basis. Allow us to follow You and experience You in new ways that we have not seen before. Guide us to yield to the Holy Spirit. And help us to let go of our own ways. Create within us a new heart and a new spirit.


Grant us to pray with the heart of Jesus' model prayer...
Our Father in Heaven Hallowed be Your name.

Your kingdom come Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.


Amen.
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"A Bible on the shelf is worthless; a Bible being read is priceless." Bruce and Stan [I took this photo from my hotel balcony... early dawn in Tiberias while in Israel.]

Connected With Faris Lyle’s Family via Social Media

In Loving Memory of Sergeant Faris Chilton LYLE. ( 1923 – 2008)
He was the son of Chilton LYLES and Jennie (BARTLETT) BLAKLEY LYLES.

I was thinking about my Uncle Faris Chilton Lyle. He passed on February 1, 2008. He was my father David Blakley Sr.’s brother. Uncle Faris was my last uncle on my father’s side to pass.

I first reached out to Uncle Faris when I received his address from his sister Geneva (LYLE) JONES (1924 – 2005). She was Faris’ and my father’s sister. I wrote to Uncle Faris and we corresponded for some years. He lived in New York.

Lost Connections:
And there came the time, I didn’t hear from Uncle Faris. I started wondering. I didn’t know how to contact his relatives. I kept wondering.

Then one day, on November 13, 2008, Uncle Faris’ name came to my thinking. I started googling his name. I make the discovery that he passed.

Connected With The LYLE Family:
During this time, I added Uncle Faris to my post: In Remembrance of my relatives. He would be remembered twice a year. Then one day, I received a comment from one of Uncle Faris’ granddaughters on one of blogger’s site on August 4, 2011. How amazing! We connected on facebook where I came in contact with other LYLE family members.

The LYLE family knew little about Faris’ family. That he (and his sister Geneva) were put in an orphanage. I did locate them listed on the 1930 census at Northwestern Orphanage and Hospital Line 69-82 in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Their mother Jennie passed in December of 1926 when Faris was 3 and Geneva was 2 years old. I’m not for sure how long Faris and Geneva were in the orphanage. Their father Chilton was still living and perhaps was not able to care for them. I did locate Faris age 17 and Geneva age 16 were listed with their Blakley siblings, Mary and Orbrey on the at 1940 census.

Social Media Connections
I have used social media in the past to discover more on my family connections. I continue to come across more relative through the media. I found some of Aunt Geneva’s descendants via social media and DNA sites. I’m thankful for those who keep in touch.

Thanks for reading.
Connected With Faris Lyle’s Family via Social Media

Blessings
S.A.Blakley

Repost from my wordpress site 

Week 6 ~ Amy Johnson Crow #52Ancestors In 52 Weeks ~ Generation Café

The theme for Week 6 is “Social Media.” Social media can connect us to people we otherwise wouldn’t have encountered. Have you made a family history discovery via social media? (What about in the social column of their newspaper — that was basically their Facebook!) Have you ever imagined how an ancestor would have used social media? Write about it this week.

I added the in remembrance to this blog>
Here's are some examples: In Remembrance: 

February In Remembrance Dade Family Connections. 

February In Remembrance: Bartlett Family Connections

February In Remembrance Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections