Brown's Daily Word 10/21/14

Praise the Lord for this good day, indeed a gift from the Lord.  A couple from Orissa , India who are in the States currently are coming to visit us for few days.  The man is a pastor  and his wife is a school administrator.  The pastor was my contemporary, just a few years younger than me, and his wife's father was my Sunday school teacher and also my sixth grade teacher.  He instilled in me a love for math and geography.  He was also a local preacher who blessed my life as a young boy growing up.  Praise the Lord for the way He surrounds us with His unfailing love and abundant grace.  Praise the Lord for the way He places His people in our lives as His gift indeed. 

    We picked some peppers squash and pumpkins from  our kitchen garden yesterday.  There were many butternut squash, a few buttercup squash, and 2 varieties of pumpkin.  Praise the Lord for His bountiful harvest.

    I love the passage from Psalm 65: 

             You visit the earth and water it,
             You greatly enrich it;
             The river of God is full of water;
             You provide their grain,
             For so You have prepared it.
             You water its ridges abundantly,
             You settle its furrows;
             You make it soft with showers,
             You bless its growth.

             You crown the year with Your goodness,
             And Your paths drip with abundance.
             They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
             And the little hills rejoice on every side.
            The pastures are clothed with flocks;
            The valleys also are covered with grain;
            They shout for joy, they also sing.

    Praise the Lord for abundant harvest all around us.  It is harvest time in America.  Praise the Lord for the way He blesses His people with abundance.  George Herbert said, "Lord you have given us so much.  Give us one more thing -  give us a grateful heart".  As a young boy growing up in Orissa, India my brothers and I went fishing.  There were times when we got lots of fish, mostly catfish.  There are times we got some crabs.  It was all good.  New York state is full of lakes, rivers and rivulets, ponds, and reservoirs.  We are blessed with fresh water fish.  Some of our friends are avid fishermen.  It is the salmon season.  There is a river not far from us where people fish for salmon.  This is an annual event.  One of my  brother's friends gave him 7 salmons.  I love the number 7.  They were caught from the local rivers.  My brother gave me two salmons, each weighing over 35 pounds.  I was as delighted as a little boy.  My brother reminded me how our lord Jesus  fed over 5 thousand men  with fish.  During His pos- Resurrection appearance he prepared  breakfast for his hungry, tired, and depressed disciples.  It was a hot breakfast that included "broiled fish".  Again, our Lord , the Lord of the Harvest crowns the year with His grace and Goodness.  He makes the hills, pastures, fields, lakes, and rivers drip with His abundance. The pastures are clothed with flocks;The valleys also are covered with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.

In Christ,

 Brown

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