Abba Father/Juliana Day

When I first started blogging, it was because Facebook did not give me the room I needed to say everything I had in my heart to say.  My mother had just been through a very serious surgery, and the success of it meant literal life or death for her.  God brought her through it just as faithfully and victoriously as I knew He would and it elated me!  I was literally "spiritually" high as we came home from the hospital ahead of schedule.  In fact, she did everything ahead of schedule.  All I could think about is how I wanted the world to know just how good God had been to my family and me.  I wanted the world to know that He is real and will show Himself real on your behalf, if you will only believe Him, too!  I wanted to shout from the rooftops, "The Bible is true and God loves you!  He wants to help you and He will just like He did for us if you will only believe Him!"  As I laid in bed late one night, unable to sleep and feeling like I was going to burst with gratitude, I went into my living room and grabbed my laptop.  I googled "where do you go to blog?" and this site was at the top of the list.  After I finally figured it all out I couldn't type fast enough!  The words just poured out of my heart, like when a dam breaks and a river gushes forth!  I didn't know at the time that this particular "blog spot" has all kinds of neat little contraptions.  It sends my blog out internationally.  I have readers in Russia, Germany, Greece, Australia, and the United States.  In one month, the blog has been read over 960 times!  Praise God, because that is what it is about....giving glory to God!   It lets me see where the readers are, how many "hits" each blog gets, but of course it doesn't give the name of who reads it.  One day I went to my "stats" and noticed on a couple of the blogs the number of hits had greatly declined.  I was disappointed and then God spoke to my heart,  "I thought this was "our" thing."  I have never heard God put anything like that before.  He reminded me of something I used to do with my children when they were younger.  My children are grown now and they are very close in age.  They are two years and five months apart to be exact.  Of course, if you have children you know how demanding of your time a baby can be.  I began to feel sorry for my son in the fact I did not have the time to spend with him that I had before.  I decided on one day out of every two weeks, we would have a Mama/Cody day.  I would get a sitter for my daughter and on that day he got to choose what we would do.  It may have been pizza and a movie, or cheeseburgers and playing in a "jungle gym".  It was his choice and what was important was that I gave him my wholehearted, special, undivided attention that day.  That day we had "our" time.  It is the same with God and me.  This blog is about Abba Father/Juliana time.  It is not about how many readers are reading and from how many nations they are reading from!  Praise God if this blog blesses you in any way at all, but this blog is about what God wants to say to and through me.  It isn't about, "Will this make me rich and famous someday??".  I can certainly tell you it will not...it is free if that tells you anything!  But, it was never meant to be that.  Focus is such an important aspect of life.  My focus must remain on God and me, not God and everything and everyone else!  This blog has caused me to "tune in" to the voice of God more and tune the world out less.  It has given me a boldness to speak what the truth is about situations, when in life I probably would have backed down.  It has been therapeutic for me.  It has literally given me a release!  I have no critics, for I have no audience.  It is just me in my pajamas in my cozy living room with my malshi  puppy sleeping peacefully beside me and most importantly God within me.  God knew I needed it this way.  To tap into something much greater than myself and to stretch me in the process.  Whether there are a thousand readers or zero is not the goal of this blog.  The goal is to have time with my Father God and pray that someone else can glean from it along the way as well!  I do appreciate the readers, don't get me wrong!  To know that countries that didn't have the freedom to know Christ can now freely read about Him and practice their faith in Him exhilarates me!  I love you all for you are my brothers and sisters in Christ and one day I will get to know and see you face to face.  In the meantime, I will continue to "tune in" to my Father and "tune out" the world for this hour or so.  In so doing, I will be built up in my "most holy faith".  I will love my "Father/Juliana" time.  Oh, what a blessing to know He wants that time with me as much as I do with Him!  You are no different, my friend!  God wants Abba Father time with you!  You are the apple of His eye!  Be aware of His presence, for He never leaves you.  Listen closely, for He has much to tell you!  But, more than anything else remember just how much He loves you!  Blessings to you, my precious friends!