ENTERING THE DOOR

ENTERING THE DOOR 

Author - Blogger - Grandmother

LILACLADY JUNEBUG2

1935  -  I was two years old.

Located in Boston, MASSACHUSETTS

I was a born explorer.

Mother, Dad and I were in 

one of these apartments, and 

Dad was gone working,

and Mother would be busy.

She did "extra" work for 

other people in the apartments

by cleaning.

While she did that,

I got to explore.

Upstairs, downstairs

and if a door

was not open,

I would pass by.

But if a door was open,

I would look, 

and smile,

and 

say 

HELLO. 

It seemed the folk I met

were all kind,

all curiously special,

and 

different.

Not one was the same.

I would go back to Mother,

and she would say,

where did you go?

Did you stay where I said?

I said "Yes" 

And then I would tell her 

where I had gone.

The Brownstone Apartments have had a fine grand history. 

I understand that when they were first built, rich people lived there.

Then, little by little, the apartments were divided up and

became smaller units which were rented out.

BROWNSTONE APARTMENTS STILL THERE

THIS WAS ME, JUNE ESTELLE

 at 3 years  in the summer of 1936  

YOU CAN "ENTER THE DOOR OF THE PAST" BY

GOING TO THE WEBSITE HERE 

ADAMS, MA

Later on when I got older 

I would stay in this house 

for a few days.  Grandfather fixed 

a room in the attic for me to stay.

I could see the street light from the room.

At 8 years of age, I enjoyed it.  

HERE  I AM IN GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN 

THE SUMMER OF 1935.

I THOUGHT I WAS A BIG GIRL.

THERE ARE MANY DOORS TODAY

AND NOW I AM NOT A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE

BUT I STILL LIKE EXPLORING

I DO IT WITH MY BIBLE 

I DO IT WITH MY COMPUTER.

I DO IT WITH MY HEART AND SOUL
READY TO 

SHARE MY FAITH 

IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

EXPLORE IN THE BERKSHIRES - PITTSFIELD MA 

HOW I REMEMBER GRANDMOTHER
TAKING ME TO THE LIBRARY.

I DID NOT GO MANY TIMES

BUT WHEN I DID I EXPLORED.
I POURED OVER THE BOOKS

I REMEMBER ONE DAY,
I DISCOVERED THE BOOKS
IN THE UPSTAIRS

I ASKED THE LIBRARIAN,
"CAN I LOOK AT BOOKS IN THE ADULT SECTION"

YES, SHE SAID, IF YOU CAN READ THEM.

I REMEMBER BEING ABLE
TO READ
AT AGE 9  JUST ABOUT
ANYTHING I COULD GET MY
HANDS ON.

here is a map showing 
the PEACE PORTAL DRIVE 
that runs from BC Canada on 
the border to Blaine and Birch Bay WA.

BIRD WATCHING IN BLAINE, BIRCH BAY WA 

HERE WE SEE BIRDS VISITING MY YARD.
PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE U S A TO SEE THESE BIRDS
HOW SPECIAL TO HAVE THEM.

SO YOU SEE,  AT 85   I CAN NOT EXPLORE
PLACES MUCH ANY MORE, BUT
I CAN DO WHAT I CAN DO
AS I AM ABLE
FOR AS LONG AS I AM ABLE
GOD HELPING ME.

PHILIPPIANS 4.13
I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST,
WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME.

ENTER YOUR DOOR !

BOOKS

E - BOOKS 
HARD COVER BOOKS
MAPS
ATLAS
VIDEO TOURS ON U TUBE
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
EXPLORE !

ON MY BLOG I HAVE LISTED 
MANY LINKS



ANOTHER WAY TO EXPLORE BIRCH BAY AND BLAINE
IS TO GO TO THE WEB SITE

TRIP ADVISOR - SEMIAHMOO RESORT 

When I was a little girl exploring
in the Brownstone Apartments
It was amazing.   Mother  worked cleaning in many
 of the people's apartments, and so I got to go with her as she cleaned.
  People got to know me, and never
 did I ever get scolded for it.  

TODAY WE COULD NOT DO THAT.
WE LIVE IN A DIFFERENT WORLD THAN YESTERDAY.
TIMES ARE FASTER.
DIFFICULTIES LAY ALL ABOUT  US.
LIFE IS NOT EASY ANY MORE THAN IT WAS THEN,
BUT PEOPLE ARE NOT AS TRUSTING
AS THEY USED TO BE.

CHILDREN ARE AT RISK.
TODAY'S CHILDREN - MAYBE SOME OF YOU -
ARE AWARE THAT DANGER IS ALL AROUND US.

JESUS IS THE DOOR
TO HEAVEN.

JESUS IS THE DOOR
FOR THE SHEEP.

HERE ARE MY LAMB AND MY WINNIE THE POOH BEAR
LOOKING OUT FOR ME

NOW JESUS SAID HE WAS THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.

THAT MEANS
as a shepherd sits in the doorway
of an enclosure 
so that nothing can get to the sheep
or any of the sheep go out
He BLOCKS THE WAY

THIS GIVES 
SAFETY 
PROTECTION
AND 
SHIELDING.

Somehow, as a child,
 I knew that SOMEONE
 WAS WATCHING OVER ME.  
  I DID NOT KNOW WHO,
BUT I DECIDED AS A LITTLE GIRL 
I WANTED TO KNOW WHO
IT WAS.

MOTHER TOLD ME,
JUNE,  WHEN YOU GROW UP,
AND FIND OUT WHO GOD IS, THEN I WANT
YOU TO COME AND TELL ME,
AND THEN I WILL BELIEVE TOO.

this was my Mother with her Mother
back when she was little like me,
and must have about three in this picture.
It was 1918.    Her birthday was in April.

This was my Mother with her Father -
 my grandfather  Forrest Raymond Carpenter
It was about when she was 6 or 7.
It was 1921 or 1922 in this photo.

MOTHER WAS A RED HEAD
SO AM I

ALTHOUGH MY HAIR IS NOT AS RED AS IT WAS

AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT THIS WAS IN 1910
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER AND HIS WIFE
LUTHER WILBUR BREWER AND
VIDA MAY (INGALLS)
PLAYING CROQUET ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
AT YORK BEACH, MAINE

NOW LET ME SEE.
HOW DO I SHARE WITH YOU
THAT MY GREAT GRANDDAD WAS
ALSO A RED HEAD

HE WAS A LEATHER TANNER WHO
WORKED ON HORSE EQUIPMENT IN LEATHER
AND ON THE CARRIAGES THEY PULLED...
HE WAS AN OLD TIME METHODIST
DEACON
ONE WHO REALLY BELIEVED HIS BIBLE.

THEY WERE A PART OF MY
MOTHER'S LIFE.

BECAUSE OF THEIR INFLUENCE
SHE LONGED TO BE "CHRISTIAN"
BUT DID NOT KNOW FOR SURE
HOW THAT WAS.

SO SHE STRUGGLED.

HERE SHE WAS TELLING ME
I HAD A JOB TO FIND OUT
WHO GOD WAS OR IS
AND THEN TELL HER.

THIS WAS MY MOTHER MANY YEARS LATER,

WHILE SHE LIVED IN LOS ANGELES CALIF.

SHE ALWAYS WAS MY BEST FRIEND.

SHE TAUGHT ME A LOT.

SHE TALKED WITH ME.

SHE UNDERSTOOD ME.

WHEN I WAS 24 - SHE WAS GOING A HARD TIME

AND CAME TO ME ASKING ABOUT GOD.

AND I WAS READY.   YEARS BEFORE, SHE HAD

HAD TOLD, IF I EVER FOUND GOD, TO 

SHARE IT WITH HER.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SHE WAS

READY TO LISTEN.

AND THAT NIGHT SHE GAVE HER HEART TO

THE LORD JESUS

AS BEING THE ONLY DOOR

TO THE SHEEPFOLD.

HE IS THE SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP. 

After that time we were very close.

This is what we both looked like 

when she asked Jesus to be

her Savior, and

knew without 

a doubt 

that she was a child of God.

ROMANS 3.23.

FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT

OF THE GLORY OF GOD.

ROMANS 6.23

FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE 

GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUFH

JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.

JOHN 3. 14 - 18 

AS MOSES LIFTED UP THE SERPENT 

IN THE WILDERNESS,

EVEN SO  MUST THE SON OF MAN

BE LIFTED UP THAT WHOSOEVER

BELIEVETH IN HIM 

SHOULD NOT PERISH

BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN

SON THAT WHOSOEVER 

BELIEVETH IN HIM

SHOULD NOT PERISH 

BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

JOHN 3.3

VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, YE MUST 

BE BORN AGAIN.

JOHN 14.6 

I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE

NO MAN COMETH UNTO THE FATHER

BUT BY ME

It is Jesus who declared and stated all the 

verses you see here in this post.   He claimed

to be the WAY....the DOOR … for the 

Sheep to enter in.

HE SAID IN JOHN 10.7

"VERILY, VERILY,

I SAY UNTO YOU,

I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.

Again, John 10.9 

I am the door: by me if any man

enter in, he shall be saved,

and shall go in and out,

and find pasture. 

JESUS SAID THAT.

I BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAID HE WAS.

SO THE DOOR IS THERE.

HE WAITS FOR THOSE WHO

WILL COME 

AND ENTER

YOU WILL NEVER REGRET IT.

ONCE YOU MAKE THAT STEP 

TO ENTER,

YOU BECOME PART OF THE FAMILY.

THE SHEEP AND THE SHEPHERD 

BELONG TOGETHER.

SOMEDAY 

WE WILL BE TOGETHER.

UNTIL THEN,

WE ARE TAUGHT BY JESUS

THAT WE BELONG TO HIS FAMILY

AS HIS BROTHER, AND SISTER

AND MOTHER.

SO WE OUGHT TO BE 

AWARE THAT THE LOCAL 

CHURCH IS WHERE I START

TO LEARN TO LOVE HIM MORE

BY LOVING HIS PEOPLE.

When he asked the disciples 

WHOM DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? 

PETER ANSWERED AND SAID, 

THOU ART THE CHRIST,

THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.

JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 

BLESSED ART THOU, SIMON PETER, FOR 

FLESH AND BLOOD HATH NOT REVEALED THIS

TO YOU, BUT MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.

HE WENT ON TO SAY THIS: 

THOU ART PETER AND ON THIS ROCK - I 

WILL BUILD MY CHURCH -  AND THE GATES

OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.

WELL MY FRIENDS,

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT IS 

REAL IMPORTANT.

JESUS THEN  BEGINS TO 

TELL THEM SOMETHING …

PAY ATTENTION FRIENDS 

FOR THIS MEANS WHAT JESUS

MEANT BY THE ROCK ON WHICH

HE WOULD BUILD HIS CHURCH.

IT WAS THEN

MATTHEW 16. V. 21 

FROM THIS TIME FORTH BEGAN JESUS TO SHEW 

UNTO HIS DISCIPLES HOW THAT HE MUST GO 

UNTO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY THINGS OF 

THE ELDERS AND THE SCRIBES, 

AND BE KILLED 

AND BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY....

VERSE 22 TELLS US 

THE ROCK WAS THE STATEMENT 

PETER MADE IN FAITH
BELIEVING
THIS:
THOU ART THE CHRIST
THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.

JESUS WANTS US 

TO KNOW WHO HE IS

AND TO STAND ON IT.

IT IS THE ROCK OF OUR FAITH

JESUS IS THE MESSIAH (THE CHRIST) 

THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.

HE IS ALONE THE WORD 

OF GOD

HE IS GOD 

WITHOUT HIM, WE CANNOT SEE THE FATHER.

WITHOUT HIM, WE CANNOT SEE LIGHT,

FOR HE IS THE LIGHT.

GOD IS LIGHT 

AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.

JESUS SAID 

JOHN 8.12

I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD; HE THAT 

FOLLOWETH ME SHALL NOT WALK IN

DARKNESS BUT SHALL HAVE THE

LIGHT OF LIFE. 

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.

I WILL POST EVERY WEEK 

AS I AM ABLE

THANK YOU 

LILACLADYJUNEBUG2

BUT MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL YOUR NEED
ACCORDING TO HIS RICHES IN GLORY
BY CHRIST JESUS
PHILIPPIANS 4.19   

FORGETTING THE PAST LILACLADY JUNEBUG2

IT IS NOT WHERE I HAVE BEEN,
BUT WHERE I AM GOING THAT MATTERS MOST

by HENRY'S JUNE THE TUNE
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BIBLEBUFFJOURNAL

By William Henry Cash Jr   Feb. 11,1968

SERMON:   FORGETTING THE PAST

TEXT :    Philippians 3.8 14

INTRODUCTION:   In this text Paul gives the secret for becoming a dedicated, victorious Christian.    We are to forget the things that are behind; make an earnest effort and endeavor  to reach for the things that are before;  and a strenuous concentration;  set our eyes on the perfect goal – Jesus Christ.       Philippians 3.13 – 14 .    Let us think about one of the most difficult things that is hindering the spiritual growth of many Christians – the matter of forgetting the past.

There are some things that God wants us to remember: 

Deuteronomy 8.2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or no.

Psalm 103.2   Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Ecclesiastes 12.1  Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth”

   People forget things that they should remember, such as borrowed books, money, debts, kindness, gracious deeds.    There are other things that people remember that they should forget:  we should forget those things that may hinder our progress by their constant remembrance.  

PROPOSITION:  WE SHALL CONSIDER SEVEN THINGS THAT WE SHOULD LEAVE BEHIND.

I.              PAST BLESSING. 

We should bid farewell to past blessing when we make them the ground of present confidence and self-satisfaction.   Past blessings should be remembered only as an inspiration to strive for better blessings.    We must constantly be bearing fruit in the Spirit instead of resting “on the good old days”.

II.                  PAST ADVANTAGES

Many people hide behind their godly home or parentage of Christians who truly loved the Lord.    However, having Christian parents’ is no guarantee that the children will become Christlike and live a dedicated life.

III.            PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS

We often sing with praise of our Christian heritage and the brave martyrs.    What the heroes of the faith suffered will be of no avail or use to us unless we are willing to enter into their labors. 

IV.          PAST EXPERIENCES  

Paul could have gloried in what he accomplished and suffered for his Christian faith.    But Paul’s only glory was in the ever-present power of the crucified  and resurrected Christ.     God gave Paul a thorn in the flesh so that he would ever be in his conscience to glory in Christ instead  of what his own accomplishment was.    

Peter wanted to stay on the Mount of Transfiguration.     God told him “This is my beloved Son. Hear ye him.”   We are to put our eyes upon Jesus, and on what Christ is able to accomplish through us today.

V.              SORROWS.

There are some agonies that we cannot forget.  

-       The nail is removed – but the scar is still there.      Time is able to heal many heartaches.   We must let Christ fill the empty place in our grief, disappointment, or heartaches.    Many people are unwilling to bury the hatchet, or take the chip off his shoulder.      Past tears are sanctified when they become a telescope , bringing us a clearer vision of Christ who wept for us.  

    VI       PAST DISAGREEMENTS.

                Spiritual progress is being hindered by past ill will, divisions among friends, misunderstanding, jealousy, prejudice, etc.      We must remove these roots of bitterness if we are to live a happy Christian life.  

VI.           PAST SINS               

Many people dwell on the past pages of their life that is stained by sins.   If we have received divine forgiveness, we should rest assured that our sins have been covered by the blood of Christ.    Satan will seek always to hinder our progress by reminding us of our former sins.    Past sins should keep us humble. 

CONCLUSION

WE MUST CLOSE THE GATE

There are gates to homes, farms, pastures, cemetery  gate in Arkansas, a gate to keep a big dog in a certain part of the house or yard.This was the gate to our home for many years. 

We must close the past gates, and look ahead.

LET US CLOSE THE GATES OF THE PAST

   Paul persecuted Christians.

   He depended at that time on the righteousness of the Law.  He realized that he had not yet arrived nor become perfect, but he left his past behind.      Let us do the same, forgetting the past mistakes and failures, and go forth.

LET US OPEN THE GATES OF THE FUTURE

     As Paul desired to know Christ, and looked forward to the wonderful Day of Resurrection, he looked for the things ahead, and pressed on knowing the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  

As I walked along Peace Portal Drive, I took this photo of 
Drayton Harbor.     Many people running take in the view 
as they prepare physically for marathons.    I would like to think that we are looking forward to that Day when we see the Lord God.   He wants us to open the gates of the future.