Keep It Simple!

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I miss my MoMo (grandmother) and Aunt Emmer (great Aunt Emma) something terrible these days. I grew up on homemade biscuits and the Clanton radio station (Southern Gospel music), while staying at their homes. This was one of the 1st songs I remember learning and singing with my Aunt Emmer while the morning radio program came home, and she was cooking breakfast. It was a simpler time, but it was full of love and unshakable faith. I wouldn't bring them back for anything, especially with the mess we are in these days, but I know beyond a shadow of a doubt if they were still here they wouldn't be listening to the mumbo jumbo, they would be singing praises to the Lord and trusting Him every step of the way and leaning on that perfect peace God gives us. I'm thankful for God's continued peace throughout all of this, because I choose to only feed my mind with His word. I'm thankful for the simplicity of sitting down at a piano and singing a song unto God, and how He can still meet with me during this. For the peace He gives me when I do this. For the talent He's give me to do it. As a Christian, it matters what I speak during this, and what I allow to infiltrate my heart and mind. How God is still growing me through this even if I've been outside of a church building! I've been in that river of God; the one the prophet Ezekiel talked about and saw in his vision. No programs or organized services... just simplicity between God and I, knowing that His grace is still sufficient for me, knowing that the convicting power and comfort of the Holy Ghost is still with me. I know the Word of God tells us to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. I know I've also taught that means we have to be in church. But what about now, when things are still up in the air, or we become sick or shut ins? I was praying and talking to God about this last night. He reminded me how during this I wasn't forsaking that assembling together with those in like faith. I've had lots of fellowship and conversations with close friends throughout this. We've met together and we've talked about the goodness of God and our continued faith in Him. We've encouraged each other and praised Him. We've assembled together. Reminding me of how it must have been when Jesus assembled together with His disciples. That's what God's been teaching me through this, and it's been precious to Him and us! ♡ Also, I had a conversation with a dear pastor this week that has walked through a lot with my family and been by our side since I was in grade school. We were talking about all that was going on with the current church situation, and yet how God was reminding us both of this, "keep it simple". The need to get back to the basics. Not everyone gets it and that's okay. But I believe God has a purpose in all of this to hit the spiritual reset button for churches at large. I've been thinking about the simpler times in church and guess what it worked. That's the whole point of this song, it doesn't matter what you have or what you do with gimmicks or programs offered or your good works, if you don't have salvation (you aren't saved through Christ Jesus) nothing else matters. With that being said, I can't wait until I'm reunited with loved ones gone on before me again, and I dedicate this song in memory of my dear MoMo and Aunt Emmer!

Lyrics:
You may have a fancy car, A brand new house that shines by far, And you may live to be a hundred years old, But if you have not been saved, It all ends with the grave, But I want us to be together in Heaven.

Chorus:
I want us to be together in Heaven.
I want to walk down the streets of pure gold.
I want to run through the fields of green clover.
See the mansions, smell the flowers.
Hear the singing, it's all ours.
See the river gently flowing.
Feel the gentle breezes blowing.
I want us to be together in Heaven.

You may be a millionaire, Wearing clothes beyond compare, And you may have the best that money can buy, But if the blood is not applied, Then in Hell you'll lift your eyes, But I want us to be together in Heaven.

In Christ,
Kimberly McDaniel 

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