Our 40th wedding anniversary

 Yesterday was the third happiest day of my life!!

The first was in June of 1969 when I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior.

The second was October 10, 1980 when I became Mrs. Robert Bornemann.

Yesterday was the third, which was our 40th wedding anniversary, and it was an immense blessing!

First we slept until 10:00; showered; and headed for Napoleon. We ate lunch at THE WHITE MAID and took off for Eureka to quote Robert, "Check out where it all began."

We drove into the farm where we once milked 120 Holsteins then found Robert's brother's secret get away and visited with them there.

Next we drove to Eureka and headed for the United Methodist Church. Once inside, Robert and I stood at the alter and looked at each other. His quick wit came up with the words, "I suppose we could say 'We DID!'" So we did.

We walked down the aisle together and he took this photo of us 40 years after we first said "I DO!"

Next we went to Lake Eureka and I splashed in the water and talked about taking swimming lessons there as a child.

We drove all around town and talked about the places we'd gone to during our first 8 years of marriage living there.

We were delighted to see that my parent's home has been added on to!! They built a walk-out deck from the living room and are adding another stall to the garage. I was so happy to see "MY HOUSE!" in such good hands!

Then we drove down to Dad's farm and drove through the cemetery pausing by their tombstone.

Next we headed North again driving by Artas; Zeeland; the big cross; Hague; Hazelton; Moffit; Sterling; and finally arrived in Bismarck.

We went to our very favorite of favorite places to eat--the Ground Round!

After a fabulous meal there, we headed to DAKOTA STAGE THEATRE! It was the last night of the musical "Nine to Five" and we laughed and laughed. It's been a long time since I've been to a play with my sweetie and we enjoyed it immensely!

Heading for home about 10:30, we arrived back before midnight. We told Jacob all about our adventures over a slice of cheesecake and a few caramels. I didn't want it to ever end but, boy, was I tired.

As I crawled in bed beside the same man I've slept with for 40 years, I thanked God for His MANY blessings to us over the years including Cora, Andrew, and Jacob and all of our Heavenly children. Then my mind went to our grandchildren--Elsie, Timothy, Christina, and Josiah. As I held Robert close, I wondered at how God had taken our love and blessed the world with such brilliant people!!

God did it all!!

God gave Robert and I life! He brought us together and stirred up our love for each other. God has sustained us and preserved us upon the Earth through countless trials, turmoils, and heartaches!

Only God made marriage and only God sustains it! Blessed be the name of the Lord who has blessed this girl from Eureka, brought me my boy from Center, and given us a life together now on our farm near Kintyre! BLESSED BE THE ONE WHO HAS BLESSED ROBERT AND I IN IMMESURABLE WAYS!!

In agreement with the well wishes we've received, "May HE give us many more happy years together!

Thank you, dear readers, for all of the prayer support you have blessed us with over the years. We couldn't have made it without all of you!!

One happy wife,

Dawn

PS I was wearing the pearl and diamond necklace that Robert gave me on our wedding day. As you might imagine, I only wear it for VERY special occasions!

PPS.  Down below you can listen to the song that my brother sang at our wedding 40 years ago.  As I look at this photo, I can almost hear Rick singing, "God, A Woman, and A Man!"

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THEY'RE MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 It's an amazing world we live in!  One week ago I gained a new sister-in-law!  I suppose that's not terribly unusual but she was in the Philippines and my brother, Russell, was in Sydney, Montana!!!!  They were 16,000 miles apart but still are man and wife today!

 I couldn't be happier for my brother!  He is so in love.  Not only did he get a new wife, after 6 years of widower-hood, he is getting a new daughter too!  You can meet them both in this video.

 Russell and Jenny had to cancel their wedding TWICE this year due to COVID 19.  The second time he was totally devastated.  Then they started checking into an online wedding and found that it was possible!  

  Last week Friday night for Russell, and last week Saturday morning for Jenny, THEY WERE MARRIED!!!  

  They didn't get the big church wedding but they are married now.  Russell is filing for a passport from the Philippine government.  He is also asking for an extended stay visa so that he can be with his new family for the holidays.  Even though the borders are closed, according to what they've been told, the government will allow Russell into the country to be with his new family.  Of course, there's no way of knowing when he can get out again.  It won't matter, though, as long as they are together!!

 There was a professional TV crew that filmed the wedding on Jenny's end and they did a WONDERFUL job!  Russell has a friend from Jamaica who was his tech guy and also a witness to the wedding.  Russell's neighbors were also present at his home as witnesses.

 The ladies didn't wear their formal wedding gowns as Russell has promised them a big wedding in their own country before they move to the States with him.  That, of course, won't happen until COVID is no longer terrorizing the world!

 So, without any further ado, I give you my brother's wedding!  Please join me in blessing my new sister-in-law and her precious daughter with prayers of safety and encouragement.

  In keeping with the theme, Robert and I will celebrate 40 years of marriage tomorrow!  We were married in Eureka, SD on 10-10-80.  Forty years have passed and we are still so in love with each other! 
 
 God blessed us with 3 amazing children and 4 adorable grand children.  Everyone was here on Monday night to celebrate our anniversary.  Cora and her family can't come this weekend as Michael is the best man in his cousin's wedding TOMORROW!!  Can you believe it?  That makes 2 of Cora and Michael's friends who got married on our anniversary!!!

  To love and marriage!  Only God can preserve them over the long haul. I praise God for how He has blessed us with His patience and compassion for each other!  May He do the same for Russell and Jenny!

  I hope you enjoy watching my brother's joy on his wedding day!

  Dawn

They hope he dies???

  I didn't think that I could get any sadder at the demise of intelligence and respect in our world.  I WAS WRONG!!

  I'm sure that you heard our President and First Lady have COVID 19.  We learned this at the end of last week and I have been praying earnestly for them ever since.  I invite you to join me in praying for their return to good health.

  Isn't this a normal response?  No matter what one's political views are, don't we wish them well when facing something so awful as this virus?  

  Apparently not everyone thinks like a normal human being any more!  Apparently there are people in this country so evil as to wish the President dies.  Now, if Joe Biden got COVID, would I pray for his recovery?  Yes I would because then he would have more time to repent.  

  In this video you will see that people actually put into writing that they are hoping our President dies from COVID 19.  This takes quite a bit to stomach as our President closed the borders early on to prevent more people from China coming here and bringing this killer with them.  That's just the first thing that President Trump did to protect the citizens of the US.

  So now we have these Trump haters actually hoping that he dies from COVID 19.  Don't they realize that this is murder?  They are thinking murderous thoughts. "THOU SHALL NOT KILL!" is very clear in the Bible!

 I won't belabor the point that these people are so hateful that it's hard to find the words to describe how disgusted they make me feel.  I pray for them to repent.  I pray for them to see how vile they are. I would give them a BodyTalk session to help clear this out of them if they asked me to.  I would not, under any circumstances, hope that they were dead because of their petty thinking.

  Here's the video.  Beware--it is totally disgusting.  

  PLEASE pray for our President and First Lady to recover from COVID as soon as possible!  May our joint prayers make a difference in their recovery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Have a good week!

  Dawn

Wedding bells are ringing

 TODAY'S THE BIG DAY!!

My brother, Russell, and his fiancé Jenny are getting married online!

Who could ever imagine such a thing?

Please join me in praying that the technology all works as they plan to tie the knot at his 8:00 PM tonight and her 10:00 AM tomorrow morning! Yes that's the same time! lol

May God bless your marriage with GREAT happiness dear brother and (soon-to-be) sister-in-law!!

If the livestream works, I will be able to watch from North Dakota and my daughter can enjoy the wedding in Minnesota. How wild is that??

That part all depends on how well the technology works in Sydney, Montana and Muntinlupa City in the Philippines!!

I praise God to see my brother so happy again!

Congratulations Russell and Jenny and (her daughter) Joanna! 

Dawn

What IS the truth?

 Hi everyone,

 How are you all doing with less sunlight setting in?  I cannot urge you too much to buy a Vitamin D supplement and take it daily.  It's the only way I've found to live this far North and not be depressed for half of the year.  

  I've been coming here hoping that inspiration would drop on me from above.  There not being any of that happening, I waited.  Now it has.  lol

  I don't know if any of you have found this fellow or not.  It's the first time I've heard him speak--I mean really heard him.  It was interesting as his life is much like my own.  Decades of warning folks about dangers all around us in the air, water, and soil. 

  I'm going to share the video I just listened to as it seems like a good way to introduce you to this fellow who has shouted from the rooftops about all the ways we are being attacked. Then I'll share the video I just found on his site about the dangers of blue lighting at night.  Neither Robert nor I have slept as well since he bought an alarm with blue lighting.  Could this be why?

  So this is an introduction.  I'm a little nervous as I haven't spent hours and hours checking him out before I recommend him to my readers. However, the feeling I got as I listened to his video today is that he is a man of truth in a world of lies.

  I give you "The Fullerton Informer!"  

Here's the blue light video. I have no idea how long these will be available.  You may want to write down other places you can find his videos as he shares them in the top video.  

  May God use and bless ALL of His children who speak the truth to a world starving for the truth!

  In His service,

  Dawn

God's Fall blessings

HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!!

From my childhood years (and on) Summer has always been my favorite season. There's no school.  Gardens are growing.  As a girl, we lived right by the lake in Eureka where happy children splashed and laughed under the hot sun all day!  Summer is FUN!!!

As a young mom I still loved Summer best!  My children loved splashing in the creek behind the barn.  All 3 of them had their own little gardens in my garden.  I can remember them joyfully eating fresh peas right out of the pod as they pulled weeds?  NOTHING BETTER!

As the MS in my body progressed, I began to notice that cold weather made me hurt even more.  Summer, on the other hand, warms my limbs and brings new strength. So yes, Summer is GREAT!

I can recall going into deep depressions as my precious Summers waned.  It's much better now that I take a Vitamin D supplement but I still am not shouting out today to the world, "Yay, Summer is over!"  

It is important to me today, then, to be careful not to fall into negative thinking!  I realize that I need to choose a good attitude at the start of Autumn.  I decided to go in search of some Fall poetry. Christian poetry always fills me with a calm gratitude for life as it is.  Even though it is hard to say "Goodbye" to my wonderful Summer, life is good in Autumn, too, when God is walking through it with me!!

I pray that this poem blesses your day.  Life with the Lord IS filled with blessings all year long!  Some days it's harder to see, but with the Lord walking beside me, life is GOOD no matter what the season it is!!  Amen?

Happy Fall to all!

Dawn

God still uses prophets?

 I don't know what you think about the idea that prophets of God are living today.  I used to think that all stopped at the cross.  The prophets of Old Testament times told about Jesus's coming and He came.  They told about His death and He died.  They told He would rise from the dead and He rose from the dead. 

  The end!  What more needs to be said?  

  I didn't know any prophets so they must not exist.  What would God need prophets for today anyway? I really had no interest in this topic until one day I became a prophet. True, I only told one person what God had said but God told me to say it and it happened.

 About half a year before my mother died, Father told me that she would die soon.  I told my best friend that God had said my mother would die soon.  She calmly said, like she always does, "OK."  She knows of my walk with the Lord for decades and she, too, knew no prophets.  I'm sure she had her doubts about my "Hearing from the Lord" but she very kindly kept them to herself.

 Then my mother died.  She worked all day; felt a little off at suppertime; kept feeling worse so my dad took her to the clinic she went to.  At 8:13 PM she slumped over dead!  I won't get into her cause of death but I probably need to do that sometime as it concerns me greatly.

  So the prophecy of my mother's unexpected death woke something in me.  I started to wonder if God was telling other of His children about the future too.  You must imagine my delight when I found THE ELIJAH LIST which I've shared here numerous times.  Yes, God DOES speak to His children in our lifetime!

  This particular prophecy is hard to share.  I hesitate to share it due to the horrible images of child sacrifices.  However it is a word that is desperately needed today as our Presidential election draws closer.  

  I can recall laughing with my best friend, back in 2015, about "That Donald Trump!"  When he won the nomination, she said, "NOT DONALD TRUMP!"  We were both so glum because we only saw what the mainstream media wanted us to see about him.

  I remember starting to love Donald Trump during the debates.  Hillary was her usual rich bitch self and oh, so, smug!  I laughed for weeks over Trump's declaration, "I'll put you in jail."  Today as I watched this video, I laughed when I saw that those words are included in this video.

  This prophecy was made during the 2016 Presidential campaign.  It was made by a man of God who had heard from God many times.  It is an encouragement now, perhaps even more than at the time when it was shared, as our election draws closer.

  Satan is stirring up divisions in our country like never before.  I have been praying for some way to combat this. Perhaps this video is the tool to bring unity to the church of God?  

  Will you please join me in praying for our President?  He is clearly chosen by God to lead us through this tumultuous time with COVID; all the rioting; and all of the election fraud attempts.  When will people understand that they're not bigger than God?

  So I share this prophecy with you from Kim Clement.  May Father lead and guide you as you process this information.  Please share it as He leads you to share.  PLEASE pray for our President with greater confidence that he is chosen for such a time as this.  

  Much love,

  Dawn