On The Journey To The Cross With Jesus

It's been a wonderful start for the week: 
The Sunday message The Third Temptation || Pastor Brian Zahnd 


The past week

It was a wonderful week of exploring and discovering my family connections.
I posted my blog challenges and checked DNA matches and saw a DADE connections.
I gathered with the church on Ash Wednesday as we began the Lenten Journey to the cross. 

I added more to names to the family tree on the DADE side. 
Continuing doing what I do. 
We had a surprised storm come on Friday. 
It wasn't as bad as they said it was. 

Thanks for reading.
On the Lenten journey to the cross with Jesus.

Hope all will have a great week!
Blessings, 
S.A. Blakley

From One Season Into The Next

We have a taste of Spring in our days this week. The preview of what's to come. And I still have my Winter wear on. I know better. 

Feb 19 ~ Gathered with the church.
I'm practicing to slow down in what I do. Enjoying the time as I go about
Saw some of my facebook friends in person.  Thank You, Jesus! 

Goals for the last full week of February:
Practicing to slow down while doing my daily dos; along with what I do with my free time.

Continue to search for DNA matches and work on weekly blog challenges to post on Wednesday.
sad to say, I have been finding more relatives passing.

Here's the The Sunday Message: Shine As The Sun by Pastor Brian Zahnd 

Oh Sunday: such a great start for the week of the 50th day of 2023.
 And 48 days till my next decade to begin.  
Stepping into Ash Wednesday and into the Lenten Season
Preparing for the season to come

Thanks for reading. 
Have a Great Week!

Blessings,
S.A. Blakley

My Past Week of Celebrating:

Feb 12 - I  worked on some family connections. I watched The Super Bowl. It was the third Super Bowl to watch the Chiefs.  And the 2 time, I seen them won. Celebrated ~ Heard fireworks go off. Oh, Happy Day for the Kansas City Chiefs!!  Went to bed late 

Feb 13 ~ Searched DNA matches and Worked on blogs

Feb 14 ~  Valentine's Day! Worked on blogs: Posted blog My Number One Friend. Read that a cousin had passed away. 

Feb  15 ~ Watched the Super Bowl Champs Chiefs Parade 

Feb  16 ~ Posted blog: Eleven Year Old Duana DADE Ran Away From Home. 
Searching for family connections.  Icy and some snow

Feb   17 ~ Worked on blogs. Search through news papers. Adding to my notebook. 

Feb 18 ~ Went to a basketball game. Worked on updating In Remembrance: DADE, made copies. Typed up a list of the Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections list of Death and Birth of those who passed in 2020 - 2022. Made copy of list. 

A Beautiful Start For The Week

Oh what a beautiful start for the week. It's set. Sunday is a long day. I don't do much on family connections. I tend to go with the flow of things. 

I geared up to watch the Super Bowl,

My goals for the week during my free time:

Post on Wednesday my blog challenges for week7
They are entitled. Eleven Year Old Duana DADE Ran Away From Home and A Friend.
Continue to update my In Remembrance in day by day form. 
Continue to search for DNA matches and obituary

I plan to work on week 8 themes
Post my Saturday by weekly blog.
Continue my dos for the week.

 Thanks for reading. 
Here's the Sunday message Anger Issues || Pastor Derek Vreeland 

 Blessings, 
S.A.Blakley 

A Surprising Week

 Feb 5
On the go and I didn't do much online. 
Post Sunday's by weekly bog
Looked on social media accounts

Feb 6
Worked on challenges
Future posted In Remembrance March list on the family connections groups on facebook. Bartlett, Dade and the Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections groups.

Typed up a list of DADE Family Connection members who passed between 2020 - 2022 
And need to add them to the current list of family members. 

Added more relatives to the branch of Isaac DAYD  

Feb 7
Worded on blogs challenges to post on Wednesday. 
Searched DNA matches on 23 and Me and Ancestors.
Email from a searcher of a DNA match
Checked obituaries. 

Feb 8
Post challenge blogs. Connected With Faris Lyle's Family via Social Media and My Hometown. 
Checked to see who are the famous people I'm related to on Family Search. 
Diana The Princes Of Wales is still on the list. The list changes from time to time. 

Copied the list of blogs for 52 ancestors challenges put in a notebook.
Found obituary of Clifford Allan Burton

Feb 9
 Word on next week's blog: Eleven Year Old Duana Dade Ran Away From Home .
Start Blog for the theme challenge of Friend. 
Typed up the Blake Blakley WHITE Family Connections April In Remembrance: Made copy
Snow came by surprise 

Fed 10
Worked on challenges for next week
Checked DNA matches
Watched online funeral of Bishop Clifford Allan Burton
Went to a basketball game

Feb 11
Fun Day
Went to two basketball games and had fun
Did a little searching DNA matches etc. Family Connections
Future posted on facebook group In Remembrance for one half of April 
Prepared for the Sunday Gathering
Geared up for the Super Bowl.

I continue to repost my challenges for the day of February on my facebook and Instagram accounts. 
I continue to watch the news in this changing world.

The massive earth quake in Turkey and Syria. It's sad.
God spared some lives in this horrible quake.

Objects being shot down from the sky, a second week. 
What's going on? 

Thanks for reading
A Surprising Week

Blessings,
S.A.Blakley 

7 weeks to go till I enter into my next decade. 

Let Your Light Shine

 
Oh, how beautiful the light shines in our darken world. Jesus is the Light of the world. He is in us as we are shinning  His light where we go. Let you light shine. 

 This is what I posted on one of my facebook pages " It was 57 degrees today. Okay groundhog.

There were people acting like Spring time has already started. Here I am all wrapped up like Winter time. Let me tell y'all, I know better. I'm not taking the bate. I've been there and done that. Still I'm wearing my coat. There's still a chill in the air.

I did enjoy being outside today. And tomorrow will be in the 50's too. The month of March will come. And Spring is coming early."

My goals for the week during my free time:
Post on Wednesday my blog challenges for week 6.
They are entitled. Eleven Year Old Duana Dade Ran Away From Home and My Hometown. 
Continue to update my In Remembrance in day by day form. 
Continue to search for DNA matches and obituary

I plan to work on week 7 themes
Post my Saturday by weekly blog.
Continue my dos for the week.

Hope all will enjoy the first full week in February.
Enjoy. 

Thanks for reading. 
Here's the Sunday message Break Forth Like The Dawn by Pastor Jacob Taylor. It was a good message

 Blessings, 
S.A.Blakley 

A Week To Remember

 Oh, what a week: 

Sunday Jan 29
Watched the NFL Chiefs 23 vs Bengal  20. 
Recorded  Benjamin and Lucy (Sampson) DADE lineage on a calendar
Recorded from February through April 2023 
Recorded from January through April 2023 for Isaac DAYD's lineage. 

Monday Jan 30
Worked on Newsletter, bloggers blogs to future post on February 1, 2023.
Family Connections: Blakey Blakley WHITE  and Family Connections: Gathering The Generations. 
Family Connections on facebook set to post. 

Checked: Obituaries, newspaper.com and DNA matches. 

Tuesday: Jan 31
Sorts papers in TIVIS notebook
Checked Newsletter
Sorted papers in notebook of DNA matches
Re read week 5 blog set to post on Wednesday
Worked on Those Mistakes: Oops and Something Someone Gave Me

Wednesday: Feb 1, 
Checked DNA matches and for obituaries. 
Posted Those Mistakes: Oops And Something Someone Gave Me: A Compliment on The Chronicles and Susan and Susan Blakley: Family Connections on my facebook page. 

Started: Challenge for February Black History Month
This challenge is a repost last year's challenge but with updates.
Day 1. ~ The Oldest Person ~ posted a photo of Mrs. Delilah Lewis ( 1810 - 1887)
Update: Delilah wasn't born in 1773. More like in the mid to late 1890's to 1810. 

Copied my album titled  Family Connections Stories on my Facebook page. 

Completed In Remembrance for March on the Bartlett Family Connections on bloggers. 
Made copy on the Bartlett birth and death dates with an updated look: March In Remembrance

Thursday Feb 2,
Checked DNA matches and obituaries
Updated some memories on my facebook page.
Hannah HOOPER birth year was about 1790 not 1765.
Searched for William HESLIN with surnames: HOOPER and BUFFINGTON, no luck

Received word that cousin, Mary Jo White passed on Feb 1, 2023. 
Worked on challenge blogs Social Media and Hometown

Friday Feb 3, 
ThruLines check DNA
Worked on week six and seven of my challenges for the week:
One is title Eleven Year Old Duana Dade Ran Away From Home and the other My Hometown. 
Re read some articles for Duana Dade. Noted that her first name was Duana and not Diana.
And discovered that Duana and her twin, Den were born in 1877. 
Saw the Chinese Spy balloon in sky in Missouri

Saturday Feb 4
Fun Day
Rearranged the Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections In Remembrance for March
Arranged according to by 1 - 31 days. Copied old list and new list. 
Posted some memories on Instagram and Facebook
Photo Challenge for February Black History Month
Baked some cookies

Thanks for reading 
A Week To Remember

Blessings
S.A. Blakley 

63 days till I enter into my next decade.