This is 08/01, The beginning of new things. I was counting the found coins for this past month and examining what God may be saying through them, as a group. There were eleven coins, the number of the prophetic. The odd number, the number which is to express God heart, releasing strength, consolation and encouragement (1 Corinthians 14:3). As I opened my Bible, I read from Paul's introductory remarks to his letters to the friends at Colossae. He is asking, "God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects - bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness..."(Colossians 1:9-11). Yes, be strengthened in me. Grow in my ways in the likeness of Jesus, my son. In me there is life; energy to go forward in the purposes I have s...