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Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

The God of More and the I-Phone

Posted on June 12, 2026

The I-Phone had been run over, but it was ringing. Unable to answer, because of the damage to the phone, the pedestrian who found the phone. posted pictures of it to a community news group on Facebook. The phone, itself, was just like a bajillion others out there and, of course, the ring was coming from Devan, the girl who had laid the phone on her car, while taking care of other things, prior to leaving Bible study on that Wednesday night at the North Jackson church, in Jackson, Tennessee. 

The phone traveled a pretty good distance on the vehicle. Lost on a very busy road, the chances of it being returned were not great. But even better than an activated “find-my-phone” app was the identifying sticker on the phone. This is the way Devan’s phone was marked: Look closely at the sticker in the  bottom left of this photo that appeared in the community news group:

It took only a few moments for someone who was a digger to see the photo in the Jackson news group. (I should say here that I had coincidentally been the guest speaker for the ladies at the North Jackson church that evening. My own phone started lighting up as I traveled back home. The NJ diggers assumed that it was my phone that lay broken and dying on the side of that busy intersection. After all, I lose it once a day—even lost it in Jericho while riding a camel!)

But Rose Banks saw the blurb on Facebook. She contacted Kelli Gough, one of the leaders of the North Jackson Digging Deep group, Kelli first ruled me out through family members in Huntsville who contacted me quickly. Kelli then started messaging her group. Devan took a minute to get the news. After all, she didn’t have a phone! 

I saw Devan again one week later and she showed me the phone. It had spent the night at the i-phone hospital, it had a brand new screen and was in perfect working order. 

But it was that sticker—that “God of More” sticker— that quickly connected that lost phone to the sweet group of faithful diggers at North Jackson. 

Sometimes, Digging Deep is just a great connection tool for women in the church. And sometimes it brings something lost back home. Sometimes, it’s evens something more important than a phone. He is the God of More! I love Him!

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

The Best Post Yet of 2026!

Posted on April 1, 2026

This has got to be the best Digging Deep story of 2026! It’s actually not just a Digging Deep story, but it’s a great and praiseworthy example of the providence of our God of More! 

First let me show you the hyssop soap made by the group in DeSoto, Missouri.  Samantha Carlson put this group together. (Her whole life and marriage to Adam is a manifestation of the love of the same great Provider!) Samantha sent me these sweet pictures of the final hyssop product and she mentioned that the sister who had done the lettering and labeling was just baptized in January. 

When I asked Samantha if I could share that good news with you, she gave me a little more of the back story and I could not love it more! 

Victoria and Tim were on their way to worship. They were ready to “get into a church” and get involved. They ended up getting turned around, directionally, and ended up at the church building, where my sweet sister, Samantha, and her husband, Adam worship. (And they really DID get turned around in the greatest way!) They decided just to go on in and worship there, instead, since they were running behind. They later told Samantha that they were looking for a place that just taught the Bible. Victoria also said that they were ready to be involved and active somewhere. Victoria quickly began attending that local Digging Deep group and continued studying, along with her husband, with Adam and Samantha. When people knock, the door is opened (Matthew 7:7). Victoria, the soap “labeler” for month 6 of The God of More was baptized into Christ in January. She and her husband never made it to their intended destination that Sunday morning. But they will, with His help, make it to the eternal one for which they were searching. Jehovah is the God of More. 

We made little bottles and bars of hyssop soap, while God was taking care of the real hyssop cleansing. So profoundly thankful  for the purging with hyssop in all our lives! 

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness;

that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Hide thy face from my sins,

and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

For the Diggers: Check out Nathan-Melech!

Posted on March 20, 2026

If you, like I am, are deep into a study of the book of Jeremiah, you know that the first king of Judah, with which Jeremiah had to do, was good king Josiah. You are finding joy in the reforms of young Josiah: the finding of the book of the law during temple restoration and Josiah’s determination to destroy idols and high places. It’s such an exciting era for good people who witnessed positive change for a time in Judah. I’m sure it made them hopeful for a long season of prosperity and favor with God which was not to be. 

But have you come across the seal that’s been found bearing the name of “Nathan-Melech”? If you haven’t yet, read 2 Kings 23 and find the name of this chamberlain and the location of his living quarters. Notice what was burned there, near his home. Nathan-Melech, this servant of Josiah, was right in the middle of the destruction of idolatry in Jerusalem. 

Now look at this amazing seal that was found in 2019, by a group of archaeologists in what is termed the Givati Parking Lot Excavations in the old City of David area of Jerusalem. The dig was conducted by Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets of the Israel Antiquities Authority and underwritten by El’ad.) The Hebrew writing was transcribed by Anat Mendel-Geberovich, The seal  bears the name of Nathan-Melech and identifies him as a servant of the King. It’s dating is the right era of time and its location is correct for it to have been the seal of the Biblical Nathan-Melech. While it would be impossible to certify that this was absolutely the same man, it’s very hard to discount the way it fits our Nathan-Melech, chamberlain to Josiah,

Since this information is easily found, beginning with Wikipedia, I’m sure many of you have discovered it. But don’t you love it when the digging over there in Israel intersects with our deep Dig in “The God of More”!  My prayer is that, every time we come across this kind of evidence, our faith is strengthened in the authenticity of the Scriptures.

Keep digging!

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Happy Thanksgiving! A Few More Days to Enter the Contest!

Posted on November 26, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving! I can’t wait to have a crowd, a turkey, and chaos in this house later in the week!  I hope you are having your own wonderful gathering somewhere and that it’s safe and happy, whether chaos or serenity. I’m praying for some who are headed to the darker places of parts of their lives they rarely visit anymore. I’m praying for some who know they are “getting through” the last holiday season they will see in this lifetime. Thanksgiving is only possible for any of us because of the forbearance of our Father that often kept covenant with people who were fickle and unfaithful. It’s only fully  possible because we have hope that results from His ultimate forbearance at Calvary. 

I’m thankful to Pisa Soli for her insights this month as we discussed that forbearance on this month’s podcast. I always love the Bible more after each month’s study! It’s a well of wisdom and sustenance that has no bottom, because the water spring is our infinite, eternal God. Any praise or glory I can give is just a pitiful reflection of His goodness and majesty. Our Thanksgiving, at any time of year, is not about the country in which we live, though we are blessed to be her citizenry. Our Thanksgiving is centered in the country to which we, as citizens of His kingdom, travel (Heb.11:16). You can find the podcast here: https://www.facebook.com/west.huntsville.58/videos/863098862920832?idorvanity=282349391779769

Finally, don’t forget the card contest. It’s so easy to enter  and it’s not too late! We have a limited number of great greetings already, but we’d love to include yours next month on the DD Facebook page! Contest guidelines are here: https://thecolleyhouse.org/holiday-contest-is-live-now

Happy Thanksgiving. Thank Him every day! Pray without ceasing. Always give the eminently qualified “Care-taker” your petitions and your praise (1 Peter 5:7). All my life He has been faithful! But that’s not even a nano-second in the stretch of His faithfulness. I know His faithfulness to me started before the foundation of the world and continues to the throne (Revelation 13:8).  All of us live in that nanosecond of His eternal mercies.

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

The Forbearance of our Passover

Posted on November 24, 2025

There’s never a passing day, for me,  but what there’s at least a passing thought (and it should be more) about the forbearance of God; how grateful I am that my life has meaning and hope and that there’s a reason for trekking forward with optimism. The reason is HIs forbearance with mankind. When we sinned, He saw, and offered the ultimate to restore us. He offered this in the case of mankind’s  sin, even prior to the foundation of the world (I Peter 1:7). He never—not for even a moment—left us in eternal desperation, even though He knew it would require an ultimate and very personal blood sacrifice that would buy us back.  When I personally sin, He takes me back, over and over. In fact, because I am in Christ, my relationship is never severed, unless I am doing the purposeful severing from Him (1 John 1:7). 

The study of His forbearance this month brought us to the Passover in Exodus 12; that amazing painting on doorposts and lentils, done by a people desperate for salvation from death and redemption from slavery in ancient Egypt. Our amazing God showed them (and us!) a real-life visual of what it looks like for people in our slavery of sin to be redeemed by blood applied to the lentils and doorposts of our very hearts! This commentary on that could quickly turn into a book, but let’s focus on one aspect, for a bit. 

Have you ever thought about the fact that, when those Israelites left their dwelling places in Goshen for the last time, they had the precious lamb—the one that had been sanctified in their yards or houses for four days—in them, above them and beside them. That’s potent! The lamb was in them, because they had eaten him. The lamb was above them on the lentils of their doors. The lamb was beside them, on the doorposts. 

Do you have the Lamb–Jesus–above and inside and beside you? If you are a Christian, you do! 

 

He is above us in pre-eminence and power and authority. Some of the passages that inform  about our blood-washed “lentils”, are these: 

Colossians 1:18; Matthew 28:18; Philippians 2:6-11; John 17:1,2; Ephesians 1:22,23;Luke 10:22; John 3:35; John 5:22; John 13:3; 1 Corinthians 15:27; 1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 3:1; and Romans 9:5. 

He is beside us. Having become man and having shared our human griefs, he yet intercedes. 

Hebrews 13:4-6; John 15:14; 2 Timothy 4:17; John 14:23; Ephesians 2:4-6; Ephesians 2:18; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:25; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 John 2:1,2; Revelation 3:20; Revelation 21:3

He is in us, as we adhere to His teachings. 

Romans 8:9-11; Galatians 4:19; Colossians 1:27; Colossians 3:16; Philippians. 2:5-13; Philippians 1:20-21; John 6:51; John 14:20; John 17:23; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 John 3:24; 1John 4:13; 1 John 3:24.

He is, indeed, Christ, our Passover (1 Corinthians 5)—sacrificed for us. Let’s be sure the blood of His amazing forbearance with mankind, is personally applied. 

Bless Your Heart by Cindy Colley

Diggers: Three Things (Including Final 2025-26 Shirts and Hoodies!)

Posted on November 10, 2025
  1. Here are the files referenced in this month’s coming Dig-a-Bits, for those who are new and are looking at the God of More in the plagues: Here’s the file:The Plagues of Egypt copy
  1. Here’s the final shirt/hoodie sale for this year!

Hoodies: I have Small, Medium, XL, 2XL and 3XL available in very limited numbers. These are going to go now for $35.00. The ONLY way to get one will be to request one on The Colley House public FB page (https://www.facebook.com/TheColleyHouse) in the comments beneath this shared blog post there. Include your size and a second-choice size, if applicable. Then, MESSAGE ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS. You can message on The Colley House OR my personal FB Messenger. Without an address, though, I cannot hold your shirt. ) You will get an invoice for the shirt price plus shipping when you receive the shirt or hoodie. Please wait for the invoice to pay. These will sell on a first-come-first-served basis until they are gone. 

T-shirts: I have very limited quantities of shirts in all sizes S-4XL. Follow the directions above to get one now for $19.00 until they are gone. 

Note that The Colley House Facebook page (beneath this post on that page—the post with a photo of  sweet friends wearing this shirt— is the only place to buy at this point.) Link above.

3. May, 2027, is the planned Digging Deep trip to Israel and Athens, Greece. Stay tuned for more details about that! 

Keep Digging! Treasures exhumed are eternal. (And we plant seeds, in the soli, that often yield souls, as we go!)