Hello my friends!!! It's good to be home again - it always is!! But thanks be to God I got to see all my sisters today in Mpls. yes, that is Minneapolis! And great weather this weekend too! Got some nice pictures of Deil with her cake and Lori put it on Facebook so her sons there can see her - and they commented on how nice she looked, so did Darla - from all over, people could see her that love her, grandchildren too. It was a lot of driving for Lor to pick up Deil in Glencoe, an hour and a half away from here, then onto the Airport in Mpls. to pick up Sister LaDonna when the shuttle came - another hour, and then on to Ethel's for the party! Erma was there, in her wheelchair - she had fallen and fractured a rib a couple weeks ago, but is doing well now, and really enjoyed being there, still has pain, of course, but was glad she could be with us all. Ethel has a friend who doesn't have family, so we're including her in our family things too. She is a sweetheart! Thank you all for your nice posts, and keep them coming - and thanks for keeping the thread alive! Praying for you all! One part of sad news though, on the way I got a call from Wanda - Lynn, the one who was taken by ambulance Friday - died Friday night of a massive heart attack. Her family reunion that was scheduled for yesterday got cancelled and now they come for her funeral on Tuesday. She was such a nice lady. I will surely miss her.
Good is always coming to you. No matter what is happening in your life,
you can bless it with prayer and be peaceful. Lord, You give me the courage
to face any situation confidently and victoriously.
Scripture for the day:
"Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up
and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundred-fold." And
he said, 'Let anyone with ears to hear listen!'" ~Mark 4:8-9
Meditation for the day:
God's kingdom on earth is growing slowly, like a seed in the ground.
In the growth of God's kingdom there is always progress among the few
who are out ahead of the crowd. We can keep striving for something
better and there does not need to be stagnation in our lives. Eternal
life, abundant life can be ours for the seeking. We need not misspend
time over past failures. We can count the lessons learned from
failures as rungs upon the ladder of progress. We can press onward
toward the goal.
Prayer for the day:
I pray that I may be willing to grow. I pray that I may keep stepping
up on the rungs of the ladder of life.
Give us
Give us your words Lord, so we may speak.
Give us your heart so we may love.
Give us your wisdom so we may understand.
Give us your mercy so we may forgive.
Give us your strength so we may persevere.
Give us your joy so we may dance!
Give us your righteousness so we may have peace.
Give us your grace so we may abound in every good work!
May the Lord give you all that you need today, in all things and at all
times to share joyfully with others!
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Why are you angry?
Anger is about the silliest thing that we let ourselves fall into. It is
also the bitterest root in our heart. If we truly look into our heart most
of the time that anger is out of jealousy because someone else was righteous
and we fell short. Just as God asked Cain, "If you do what is right, will
you not be accepted." Cain was angry out of his own guilt. Sometimes we use
anger to make others pay for what have done or failed to do.
Gen 4:6-7
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do
what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but
you must master it."
* We are not thankful for what we have until we are willing to give it away
to someone that needs it more than we do.
SPECIAL BEATTUTUDES
Author Unknown
SPECIAL BEATTUTUDES for those who work with special people
BLESSED ARE YOU who take time to listen to difficult speech
FOR YOU help us know that if we persevere, we can be understood.
BLESSED ARE YOU who walk with us in public places and ignore the
stares of strangers,
FOR in your companionship, we find havens of relaxation.
BLESSED ARE YOU who never bid us "hurry up" and more blessed, you who
do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us
FOR often we need time rather than help.
BLESSED ARE YOU who stand beside us as we enter new and untried
ventures,
FOR our failures will be outweighed by times when we surprise
ourselves and you.
BLESSED ARE YOU who ask for our help
FOR our greatest need is to be needed.
BLESSED ARE YOU who help us with the graciousness of Christ.
FOR oftentimes we need the help we cannot ask for.
BLESSED ARE YOU when, by all these things you assure us that the thing
that makes us individuals is not in our peculiar muscles, not in our
wounded nervous systems, nor in our difficulties in learning
BUT in the God-given self which no infirmity can confine.
REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD, and know that you give us
reassurances that could never be spoken in words,
FOR you deal with us as Christ dealt with all His children.
THE GREAT INVENTOR
By Sally I. Kennedy
We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these
worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea
and everything in them. Acts 24:15b
Has not my hand made all these things? Acts 7:50
When you were a child, did you ever wonder how the ocean didn’t slide
off the earth? How all the water didn’t spill out and eventually there
would be no more water in the oceans? What a great invention!
Sometimes even now I think of how amazing is our God about soo many
things. Like how the ocean doesn’t.
Psalm 104 majestically tells of God, the great inventor. Who but God
could design oceans teeming with unimaginable sea creatures from
microscopic algae to gigantic whales and countless colorful marine
life in between? Plus grasses and coral and sand and, well, the list
is infinite.....
Years ago, our family did a little snorkeling and some diving. Under
the sea it was eerily silent, a whole other world. ‘Beautiful’ doesn’t
even come close to describing it.
The worship song by Nicole C. Mullen (Redeemer) poses these questions:
Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning, Who told the ocean
you an only come this far? Who showed the moon where to hide 'til
evening, Whose words alone can catch a falling star? And the lyrics
answer perfectly: Well I know my Redeemer lives, I know my Redeemer
lives; All of creation testify, This life within me cries, I know my
Redeemer lives.
The Great Inventor and our Redeemer, one. One God. That is good news.
MY PRAYER
May the Holy Communion be my strong defense against all my enemies, visible
and invisible, and the perfect calming of all my evil impulses, bodily and
spiritual.
May it unite me more closely to you, the one true God, and lead me safely
through death to everlasting happiness with you.
And I pray that you will lead me, a sinner, to the banquet where you, with
your Son and Holy Spirit, are true and perfect light, total fulfillment,
everlasting joy, gladness without end, and perfect happiness to your saints.
Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Mother Teresa Said...
Jesus, you have given everything, life, blood, all. Now it is my turn. I put
everything into the field also. The common soldier fights in the ordinary
lines, but the devoted one tries to be near the captain to share his fate.
This is the spirit of Christ.
Meditations by Padre Pio
Don’t tire yourself with things that cause anxieties, perturbation and
worries. Only one thing is necessary, to lift up your spirit and love God.
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