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Posted on 09/30/2008 10:21:35 PM PDT by JustAmy
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Go git it! Early Christmas gift!
Thanks for the heads up..I’ve read the comments..great! LOL..saving link to listen. to all of it..
You sure did not offend me..
Go McCain Palin
LOL That’s exactly what I was thinking! :)
Hey .... I loved it.
Look at the menu at the beginning of the thread. Politics are welcome!
Go McCain/Palin!!!
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Mornin’ Meg!
That’s beautiful!
There’s the sweetest old church in a small community nearby. I’ve only ever been in it for funerals. :( It’s small, probably only holds 75-100 people max, if that. Wooden pews, hardwood floor, gorgeous stained glass windows, no design, just blocks of color. It’s a couple hundred years old, and one of the most sacred feeling buildings I’ve ever been in.
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Thanks for the flowers! Gorgeous!
That’s the kind of church I always picture when I hear Three Bells. Old, clapboard, the bell ringing sweetly from the steeple, calling to everyone.
Love the Smoky Mtns, too. Daddy’s people were from the mountains of NC, moved from there to Kentucky and Ohio and then Indianna. Now I’m back in NC. LOL
I am about an hour from where I was born..I had no idea I would be back close to my roots.
When we bought our first house in the 50s in a then small suburb of Dallas..our church was one built around 1890..wooden and charming..until cold winter winds hit and feet turned to blocks of ice..Charm has its drawbacks.
;o)
In his early years of ministry, the English preacher Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was a harsh and self-assertive man. One day he was visiting a friend and fellow pastor in a nearby village. When he left to go home, his friend’s daughters complained to their father about Simeon’s manner. So he took the girls to the backyard and said, “Pick me one of those peaches.” It was early summer, and the peaches were green. The girls asked why he wanted green, unripe fruit. He replied, “Well, my dears, it is green now, and we must wait; but a little more sun, and a few more showers, and the peach will be ripe and sweet. So it is with Mr. Simeon.”
Simeon, in due time, did change. The warmth of God’s love and the “showers” of misunderstanding and disappointment were the means by which he became a gentle, humble man.
The God of all grace works in all His children, humbling the proud and exalting the humble, to make them ripe and sweet. Our task is to take hold of God’s grace to endure our afflictions with patience, without growing weary.
In time, He will “perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle” us (1 Peter 5:10). We must “wait on the LORD” and “be of good courage” (Ps. 27:14).
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Have a blessed Sunday.
My prayer today is that God's Holy Spirit will flood every church across the nation that proclaims The Word Of God, and that there will be a annointing like never before over God's People....
Pray this week for McCain and Palin....
Finishing up my morning cup of coffee and then off to church here in Los Angeles.
May Jesus Christ Be Praised!!
Polly
**Charm has its drawbacks.**
LOL Been there, done that. Grew up poor, on a farm in southern Ohio. I’ve done the oil heater in one room thing, and I’ve done the outhouse thing, and I’ve done the pump water/well goes dry every summer thing and as long as I’ve got money and there’s electricity, I’m going to have heat and ac and instant hot water!
Thankyou Mayor, for the morning devotional...This is so true.
Polly
LOL..It all comes down to what we now so often take for granted...until there is a power failure.
Good Morning. Trying to relax a little bit, I have been going day after day between work and moving. I am feeling run down.
We are slowly getting things unpacked and put in place so we are starting to feel at home.
Enjoy your Sunday.
Yeah. OTOH, people who have coped with stuff like that are much better able to live without amenities than people who’ve never done without!
Given my druthers...
I can do without a lot of things, but not my computer! Last hurricane when we really lost power, I was so miserable hubby finally hooked up the generator so i could get my fix. LOL
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