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God Bless You All This Sabbath Day
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I made it through preaching today because I did'nt talk about Sistah. I just reported that she had passed away and thanked them for their prayers. I didn't sleep much last night. And......
When another friend of mine passed away, she was a member of my congregation, so I had to center the sermon around her the next Sunday. I put in the sermon the illustration that when we were children we would find a penny on the playground and shout, "Finders keepers, losers weepers!" My friend was a keeper but we had lost her and Jesus found her. When I arrived at the church that morning and stepped out of my car, there at my feet was the shinyest penny you ever saw sparkling at my feet. Make of that what you will. I felt that Karen had arranged for it to be there for all of us.
Today, I stayed after services to copy some fliers. Everyone was gone by the time I finished. I locked the church and started down the steps, and there on the step was a dime, sparkling like a diamond. My first thought was, "I will put it in the collection plate next Sunday. But then it hit me that Sistah may have arranged it and I had better keep it. Believe what you will. It comforted me.
