Felix and I

Today is Monday, I was taking my walk around the Courthouse square as I usually do M-F. Every day I do this, I am getting more and more people saying hello and smiling. The people are so very friendly. I have run into two very special people. One was a lady, sitting on a park bench. She had her shoes off and was feeling the beautiful cool green grass. She was almost in amazement at the long lost feeling of being barefoot on the grass. As we talked she decided to walk with me for a bit. She had moved here several months ago and had not found a sense of place. My friend was a musician. When we left, we had talked about churches and how I absolutely loved mine. She took down the address and hopefully she will check it out. I hope she does.

Then there is Felix. Today as I walked I caught up with an elderly gentleman who was walking to the Dinner Bell restaurant. I have never met Felix but when I got next to me, he leaned over and said "I'm headed to the Dinner Bell, you wanna go with me?" I didn't know him but other people seemed to know him or say hi, he seemed by himself. So..........I walked with him to the Dinner Bell. I had a glass of water and visited with Felix as he ate his biscuits and gravy.

God you are blessing me with new people. I may only meet them once but you are leaving an impression. Thank you for the opportunity to just say Hi!

Thesis? Really A Thesis?

I am enrolled in a summer class on Ephesians. The instructor seems to know his Bible inside and out and upside down. I am not always sure that I totally understand but I am not an expert on the WORD. Well....I have been assigned a "Thesis" Ha! The topic is Prayer as taken from Ephesians. What I know is that I will be doing a lot of praying to get the Thesis done. Can you imagine, flunking a class on the Bible because it wasn't interpreted correctly. My last Thesis was on AREOSPACE EDUCATION. You know, rockets and satellites. God can you take what I write and word it so that it makes sense? Use your spirit. This is deep, angels and devils. I can hardly understand PEOPLE.

The Challenge.............

When my father was murdered, my mother had two items that my dad had given her. One was a BEAUTIFUL Ivory Fan that was laced with beautiful "real" silver decorations on each blade. The fan was an antique. It was delicate and had been brought back to her from Europe where he was stationed in the service. The other item was a Cameo stick pin that had belonged to my Great Grandfather. I have always collected Cameo's. This was my most treasured Cameo. These were family heirlooms and had a lot of sentiment with them. Nothing that could be replaced. THEY WERE SOLD. I am so very pleased that I could I give GOD these items. They were yours GOD.

My challenge: Choose something of great value to you and sell it and give the money away. The value was more than financial, there was so much meaning behind these items. The money will be sent to Voice of Martyrs and my church. Lord I pray that the money sent will benefit you. CLC

Christ's Child and Satan

Satan you are trying but Pam is Christ's Child and you will not win. On Monday night Pam took her dog to the vet as he was not doing well at all. She was given some medicine and returned home. The next day, the dog was getting much worse so Pam got down on her knees to pray. HER BACK WENT OUT AND SHE COULD NOT GET UP. She has had 2 back surgeries but this made her laugh. God was keeping her down on her knees. When Pam finally was able to get up, she got mad. She YELLED, Satan get away, I am God's child. This must have scared the dog as he got up and was not whining any more. Fifteen minutes later, the doorbell rang and in walked the lady from the Lutheran Church. All in a day. Pam was so thankful that the lady from the church was not there when she yelled. Pam however is beginning to commit herself to the church and NO Satan doesn't like it. Since that day, she has had three people at her work come up and share their stories with her about God's commitment in their lives. Every day she wears the necklace I sent her with the cross and the heart that says Christ's Child. People are noticing it and wanting to talk.

A Fish and Some Bread

God's power. The other night at my Ephesians class, I passed out requests to help Open Door, our community food shelter. How awesome is our God, the following week, I was blessed with 5 bags of food, a new shirt and a check. The shelter was thrilled BUT that is not all, the group has donated money to put together 2 big health kits for the Indian Reservation and some have offered to provide a meal for the Women's Homeless Shelter. OUR BREAD AND OUR FISH HAVE MULTIPLIED. Within one weeks time, we have been so blessed. We thank you.