We are so blessed with many things
We’re blessed with good and bad
We’re blessed with things that make us smile
Some that make us sad
Some blessing are the gifts we have
And talents we possess
Like paintings or a song we sing
Or writings we express
These blessings help us grow inside
While sharing things we do
And often help the other folks
To see the hard times through
Some things are so difficult
The blessings hard to see
They often cloud or grip our lives
In spite of prayerful pleas
If we can learn to see the good
In things that get us down
Then we can see the blessing
In things that make us frown
It must have been so very hard
For Mary on that day
To watch her son be crucified
As she knelt down to pray
He was the perfect Son of God
So young, with much to do
And yet He was called home to God
A tortured death gone through
As we recall our Saviors life
And then our lives compare
It seems a little easier
To see the joy we share
For He has risen home to God
In heaven ‘s home above
And we can each be joining him
Because of the Fathers love
I want to thank you one and all for your comments to the things you are reading on my blog. I sometimes forget that you are there as I sit here in the quite of my room and try to type as fast as mind thinks...that can be tricky..most of you know I talk so imagine how difficult it is to type that fast:) I want you to know from the deepest place in my heart I do not write for your entertainment, I write for my therapy. I needed a place to sort some things out, and I have found an outlet for my sometimes twisted thoughts and emotions that have been bottled up for years. It is difficult to find friends who just want to be there for you. Most feel the need to council, others feel that don't know what to say so they just stay away, and then there are those who just don't really care because it is all about them...you have someone that just popped in your head didn't you:) I feel like I am talking to God not you. I am grateful that you tune in and enjoy my conversation with Him, but I do not blog to offend, to stir up trouble or to single out. I blog because God has given me a gift to express what I feel it is sometimes an eye opener to me by just putting it out there, perhaps you have read something that got you to think about the very thing I myself was wondering, or perhaps you read something that touched you in the same way it touched me when I stopped typing long enough to go back and read what my fingers are saying. If that is the case Praise God for His wonderful insight to you and to me. Please don't take it personal its about me, not you. I love to write poems, I love to express what God is doing in my life and I love that although I may not be able to sit down over a glass of Gary's famous sweet tea, that I can share it with you on my blog. I didn't realize how many people are reading this each day. But I love the comments I am recieving through my email and I love that you are being Blessed.Moral of this blog: "How we praise God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ."
Monday, June 4, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
The Acts Church
Saturday Gary had to work again! He is working 6 days a week and Sunday he got a total of 3 hours rest.I'm praying God will restore his strength to start all over again today. The factories are very hot in the summer and it is suppose to get in the 90's this week. I take it for granted that I work in an air condition environment, and for those that don't, the work is hard enough but the heat will drain you. He played Sunday morning at Reynolds and then set up for worship at CFC Sunday afternoon.....
My friend Maria got a make over! Imagine if you will, a 56 year young lady, with long dark hair gray mix, (who looked like she was in her mid 60's) wearing hand-me-down clothes that no one else would wear, most of which are too big, and that being all she has. We have taken her out to eat on several occasions and she expressed to me she felt uncomfortable because she didn't have proper clothing to wear. So I suggested we give her a make-over. She went to the beauty school Saturday and got her hair cut short and had a perm. I didn't know who she was when she called to pick her up. she looks her age:) We went to Goodies and Wal-mart and spent over 200.00 on clothes, shoes, a handbag and personal items and we had a blast. We were gone all day shopping and Gary called while we were Wal-mart and ask me to pick up some drain-o. We came home Maria had several bags she carried in, I had several bags I carried in and I handed Gary his one bag. He just laughed.....
Sunday night we had our first service in our new church that is starting in Paragould My husband is playing in the worship band, who knows I might even get to be a praise singer lol! and we had around 100 people in attendance. We are excited to be in the beginning of a new church. The anticipation of God's blessing is a wonderful place to be. The sacrafice is rewarding. I met a young lady from a christian rehab center(Grace Mission), she came up to me after the service and ask for prayer. She has been away from her children for 3 months and is beginning to feel home-sick. God open the door to allow me to minister to her through my own rotten background and prayed with her. It reminded me of the verse in 2 Cor. " the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble, with the compassion we ourselves have recieved from God" She was smiling when she left. I am going to go out this week and spend time with her. Because as bad as I was growing up, God can use my past to help people today. Thank you Jesus for allowing me to endure my past and use me today to witness and comfort those without hope. amen.....
The worship was awesome, the service was inspiring and the fellowship and meal afterward was refreshing. I invited friends, Dee and Maria, they loved it and look forward to next week. God is so faithful. He said " if you build it, they will come". never mind ...that was Field of Dreams. We rented it and they came......
I can't wait to see what God is going to do this week. Friends of ours, shared how awesome it is to watch the growth. We are starting with 100 people who where driving to Jonesboro to attend church and I can't wait to see what God does. Community Fellowship Church is not just a title, it is a movement. Community being the key, getting involved in community events is where you will met people who are searching for hope in their lives to make it better,
Fellowship as believers as one, not as clicks. It is refreshing to serve as a body once again, everyone being a part of something great not just a chosen few. I understand their will be some who read this days voice and think I am singling out, but I am not. This is what is happening in alot of churches. We get comfortable with what is going on inside the church and forget about the very community we vow to serve. We become complacent. We can not expect the people to just walk in, how arrogant, but to search out those who are struggling in their walk, in their life, in their sin. Jesus didn't just build a temple and sit back and wait for people to come in, He went out, spent tiime with those no one else would sit with, He loved the unloveable, and saved the lost. Their is nothing to me more gratifing than to befriend the homeless, the drug addicts, and the drunks and teach them there is a better way of life. I know what a difference He has made in life and i know He will do the same for any one who ask.
Moral of this Blog: "All the believers (the body) met together constantly and shared ( witnessed with) everything they had. They sold their possessions (sacrifice) and shared the proceeds with those in need. They worshiped together at the temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared meals with great joy and generosity_all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved." Acts 2:44-47
My friend Maria got a make over! Imagine if you will, a 56 year young lady, with long dark hair gray mix, (who looked like she was in her mid 60's) wearing hand-me-down clothes that no one else would wear, most of which are too big, and that being all she has. We have taken her out to eat on several occasions and she expressed to me she felt uncomfortable because she didn't have proper clothing to wear. So I suggested we give her a make-over. She went to the beauty school Saturday and got her hair cut short and had a perm. I didn't know who she was when she called to pick her up. she looks her age:) We went to Goodies and Wal-mart and spent over 200.00 on clothes, shoes, a handbag and personal items and we had a blast. We were gone all day shopping and Gary called while we were Wal-mart and ask me to pick up some drain-o. We came home Maria had several bags she carried in, I had several bags I carried in and I handed Gary his one bag. He just laughed.....
Sunday night we had our first service in our new church that is starting in Paragould My husband is playing in the worship band, who knows I might even get to be a praise singer lol! and we had around 100 people in attendance. We are excited to be in the beginning of a new church. The anticipation of God's blessing is a wonderful place to be. The sacrafice is rewarding. I met a young lady from a christian rehab center(Grace Mission), she came up to me after the service and ask for prayer. She has been away from her children for 3 months and is beginning to feel home-sick. God open the door to allow me to minister to her through my own rotten background and prayed with her. It reminded me of the verse in 2 Cor. " the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble, with the compassion we ourselves have recieved from God" She was smiling when she left. I am going to go out this week and spend time with her. Because as bad as I was growing up, God can use my past to help people today. Thank you Jesus for allowing me to endure my past and use me today to witness and comfort those without hope. amen.....
The worship was awesome, the service was inspiring and the fellowship and meal afterward was refreshing. I invited friends, Dee and Maria, they loved it and look forward to next week. God is so faithful. He said " if you build it, they will come". never mind ...that was Field of Dreams. We rented it and they came......
I can't wait to see what God is going to do this week. Friends of ours, shared how awesome it is to watch the growth. We are starting with 100 people who where driving to Jonesboro to attend church and I can't wait to see what God does. Community Fellowship Church is not just a title, it is a movement. Community being the key, getting involved in community events is where you will met people who are searching for hope in their lives to make it better,
Fellowship as believers as one, not as clicks. It is refreshing to serve as a body once again, everyone being a part of something great not just a chosen few. I understand their will be some who read this days voice and think I am singling out, but I am not. This is what is happening in alot of churches. We get comfortable with what is going on inside the church and forget about the very community we vow to serve. We become complacent. We can not expect the people to just walk in, how arrogant, but to search out those who are struggling in their walk, in their life, in their sin. Jesus didn't just build a temple and sit back and wait for people to come in, He went out, spent tiime with those no one else would sit with, He loved the unloveable, and saved the lost. Their is nothing to me more gratifing than to befriend the homeless, the drug addicts, and the drunks and teach them there is a better way of life. I know what a difference He has made in life and i know He will do the same for any one who ask.
Moral of this Blog: "All the believers (the body) met together constantly and shared ( witnessed with) everything they had. They sold their possessions (sacrifice) and shared the proceeds with those in need. They worshiped together at the temple each day, met in homes for the Lord's Supper, and shared meals with great joy and generosity_all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved." Acts 2:44-47
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