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And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Mark 15:21


Simon the Cyrenian took a prominent place in history when he was chosen by the Roman soldiers to carry the cross of Christ.

It has been suggested that the names Alexander (Acts 19:33) and Rufus (Rom. 16:13) could in all likelihood be his sons, and that they were prominent men in the early Church.

It is still true today, that if we would have our families be something for God, we as parents must shoulder the cross, and show the way by example.
—W. H. Burnett

Enjoy the piano in this one and digest the words.  What a wonderful Saviour we have.






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QuoteIt is still true today, that if we would have our families be something for God, we as parents must shoulder the cross, and show the way by example.
—W. H. Burnett

Jesus Himself followed the same principle. He didn't just tell us about God, heaven, and all that stuff. He showed us what God is like.

good morning all!  gotta rush -- there is a harley rally near here this weekend, and i told trav i would take him to watch some of the bikers arriving.   need to do some stuff first, though.

take care

Hi everyone.  It is a beautiful day here in Georgia and I am happy to be able to say that I feel like my normal self again.  When I got up yesterday afternoon from resting I knew the weariness had passed and also didn't have any chest pain yesterday.  I appreciate all your prayers and good wishes.

Just got back from the men's coffee at the Senior Center and this afternoon we have our monthly SeniorNet PC User Group monthly meeting.  Our special guest today is Bill Husted, who is known as the Technobuddy and writes columns for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and is also syndicated across the country in many newspapers.  This is the fourth year he has addressed our group and generally just makes a few remarks and then takes questions from the group. 

Pat has finally gotten her surgery all scheduled and it will be a week from today as out-patient.  Hopefully she will have a quick recovery.  I had an e-mail from a friend who is going to be in town to visit his son that day and he and his wife wanted to come out and visit.  Had to tell him we weren't going to be home that day.

Pat, that was a fine devotional message (as was the one Etta Sue posted yesterday). 

Good Morning y-all, I am still waking up so don't have much to say, just checking in.

TTYL

I'm glad to say that it's sunshiny and beautiful out today, as I look West over the neighbor's mobilehome and see the sun shining off of the cedar trees on the other side.  Please see my prayer requests (under "disc") in the prayer folder today.  Thanks.

I'm back. Good morning again everybody. I am now ready for work, won't be going to Tai Chi this morning as Fay wants me to take her over the the Hospital lab during the time I am supposed to be in class. She is on Coumadin and needs a blood test. I misssed last Friday because I didn't want to go out in the cold rain.

So I will be off work early today as I am not going to Versals again until  pick her up for church on Sunday. I have a chiropracter appt. this afternoon at 3 PM. I am aslo going to stop at the Salvation Army in Eureka to drop off some donations that I put in the trunk of my car yesterday. I could still problably get rid of a lot more stuff but I have already packed up a lot of it.

So that are my plans for the day. Now I am off to see Al's prayer requests.

TTYL

Good morning!  I am having big trouble with my computer.  I think it may just be the monitor.  It goes black at odd times.  Last night I tried rebooting 23 times to no avail, then Darrel came by and whacked the side of the monitor, and VOILA!!  It came back on!  I have had to whack it a couple times in just the few minutes I have been on this morning. 

I am a little sore today from the kick boxing/step bench workout yesterday, so Kristi had us do some good stretches today to help with that.

We are going to see "Nunsense" tonight at the Depot Theater in Dodge City.  My sister and a friend of hers are going with us.  We saw this play several years ago, and it is so funny!  So I know we will enjoy seeing it again.

Abby called me a couple days ago, all excited because she had found her cat had had two kittens.    They will soon be covered up with cats if they don't get something done!

I need to take Beth's mail over to her, be back later if computer permits.

Janet:  You will enjoy "Nunsence".  It IS funny. We saw it a couple of years ago at the centre here in Guelph.

I have seasons tickets to a theatre just 40 minutes away.  Soon it will be time to see the first of the 8 plays.  I always enjoy those evenings out, as Norm and I make a night of it...going out for a nice dinner before.

This has been a very expense week for us.....car repair bill (someone ran into my "new" car)., fridge needed repairing., large deck screen door needed replacing., then we owe the government for income tax!  Never ends when you have a house, does it.

Its been a lovely sunny day here....our supper is nearly ready., and I'm quite hungry!

Love to all.....

Judy

Oh yes... I must see what Al has posted in the P & P forum

April 15   

Prayer: A Closed Mouth and Silent Heart

My heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the fire burned. Then
I spoke with my tongue.... 
--Psalm 39:3

Prayer among evangelical Christians is always in danger of
degenerating into a glorified gold rush. Almost every book on prayer
deals with the "get" element mainly. How to get things we want from
God occupies most of the space. Now, we gladly admit that we may ask
for and receive specific gifts and benefits in answer to prayer, but
we must never forget that the highest kind of prayer is never the
making of requests. Prayer at its holiest moment is the entering
into God to a place of such blessed union as makes miracles seem
tame and remarkable answers to prayer appear something very far
short of wonderful by comparison.

Holy men of soberer and quieter times than ours knew well the power
of silence. David said, "I was dumb with silence. I held my peace,
even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within
me; while I was musing the fire burned; then spake I with my
tongue." There is a tip here for God's modern prophets. The heart
seldom gets hot while the mouth is open. A closed mouth before God
and silent heart are indispensable for the reception of certain
kinds of truth. No man is qualified to speak who has not first
listened.
The Set of the Sail, pp. 14-15


"Lord, teach me to close my mouth. I love to preach; You've given
me opportunities to teach; I'm called on to dispense advice and
counsel. But the sitting in silence before You, with my mouth
closed--I don't do nearly enough of that. Amen."

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Hi, friends,

I'm here for just a moment. Went in to work - left home at 6:15 this morning - only to learn that a set of formulas a guy with a doctorate in statistics was not picking up all they should have, so we were forced to scrap a good bit of what was already done and re-do today - and each of the three of us had late morning or early afternoon appointments.

However, through this disastrous experience, I see God's fore-knowledge and provision being made for me. There have been many differences this year - a new operating system wouldn't work the macro that has whizzed along for several years. Then something was discovered that led us to believe something was odd with the numbers. Then, on and on and on.

Even down to the fact that I asked the group that burns the CDs and puts the beautiful labels on the CDs themselves to only put the labels on the 28 CDs, and that I would do the CD burning myself. Well, had they received the actual master files yesterday and put them on the CDs, then I would have had to trash the CDs.

So, I told my boss - "You and I are both persons with deep faith. I see the Hand of God at work here. Imagine how beautiful a stained glass window is. Now, think about what makes up that stained glass image. It's simply broken pieces of glass fashioned into something great by the hand of the artist.

His wrinkled brow smoothed out and we rejoiced that although we felt these different pieces were "breaking" for no fault of our own. Actually the finished work will be made ever so much better because of the Hand of the Artist!

Now, I'm not finished yet, and will most likely be working a majority of tomorrow. But I'm taking the remainder of the evening for myself to relax and try to regroup.

Several of you have been praying about the doctor asking me to come in for results of my test. Well, surprisingly, he said that all was normal, no problems at all. Then, as we talked about various things I've noticed this month, he exclaimed with a big smile, "This tells me EXACTLY what I wanted to hear!" At my puzzled expression he explained, "I wanted some unusual sign that this new medication is doing its job, and what you've told me would fill a text book on this medication! And, further, you DO KNOW, don't you, that the dosage we prescribed for you is so small it is to be used with children 5-12 years of age! I don't want you to increase it - now, relax and come back to see me in 4 months."

With that, we parted with a smile and a handshake. What an answer to prayer!

Y'all have a good evening.

Time to rest.

Oh Ruth Ann - that is indeed good news!  Thank You, Father, for doing this through our Lord Jesus Christ.  And thank You, too, Father, that Ruth Ann can depend upon You in her work.  You are glorified.

I posted an update on Jerry
here.

It has been beautiful and predicting the next two days are going to be better.  Spring has sprung!!

Thanks for the devotional, Pat.  I am listening to the music now.  Love piano music and have many tapes and CD's of classical music featuring piano.  Horowitz & Richard Clayderman are special.....

Not a great day today, weather wise.  Cold and rain.  A very cold spring!  Good for the flowers and trees tho' and flowers will last longer this way.  Not certain about my body.  Now have to take Fosamax Tabs ($11.00 per tablet) due to stage 3 osteoporosis.  Seems it is more than Arthritis and Fibromyalgia now....Lord Love A Duck  The gov. doesn't cover all of my medications for High Blood Pressure either.  Soon will have to give up food and just take pills......My gripe for the week

Baby Bunnie didn't make it, but the other one is fat and healthy.  So Amanda is happy.  The cats are lots of fun and nothing like hugging a cat to make life seem better...unless it's hugging a dog.  Either is good!

Glad that you are feeling better Larry.  I do care about everyone and pray for and about different needs.  Will go and check your request, Pastor Al.  Hope you are doing okay, Pat.  Pain can really be a downer, but there is always something to smile about and be grateful for.  I was having a cup of coffee in Victoria one day and saw a tiny, elderly lady, with her sleeping bag in a cart, a tarp over it, looking thro' the garbage for cans and bottles....and probably food.  Wanted to help, but too far away.  I give to a mission in Vancouver that feeds the poor and homeless, Union Gospel Mission, somehow doesn't seem enough tho'.  So much need in the world.

Here is an oldie, but still worth a smile:

Think

There was a little boy named Johnny who used to hang out at the local corner market. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the boys would constantly tease him.

They would always comment that he was two bricks shy of a load or two pickles short of a barrel. To prove it, sometimes they would offer Johnny his choice between a nickel (5 cents) and a dime (10 cents) and Johnny would always take the nickel (they said) because it was bigger.

One day after Johnny grabbed the nickel, the store owner took him aside and said "Johnny, those boys are making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"

With a big grin on his face, Johnny slowly turned toward the store owner. "Well," he answered, "If I took the dime, they'd stop doing it, and so far I've saved $20!"

Did anyone watch Larry King last night?  He had a panel of religious leaders discussing life after death.  Included one atheist, a woman.  I found it rather disturbing and only watched a little of the program.  So many different opinions on the same subject!  No wonder the world is so confused and confusing.


Pleasant evening all and God Bless.

Liz





 

Oh how true, Liz - the world is indeed confused and confusing.  But, praise God there really is a day coming when this will no longer be so.  All that we see and all that we hear will then reflect our Lord's goodness and love!

Pastorsmate

I sure got a good adjustment at the chiropractor today. Eveything  moved the way it was supposed to. Then I had my massage. Feeling great now. I even got a piece of birthday cake there and took a couple of photos I will post.

TTYL

Hi Everyone:

I haven't been here for a while.   I've had the hole in my retina sealed up with lazer.  I've had a crown put on a tooth that had root canal and the whole tooth broke away.  The dentist put a pin into the root canal and put a cap on.  amazing.  Also I have been training a new trainee in EE and next week he will have an exam.  This is the time of our missionary conference at Peoples Church and I have been involved with that.    So as you can see there has not been a minute to breath.   

Hope everyone is well and I will check in tomorrow after the hike I'm going on.   God bless

Love Ruthie

Time to lock the door for Janet.  CLICK HERE