Posted on 01/08/2006 7:23:19 PM PST by The Mayor
LOL!!
WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
Hi Diva, thanks for coming over.. : )
Thank you Miss Kitty.
Hi Billie, so good to see your smilin face.. : )
Hi Tulip, good to see you, some times life gets in the way. We understand.
My Pleasure, my honor and my duty!
Had a bad night last night, and this afternoon started to go to the store and held myself up by the scruff of the neck and said,"Self-you do not really need anything there, but you DO need to take a nap!"
Did just that, crashing without even bothering to take off my shoes, and got in two full hours...hooray!
Today's thread is wonderfully full of His Presence and caring for our military.
The Terrific Tables Task Force is doing a wonderful job, thanks to Billie.
LUV W, what you replied to La Enchiladita is so true - "Thanks...moms love to hear that their kids are being prayed for. And thanks for praying for mine! (((hugs)))"
A year ago when my teenage grandson, Christopher, was so seriously ill with a rare infection, taking months at home to recover, many here prayed for him. It was wonderful to have him visit here before Christmas, and at 17 actually attribute his full recovery to the prayers of many...
I have before described on The Finest how in 1986 my close cousin, Betsy, visited me in the hospital in Greensboro, NC, and we had a profound discussion about how our grandparents (minister and wife) - our mothers' parents - surely prayed for their chidren and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, and the fact that those prayers STILL SURROUNDED EACH ONE OF US!
My first grandchild was born in Hawaii in 1978, and his mother had serious problems, thinking it was fine to come home from the hospital and go out partying with a crowd...called my son (caring for the newborn) to say she was staying out all night, and he told her no...so the next day she hopped a plane back to her parents in Ft. Lauderdale. They were great persons, her father a newspaper owner-publisher, and had her try to make a go of her marriage, Kevin then assigned to Ft. Campbell, KY. They came to see us in Panama City, FL when B.J. was 7 months old, and then I did not see him again until he was 17.
Shortly thereafter, she moved out to a trailer with 4 men and the baby - Kevin got out of the service and went to Florida to complete his last 13 semester hours for his college drgree. Now divorced, Cheryl went to Maryland with her boyfriend.
She actually was running drugs, frequently flying them from there into D.C. - who would suspect a stunningly beautiful and sweet-looking blonde of being a mule?
From the day he was born, I prayed for God to watch over B.J. "wherever he was and in whatever circumstance he had in his life."
In His own perfect timing, a year later, Cheryl was rocked to her core when her boyfriend was murdered, no doubt because of a gang-related cause.
She returned to her parents, and Daddy put her to work in his office at the paper to keep her mind occupied. One noon she went to lunch nearby, and returning to the office, across the street was a tiny storefront church. She was somehow "drawn into entering it" and hit by The Holy Spirit there, *totally transforning her in an instant*!!
She who would not ever go to church with Kevin in Hawaii, spent the next 2 years devouring the Bible, and her parents sent her to see Israel. They had bought retirement property in northeast Alabama, and moved there with Cheryl and B.J.
Cheryl cheerfully went to work in a chicken processing plant, the Lord having her pluck them in a line of workers, spreading her love of Him to others!! She genuinely and humbly moved in His works, and eventually built a successful church on her section of the land.
It was when B.J.was 17 that he was in NC visiting her brother, and she asked if we wanted to take him from there to spend Christmas with us and our daughter in Columbia, SC!
Cheryl became the daughter of our hearts she wasn't when married to Kevin.
What joy to see how the Lord moved in response to prayers for that little boy!
He in turn married unwisely a girl he saved from a 'bad crowd' in Alabama, and she insisted he leave the Air Force and go back there, and then left him for the old crowd.
Not really fitting in there, he reentered the Air Force, and as I related recently, went from Colorado to Korea to now Germany. It thus is that my prayers still carry him, and his now almost 5-year old son.
Confident that I can entrust all my children and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren to God's Plan for each, I do not fret nor grieve over their obstacles and griefs and mistakes, but rejoice that they are all His...
Submitting to His path for them and always looking to Him, they will be fine.
Thank you Lady! I am grateful that my statement prompted you to share your sweet story with us. Prayers still up for your family to find all the happiness...in the Lord...that they can. And for you to have relief from your pain for a while. God bless you. You are a blessing to all of us here in the Finest. (((hugs)))
Thanks to you all for your wonderful support of our military. My heart aches for the families of those who lost their lives.
I sure hope so too.
What a wonderful testimony! Thank you so much for including me in the ping!
What a marvelous God we serve! Thank you for your encouragements and blessings and prayers and praises and testimony! Hallelujah! Christ is Risen Indeed!
That is a lovely and profound testimony of stories of God's work & presence. We often don't see what we want & feel ignored.. God's timing is not our timing.
I am sorry sweet Maggie that you have had the pain & went thru the troubles again. I am sure that nap was very sweet.
Thanks for sharing your heart & life with us..
He Shall Be Like a Tree Planted By the Rivers of Water, that Bringeth Forth his Fruit in his Season. (Ps.1:3)
Thank you, dear King's Daughter, for the Blessing you Bring to me. (And for the Glory you Bring to Him!)
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