If you are like most people, you find the months of October through December as the most hectic time of the year. That is generally true for our family as well…plenty of celebrations, holidays, and several family birthdays in December just for added stress fun. This year the mayhem began a few months earlier. We don’t get to schedule emergencies, do we?
It began with an exacerbation of my MS that meant approximately 6 weeks of traveling by wheelchair or walker. Not bad by normal standards for me, but still, those can never be planned in advance and I never know how long they will last. Next came health issues for family members on both sides of our families, some major and some minor. Flu, several surgeries, and much more.
We are also assisting someone during a transitional stage in their life. As part of this we started the transformation…
The factory had complicated machinery for making textiles, so the workers were given a very clear instruction: “If your threads get tangled, stop and send for the foreman” One of the workers, a woman who was dedicated to her job, and always worked hard, got her threads tangled one day and tried to disentangle them herself, rather than bothering the foreman. She succeeded only in making them more tangled.
Pastor Rob, Thank you for so clearly explaining our Christian views and practices…as we come into this season of harvest and Thanksgiving to our God…from whom all blessings flow! Amen! Great post!
It is commonly believed that the first Thanksgiving celebration took place in 1621. This feast was attended by both Pilgrims and Indians who joined together to thank God for their bountiful harvest of the previous year. This celebration was continued by the first American colonies, and later by the United States, as a time of thanksgiving for the blessings that God had bestowed upon the American people.
The official Thanksgiving Day holiday was started in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln, at the end of the Civil War, asked Americans to set aside the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving to God for the blessings He had shown to America (one of which was an end to the Civil War).
In 1939 FDR moved the holiday to the prior week. He did this to help businesses by giving them a longer holiday shopping period. Finally, in 1941 the fourth…
AMERICAN KIDS: Move out when they’re 18 with the full support of their parents.
ITALIAN KIDS: Move out when they’re 28, having saved enough money for a house,and are two weeks away from getting married….. unless there’s room in the basement for the newlyweds.
AMERICAN KIDS: When their Mom visits them, she brings a Bundt cake, you have coffee, and chat. ITALIAN KIDS: When their Mom visits them, she brings 3 days worth of food, begins to tidy up, dust, do the laundry, and rearrange the furniture.
AMERICAN KIDS: Their dads always call before they come over to visit them, and it’s usually only on special occasions.
ITALIAN KIDS: Are not at all fazed when their dads show up, unannounced, on a Saturday morning at 8:00 am, and start pruning the fruit trees. If there are no fruit trees, he’ll plant some.
AMERICAN KIDS: Always pay retail, and look in the Yellow Pages when they need to have something done.
ITALIAN KIDS: Call their dad or uncle, and ask for another dad’s, or uncle’s, phone number to get it done.
AMERICAN KIDS: Will come over for cake and coffee, and get only cake and coffee. No more. ITALIAN KIDS: Will come over for cake and coffee, and get antipasto, a pasta dish, a choice of two meats, salad, bread, a cannoli, fruit, and espresso.
AMERICAN KIDS: Will greet you with “Hello” or “Hi.” ITALIAN KIDS: Will give you a big hug, a kiss on your cheek, and a pat on your back.
AMERICAN KIDS: Have never seen you cry. ITALIAN KIDS: Cry with you.
AMERICAN KIDS: Eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on soft mushy white bread. ITALIAN KIDS: Eat Genoa Salami and Provolone sandwiches on crusty Italian bread (for breakfast).
Ya Gotta Love Us!!!
Don’t miss out…
Go visit an Italian today!!
Once we meet…
You’ll never be a stranger…
You’re part of our family now, and…
Forever!!
God Bless!
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed
Most Christians believe that it is definitely wrong ever to outwardly express anger in any form. And yet anger is an emotion and God created us as emotional beings. This leads to a very important question, “Is it always wrong and a sin to be anger?” To answer this, one must know the nature of anger as defined in the Bible, how it affects us and others, what the Bible says about expressing it, and how to handle it.
I. What is Anger?
Anger is a strong emotion of displeasure. The New Testament uses three words for anger?
1. Thumas — turbulent commotion, boiling agitation of feelings, blazing up, passion, anger boiling up and subsiding, an outburst from inward indignation (Eph. 4:31)
2. Parorgismos– (wrath) anger that has irritation, exasperation, embitterment (Eph. 4:26b, 6:4)
3, Orge– An abiding and settled habit of the mind aroused under certain conditions; against…
{The next few posts are messages I received from the Lord over the weekend. Because they were from Him to me, I wrote them in the first person. I share them with you in case you needed the same talk!}
I have a purpose in mind for you, I have a goal, a position just for you.
Search your heart for that dream I planted in you before you were born. Do you even remember what it was? Or have your critics and time buried it?
Know this: no one can prevent you from fulfilling my purpose for your life –
– except you.
Hagar couldn’t.
Joseph’s ten brothers couldn’t
Potiphar’s wife couldn’t.
Saul couldn’t.
The Pharisees couldn’t.
Pilate couldn’t.
Nero couldn’t.
DEATH COULDN’T!
(Have you ever wondered how Death could be thrown into the Lake of Fire? Is death an entity – not a state of being??!)
I’ve been the one to shake with fear And wonder if You’re even here I’ve been the one to doubt Your love I’ve told myself You’re not enough
I’ve been the one to try and say I’ll overcome by my own strength I’ve been the one to fall apart And start to question who You are
You’re the One who conquers giants You’re the One who calls out kings You shut the mouths of lions You tell the dead to breathe You’re the One who walks through fire You take the orphan’s hand You are the One Messiah You are I AM You are I AM
I’ve been the one held down in chains Beneath the weight of all my shame I’ve been the one to believe That where I am, You cannot reach
The veil is torn And now I live With the Spirit inside The same One The very same One Who brought the Son back to life! Hallelujah, He lives in me!
You are the One Messiah You are I AM Hallelujah, He lives in me! You are I AM Hallelujah, He lives in me!
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