Monday

“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

always in every prayer of mine

making request for you all with joy,

for your fellowship in the gospel

rom the first day until now.”

~Philippians 1:3-5~

Please pray for our children, Deloy and Debbie. They are on a mission field overseas at this time. There are in a group of seven…pray for all of them.
This is a special trip requested by the Foreign Mission Board. They will return Oct. 21. Thank you and God bless each of you.
Ann Chapman

Leola M. Martinez Guthrie Prescia
(Died October 12, 2008)

Passed away October 12, 2008 at 12:20 A.M. in Hammond, La. at Belle Maison Nursing Home. Arrangements are incomplete at this time. Arrangements have been entrusted to McKneely and Vaughn Funeral Home in Amite.

Mrs. Ann Chapman shared this:

Excuse me, Are you Jesus?’

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night’s dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly-missed boarding.

ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath , got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been
overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor.

He was glad he did.

The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight.

The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, ‘Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?’ She nodded through her tears.. He continued on with, ‘I hope we didn’t spoil your day too badly.’

As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, ‘Mister…..’ He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, ‘Are you Jesus?’

He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: ‘Are you Jesus?’ Do people mistake you for Jesus? That’s our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace.

If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It’s actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day.

You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked up you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.

The share group will meet at the cabin Thursday night at 6:30. Please consider joining us for food, fellowship, and a devotional.

Don’t let the devil make this a miserable Monday!

Anna Lee