Tuesday

“For the wages of sin is death,

but the free gift of God is eternal life

through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

~Romans 6:23 NLT~

The music provided by the Louisiana College Chorale was of exceptional quality. If you missed the performance last night, you missed something special.

Please pray for Larry Watts and his family. Larry is home at home.

Monday night (9:59 EDT) update on Don Denton

Don was able to go to church this Sunday and for us to attend as a family was a special event. We love our church family they have been there for us even when we have not been able to be there.

They are precious people of God and we are honored to be a part of this special gathering of christians. They have been “light” to us and have continued to walk with us, love us and support us in a way that is beyond what we could have imagined. We are so grateful!

After church Don was pretty tired and wore out, he came home and slept.

What is hard for people to see is that Don is dizzy all the time. I am amazed that this man can get up everyday with his dizziness, nausea and headaches and push through that to do life as best as he can.

He looks good and he is getting stronger and one would never no that he is so sick by just looking at him.

What I love to watch is that he continues to teach our son, Joshua about the unconditional love of God too.

I am humbled to watch this father-son relationship in such a way that models Christ. I am blessed to experience this. It can be tough for a man to be vulnerable with their son. Especially with our western culture mindset that men should not show emotion. When one is raised in such a way, it is hard to break that cycle.

I love that our pastor emulates that love toward his church. It is precious to hear our pastor tell us that he loves us. We are ministered deeply to. That is how God intended it to be.

When life takes away what one knows life as. It can change you and how you look at life. Children don’t understand that, they can’t.

We do our best to take each day and make the best of it, yet it is hard when the rubber meets the road to rise above that. We are human. Thank God he is faithful. Thank God we can admit our mistakes and He loves us in such an amazing way.

Don tapered down to 7.5mg. today. He has been more sick today and has needed to rest more. He did go to physical therapy and it took allot out of him.

Well, I still need to do dishes. We continue to pray that Don will make it just another 11 days till he is off of steroids.

WE will leave Thursday late afternoon to drive up to St. Louis. Don will have testing all day on Friday. We will drive back home.

Then Don will see Neurosurgeon on the 28th. Hopefull surgery will happen a few days after. We will not know until that time.

If the sun is shining tomorrow and it is warm enough to get outside, Josh and I will work in our little garden. With all the cold weather still lingering, our vegtables have not thrived as well as I would have liked.

Thank you so much for praying for us. I believe Don has not relapsed because of prayer. I believe it.

Bless you our family and friends.

Diane

Funeral services for Reuben Lee will be at 1 P.M. today at McKneely’s in Kentwood.

Funeral services for Mrs. Bernice Simmons will be at 11 A.M. at Line Creek Baptist Church. “Miss” was probably one of the best know and most loved ladies in the Kentwood area. She will be greatly missed by family and friends. Everyone has special memories of people who have moved to their heavenly home. Our favorite memory of “Miss” Bernice is that she ALWAYS asked about out children BY NAME. That was so special to us!

Jesse Dean’s sister, Patsy, is hospitalized in North Oaks. Please be in prayer for her.

Continue to pray for Mrs. Frances Bell as she begins the rehabilitation process for the broken hip.

We have a third Thursday this week. There will be a meeting for food, fellowship, and Bible study this Thursday at the cabin at 6:30 P.M.

KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my family was camping in the mountains of Colorado…
We have arrived there late in the afternoon, and we picked out a nice spot close to a beautiful river. While I was attending to the chores of setting up and organizing our camp, the children went off to play.
As the sun began to set, we started rounding up the children and hustling them back into our campground before it got completely dark. Our four-year-old son, Scott, was missing. The river was making so much noise that my calls were drowned out, and its roar was a constant reminder of danger.
Panic began to build. Where was he? Had he wandered out of the campground? Had he wandered up or down the river? The last time I saw him, he was playing at the edge of the water with a little boat he had made.
By now you could barely distinguish the camp as the rays of the setting sun were further blocked by the forest. A chilling reality gripped me. I only had a few minutes before darkness made my search nearly impossible.
What should I do?
First, I want to tell you some of the things I did not do.
I did not organize any classes on how to find lost children.
I did not hold any rallies to enlist volunteers to help me.
I did not wait until someone came along with was better qualified than I to search.
I did not fail to do anything for fear of doing the wrong thing.
Now, I want to tell you what I did do.
I acted immediately.
I ran around the campground.
I dashed up and down the river.
I called Scott’s name, in spite of the roaring river.
I searched the churning waters.
I stopped total strangers to describe him, and they joined in the search.
Nothing else mattered for that period of time. Finding him was my top priority.
After running all over the campground and up and down the river, I still could not find him. Not knowing what else to do, I decided to go back to camp to figure out what to do next. Scott and I arrived at the same time. He was walking nonchalantly into our campground, oblivious to everything; I was still on a dead run.
An old preacher once said, “If a man has a soul, and he has, and if that soul can be won or lost for eternity, and it can, then the most important thing in the world is to bring a man to Jesus Christ.” (Don Humphrey)
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save
that which was lost.”
~Luke 19:10~

Make a difference in a someone’s life today.

Anna Lee

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