“Give thanks to the LORD; proclaim His name!
Celebrate His deeds among the peoples.
Declare that His name is exalted.
Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things.
Let this be known throughout the earth.”
~Isaiah 12:4b-5, HCSB~
Jimmy and Retia Duke
Saturday, July 18, 2009 11:19 PM, EDT
Delerium
Mom is not doing better and better although she is trending up. She is cognitively challenged right now. We don’t know how much it is her being in the hospitals 4 walls for over 3 mos, or the brain injury, or her medicine.
Dad is admirably caring for his bride. For better or for worse is not just words he uttered and a useless ceremony. He believed what he said, he meant what he said. He is, in an example of Christ, serving his bride.
Thank you for serving us with your encouragement, your prayer, and the love you have shown us. Continue to pray for mom and dad’s bodies to heal, for mom’s mind to be made well, and for their hearts to be held by the holy spirit in a way that gives them peace and allows them to coninue to keep their focus breath by breath on God as Christ himself intercedes for them. May they be made whole again.
Jason will be back monday and pop will probably post tomorrow, I like hearing his heart in his post. We are thankful for the church being the church. With that in mind keep watching for Jason’s book. He has been busy with tragedy and trying to lead men and women to continue to being the church at Westpoint. If someone one may read it, it will come. peace e.
Here I am one week after my last post. It has been a very busy week. Don continues to get stronger physically. He is still at 147lbs and 6.1ft. tall. But the steroids have allot to do with that.
Don’s CAT Scan came back with no increase in inflammation. So that is a good thing. He saw his opthamologist this last week as well and he is beginning to develop cateracts from the steroids. Once Don tapers down which we have started to do successfully so far. So, once Don is at a lower level that will make a real difference with the progression of cateracts. It will help slow it.
Joshua is doing OK. We are starting to prepare for pre-school this fall. He is excited. We have had a good week this week.
Tonight I made pancakes for supper, packed them up in the car with Don and Josh and we went to the park and had supper. It was a great night to be there. Our weather has been beautiful the past few days.
Here we are at the end of July, this year has flown by in some ways and in others it has seemed like the longest year of my life. I missed my nieces wedding this weekend. Don and I have missed several events this year. Again I find myself reflecting on the losses, that has been really hard.
And it is a real balance of what is lost and being able to grieve that. And then holding onto the hope for what each day brings. Just to be able to go to the park together is a big thing for us.
Don is well on his way with being out of the hospital for almost two months come August. That is another huge accomplishment.
We have so much to be thankful for this day. I find myself reflecting on all that you all have done for us. We have been held up in prayer which we still so need. We have been ministered to in so many precious ways. I have so many “thank yous” to send. I thank God for you all.
Bless you our family and friends.
Diane
Maggie Lee Henson
I’m back with Maggie Lee after getting some rest. My dad has been with her since 8:00 and passed off to me a report that things are staying the same. It is quiet up here with Maggie Lee and even the babies aren’t crying (one was going off the other night like a siren).
I just picked up a snack out in the waiting room and downed a cup of Seattle’s best from the cafeteria. I’m not sure I want to go to Seattle again after that cup,but it woke me up a little.
Eating the snack reminded me of how great the people of Jackson are. Churches and individuals have kept us well fed and loved and we are continually blessed by the support of this wonderful city. Thanks, Jackson!
Bennie G. Simmons
(February 1, 1941 – July 18, 2009)
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McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W behind Mr. Tom’s Express Car Wash & Bond Eye Clinic.
Bruce Tassin
(August 4, 1949 – July 18, 2009)
Bruce Tassin was born August 4, 1949 and passed away at 7:58 a.m., Saturday, July 18, 2009 at his residence. Bruce was 59 and a resident of Amite.Arrangements are incomplete at this time.
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McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite. is located at I-55N and Hwy 16W behind Mr. Tom’s Express Car Was & Bond Eye Clinic.
KneEmail
Health
THE FUTURE OF our nation’s health care system is in the spotlight…
Congress has been asked to pass a package of legislation with an unimaginable price tag. No one denies that there is a need to make changes to our present system. The way to fix the system is where paths diverge.
But there’s another matter that should take even higher priority: our souls.
Jesus affirmed that truth:
“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:26 (NKJV)
One’s spiritual well-being, however, is low on the list for most people. As long as life is going reasonably well, why fret over religion?
Religion was not on the to-do list of the rich man of Luke 16 . He
“fared sumptuously every day”,
according to Jesus, and didn’t notice the beggar lying at his gate.
Luke 16:10-21
When he died his perspective changed.
Finding himself in flames, his only concerns were a drop of water to cool his tongue and someone to warn his brothers — still living — not to come to
“this place of torment”.
Luke 16:24-28
Food, clothes and housing were no longer important to him.
How we need to hear the message of God’s word! Our lives are much more than the physical. As Jesus taught in the passage above, we each have a soul that can be lost.
If we lose that soul, nothing we attained or enjoyed on earth will matter in eternity.
Nothing.
Paul taught that the Lord’s supper is an opportunity for spiritual self-examination. If we discern the Lord’s body, he said, we do well.
But those who neglect this weekly appointment, or whose minds wander as the elements pass by, face a danger:
“For this reason many are weak and sickly among you,
and many sleep”
I Corinthians 11:30
Paul wasn’t discussing physical sickness.
John’s concern for those to whom he wrote must become our concern:
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health,
just as your soul prospers.”
3 John 2
Yes, our physical health matters. But the prosperity of our souls is paramount.
Is it well with your soul? (Tim Hall at: http://www.forthright.net)
“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul?
Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:26
Posted by Mike Benson at July 17, 2009 11:45 AM
Be sure to give this Lord’s Day to the Lord!
Anna Lee
The Prayer Link 