“You cannot serve both God and money,”
~Matthew 6:24 NIV~
“Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also.”
~Matthew 6:21 NIV~
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Ashley Sue Miller
(September 27, 1988 – April 28, 2010)
A resident of Kentwood, died at 6:02 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at her residence. She was born September 27, 1988 and was 21 years of age. She is remembered as being bubbly and full of life and is known for lighting up any room with her big beautiful smile and magical presence. She is now in heaven with all the other angels. She will be missed terribly by all who knew her and loved her. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Sunday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 10 a.m. Monday. Services conducted by Bro. Bob Simpson . Interment Hyde Cemetery, Roseland, LA. Survived by mother, Deborah Wall Miller, father, Perry Miller, her only child, Preston William Wright, brother, Ben Miller, sister, Brandi Miller, grandparents, Sandra and Ivy Wall, Jr., and Myrtle Miller, father of her child, Matthew Wright, uncles, Greg Wall, Huck Wall, and Steve Miller, aunts, Sgt. Major Carolyn Miller, Pat Miller Harn, and Dorothy “Dottie” Winters, many cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. Preceded in death by great-grandparents, Ivy Wall, Sr. and Zula Wall, grandpa Doyle Dude Miller, aunt, Pauline Miller White, and cousin, Brian Saxon.
BOTH BORN AND ADOPTED
The following was reported by WESTERN MORNING NEWS in 1994:
Ian Lewis, 43, of Standish, Lancashire, England, was interested in finding out about his family. He spent 30 years tracing his family tree back to the seventeenth century. He traveled all over Britain, talked to 2,000 relatives and planned to write a book about how his great-grandfather left to seek his fortune in Russia and how his grandfather was expelled after the Revolution. Then he found out he had been adopted when he was a month old and his real name was David Thornton. He resolved to start his family research all over again.
How frustrating! However, it reminds me that, for a Christian, it makes no difference whether we trace our spiritual lineage by way of birth or adoption because both images are used to express our relationship to God our Father.
“Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ ” (John 3:5)
“…having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will…” (Ephesians 1:5)
God is our Father by (re)birth and by adoption (we are chosen!). What a privilege to be a part of His family!
Have a great day!
Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Continue to pray for all those we have been praying for lately.
Anna Lee
The Prayer Link 