Monday

“You (God) created everything,

and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created.”

~Revelation 4:11b (NLT)~

 

Pray for Mrs. Mary Womack as she sees her doctor to get an okay for surgery.  “Miss” Mary thinks surgery will be the first part of June.

Continue to pray for Mr. Wenous Goings who is in Hammond.

Pray for the people who have been affected by the latest round of tornados and for the disaster relief people who will be assisting in recovery.

THE STORMS THAT hit Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia have left devastation and ruin all across these states…

The pictures are almost surreal.

It is hard to imagine entire neighborhoods, business districts, and countryside wiped out in just a matter of seconds from the force of the tornadoes that hit.

While we were fortunate that God spared us, we need to keep many other folks in our prayers.

Of all the pictures I saw of the damage, one stood out more than the others… a couple standing in front of some damaged houses.  All around them is destruction and their faces betray their dismay at the magnitude of the damage.  Yet, they are holding on to each other.  Everything they were familiar with, everything they had known, everything that had been normal the day before, is now gone…but they have each other.

It is one thing to lose a house and all its furnishings.  It is quite another thing to lose your home.  A home can exist even when the house is gone.  You see, a home is made up of two or more people who share love, life, and laughter.  And that home is made stronger when God is at the center of everything that takes place in the lives of those who are part of it.  When God is at the center, our homes are storm proof.  That doesn’t mean bad things will never happen.  It simply means that when tragedy does strike, you will find the two of them huddled together, holding each other, and giving and receiving support.  That’s how homes weather a storm.

Many of the houses in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia are gone.  They may be rebuilt, but the greatest asset for those who have lost so much is their home.  Home…where love dwells, where joy and grief is shared, and where the storms of life are not a threat…but a shelter of protection.  Gary Knuckles, “Storm Proof,” Briensburg church of Christ Bulletin, 05.01.11:www.briensburgchurchofchrist.org

Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4.12