“My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord;
in the morning I will direct it to You, and I will look up.”
~Psalm 5:3~
Chloe Neyland
(May 21, 1919 – November 4, 2011)
Mrs. Maybelle Z. “Diene” Forstall was born May 2, 1919 and passed away at 1:00 a.m., Friday, November 4, 2001 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. She was 92, a native of Ama, LA and a resident of Kentwood.
Mrs. Maybelle is survived by her 4 daughters, Maybelle F. Givens, Robelyn F. Pitre, Irma F. Wehner and Barbara F. Piediscalzi; 4 sons-in-law, Leon Givens, Tarro Pitre, Michael Marquez & Ted Piediscalzi; a sister, Josephine Z. Diemel; 14 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren & 8 great great-grandchildren;
She was preceded in death by her parents Charles and Josephine Roux Zeringue; husband, Elmer L. Forstall; daughter, Darlene F. Marquez; grandson, Daniel P. Pitre; granddaughter, Cassandra W. Parfait; 7 brothers & 2 sisters.
Visitation at McKneely and Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, Sunday, November 6, 2011 from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and on Monday, November 7, 2011 from 8:00a.m.until 10:45 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Helena Catholic Church, Amite, at 11:00 a.m. with Fr. Mark Beard officiating. Interment in Gardens of Memories, Metairie, LA at 2:00 p.m., Monday, November 7,, 2011.
An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com
McKneely and Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy16W next to Hood Automotive and behind Mr. Tom’s Car Wash and Holiday Inn Express.
I heard about a couple who received a set of two horrible bedside table lamps as a wedding present from a distant aunt. Since the lamps were so ugly, this couple didn’t want to actually use them, so they put them in storage and bought a nicer set themselves. That worked for a while, but a few years later, this particular relative came to a family celebration. Knowing she would be there, the couple quickly set up the aunt’s lamps on the tables and hid their usual ones under the bed.
When time came to show the aunt around the house, the wife said, “Come and see how nice your lamps look in our bedroom.”
She turned on the switch on the wall — and suddenly an intense luminosity emerged from under the bed…..
Oops! How embarrassing! I am reminded of the following statement made by Jesus:
“[Jesus] said to them, ‘Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light.’ ” (Mark 4:21-22).
Jesus’ point here is not quite the same as in the more familiar passage in Matthew 5:16 (“Let your light so shine before men…”). Here in Mark, Jesus has apparently just begun to speak in parables. To the apostles, it may have seemed that Jesus was trying to hide the truth from people by speaking with such obscurity. But Jesus points out that wouldn’t make much sense; it would be like lighting a lamp (to bring light) and then placing it under a bed (to hide the light). His reason for using parables wasn’t to hide God’s truth, but to set it on a lampstand so that it could give forth as much light as possible.
Father, we thank you for sending One who not only came to show us the light, but who is Himself “the light of the world”. May our lives and conversation be such that we will never be embarrassed by an attempt to hide that light under our beds. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Have a great day!
Alan Smith
Boone Church of Christ
Boone, North Carolina
Boone Church of Christ
Boone, North Carolina
Don’t forget to change your clock back one hour. Enjoy the extra hour doing something important to you!
Anna Lee
The Prayer Link 