Apr. 14, 2009 - Prayer Request

Please Pray for my sister, Teresa gentry. She Had a mild heart attack on Sunday night and had to be hospitalized. She was also anemic and yesterday they gave her four pints of blood. They are going to do a stress test today to see what caused the attack and if that is normal they will then do tests on her stomach to see why she is losing blood. She is only 50 but has been under enormous strain the last few years due to her son being in and out of jail. Thank you all. Also pray for her husband Mike and daughter Heidi. Heidi is a sophmore and is having a struggle the last few days.                   God Bless you all   Linda

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Feb. 11, 2009 - When Gods blessings come specially wrapped

Today I visited a small grave where the headstone was so low in the ground it was covered by grass and had to be uncovered so I could place the two tiny bunches of flowers on the headstone. It would have been his 17th birthday but he was spending it in heaven with his heavenly father and not here on earth. When he entered our lives that morning 17 years ago it was to be only for 8 hours but he touched so many lives while he was here. He made his entrance early at 7 and a half months and was only loaned to us for a few hours. He was so tiny and born with defects,(hydrocephelus, cleft palate and weak heart) but he was Gods blessing to us and specially wrapped the way God wanted him to. Through his short life we saw the father we had not seen for  over 7 years, nurses, doctors and others were touched by this tiny life. Why he had to be here only a short time I do not know and cant understand but God does and someday I will see him again. As I held him in my arms and touched his fingers and hands he was so perfect but not meant to stay. He breathed his last breath in my arms and as they took him away we cried for his brothers who were only one and two and his five year old sister for they never got to see him.Heather asked us when we went home the day of the funeral"Mommy wheres my baby", It broke our hearts to tell her he wouldnt come home but that God needed him with him. So as I stood by that tiny grave this morning with tears streaming down my face I said Happy Birthday Jeremiah We miss you.

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Feb. 6, 2009 - Our God is so great

Sometimes I think we get so wrapped up in the things of the day and our tasks that we forget to take a quiet moment and thank God for the blessings in our lives. I just want to praise God today for who he is and that even though he takes some of us through insurmountable trials we can still have peace that he is control and that all of this is in his hands to draw us closer to him and maybe to lovingly (spank) us to. Thank you Lord for who you are and for who I can become through your love and forgiveness.  " O God, You know my strengths, my weaknesses and my secret thoughts, and my selfish desire-----------yet YOU LOVE ME. Thank you. Amen

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