Family Time

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Getting ready for a wild Saturday. We're heading to Jefferson City to buy some school supplies and check out some old haunts.

Have a great day.

  

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AZMOMXTWO 8/4/2012 11:15AM

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Prayer Request

Friday, August 03, 2012

I got some tough news this morning from some friends that live in another part of the country. they have been married for just under ten years and have been struggling the past year and a half. Today the wife contacted me and asked me to specifically pray for them as he has asked her for a divorce.

Needless to say she is dismayed, angry and frustrated. Along with that she is in the final trimester of a pregnancy.

Please pray for Brett and Janelle. Pray that God would do a work on Brett's heart and help him to see the truth.

Thanks.

  

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7WORSHIPS 8/4/2012 10:53AM

I will place all of them on my prayer list, especially their unborn baby. Report Inappropriate Comment

AGK3112 8/3/2012 10:22PM

Sure will pray for both..Hope they get back together and things get much better and get easy in their life Report Inappropriate Comment

DOTTIEJANE1 8/3/2012 6:02PM

Prayers for both . So sad. Report Inappropriate Comment

SIMPLE_TAILOR 8/3/2012 1:31PM

They are on my prayer list, I can do nothing better for them. Report Inappropriate Comment

NEVERORNOW 8/3/2012 12:17PM

How sad. I'll pray for them. Report Inappropriate Comment

TERRIPAL1 8/3/2012 11:30AM

Prayers going out to them, and you're so kind! Report Inappropriate Comment

Tough Meeting

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Today will involve some driving here in Mid-Mo. Hopefully, i will have to use my windshield wipers this afternoon.

Please pray for an important meeting that one of our deacons and i have with the pastor of a church plant that we have co-sponsored for the past couple of years. Due to some circumstances, the church will be dissolving the end of this month and joining in with another church in the Columbia area that has a similar vision.

We have to discuss all the things that go with assets that the church will liquidate. It's a tough time for this young man. He has poured two years of his life into this church and it was unable to get off the ground.

Thanks in advance for your prayers.

  

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KAREN42BOYS 8/2/2012 1:03PM

That does make for a hard time. I pray for God's grace to reveal itself unexpectedly today. Report Inappropriate Comment

Priceless!!

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

ast night, i was reminded why i enjoy the Summer Olympics so much. Perhaps it started when my dad drug me out of my room to witness history in 1972 when Mark Spitz won his sixth and seventh gold medals. He told me, "Son, you may never see this again in your life, so don't miss this."

While i ejoyed Michael Phelp's record setting performance in becoming the most decorated athlete of all time with his 19th medal, it was Aly Raisman's floor exercise that gave me a priceless moment that i will always remember. I don't even know enough about gymnastics to have an intelligent discussion with true fans of the sport, but i watched last night's broadcast of the events that happened earlier that day.

It wasn't watching those five young ladies stand on the medal stand with several of them mouthing the words to the Star Spangled Banner that moved me as much as the look on Aly's face when she completed her final tumbling run on the floor exercise. As she stuck the landing the look on her face was one of awe and unbridled emotion.

After a night that was full of incredible perfomances and heartwrenching disappointment from the young ladies on the Russian team. Her look said all that needed to be said. It reminded me of why i watch sports that i generally won't give five minutes to with rapt attention.

In that moment the reality of what had just happened finally caught up with this incredibly talented young woman. All of those early mornings and late nights in a sweaty gymnasium were realized in the culmination of a dream that she may have hoped would come true.

As human beings we are able to fathom things that animals cannot. Though i am sure a horse that wins the Belmont or the Preakness enjoys the attention that they receive for their victory, i do not believe that the animal can even begin to comprehend the scope and significance of their accomplishment. That ability is reserved for those of us who have been given the capacity to grasp things that are utterly beyond us.

Those moments of awe, that Miss Raisman's face captured in a night that was chocked full of emotions reminds us that we are indeed unique creatures who are quite different from those in the animal kingdom.

I believe that it is the signature of the divine that makes us human and enables us to at least partially comprehend such moments of significance. Last night was a wonderful reminder of our humanity as well as just how complex and beautiful we truly are.

  

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AGK3112 8/1/2012 8:20PM

It is good that you do enjoy sports. I do love Olympics but not getting enough time to see it. Hope you enjoy 2012 Olympics. Report Inappropriate Comment

FISHINGLADY66 8/1/2012 11:47AM

Glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you a special August...may it be awesome! Report Inappropriate Comment

SAINTBETH 8/1/2012 11:17AM

He knit us in our mother's womb. Report Inappropriate Comment

TARANITUP 8/1/2012 10:51AM

Wow I missed it but I'm going to have to find the replay!!! I got some goosebumps reading this :) Glad you enjoyed it! Report Inappropriate Comment

Tozer Quote

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team.”

A.W. Tozer

  

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BARB4HEALTH 8/2/2012 9:49AM

I like AWTozer's works. He was one of the "greats" in the faith. Report Inappropriate Comment

DOTTIEJANE1 7/31/2012 11:19AM

A.W. Tozer was/is a wise person .This is so teue. Have a blessd day . Report Inappropriate Comment