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                                 Sandy Hook Memorial Picture

Years ago I visited the Sandy Hook lighthouse and took a picture of this lighthouse through a broken wall. I would like to dedicate that picture to ALL the families and everyone brokenhearted by the Sandy Hook tragedy.

 

Thank God for all the family members that lost loved ones who have been able to do something positive (some have started foundations and organizations to help others).

 

Even though our family has never suffered grief to their extent, my heart is broken for all of them, including the Lanza family. But for the grace of God it could have been any of us. Praying for all of you as you come to the one year mark. None of you have been forgotten.

Lifeline: Give God all your broken pieces because

only He knows how to put things back together again.

After Boston Bombing..........

What we should all realize is...

Life is fragile, handle with care.

Thoughts and prayers are with all those who were in Boston

and for our country.

 

"If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)

 

 



Easter Weekend 2013 at Ocean City, Maryland

        For various reasons I've been off line for the past year,

              but plan to publish once a month starting now.

                                Easter weekend was spent in Ocean City, Maryland.

                                     Good Friday evening sunset is pictured below

           Saturday we viewed a sand sculpture
                 created by Randy Hofman.
He has been doing these in Ocean City for years. Check out his other work on the web.

 

Sunday sunrise service was a little chilly but worth braving the cold.

 Ocean City Baptist pastor spoke 3 things about Jesus

1.Jesus is God

2. Jesus is only way to Heaven

3. Jesus rose from the dead

Because of these 3 things, our behavior should be

 compassionate, committed and

  Christlike.

 

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord

 is to be praised. Psm.113:3

 

How did you spend Easter? Did you attend a special service?

 Do you believe Jesus rose from the dead as He said?



 

 

Left Behind

About 6 weeks ago, I started rereading the Left Behind series (authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins). Even though I knew the end (you know too if you’ve read Revelations) and had read many from the 12 in the Left Behind series, I started reading them again….just finished Soul Harvest (4^th – Left Behind, Tribulation Force, Nicolae, Soul Harvest). Tomorrow I pick up Apollyon from my library and the next three I purchased cheaply from a second hand store.

 

Here was the surprise. Even though I knew this “story” - actually much of the same information is prophesied in Revelation (the Bible), but written as a “fiction” series - reading this series has been much like today’s news. Big topics were, Obama Care

(ie. World Health Organization in book series) and our recent economic crashes (fall of world's economic system and set up of world currency) as well as severe weather (part of the world will be destroyed during the tribulation period).

 

Believe me, the stage has been set and it has been shown much clearer to me ten years after some of these books were published just how much closer we have moved to the coming of our Lord and Savior (the Rapture).

 

For this reason, as well as to be able to talk to others about the Lord, I encourage all of you to read the Left Behind series. And there is a series for kids too. Even if you want to skip the first one (because you saw the movie which is similar, but not the same as the book), the author will review and Tribulation Force is full of action.

 

Get started reading soon and let me know what you think.

 Lifeline: Those who have accepted Christ will NOT be left behind to endure the 7 year tribulation period. Are you ready?

 

1.  Have you read the Left Behind series? How many? the kids series?

2.  When did you read them?

3.  Will you at least reread one in the series?

4.  Please comment on your impression from reading or rereading these books.

 

 

 

 

Ohio School Shooting

These comments in no way criticize the families involved since I do not know them,

                                                     but reflect my opinion in general on the condition of our society.

WKYC news in Ohio reports other school incidents just days after the Chardon shooting which took the lives of three boys and put the shooter in prison awaiting trial:

                In North Royalton, a 9th grader has been removed from the high school after a girl overheard the boy making threats and talking of possessing weapons…

               Tuesday, police in Bath were investigating inappropriate comments by a Revere middle school student, while a 17-year-old Crestwood High School student was arrested in Mantua for allegedly posing with an assault rifle and making threats in two Facebook postings….

               Also Tuesday, the Summit County Sheriff's Office says it arrested a 14-year-old at the L.E.A.P. Program in Green on aggravated menacing.

                        What’s happening to our kids, our schools, our families?

We’ve taken the Bible out of school and replaced it with textbooks void of family values and loaded with humanism. So our kids believe, “It’s all about me.”

Many of us have stopped going to church, teaching Bible principles and praying with our kids.

Instead we’ve hooked up to cable TV and cell phones. We’ve stopped listening to our children, and they’re listening to lies of cyber bullies. Minds have been filled with disrespect for authority and disregard for others.

Self inflicted cuttings and killings are becoming more common than kindness.

The only way to turn things around is to get back to an old Bible command: Love the Lord God and others as yourself.

And it’s time we as adults set the example. Let’s get back to reading, believing and teaching the Bible. Let’s find a place where we can worship God and show love to our family and community as well as the world. We need God today more than ever before.


And let’s pray for the families of Ohio’s shooting. It could have been you or me, our sons, grandchildren.

Re: Grief and Loss of Loved One

Elizabeth Edwards shares this thought about the death of her son in her book, Saving Graces.(p.116)

 What we all had to face was not something present
  [like our grief or decisions we had to make]
  but something absent.
 And although anyone could escape something's presence,
  there was, we each discovered, no way to escape the absence.

Think about someone you know suffering the loss of a loved one and say a prayer that they will discover the hope of God, the only One who can fill a void.

Why? Because He too suffered loss and promised life eternal for all who accept Him as their Savior.

Those of you who know me, know that my extended family member recently lost a mother and fourteen year old in a car accident.

Lifeline prayer: Dear Lord, help us to hope in You

 knowing You care and share in the sorrow we bear.

What are some ways God gives hope?