Even when he retired, he was constantly working. Building some piece of furniture in his wood shop, tilling the garden, selling oil products to county barns. I never saw him sitting around doing nothing.
Author: Tracy Eldridge
Woman, you are blessed
God protects those that He will use.
Ruth became one of those in the bloodline of Jesus.
Freedom is…
Waking up in my house and knowing that it’s mine. Life and the freedom we enjoy was bought with the blood of soldiers who paid for it with their lives.
America has been a light to the world for a long time and the light was the reason our soldiers fought for our freedoms.
He will protect you
Surrender your grief to Him
Many times in our lives we get blind-sided by the news of a friend’s death or of a sudden death in our immediate family and we don’t know how to handle it. We must seek Jesus in our grief and let Him have the pain and the suffering. It sounds easy but it isn’t, particularly at the time of the loss. Why am I bringing this up today? Because, yesterday was the fourth anniversary of my Dachshund, Trixie, passing away and I need to write about it.
The months after her death were hard because she was only a month or two from her 15th birthday. It happened during the first months of COVID so we couldn’t be in the office with her which hurt. It felt like losing a child because it was so sudden. One of the girls came to the door and told us we needed to come in quickly. They had taken an x-ray of her and she had an enlarged heart and by the time we got inside, she was taking her last breath. Even four years after the event just thinking about it hurts.
Grief doesn’t go away. Time may help eventually but grief and the pain of loss never really go away. We must give those feelings to Jesus and let Him help us with them. God knows the pain and the feelings that we have when a beloved family member dies and we have to trust Him in the pain so we can move through it one day at a time.
To tell the truth
Since I was called to be a pastor, my plan is to keep telling people about my Savior, Jesus Christ.