March 24th, 2010 12:17pm
Terry
Monday promised to be a day filled with rain, but when I got up, the rain had not yet begun. I decided to try to get a little job done for a friend. I had promised to replace his mailbox which was about to fall off its post. I figured it was a short job and i could probably finish before the rain began.
After breakfast, I gathered the new mailbox and the tools I thought I would need and headed for my friends house. When I arrived, I found that I did not have the right tools to remove the old box and could not do the job then and there. I would have to admit that I was upset …
November 4th, 2009 10:20am
Terry
It all started when I asked God to teach me how to be at peace in all situations.
I had just started my trip to New Jersey to see my son, daughter-in-law and grandson. The radio in our van doesn’t work so I figured this was a good time to spend talking with God. I confessed that I had been having a hard time listening and being at peace and that silence was something that I needed to learn. Then there was a loud noise, as if something had stopped working. The noise was followed be a loud bang and the power steering and power brakes were gone. The engine heat began to rise rapidly. I started down an exit …
April 13th, 2009 12:05pm
Terry
It happened over a period of time. I didn’t even notice that it was going on. Somehow, I lost my focus. Life became a dismal drudgery. How can someone go from being a happy, positive person to being a person ready to give up?
I retired in 2005. I had looked forward to retirement for several years and walked away from my job on my 55th birthday. WOW, what a great day. A few months later, my wife and I moved to New Hampshire. We felt that God was calling us to make this move. My wife’s family was here and it just seemed like everything pointed in this direction. As we looked for a house, we were led to an …
January 27th, 2009 10:59am
Terry
I play this game called Mahjongg. It’s on my computer. I guess it’s an ancient game from China. I play it a lot and sometimes it becomes a distraction. It’s a fairly straight forward game where you remove matching tiles from the playing board. Sometimes, I seem to see the moves without even trying and other times, I can’t see moves that are staring me in the face. Once in a while, I’ll look and look to find a single move. Then when I find it the computer tells me there are no more moves. It was the only move I could have made.
Sometimes, I live my life that way. Things are …
January 22nd, 2009 12:21pm
Terry
I have a hard time explaining faith. I’ve been a Christian long enough that I can give you a lot of theological reason and evidences to believe in Jesus. But, I can’t explain faith. How does someone come to a point of faith. It’s a lot like love. I can’t explain love, it’s just there. I can feel it, I know it’s there, But, I can’t explain it any more than I can explain air.
In his book, “Blue Like Jazz,” Donald Miller writes a chapter about Faith and Penguin Sex. It struck a …
December 27th, 2008 11:51am
Terry
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
His love endures forever.
Give thanks to the God of gods.
His love endures forever.
Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
His love endures forever.
(Psalm 136:1-3)
I don’t know about anyone else, but my God is good. He has been good through the years and I trust Him to be good forever. 2008 has been a year of new beginnings for me. Father has opened new avenues of service and has brought wonderful new friends into my life.
As I look forward to this new year (2009), I am excited to see what Father has in mind. I know …
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