We had been trying for a child for years, so I was ecstatic when I got up at five one morning, took a home pregnancy test, and found I was expecting.
“Richard,” I yelled to my husband, “we’re going to have a baby!”
“Great,” he said and rolled over.
“How can you go back to sleep?”
Muttering into his pillow, he said, “I’m stocking up.”
– from Judith Friedman (via Reader’s Digest)
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God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory. – Augustine
[With this being Tax Season, here is our obligatory IRS joke.- Rick]
A couple of weeks after hearing a sermon on Psalm 51:2-4 (knowing my own hidden secrets) and Psalm 52:3-4 (lies and deceit), a man wrote the following letter to the IRS:
“I have been unable to sleep, knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I understated my taxable income, and I have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can’t sleep, I will send the rest.”
Received from GCFL
We need to pray every morning to do God’s work each day, and, … In part 1 of Lessons From The Land, Pastor Dan Cox reads from Mark 1 & 2.
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I know, I am a delinquent grandpa. But I am triumphant as well. Yesterday – Friday 4-3, Atticus returned home from the hospital. It is impossible for me to comprehend how a little boy, less than a year old, can have heart surgery and go home a week later. We are working on returning to the States around June-July and we will be able to hold him in our arms. A mere 50 years ago we would be mourning his passing and throwing dirt on his grave. God is so good. Thank you for your prayers. We expect that God has a special place in this life and in his kingdom for Atticus DiCicco. Pray and watch with us for this young man of special blessings. …He is joyous!
Because Jesus has been raised, you have been made alive and your labor in the Lord is not in vain. In part 3 of Easter 2015, Pastor Dan Cox reads from 1 Corinthians 15.
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