Dear Children and Grandchildren,

I have enjoyed the Word of God more than I ever have since I am no longer preaching 3 or 4 times a week and am not pressed for time. Some times I find things I'd like to share with all of you, or some of you individually. With your mother's encouragement I'd like to start a "Bible Blog" and share some of my thoughts with you. Last night I told Joanna that I opened a can of "Pork and Beans" for supper, (your mother is in Arizona helping Becky while Adam recuperates from a serious operation) but I found no pork so I renamed it "Beans and Beans". With a hearty laugh she wondered if I had "looked under every bean?' I trust what I send you will have some "pork" but if you find it to be only "beans" just push the delete button.

Ps.119:168 "I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies: for all my ways are before Thee," As you were growing up one of the things I was careful to emphasize in our daily devotions was that the time would come when you would no longer be under the eye of Mom and Dad but you would never be out of sight of God's eye. What an encouragement we find here to keep God's Word. "all my ways are before Thee,"

"Experience makes many a paradox plain, and this is one. Before God we may be clear of open fault and yet at the same time mourn over a thousand heart-wanderings which need his restoring hand."--C.H. Spurgeon

"I may hide Thee from my eye, but not myself from Thine eye."--Wm. Gurnall

Sunday, October 12, 2008

We…do not cease to pray for you…that you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. Col. 1:9-10

Holy Father, in Thy mercy Hear our anxious prayer; Keep our loved ones, now far absent, 'Neath Thy care.
Jesus Saviour, let Thy presence be their light and guide; Keep O keep them, in their weakness, at Thy side.
When in sorrow, when in danger, when in loneliness, in Thy love look down and comfort their distress.
May the joy of Thy salvation be their strength and stay; may they love, and may they praise Thee day by day.
Holy Spirit, let Thy teaching sanctify their life; Send Thy grace that they may conquer in the strife.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, God the One in Thee, Bless them, guide them, keep them near to Thee.---Isabel Stevenson, 1888

My prayer for each of you, Dad
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