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RE: Memaws' Meanderings - 8/27/2007 10:13:42 PM
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Memaw.
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We went out to dinner tonight to celebrate youngest dd 15th birthday!
(I am going to talk about her  ).
She wanted something different so we went to Olive Garden in Wichita. This was only the second time Rick and I had been there so we really weren't sure what we wanted.
After much consideration (and I do mean much), Rick decided on Chicken Primavera which he kept comparing to Pizza Huts'. I let the server know we don't let him out of the house very often.
After dinner, we came back home and decided to let the "birthday girl" do some driving. She has been after me for several months to let her drive, and to be honest, I was a little bit nervous (ALOT nervous).
This child is...how can I word it right?
Ok, she is a dingbat, plain and simple, so I just knew we were going to get in a wreck.
We took her out to a dirt road and let her get behind the wheel.
I climbed in the backseat and cinched the seatbelt as tight as I could while her Dad sat in the front beside her and proceeded to chain smoke.
I was absolutely shocked at how good she did! She kept the speed at an appropriate level, she used her blinkers, she slowed and looked both ways at road crossings, she did good!
Till we let her drive back into town. 
As soon as we got onto the pavement, it was as if someone had found the off switch to her brain. She forgot to slow at intersections, she had no idea what a blinker was, she nearly drove us into cars parked on the streets, when we had to stop at stop signs she almost put us into the dash, and on top of that, she started to go right through a stop sign because
"there is a car behind me and I didn't know what to do". 
Umm, stop?? 
Anyway, we did make it back safe...however I don't know how sound we are. 
The second we got back in the house she got on the phone to call every one of her friends to let them know she drove a car!! 
She is the baby of 5, and even though I survived the other four, I am not real sure about surviving her!
I made no promises as to the next driving escapade, but I guarantee you that tomorrow after school, she will be begging and pleading me to take her.
I don't understand how kids can't understand that it takes a good couple of weeks for us adults to forget traumatic events enough to want to go through them again. 
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If you don't believe King Jesus and his saints will be riding white horses when he returns to the earth, then you can just walk and I will ride.
John G. Hall
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RE: Memaws' Meanderings - 8/28/2007 2:54:38 PM
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Memaw.
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Spiritual Handicaps
I've been thinking a lot about a squirrel we have in our yard.
It's not so much the squirrel that has caught my attention, but the fact that the squirrel has no tail or left hind leg. I wonder what happened to it, how did it lose its' tail and leg? Does it know it has no tail, does the loss of its' leg and tail handicap it?
I see it climbing trees, gathering nuts for the winter, going about its' daily business with no obvious concern for the missing appendages.
There is no handicap sticker on it, there are no areas that are off limits to it, as far as I can tell, it thinks it is a "normal" squirrel. There are no other squirrels gathering around to tell it what it can and can not do.
Watching it, I began wondering what would happen if those of us who are "handicapped" would start believing in ourselves enough to not be constrained by our handicap?
We want the world to know we are hurting, we proclaim loudly that we can not do that because of this reason or that reason.
We have been abused from the pulpit, we won't go back again.
Handicap.
We have been lied to and treated badly by people, we won't get close to anyone ever again.
Handicap.
God has not answered our prayers the way we think He should. We are losing faith.
Handicap.
We have allowed our handicap to handicap us.
By His stripes we are healed.
Are we brave enough to take those words just as they are?
Can we simply do as that squirrel does and continue through our lives doing what we were created to do, or do we continue layering hurt upon hurt until we are spiritually wheelchair bound?
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If you don't believe King Jesus and his saints will be riding white horses when he returns to the earth, then you can just walk and I will ride.
John G. Hall
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RE: Memaws' Meanderings - 9/7/2007 9:50:31 AM
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Memaw.
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Hebrews 12:12-13
KJV
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
NLT
12 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees.
13 Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.
Those two sentences have really impacted my life over the past 8 years.
It seems sometimes that we go through things and we don't know why.
We cry
WHY GOD??
WHY??
For what purpose am I going through this valley?
What good will this possibly do?
We can't see any end to our sorrow, we can't find any glory for God in our tribulations or our trials.
BUT
Through those two little sentences I see how God leads us through these things so we can turn around and grab hold of our brothers and sisters who are GOING THROUGH THE SAME THINGS and guide them through the muck and the mire.
So, I take a new grip with my tired hands, and I strengthen my weak knees because I know someone needs my help getting through the same spot I just came through.
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If you don't believe King Jesus and his saints will be riding white horses when he returns to the earth, then you can just walk and I will ride.
John G. Hall
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RE: Memaws' Meanderings - 9/9/2007 12:52:21 PM
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Memaw.
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SON flowers
Along the highway outside of town are huge fields of sunflowers. Row after row of huge yellow heads as far as the eye can see.
Yesterday morning we drove past them and as I was enraptured by their beauty, I began noticing something about them. We were driving east and each of their heads were facing the rising sun as well. Later, coming past them again I noticed their bright heads pointed straight up peering into the face of the sun.
I started thinking about sunflowers.
Each morning their heads are bowed to the ground as if they were ladies-in-waiting anticipating the King. As the sun rises, their heads rise as well, following their source throughout the day. In the evening, heads will bow again as if bidding the master good night.
I began thinking how wonderful it would be if we were like the sunflower, if we woke each morning anticipating our King.
If during the day, we followed our Source constantly, seeking His face?
Bowing each morning and evening to our Master, our Creator.
A stirring began in me, a longing to truly be a SON flower.
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If you don't believe King Jesus and his saints will be riding white horses when he returns to the earth, then you can just walk and I will ride.
John G. Hall
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RE: Memaws' Meanderings - 12/25/2007 11:44:07 PM
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Memaw.
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I haven't posted in awhile and I really don't know why.
There is much going on in my little part of this big ole world but it seems when I sit to write, my mind goes blank.
Does that ever happen to any of you?
Today was Christmas.
The celebration of our Saviours' birth.
Family, friends, food and laughter surrounded us in the midst of our troubles and for one moment, the troubles were gone.
My mother in law is ill. The doctors suspect cancer.
We all gathered around her this holiday to see her laugh and my heart swelled with love for this wonderful woman.
There is a song that is sung by Randy Ledbetter titled Going Home.
One of the lines is
"So I won't ask You why, I'll just thank You for the time".
God, I don't know what is going on with her body and if this is Your will for her to come home to You now....then.... I won't ask You why, I'll just thank You for the time.
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If you don't believe King Jesus and his saints will be riding white horses when he returns to the earth, then you can just walk and I will ride.
John G. Hall
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