HIGH PRICE OF THINGS

Bobby and I were traveling one day and stopped in a small town to fill up the gas tank. One station was 2.99 per gallon and the one across the street was $305.
 
I asked Bobby, how there could be a difference in the price so close together and why would anyone spend $3.05 when they could buy it for 2.99. He said, “You don’t see a line over there, do you? And no I didn’t. 
We had to wait for a car to move and then one was waiting on us.
 
This caused me to think of the high price of sin (our very soul)...and how many are content to live there...and how few there are who live where the high price has already been paid...the blood of Jesus. How blessed are the ones who are the redeemed! There are many in line at “the other station” because broad is the way that leads to destruction. (Matthew 7: 13-14) It is very expensive and they will have to pay for it themselves...forever and ever.
 
If you live within driving distance from us and are interested, we would be happy to share the gospel with you in person. Message us and we can make arrangements. Or...we can do it through messaging. We will be kind.

HEALTHY FAMILY LOVE

HEALTHY FAMILY LOVE PREVENTS PROBLEMS

While our two children were small...ages five and three, we and a group of our Christian friends decided to sponsor a group of children from a children's home in Texas.  Most of the children in this home were not orphans in the true sense of the word.  Some of them had a mom or dad but who were just not responsible to care for them or they had health problems to the extent they could not care for themselves, much less their offspring.  On holidays and two weeks during the summer, the group kept up to as many as twenty-one children at times.

Some of the families had children of their own who became very jealous and resentful of the children from the home.  Our children didn't...and in fact really enjoyed the ones we kept and grew so close to them over the years that we are still close after they all grew up. It is a life time relationship and I think I have the key to this:
The families who had problems with the children quit keeping them during the summer and holidays because their kids resented them.  The parents had tried to make them such a part of the family for that weekend or two weeks that they neglected the attention and affection of their own to some extent.  It is folly to sense that in order to love someone enough you have to love another less or ignore them more.  By trying to make them a part of the family to the extent that they neglected and created resentment in their own children, defeated their intentions, because in return the visiting children felt more than ever like outsiders.  So no one won in this situation.  

WHO'S FIRST PLACE IN YOUR LIFE?

If I thought articles such as this were not helping anyone I would quit in a minute. It was such as this, though...back when we were young in the faith that helped us so much. 
 So....
After we learned and obeyed the gospel and had a young family growing up...we were trying to convert my dad. He was one of so many who believed that if you were just good you would go to heaven.  And he was a good man!  But that thinking is so false because if it were true, Jesus died for nothing.

 
I loved him so dearly...our mother had died when we were ages 3 (me) , 5 (my sister) and 8 (my brother).
 
Our dad really had his hands full trying to make a living and taking care of us too. His mother (a dear lady) either lived with us part of the time or we lived with her, but most of the time it was just us four.
 
Well back to my story...trying to convert him. He lived 150 miles away in western Oklahoma and when he would come visit or we would go visit him, it was very hard to leave and go to church when the time came. We invited him to go , but he wouldn't. It would have been even harder to put him before Christ and stay home with him.
 
It took 21 years to convert him and what a grand day that was when he telephoned me and told me about his baptism into Christ.

I was present one day when he was telling somebody (probably my aunt, can't remember) not long after he became a Christian that: "Bobby and Edna wouldn't stay home with us on Sunday or Sunday or Wednesday night...when we'd go visit them. They always left us and went on to church, after inviting us to go. "
 
I was thinking of that this morning and being so thankful that we didn't give in and stay home. I don't think he would have been converted without seeing what Christ meant to us. What we do is so much more important than what we say.
 
And...if your children can't see in you...that Christ is more important than anything else to you...they may not be faithful when they grow up. I am so very thankful for the grace of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

'TRAINING' MEANS MORE THAN JUST 'RAISING'

A young boy grew up and went to college for a year...then decided that wasn’t his desire in life.  He liked to work with his hands.  A diesel mechanic offered him a job in Texas and at 19-1/2 years of age, he left home and went to work there. 

He stayed with the man a couple of weeks until he found an apartment of his own. The man had two daughters still in school and they were being raised by their dad alone.  After the boy had lived there a couple of weeks he found his own place.

He called his parents quite often and one day he told them (laughingly)  that those two daughters, living at home...had more freedom than he did...out on his own.

What a strange thing to say.  But he didn't think that much freedom at their age was a good thing. What was interfering with his freedom?

Well... it was his training that he had received at home for all those years. He could now do as he pleased but what he pleased was to stay true to his up-bringing. That is the kind of training that Proverbs 22:6 is talking about.

Many people, we have found...do not believe that Scripture means what it says. They have to add their explanation to it. If we try to explain it to change its meaning...that is not teaching the truth.

It is training their ‘will’...as it says they ‘will’ not depart from it. It doesn’t say they can not.. A “will not” is better than a “can not”...... 

It is dedication...dedicating them to the Lord by the way you train them. It needs to be done early and continual as long as they are under your roof.  They need to have no doubt that God is in first place in their parents' lives...all the time.  No parent is perfect but God still commands us to train them... "in the way they should go'......Proverbs 22: 6

Shaping Our Children



One spring we left a bucket on the deck and it sat in the same place for about 6 months. After months of neglect, I recently moved it and this Bermuda grass had grown up through the deck and molded itself to the bottom of the bucket and died.

I thought it made a unique picture and quite pretty really, but it reminded me of the neglect of other things. Actually it reminds me of our life span…the ‘...dash’ between our birth date and our death date.

It also reminds me of how short a time we have to train our children. We can neglect our children’s spiritual and moral training and let the world mold them to its shape, and it is so easy to do, and the world is so willing to do it for us. Just doing nothing will accomplish it. Training children up rightly is hard work, but it is so very rewarding!
Doing this easy neglecting…. we can create different “shapes of adults” eventually. We can create drug addicts, alcoholics, dead beats, abusive mothers and fathers, selfish people, evil life styles and all kinds of shapes of people. But it isn’t pretty and it isn’t unique. It is more the norm than unique. How tragic, when it could have been so different!

IMAGINE THIS!

IMAGINE THIS!
Retrospect (thoughts) on Day of Judgment:

We taught our children to play little league...The little league grew up and was dispersed in all directions.

We taught our children to bowl and now the bowling alley is closed down and gone out of business.

We taught our children to love the great outdoors and to climb hills and mountains...and now the mountains are not found.... (See Revelation 10:20)

We taught our children to swim and to water ski...and now the waters roar and are troubled. (See Psalm 46:3).

We taught our children the love for travel and they visited the far countries and exotic islands and now...all the islands are fled away. (See Revelation 16:20).

But mostly....(By the grace and mercy of God) we taught our children to seek the Lord and to trust Him as the Rock of their salvation AND to be mindful of the next generations...and God hath not forsaken them. (See Deuteronomy 6: 5-9 and Psalm 9:10).

An Article By Our Grandson, Daniel.

Brighter Than Ever

It looks like our summer has come to a close. School is starting tomorrow and I know we are very excited about getting back into the school routine. For most of us that probably isn’t true. Even though summer seemed to have ended too soon, it was one to remember. The weather was pleasant, it rained, many of us went on vacations, we had a lot of fellowship activities with our spiritual family, we went to bible camp, had a very successful VBS, many families joined our congregation, and greatest of all, many individuals were obedient to the gospel and put on Christ in baptism. What an awesome summer we have had to see God working in our community and in our congregation. Even though God works in our lives all year long sometimes it is easier to see, when our lives aren’t so busy. Summer has been a great time to recharge, and fall is great time to let your light burn bright. Because of the school and community schedules there are activities throughout the week in which each of our families will participate. Our kids will be around their classmates and teammates, and we will be around more parents because of activities where our kids are involved. What a great time to take our momentum from summer and let our fire burn bright in our school and community. Here are three things that we can do as families to keep our fire burning bright throughout the school year.

Put God’s Word Before You

I know this sounds cliché, but the biggest quencher of fire is negativity and worldliness. When we fill our hearts and minds with God’s word we will see it overflow into our lives. If we let it, it will change the way we think and the way we act. In Luke 6, Jesus said that what is stored up in a person will come out of him. Fill our hearts with God’s word, so that negativity and sin doesn’t have anywhere to dwell in our lives.

Stay Close to the Body

I have never been in a deathly cold situation before but I did read a survival guide once. When individuals get cold they begin to hold each other close together. Instead of one individual striving to keep their body temperature up, two people huddle up together and they keep each other warm. In our busy schedules let’s not separate ourselves from the body of Christ. One of the purposes of the church is to encourage and uplift  (Heb. 10:25). It is vital that we don’t let our busy schedules dim the fire that is burning within us. When we surround ourselves with Christians our fire is kindled. When we fill our schedules with the world we begin to dim. Don’t let anything get in the way of your fellowship with other Christians.

Lead with Direction

Through the grace, mercy and forgiveness that has been offered to us through Jesus Christ, we are promised a heavenly home. God wants us to know that we have a home with Him someday. That alone should ignite us. When we know our destination, it should change our direction. When I understand what God has done for me through Christ Jesus, I understand that I must turn my heart towards Him. Direction can be seen. Just as a person knows that when they see me on highway 62 going east, they know I am going to Lawton; so also when a person sees the direction of your heart they can see your eternal destination. When the direction of our hearts is pointed to God, it changes our world. It changes my family, my coworkers, my classmates, and my friends. We must keep our destination in mind, let that ignite our passion so that we can be on fire for God and turn the direction of our hearts toward heaven. If we do that we will lead those who want to follow, and we will be an example to those who don’t.   -Daniel Ingram

Don't fret over wrinkles
They are brought by our joys;
Our little Grand Girls
And our little Grand Boys.
They're given by God
And they are ours to keep;
Pressed in by our pillow
At night as we sleep.
©Edna L. Ingram

WRITING THE NEW TESTAMENT IN CURSIVE.

 

Notebook holds complete New Testament and Ecclesiastes and Proverbs, handwritten.  (Written all in 2012 from February when our group started doing this through August.   Not going as fast this second time around.

 

Writing the New Testament in longhand, book by book.
We seem to be losing our freedom in this land, bit... by bit. This group is to encourage each other and to write so that if our Bibles are ever outlawed...perhaps we will have an inconspicuous one written down in long hand and get to keep them. What a joy it would be to not lose them completely. God commanded the kings of Israel to write themselves a copy of the Law even before there were kings. 

I know for a fact that it is very rewarding to write it...even more so than reading it, because it is more vivid, writing it.

 

Deuteronomy 17: 18-19   "... When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the Levitical priests.   It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees..."

 

 

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THANK GOD FOR THE FATHERS WHO…

Bobby and Wendell, our son, at the tomb of the Known Soldier

in Rome, Georgia.

 

THANK GOD FOR THE FATHERS WHO…

…are faithfully married to and love their children’s mother.

…work hard to provide for their families and are instilling

this work ethic in their children.

…understand the importance of training their children in the

way of the Lord.

…are faithful in their attendance to the assemblies.

…are diligent and consistent in disciplining their children.

…take time to listen to and talk to their children.

…are willing to make sacrifices to spend time with their

children.

…pray daily with and for their children.

…have developed strong godly convictions and refuse to

compromise them.

…are making every effort to set an example of godliness

before their children.

…are teaching their sons how to be men, while at the same

time sharing with them the joys of being a kid.

…are teaching their daughters the importance of modesty and

discretion and instilling in them a strong sense of

self-worth.

…keep their word, seldom make promises and never fail to

keep the promises they make.

…are not too proud to admit when they are wrong.

…take seriously the responsibilities of fatherhood.

Wendell Ingram

Big Things and Small Things Show Us There Is A God In Heaven.

There are so many small things and situations that show there is a higher Being as much as there are big things. The Bible makes note of them in Romans 1:20 and portrays that it is so clear that there is a God, that people are without excuse."...For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:..."

I want to write about a very small thing that we consider a nuisance...snot...or mucous as the medical term. I don't have scientific data on this...it is just experience on pain.
 
I didn't know it was beneficial and probably would not have known, but I had acid reflux really bad one night at my brother's house. About 10 p.m. lying in bed, it happened. Right up it came and the acid seared my throat and esophagus big time. It was very painful until the mucous built up and then the pain eased. It helped until it built up so much I had to cough to get some of it out....then the pain started again. Over and over all night until close to daylight. I doubt if anyone got much sleep that night.  I didn't know until then that mucous helped pain.

When people get pneumonia with all the fluid and mucous build-up in the lungs, there must be a situation that would be unbearably painful...could be why they get pneumonia, because as the lungs fill up with it, the pain eases.  (Just a thought.) 

Our bodies and how they can heal themselves.... is evidence of a Creator. There are many ways our bodies can heal themselves if given time. Sure there are times when we need a doctor but more often than not there are antibodies and other things in our circulatory system that are very healing. God made us...He knows us inside out and even our very thoughts and motives.

On a side note: God knowing our motives is very comforting to me. Sometimes people may think they know why we did a good thing and it may not be very flattering what they think. But God knows why we do everything we do. It is laid out bare and open for Him alone to see, because He knows our hearts...even our very motives. Sometimes our motives may not be so pure...He knows that too, but we can get forgiveness when we repent.   Christians are so blessed!

 

A TRUE STORY:

 

"I'm not around my son, Wendell very long until I'm looking for a pencil and some paper to write on."
Wendell told about a man with 8 children that he worked with at Bailey Motor Co., when he lived in Texas. The man saved up enough money to take his family to the Grand Canyon. They drove all night long and reached the Grand Canyon about sun-up.

The family was all asleep in the station wagon, so he got out of the car and pushed the door shut quietly and went to the ranger station to see what programs they had to offer. Unknown by the others, his little 2 year old boy woke up and slipped out of the partially closed car door and went over to look at the canyon all by himself.

In a little while, the daddy heard someone holler, "Who's that little boy on the rim of the canyon!"

He looked and it was his own little boy right on the edge, looking down into the depths of the canyon. He ran as fast as he could and went under the fence and grabbed his son by his little overall straps and pulled him to safety. He said he was just sick the whole time they were there and couldn't enjoy a bit of their vacation.

This story is so scary and if it were our little child, it would have been even more scary!

Wendell went on to relate...we wouldn't want our children to get that close to...and walk the rim of the Grand Canyon, but many think nothing of it when theirs are  getting too close to...and walking the rims of hell. Parents need to wake up and wake up now, before it is too late for their offspring!




 

Looking At Life Through Rose-tinted Glasses

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WHAT OUR EXAMPLE CAN DO.

Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) who liberated thousands of people in India and Africa...rejected "Christianity" and Jesus Christ, because of the examples of some of those who called themselves Christians. He became acquainted with and attended services with some who claimed to be Christians,  and he became interested in Christianity....but in the assembly, he saw some sleeping and/or not paying much attention to what was being taught. It turned him against Christianity because he saw no real commitment. If this man Jesus, had sacrificed Himself for them, surely they would have been more committed and reverent to Him. 
 
The Bible warns us about causing people to stumble:   Matthew 18:7   "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!"
 
So...Gandhi continued the way he was going....and sought after self-purification and rejected the blood of our Saviour. What if he had learned the truth and obeyed the gospel?   What did the world lose because of some bad examples? We, in the church of our Lord, need to be mindful of how we are appearing to others. We don't know who we will turn away... who could have been an asset in the cause that we claim to live for.    -Edna L. Ingram

Our Precious Ones: Wendell & Cara Lynn

This article was written by this little boy after he grew up. Today is his and our sweet daughter in love's 32nd wedding anniversary.



 

                                                     TAKE THE HAND OF A CHILD
Take the hand of a child...feel the tiny fingers clasp yours. It may be smeared with a Popsicle or chocolate candy or ice cream. The hand is probably dirty from playing with a dog or cat. You may notice a band aid on the finger, or a wart on the thumb. But the hand that you hold is the hand of the future.

Someday that little hand may hold a Bible...and work to proclaim the Word of God; or that little hand may hold a gun...and seek to take the lives and property of others.

Someday that little hand may work diligently...to provide the needs of a family; or that little hand may jerk and tremble uncontrolled, by the mind of a drug addict.

Someday that little hand may reach out to render aid to those who are in need...or simply reach for another bottle to satisfy the torturous cravings of an alcoholic.

Someday that little hand may be a tool of generosity and hospitality...used by a truly committed disciple of Jesus...or a tool of greed and selfish ambition, used to lay up treasures on this earth.

But right now...that little hand is in yours. It is attached to a child who is filled with wonder...whose heart is pure and clean and whose mind is filled with a desire to learn.

What an opportunity! What a responsibility! The question is...What would you do with this little hand? Will you help guide this little hand? And mold this little heart? Will you work to guide this little child to Jesus?

It will take time...it will take sacrifice...it will take diligence. The opportunity is yours! The opportunity is now! And the opportunity is fleeting!

Will you take the hand of a child?

By Wendell Ingram

I was dusting the big frames in our bedroom that hold the large pictures of our grandchildren. I’ve never really noticed how dust forms before…on the horizontal pieces of the frames…but on the vertical places there is no dust.
 
It started me to thinking and I came to the conclusion that there is no place for the dust to rest on the vertical pieces. It just slides off onto the floor, evidently. Then this thought came to me: The vertical direction is pointing upward to heaven or downward…there no in between. The horizontal is neutral. Hmmm We don’t want to be neutral, that’s for sure!
 
Why are some people more able to resist Satan when they are tempted? It is because in their life, they have God’s Spirit dwelling in them and Satan has no resting place there. They are like Christ when He was tempted in Matthew chapter 4. They have a higher calling and they want to be faithful to that higher calling. Romans 8: 9-11; Romans 5:5; Galatians 4:6; Ephesians 3:16.
 
I’ve heard it said that if you are not tempted much by Satan, it may be because he already has you. That may be true in some cases but not necessarily so.  James 4:7 “…Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

We are either living for Christ or we are not! There is no neutral ground. If we are neutral we are only fooling ourselves. May all of us who are Christians, so live each day...that Satan can find no resting place long enough to work havoc in our lives.      © Edna L. Ingram
 
 
  


 

 

 

SUNRISE THROUGH THE CURTAINS

I was up earlier than usual and as I walked through the living room I saw something…a sunrise so beautiful, I had to grab the camera. As I took several pictures I realized the view of the sun was going to be short lived, because clouds were moving in and it looked like rain.

This reminds me of the promise of a Savior (Son-rise) when Adam and Eve were in the garden and the first sin was committed. (Cloud!) (Genesis 3:15) After that promise years later, the earth became so wicked (clouds) that the Son promise seemed to be clouded over by man. (Genesis 6-7) After the earth was cleansed again, by the flood, the promise (Son-rise) was easily seen again.

We can block out the Son-rise for someone and cause clouds in their lives by the things we say and do. We need to be careful.

A few years later, God made a nation from Abraham’s descendants and the Son was shining again in the prophets’ writings. However through God’s nation’s forgetting Him, the clouds came back big time!

After that, in the fullness of time…during the Roman Empire, He founded His church on the Rock, His Son, Jesus, and the confession that He is the Son of God.

The church grew and multiplied and spread the good news throughout the land. The Son was shining again…but alas! the clouds came back (Have you noticed that man is responsible for these “clouds”?) and the Christians were persecuted on every hand, but the church is founded on the Rock and will not be moved and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it…according to Matthew 16: 18.

And then we have today…and the ‘clouds’ are everywhere. False churches have sprung up and clouded the information for many people who allow it to. But we read the last chapter of the Bible…Revelation 22…and CHRISTIANS WIN! 

 

I read this from somewhere...and it was so very depressing to me, so I decided to revise just a portion of it. I have no idea where this originated, but the original sounds like a cop-out to me! They also did not understand the difference in teaching and training.  And if we say these things to our children, it will become a cop-out for them also! My revision is in parenthesis: 

I gave you life but I cannot live it for you.
(We are going to do our best as examples so that you will have a good life.) 
I can teach you things but I cannot make you learn
(We are going to make learning fun and worthwhile...so that you will excel.)

I can give you directions but I cannot always be there to lead you.
(We are going to teach you God's directions for youth, so that your values in spiritual matters can lead you right.) 

I can allow you freedom but I cannot account for it.
(When you are grown, you will be responsible for your wrongs...but if I don't train you in the way you should go, with freedom in Christ, It will be my fault for not doing my job, and I will give account for that part of it.) Prov 22:6 and Ephesians 6:4

I can teach you right from wrong but I can't always decide for you.
(We are going to teach you God's way and teach you to make your decisions with God as your Director). 

I can give you love but I cannot force it upon you.
(I'm going to love you so dearly that you will always treasure it.) 

I can teach you to share but I cannot make you unselfish.
(I will 'TRAIN' you to share and God's Word will make you unselfish.) 

I can let you babysit but I can't be responsible for your actions.
(Are you kidding me???) Parents ARE the ones responsible for their children's actions! )

I can warn you about sins but I cannot make your morals.
(IF WE live our lives according to God's will, as your parents, only then if your values and morals echo ours, will you be ok, as we all follow Him.)

God can answer prayers in a way that will cause you to never doubt His wisdom again...ever!  I don't like to use personal experience, but that's the only kind I've had. :)

Back in 2001, I felt spiritually depressed, over run and stressed out physically...but didn't realize the extent until I had prayed that I would have more time for spiritual matters...and get better organized....just those two special prayers.

 I was working at the USPS (stressful job in itself)   and was temporarily the Officer in charge at a small town near our's. My regular job was postal clerk in my town. Our children were grown and moved to Texas. I didn't work outside my home until they were both out of college.

Well, just days after I had prayed for those 2 things, meds that were prescribed by my doctor shut my kidneys down...and I was in the hospital 2 weeks. I thought at first that it was the flu because I ached all over too. I waited from Sunday until Wednesday, without appetite, without having to get up off the couch for anything, before I told Bobby what had happened.  We went to the doctor immediately.

I didn't realize how stressed out I was until I was lying in the hospital those two weeks. I realized then that this serious illness is a big blessing!

After I was released to go back to work, I was still weak and by the time I got the mail put up every morning, I was looking for a place to lie down. :) I had Bobby go purchase a recliner for me to have at the P O and I told him that when I went back to my town to work that it would be his, so get one that fit him and one that he liked.

A week after I went back to work, the boss from Tulsa came and told me I was going to be replaced. He said a career employee was only supposed to work as OIC for 6 months and they had left me in for 14 months. So....I went back to my regular post office,leaving a 40 hour a week job to a 4 hour a week job plus whenever the pm wanted off. That is two of the big whammies that hit us the same month in March!

Then on March 17 (St Patrick's Day 2001), it was on a Saturday and I had just come in from work and was still very weak, so I lay down and took a nap. I woke up at 3 p.m. and decided to wash my hair. First, since it was cool in the house, I turned on the central heat (mistake # 1) Then I let Baby Bird out of his cage...(Mistake # 2)

While I was rinsing my hair, I noticed Baby Bird was flying wild! I could hear him chirping but I had the water running and couldn't hear or see what else was going on. When I raised my hair up from rinsing it, and put the towel over my hair...black smoke was coming out of every vent in the ceilings. The attic was on fire!

I tried to get Baby Bird back in the cage or to come to me and he wouldn't. I hated to leave him but the smoke was getting to me big time...I told him I had to get out and sadly, thought that he wasn't going to live but a few minutes in there....so I went out and moved the car up the street and a friend came by and said he would go tell Bobby.

I went back to move the van....and while I was about to do that, Bobby came and was going to go into the house to get Baby Bird. I talked him out of it because I was afraid the burning ceiling would fall in on him.

Someone called the fire department and while a bunch of the neighbors had congregated with me, down where our vehicles were, Bobby had gone back to the house. We just stood there and watched the smoke. The firemen had propped open the kitchen door and Bobby saw Baby Bird fly by it. He went in and he had landed and Bobby held his hand up to him and he got on his hand, and he brought him to me. I thought he would have been dead by that time! So glad to see the little fella. (The reason Baby Bird didn't come to me and did to Bobby, is that he had bonded to Bobby. They are a one man bird. Bobby had already started working at the shop just afternoons so Baby Bird had lots of time to bond to him.

About praying to be organized....I think God must have taken a look and thought, "Edna, it isn't possible. We're going to have to start from the ground up!" lol   Well that was three big whammies in a row...all three blessings... and both of the prayers answered.

I retired in June of that year because I really didn't feel like working very much and I got a big bonus besides what I had prayed for....having more time for spiritual matters and not being so stressed...I got these 12 years and hopefully more...to spend with Bobby, uninterruped by nothing except his 1/2 day of work at his barber shop. He fully retired in 2009.

So if you are a Christian...when you pray, please believe that God, in His infinite wisdom, knows how to answer your prayer...and He also knows when to answer and all about it.  Even if things seem bad or worse after you pray...trust Him completely.  He has truly guided our lives ever since we became His children in November of 1956!

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