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I suppose it's alright to say I have been blessed with the thought that "God Will Take Care Of You"
The song goes like this:
Be not dismayed what eer betide God will take care of you.
Under his sheltering wings abide God will take care of you.
God will take care of you thru everyday oer all the way.
God will take care of you uu God will take care of you.
When I was a child and after we started going to church about five miles away and since we had no transportation some one had to tote us in their car back and forth to church.
That's why I was riding in the back seat of Bro Floyd's car one Sunday after Sunday School and I listened intently as he talked to his friend. The conversation went like this. "Brother I'll tell you how it's done, you pray a while and then when you think you have prayed a long time just pray some more. Children do listen and I purposed in my heart to try that. So after dinner I went to my room ( I was fortunate enough to have my own bedroom at that time but I did not always have a private bedroom.) I got down beside my bed and I did what he said. I prayed a while and then I prayed some more. So when we went to church in the evening I received overwhelming blessings, so much that I could hardly contain them. I would get happen and I would laugh and laugh and laugh.some more. I was very shy however and I think maybe I had heard it so many times (Children are to be seen and not heard) or "set down and shut up" that I thought I was suppose to be quiet which was almost impossible. So I would hide down under the seats.
I have thought many times since then that I wish he had also added be sure to read your Bible everyday. I should have figured that out for myself but for some reason I never did, so I just read my Bible when I needed to study a Sunday School Lesson or something like that.
After all these years I decided to make an effort to read some everyday. Guess what? After all these years it's hard to remember "What did I just read?"
When I was in the third grade we started having spelling lessons and my way of studying was to write the words down. In the third grade we had a fifty-word test at the end of the year and I got them all right but my teacher would not give me credit for it because I had erased, and rewritten, one of the words so many times that Mrs Shaw thought I had changed it after the grading. That hurt. Next year I was in the fourth-grade,same teacher. We had a one-hundred word final test. Raymond Holloway and I were the only ones to have a perfect score. For me that was a sweet victory, I felt vindicated for having gotten cheated out of my perfect score the year before that.
Since I found out writing in down helps me remember now I have started writing my Bible readings down.
Today I was reading and writting in the Book of Job. When I came to Job 5:8 thru 24 it was like a message just for me. I have read it over about five times and rejoicing all the way. It's kinda like my eldest said to me "Ma, you know that word is alive. I believe it.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Church
This is a picture of the old church near Grange City Kentucky. (I think it is now called Colfax) where my Great Grandma Queen America Hayden Reeves and her family attended church. The family lived across the road from the church. My mother said that her Grandma would often go in to the bedroom for a while and when she came out one day MOther ask her "Grandma what were you doing.?"
Grandma's answer was that she was talking to God. One day Mother being just a little girl at that time of course, went into the bedroom and searched all around even looking under the bed trying to find God, but she said of course that she didn't see anything.
Mother said her Grandma had a big turkey farm. I imagine they must have been quite busy come Thanksgiving and Christmas time.
Later probably in the 1960's The congregation decided to build a new church. These Plates were made and sold for $10.00 each in order to help build the new church.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Rejoice And Again I say Rejoice
It was always a joyful occasion when we would take the scenic route while going to Sunday School. There was the trees according to what season it was depended of course upon the color and the brooks, I alway loved the water, and walking beside a little stream that ran thru the meadow when I was a kid. But when we got to the church I would always feel kind of a let down nothing exciting to look at there I thought. And so I prayed this little prayer,"Lord help me to rejoice in something wonderful as that after I get here. So I suppose in answer to my prayer I began to get these thoughts about the inanimate thing around me. There was the pews the pulpit, the piano and organ for a few of those things. It came to mind the process of how they got there and everyone that had been blessed by it.
For example the most of that stuff would have to come from the forrest, having been made of wood. So the log men wood be first on the list, then maybe the trucker who hauled the logs, then the workers at the sawmill. The factory where the funiture was made. In each process some family was blessed with an income, the little children had food and shelter and clothing. I think by this time you see what I'm saying , there seems not to be a stopping place of the many blessing envolved. So therefore I say Rejoice Phil 4:4 Psa 33:1 Eccl.11:9 John 16:22.
When you think of it that way I would say you can't help but be happy
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