David was a senior in high school when he told me he loved me. I thought, “It will never last.”
Jeremiah 43:2, “…all the arrogant men said…”
New American Standard Bible
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Jeremiah 43:10, “But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in my law or my statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.'”
New American Standard Bible
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Dear Lord, forgive me for every time I spoke in arrogance. Amen.
A Week Ago
“Sow in the morning and evening. Sow in your early years and keep sowing in your later seasons. Be filled, be led, be loving.”
Tim Taylor, MIssionary to Bolivia and India, 8-28-2022
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This drought, meant to be a curse, was a miraculous blessing for me. It was too dry for Ragweed to grow and bloom. I didn’t battle grass pollen either. We went away for a three-day weekend and walked a few blocks from the hotel to a restaurant.
David hasn’t mowed the lawn since the July 4th weekend. With the price of gas, that was a blessing, too!
I didn’t pray for the drought and I thank God for the humidity in Iowa. The corn can pull the moisture it needs out of the air!
The shores of the Mississippi River are bare. The sandbars are exposed in the Iowa and Cedar Rivers. The creeks are mud puddles. God controls the water levels. He raises the sea level and lowers it.
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Ezekiel 26:19, “For thus says the Lord God, ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you.'”
New American Standard Bible
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Obadiah 1:15, “For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.”
New American Standard Bible
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Ezekiel 34:16, “I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.”
New American Standard Bible
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“Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. ‘By their fruits ye shall know them.'”
Henry Ward Beecher,
A prominent nineteenth-century clergyman, abolitionist, and social reformer
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Last Sunday
Our pastor’s 40th wedding anniversary was Sunday. We had cake after church. His sermon was on the significance of the number 40 and marriage.
“The number 40 is found 146 times in the Bible. …Marriage reflects the purpose of God; it transforms you. Learn from your differences. Complement, don’t criticize. We focus on the problem not the purpose. Forty is the time you discover your purpose.”
Pastor Monte Knudsen, 9-4-2022
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Me: “We’ve been married 40 years. Have I been transformed?”
David: “Into what?”
Here’s to another 40 years of laughter!
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