Fourth of July was spent at a Welsh church and a Welsh Birthday Party. Church was completely amazing. A man that has a 12 year old son spoke on not losing hope (2 Corinthians 4). His son has the brain and development of an 18 month old child. This man has seen many trials. How does he not lose hope? How does he not despair? How does he not grow angry and bitter? Because he knows that these are "slight and momentary afflictions." This man is ASSURED that he'll be in heaven for eternity. His pain is real. But since he is a CHRISTIAN that has trusted in Jesus, his afflictions will come to an end and he will enjoy eternity with Christ.
Then I spent the day resting my knee. Then Allyson had 40+ people over to celebrate her 40th birthday! Much fun. Much food. 5 cakes. (Hence the reason Cerriane and I are not eating sugar for one week). There were sparklers on the cake and this was as close as I got to fireworks.
Got up early this morning to take the 2 hour train ride to Bristol, England. You'd think this would be an annoying amount of time, but it flew by as I met with the Lord. One thing I did was relisten to a message on contentment by Dave Harvey. Probably one of my top favorite messages and always timely. Met up with my friend, Esther, and walked around the boats and sat on a veranda with the suspension bridge in view. Talking to her was priceless. We talked about how we can doubt our faith and then put truth to those doubts. So good. On the way home, read the book "When God Walked On Campus". I honestly think I could quote most of it here. But I won't. All I'll say is that we should pray because I serve a mighty Savior that will work in miraculous ways to save people from hell when he so desires.
Watched "Gone Baby Gone" with Cerriane tonight. Hit me that I could be working in that kind of area in a year. Whew.
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