Look Through the Frame

This has been a long week. I just needed some music to start my busy Friday. Every time I hear this song I cry. It gives me chills to think that one day I will walk with Jesus! Wow! I don't think we can actually imagine how amazing this is going to be. But I can try!!

God is sooooo Gooooood!

Keep your fork...

Today as I was praying and cleaning house. I found a piece of paper. It was a Bible Study that Kenny had ran off for a nursing home ministry that he used to do. It was real appropriate for what I had been praying about. This past week we had three families in our church have members of their family go on to be with the Lord. A Grandmother, a father and a mother. Such a sad and glorious week. All of them were Christians so the families were comforted in the fact that they are now with Jesus.


The Bible Study started out telling of a woman who had just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and only had 3 months to live. The doctor suggested that she get all of her personal things in order.


Basically all of her things were in order. She called her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss her final wishes. She told him which songs she wanted sung at the service, what scriptures she would like read, and what she wanted to be wearing. She also told the pastor she wanted to be buried with her favorite Bible. Everything was in order and the pastor got up to leave when she said, "There's one more thing." "What's that?" replied the pastor. "I would like to be buried with a fork in my right hand." The pastor stood with a puzzled look on his face. She explained, "In all of my years attending church functions and socials where there was food involved my favorite part was when they said 'keep your fork.' When they said fork I knew that it was something with substance it wasn't jell-0 or pudding it was going to be cake or pie.


I want people to see me laying in my casket with my fork in my right hand. I want them to ask, "What is the fork for?" Then I want you to tell them, "Something better is coming so keep your fork."


This week three wonderful christian people got to kneel at the feet of Jesus and praise and worship with Him face to face. Yes!! There is something better to come! Amen!!



God is so Good!

I want to go...

Kenny has been talking about a book he has been wanting to read for a long time. Over the past several months we have both read more than I know we have read in years. God has made us hungry for not only the word in the Bible but for books about His word. Anytime we have a minute you can guarantee there is a book in our hands. Praise God!! As I have read over verses that I have read many times in my life I am learning more and more new and exciting things about Him. God is revealing things about Himself that makes me say, "WOW!"

Yesterday Kenny went to the Bible Book Store and not surprisingly came back with some books. One of them was the book he has been desiring to read. Heaven by Randy Alcorn. I don't know about you but Heaven sounds like the place I want to end up, although I don't really know many details about this place. I have heard it is great but most of the time I have been told, "We will just have to wait till we get there to know."

As Kenny sat there talking to me about this book titled Heaven I could not help but want to read it myself. We both looked at the titles of the Chapters. The more we looked the more envious I became of him. There was another book on the table that he had bought but it didn't look as good to me. I knew he had been wanting to read it so I didn't ask to read it first. I must have looked like a kid staring in the window of a candy store. Kenny asked me if I wanted to read it first. I said nooo! You read it honey.

Well, Guess who started reading the book last night. ME!! I have a great husband! I can already tell that this book is going to have an impact on what I have always thought Heaven would be like. As a child I remember our pastor saying that Heaven would be singing and praising Jesus all day. That sounded great but my little mind couldn't get past thinking, "that's all." I don't think I can sing for that long. It made me a little anxious. I had in my mind that I better get all of the cool things done quickly just in case. This picture that was put in my mind when I was younger has at some points in my life made me dread Heaven. I know, I know that sounds crazy. This is just the human side of me coming out.

I am on page 20, not to far into the book, but today I am excited about Heaven. I am excited about the work I need to do here in my temporary home. I am even more excited about my future permanent home. HEAVEN!!

This was sent to me in an e-mail and I loved the simplicity of the explanation.

A sick man turned to his doctor as he was preparing to
Leave the examination room and said,
'Doctor, I am afraid to die.
Tell me what lies on the other side.'
Very quietly, the doctor said, 'I don't know.'
'You don't know? You, a Christian man,
Do not know what is on the other side?'
The doctor was holding the handle of the door;
On the other side came a sound of scratching and whining,
And as he opened the door, a dog sprang into the room
And leaped on him with an eager show of gladness.
Turning to the patient, the doctor said,
'Did you notice my dog?
He's never been in this room before.
He didn't know what was inside.
He knew nothing except that his master was here,
And when the door opened, he sprang in without fear.
I know little of what is on the other side of death,
But I do know one thing...
I know my Master is there and that is enough.