Thankfulness

Honoring Mom

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“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), Ephesians 6:2 ESV

My mom was smart, beautiful and a successful novelist, but she also battled with the unseen enemy of mental illness so writing about her has not been easy. Those who have never lived with someone with their own version of reality may never understand. But God doesn’t ask us to understand, only to love and honor her with more than just flowers.

So today thanks for a mom who was also fun and adventurous. Thanks that she taught me to stand up for the weak and to not be afraid of being different. Thanks for learning that commitment means never giving up even when no one else believes in you. Thanks God for my mom who I never understood but who loved me to the end!

Counting Blessings

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Some people from a church in Alabama were talking to me at the annual Strawberry festival here in Florida. They asked me if I could guess three things that God could not do. The first one I did get right because I knew that God can not lie; but the second I had forgotten which is that He also cannot change. That is what I was thinking of today with the recent stock market gyrations coupled with Corona virus hysteria gripping the world. But in the middle of it all the Greatest news of all is that Jesus Christ is the same Savior today that He was yesterday and that He has promised to be with us. In the book of first Thessalonians the Apostle Paul writes to the believers there and tells them that He is thankful for them. Even in the middle of the persecution and even beatings and imprisonments Paul points to the unchanging hope we have in our Lord Jesus Christ.