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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Making An Impact


The service for Kate was wonderful! It was the first time I had attended a funeral at an African-American church. There are differences, but what I walked away with was how uplifting and celebratory it was. As we walked to our car after the service, I heard someone say, "There was a lot of love in there!" Indeed there was. I estimate over 500 people in attendance to say good bye to our friend. My friend Kate made an impact on a lot of lives.



This week was a bit unusual here because of the impact of our weather. On Thursday, we had nearly 24 hours of snow, with varying amounts around the area. When I measured in our yard, it was 7 inches; the metroplex area had at least 12 inches in most places! School was canceled for Friday, which was nice. I took a lot of pictures on Friday morning, and I am glad that I did. By mid afternoon, it was already melting. Today there are traces of it, but nothing like yesterday! That is how Texas weather is: snow on the ground one day, and most of it gone the next.

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Early Friday morning


7 inches in our front yard Friday morning

Back yard





Our silly dogs; Rosie is on top of the old dog house and Nealy is trying to play!

A different kind of impact will happen this week at the high school. It is a three day immersion mock drunk driving accident, with fatalities, a memorial service, and a mock trial. I am one of the photographers, which will be quite an 'up close and personal' experience. I will share more details after the week is over. Just be in prayer for all those that have any part in this drug prevention program. I pray that at least one of the high school students will carry this with them beyond school and remember what can happen when drugs/alcohol are mixed with driving.

Have a blessed week!



19 comments:

  1. Am still so sorry about Kate. What a blessing that you had her in your life!
    Will be interested in hearing how this next week goes...hope it helps the kids really think about it.
    The Lord is there with you, whatever you have to face! Praying!
    II Samuel 22:29-33 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
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  2. Lifting up prayers!
    Psalm 17:6-7 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee...
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  3. As we head into the Lenten season may our thoughts be on what Christ has done so that we have the hope of Heaven. Praying.
    Luke 18:31-33 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.
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  4. Know that I'm praying!
    I Peter 1:6-9 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
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  5. Praying right now!
    I Peter 1:23-25 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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  6. Continuing to lift up prayer!
    Psalm 71:1-3 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
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  7. You are in my prayers. I know you are mourning the loss of your friend, but it is not without hope.

    The pictures of your yard with the snow is amazing. It's so comforting how quiet that snow made everything last week. Such a hush, it was like God whispering, "Here, I made this just for you."

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  8. Praying for you in Seattle!
    Psalm 71:5-8; For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
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  9. Continuing to pray in Seattle!
    Psalms 27:7-9 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
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  10. Praying!
    Psalms 27:13-14: I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
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  11. Lifting up prayers!
    Psalms 28:8-9 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
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  12. The Lord will always be there with you! And I'm here praying!
    Romans 8:31-32 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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  13. Still here lifting up prayers!
    Psalms 18:30-32 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
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  14. Praying!
    Isaiah 26:3-4 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
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  15. Hope these words bring you comfort! Praying!
    Isaiah 12:2-3 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
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  16. What words of comfort! Praying!
    John 14:1-4: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
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  17. Know that you're always in my thoughts and prayers!
    I Corinthians 15:54-57 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  18. Praying!
    Psalm 31:9-10, 14-15a Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed...But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand:
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  19. Continuing to lift up prayers!
    Psalm 31:19-21 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence...thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion...Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
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