My Girlfriend, Shelly from MO visited Hannibal, MO this past weekend. Shelly and her sister Debbie visited a nursing home where their Aunt Sylvia lives. The planned for a nice Christmas visitation with all of the elderly residents and have done this for several years now. Many of them look forward to seeing them visit each Christmas season, that is if they remember them.
At the nursing home in Hannibal, Shelly & Debbie met a very outgoing, positive and somewhat feisty older lady that claimed to be 106 years old. When the nurses verified that she was in fact that age, Debbie also found this very insightful article in the archives of the Hannibal Courier Post about Ms. Mary Carter, age 106. Seems Ms. Mary must have recently moved into the nursing home in Hannibal.
I challenge you to listen to the short video at the end of the article to get inspired about living a positive "happy" life for Jesus! It will make you smile and remind you to be thankful you are "alive!"
Miss Mary’s life: A memorable journey - Hannibal, MO - Hannibal Courier-Post
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Husband #2 ????
Okay, I can't stand "The way things ARE today." I am totally sick of the commercial for the newly released antacid medicine. The actress in the commercial claims to be out on a date with a guy that is "really bringing it." She on the other hand, "has got nothin'." She then takes this medication, another pill to feel better, and then she gets "husband number two!" It's totally the excitement of the number two or second husband she has, as if there will be a three and four.
I've always said that it seems that even in well meaning churches there is more emphasis on DivorceCare type ministries than there is on "Reconciliation CARE" We live in such a disposable society. One that even elevates the idea of just getting a new husband. I thank God daily that we have been taught and continue to teach others that they don't need a new spouse, they NEED a NEW marriage.
Why take all of the issues from your first marriage into your second, third or fourth marriage. Why not work on the issues you have and learn to love as Christ taught us to do. Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church. And women are admonished to teach the younger women to love their husbands. In this, it seems as though it is something we need to learn to do. It's not basing love on an emotion that just happens. It's a deep love that brings up a wonderful emotion.
I pray today that anyone reading this will not look to spouse #2, 3, or 4 to find the love and joy that God intends for "the wife of your youth." Reconciliation can be a wonderful lifelong marriage of happiness, this I live daily. Thank-you Lord for restoring my marriage back on February 12, 1995! I'll never forget what the Lord has done for us.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Dr. Oz at it again
Today I was doing laundry again and listened in to Dr. Oz again. He is doing the second round of his "National Sex Experiment" in marriages. He's outlined a few more things to
"help get America restarted in the bedroom." Remember in my earlier post that he says there is a problem with lack of intimacy in American couples, married ones, these days. He says it's in epidemic proportion in America. DUH, I say. As we move farther and farther away from calling sin a sin, it's no wonder that the sin of bitterness and laziness and selfishness is taking over in the bedroom. We need to forgive, get rid of bitterness and laziness and let go of our selfishness in order to be able to open our emotions up to intimacy. The gal on Dr. Oz's show today, a sex therapist said, "You can change the color of paint in your bedroom to make it more, " alluring was what she was suggesting. She also said that a couple should practice acting out a fantasy, maybe with costumes if necessary!
I say, what about just loving one another in a way that is intimate in and out of the bedroom. Love with an intimacy that God loves with. Emotional connection that looks forward to being together, at all hours, and not just in the bedroom. This can and will happen when you lay your "issues" down at Jesus feet, accept the emotional pain and consequences and learn to love as God loves; unconditional, romantic, passionate and holy.
We have been mentoring some couples this year, where their marriages have gone from zero and one's on the scale of 1-10, 10 being great to 6, 7, & 8's all by using the "Heart Care" method of forgiveness and laying things down at Jesus feet. So much emotional intimacy is dormant behind the walls of bitterness, pride, moral failure, negative thoughts, generational sin, sinful habits, hypocrisy, and the like. I'm thankful that God is a forgiving God and he restores the years the locust have eaten in all lives who surrender to Him!
"help get America restarted in the bedroom." Remember in my earlier post that he says there is a problem with lack of intimacy in American couples, married ones, these days. He says it's in epidemic proportion in America. DUH, I say. As we move farther and farther away from calling sin a sin, it's no wonder that the sin of bitterness and laziness and selfishness is taking over in the bedroom. We need to forgive, get rid of bitterness and laziness and let go of our selfishness in order to be able to open our emotions up to intimacy. The gal on Dr. Oz's show today, a sex therapist said, "You can change the color of paint in your bedroom to make it more, " alluring was what she was suggesting. She also said that a couple should practice acting out a fantasy, maybe with costumes if necessary!
I say, what about just loving one another in a way that is intimate in and out of the bedroom. Love with an intimacy that God loves with. Emotional connection that looks forward to being together, at all hours, and not just in the bedroom. This can and will happen when you lay your "issues" down at Jesus feet, accept the emotional pain and consequences and learn to love as God loves; unconditional, romantic, passionate and holy.
We have been mentoring some couples this year, where their marriages have gone from zero and one's on the scale of 1-10, 10 being great to 6, 7, & 8's all by using the "Heart Care" method of forgiveness and laying things down at Jesus feet. So much emotional intimacy is dormant behind the walls of bitterness, pride, moral failure, negative thoughts, generational sin, sinful habits, hypocrisy, and the like. I'm thankful that God is a forgiving God and he restores the years the locust have eaten in all lives who surrender to Him!
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