Thursday, January 31, 2019

Late Night Conversation




Late Night Conversation
January 31

 I ask my wife how her retreat went.

"Remember how you felt when you had a defining moment?" she said. "Just imagine feeling that for an entire weekend.  I didn't want to go home. I didn't know how to leave."

"Were you afraid of leaving God behind?"  "Something like that," she whispers.

 “Well you didn’t," I offer, "God is never far away. We just need to stay in touch."

 "For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

A WheelChair Story




January 30


 

A young lady tells me “ I need to tell you my wheelchair story.” After a few weeks in Florida she sits in an emergency room scared and alone. “Praying softly I hear God say, ‘ I’m sending you an angel.”

 She waits. She notices an older man in a wheelchair. They talk and after awhile her name is called to see a doctor. She realizes her fear is gone.. She thanks the man for talking with her and then adds; “I don’t even know your name. I’m Sherry.”

He says, “My name is Angel.”

“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matt (21:22)

Monday, January 28, 2019

One Family's Experiences with Prayer




 

After a year went by, with no television, “Then came God's answer,” Bill said.

 

A board member called reporting that a bank foreclosed on an mansion a year ago and was anxious to unload it.            

 

The Pfeiffers drove over to take a look. A long driveway led uphill to a two-story house. Adjacent to the house was an all weather tennis court and on the other side, a carriage house large enough to serve as a chapel.

 

Inside the sprawling house were four bedrooms and three baths, and a large kitchen, with a commercial size stove, suitable for cooking for small groups.

 

The lower level had an enclosed swimming pool with a small self-propelled robot. One thing the Pfieffers hadn't prayed for was a wet bar off the pool, but in a corner stood a juke box.

 

“Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)

 

Bill and Cindy Pfeiffer

Hebron, CT

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

“One time, we were going shopping , but we couldn't find our car keys. We looked and looked but we still didn't know where they were. I suggested we say a prayer to find the keys. We prayed and soon someone had an idea where we should look and there were the keys.
I am thankful for prayer.” ............................Vivian (age 5)

 
"A few days after I was baptized, our family went camping at Crater Lake. When I woke up, I went running through the trees around our campsite. I realized I was missing the CTR ring Grandma Price had given me at my baptism.
"CTR stands for Choose the Right. Whenever I see the ring, I am reminded to make good choices.
"We looked everywhere for that ring, around the tent, in the tent, on the trails around our campsite and in the rest room.
"We couldn't find it. Then my Grandma Pam suggested we should stop and say a prayer to find the ring. During the prayer, Grandma had an idea in her mind. She said we should check the men's restroom again and specifically look on the windowsill.

"Dad and I went to the men's restroom. I was not tall enough to see the sill but dad could and there was the ring.

"We believe someone found the ring and placed it there where it would be more visible to an adult. Now I know to say prayers when I need help.".......................Caleb (age 8)

Our family was on vacation on Maui at our favorite baby beach, when a woman approached and asked if we had lost anything. She seemed like she didn't want to disclose any details about what she had found. I looked around quickly and I told her I didn't think we had.
Later, back in our condo, we realized our GoPro, underwater camera, was missing. Jordan returned to the beach to look for the camera and the woman who had approached me earlier. The kids and I knelt down and prayed that Jordan would locate the camera, When he returned from the beach he was empty-handed.

We posted the lost camera on Craigslist. That evening we received a call that our camera had been found. The caller was the woman on the beach. The next day we gratefully received the camera and the photos saved on it.

We were most grateful to have these experiences with prayer as a family. Our children still talk about them.

Jordan and Shana Price and children
Portland, OR

Friday, January 25, 2019

All in an Instant




 

January 25

My Nephew is driving alone on Route 20 in Charlton MA. A tractor-trailer drifts over the centerline and hits his van behind the driver's seat pushing the van off the road. The rig crashes head on into the car behind, killing the driver. My Nephew is unhurt. The truck driver is arrested.

In an instant, a life is taken, one spared.

"Watch therefore for you do not know at what hour your Lord will come."  (Matthew 24:42

Thursday, January 24, 2019

City Slicker


 

January 24

 

I was a teenager from the city and had never ridden a horse. We walked the horses across a divided roadway onto a trail. After a gentle ride in the woods we turned toward home. My horse took off.  I was hanging on for dear life. She bolted across Route 1A, horns blasted, breaks squealed and I screamed. 

 

 God's angel directed traffic that day and even provided the mud for a soft landing when I fell off in front of the barn.

 

"He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways."

(Psalm 91:11)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

God's Birds


 

January 23
Dr. Jerry Kirk, a  preacher from Cincinnati  said, "God's love for us is unlimited but our ability to receive that love is limited because our receiving mechanisms have been damaged by the world around us.” He asked Dora, twice a widow, what made her upbeat. "Every cardinal, I see I hear Jesus say I love you.”

 The notion of damaged receptors speaks to me. The solution shared by Dora and Jerry has changed how I look at all birds.

 "Consider the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap… yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26)

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Water Towers




                  Water Towers

 

January 21

Driving the rugged arid parts of Arizona and Colorado, I notice a single pile of rocks up on top of a mesa. I learn that these are called "water towers." These rocks tell travelers below that from this point you can see water.

Those Native Americans and pioneers who erected these water towers were truly being neighborly, pointing the way to survival. The water towers are no longer needed but stand as monuments of brotherly love. I need to be a water tower to my neighbors.

" You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 23:39)