Posts Tagged ‘God’
Lectionary Scriptures for 2-2-14
January 27, 2014Merry Christmas
December 25, 2013Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and I will go ahead and wish you all a Blessed/Happy New Year! This is a great time to gather together with family and friends in a spirit of love, hope, joy and peace. Our Advent Season may draw to an end in Christmas day but how about us celebrating and living in the joy, hope, peace and love that Advent and the coming of the Messiah bring us for a whole year. Not a bad way to live at all is it. Even if you don’t believe as I do it is hard to argue with the tradition of Advent and the practice of loving your neighbor as yourself, carrying peace around in your heart, showing joy and having hope in your future. So once again Merry Christmas and may you be blessed with love, joy, peace and hope throughout the New Year.
Pastor Randy
Halloween Rainy Day Sunset
November 1, 2013
Sunset
A rainy day, allllllll day until late that evening. Then we were blessed with a beautiful sunset. Not to much later we were blessed with all the grand kids being there with their costumes on. It was a happy Halloween after all. Forget all the silliness that goes with the holiday. What really counts is family being together and love that is shared. I think that is what God cares about. Have a blessed all saints day (today) and remember God loves each and everyone of no matter what kind of a Goblin we have been.
Upperroom Daily Devotional 10-4-13
October 4, 2013Pastor’s Ponderings, Wonderings, Wanderings
October 3, 2013
Jane and I are proud grandparents. I guess you can see that by the smiles on our faces. I do want to call attention to the smile, perhaps smirk, on the face of Lila Jane, our newest grandchild. It is as if the look says “Well I have really got it made, these two will be suckers for anything I want”. Shes pretty much right on.
Jane and I love our grandchildren and we will do whatever we can to help them make a good life out of the life that God has given her.
Isn’t that what God wants us to do with all of His children, help them make a good life out of the life that God has given them. Through prayer, meditation and the change of heart that only God can bring about in us, will we be able to help those less fortunate than us. While being a witness to our grandchildren is really important to us, it is just as important to be a good witness to the love God has for all of us to each and every person we encounter every day.
Love your neighbor means what it says. While loving grandchildren might be a lot easier than loving some we meet in our lives, it is still important to show God’s love for us all to the world.
Have a blessed day,
Pastor Randy
Wesley United Methodist Church, Orange TX 