Good Morning,
It's Tuesday and how are you doing? If it's Tuesday then it is no complaint day, right? Give it a try. Stay positive. It's a good thing. Promise. God knows when a sparrow falls so He can take care of your situations. I assure you complaining changes very little, if anything. We like the Biblical analogy of God taking care of a sparrow. Yet, we struggle with His taking care of us at all times. It's hot that He can't or won't - many times we don't give Him the opportunity until we are neck deep in the mud looking into the eyes of an alligator. Old bumper stickers come to mind - "Let Go , Let God" and "If God Is Your Co-Pilot Then You Need To Switch Seats." Have a great Tuesday, ya'll.
Please pray for Lois Weeks who is in San Jacinto Methodist dealing with blood thinning issues that may be realated to medication problems. Also, Patty Walger is there, too, dealing with stomach issues. Lois is in room 205 and Patty is in room 263. Also, Roger Heberts's niece is in ICU after a triplrebypass yesterday. Take a moment and lift up these three and their families. Thanks.
Tonight is Gospel Night at Premier's Restaurant in La Porte with the country Christian band, "One Voice" and our own Steven Hammock. It starts at 6 pm and winds up at 8pm. Please come join us as we have a new ownership group to deal with and they are much easier to deal with when they have a full house and full pockets. Please support this effort. Thanks.
Do any walls slice up your world? Divide your world? There you stand on one side. And on the other? The person you've learned to disregard, perhaps even despise. The teen with the baggy pants or tats. The person on the opposite side of your political fence. The boss with the bucks. The beggar who sits on the corner every day. The immigrant with the hard-to-understand accent. Or the Samaritan outside Jerusalem. Now that was a wall - ancient and tall. "Jews" as John wrote in his gospel "refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans." And vice versa. The two cultures had hated each other for a thousand years. The feud involved claims of defection, intermarriage, and disloyalty to the temple. Samaritans were black-listed. Every thing about them and their possessions was considered unclean. No orthodox Jew would travel into the region where they lived and worked. Most Jews would gladly double the length of their trip rather than go through Samaria.
Jesus played by a different set of rules. He spent the better part of a day on the turf of a Samaritan woman, drinking water from the ladle and discussing her questions. He stepped across the cultural taboo as if it were a sleeping dog in a doorway. Jesus loves to break down walls.
How does God feel about the person on the other side of your wall?
"He tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance... Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being , a fresh start for everybody. Christ brought us together through His death on the cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility." Ephesians 2:14-16, the Message translation.
We can't live to make a difference if we can't get beyond our biases. Whom have you been taught to distrust and avoid? It's time to remove a few bricks. Today.
See you tonight, love, Ken.
