O God our God,
We awaken to the beauty of Your creation all about us. Our morning prayer is, "Thank You". Today is a day filled with promise and hope. We celebrate our graduating seniors. Please pour out Your Spirit on them as they ponder the next part of their journey. We thank you for the approaching summer and opportunities for play and leisure. Help us to pause and make time for Sabbath, where our schedules are free and we can rest in the glory of Your Presence. All this we ask in Jesus name, AMEN.
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I received the following email from Eric Koegel, Connie's son. He has been at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas for over two weeks. I edited it somewhat.
5/12-13/2011
Day 14… Things are looking up. Maybe I’ll be leaving soon, but I’m not rushing it. I definitely don’t want to go too soon. If after I go home and start feeling like I was before, then I have to come back down and have a permanent tube inserted in my belly. They are talking Monday if things progress like they are. One can only hope. That’s where the prayers come in. I really don’t want to have a permanent tube just yet.
My spirits are up. I’m missing my dog, my bed, my church, my internet connection… well, you know.
Day 15… Well I got the potassium disconnected yesterday so I’m free from one of the tubes now. I look for the TPN to come off sometime this weekend maybe.
Thanks for keeping the prayers alive!
Please continue to pray for Eric.
Today John and Carol Ingram celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a reception at the church from 2 - 4 p.m. Come celebrate with the Ingrams.
Tomorrow is Senior Sunday. WOW! They will have a breakfast at 9:00 a,m, and then will participate in both 10:15 a.m. services. Be sure to look at their tables in the loggia.
I am doing fine, actually enjoying the unplanned vacation. My neck, where they took the graft, is healing nicely. It appears my nose is doing OK, although it is hard to tell with the "sewn on" bolster/covering. I am ready for this to be over. I know....patience. I have been doing copious amounts of reading and that is good and I have gotten out from time to time to run an errand or two. I should be back on Wednesday.
The scripture reading for today is 1 Kings 3:3-15:
Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David; only, he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place; Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
5At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I should give you.”6And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today.7And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.8And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.9Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?”10It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.11God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,12I now do according to your word. Indeed I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you.13I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life; no other king shall compare with you.14If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.”15Then Solomon awoke; it had been a dream. He came to Jerusalem where he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. He offered up burnt offerings and offerings of well-being, and provided a feast for all his servants.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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