Ever-present God,
Life is sometimes experienced as hard and difficult. There are moments when worries, trials, and tribulations seem to overwhelm us. . .in our personal, family, social, and even religious experiences. Help us to understand that You are a God of mercy and hope. You meet us where we are and surround us with grace and peace. May our focus always be outward, in the hard and in the peaceful moments. May our blessings be most obvious when we seek to love and care for others. Jesus is our model and we offer this prayer in his name. AMEN.
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Tonight is the last WWNF until after the first of the year. We will have pancakes for supper.
The Stewardship Committee will meet at 7:00 p.m. in the Library. The Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
The Pony Express is still running. If you have a saddlebag, please move it on down your route. We would really like to have them all back in the office by Sunday.
Letha McGuire has been dismissed from the hospital, but she still needs our prayers. Please pray for Letha.
Carolyn and I left Enid around 8:00 a.m. yesterday morning and got home at 11:15 p.m. We had a good consultation with the oncologist at Baylor. The drug trial I was to participate in last year is still open, so that is our next step. If this trial doesn’t work then there is another trial to attempt. Initially it will require a number of trips to Dallas and, after three months, an overnight stay every 12 weeks. We are so glad we are going to Baylor. If we didn’t, then our first and only option would be chemotherapy. That will still happen, just further down the road. We appreciate your prayers and concern. I feel good and am very optimistic. We are now where we were a year ago, so this last year has really been a gift.
The scripture for today is Philippians 2:1-11:
If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Grace and peace,
John McLemore
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