Happy Thanksgiving

Nov 23, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello Friends

Just wanted to wish you well on this Thanksgiving holiday and hope you have a great time with your family. My sister in law, Donna, asked if I'd say a prayer over dinner tomorrow and I said "yes", if it was alright if I wrote it down first and read it. 

Anyhow,,,I took a ride in my truck and started thinking about everything in this life that God has given me and continues to give me it was just overwhelming. And then, while thinking about this, I heard the Christmas song  [Oh Holy Night] on an XM radio station and got tears in my eyes. 

I started to think of where I might be today ( if I were even alive) if I never  accepted Jesus in my life. This is what I am personally most thankful for, and it is the foundation to the appreciation of everything else He has given me. The things that I so stubbornly was so blind to for so many wasted years. 

Then the tears were running down my cheeks because for the first time in my life I actually realized that God's love for us is greater than we can ever imagine. The Holy Spirit was beside me in my Dodge Ram and I don't know what words to use to describe the way I felt.

One thing that comes to mind to pray about tomorrow is how God provides the feast that we are about to eat, but never let us forget that this food is just fuel for our physical body to keep us walking this eart , but He also provides the necessary, spiritual nutrition for our souls as well, through the Holy Spirit, without which, we would surely perish from starvation of the soul.

 I think that the most purest, passionate form of thanksgiving that there ever was, was when Jesus said in The Gospel of John.........." I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty".

God bless you.

Gino & Paula

Forgiveness

Nov 6, 2016

Heh Friends, 

I'm just sitting here in the church lobby drinking a coffee, thanking God for all that He has let my life become and for all the good people He has brought my way.

It's so funny that today's sermon was something I think about all the time; "Becoming a new person in Christ". 

What a loving God we have to forgive & forget our sins, and wouldn't it be 'Oh so wonderful ' if we, as children of God, could do the same thing? I know it's very, very hard for us to forgive someone who has done wrong, but it is even harder to try and forget it; at least to the point of not letting it be the base of your feelings towards another. 

I just put my trust in Our Heavenly Father that one day others may see in me what you do, Friends

Bless you both. 

Gino