our love for God shows in our love for others

The scripture for the above is found in John 13:35. I got to thinking that this is one commandment that is the hardest to follow. Our youngest son has now taken a new job with working with retarded people as he felt he wanted to do something that mattered. This got me to thinking, do I do things in my life that show my Christian love to those around me or do I hide that love. This will be my new goal in my life is to show love to the people in my life that are hard to love. We all have these people in our lives and put them aside with many excuses as to why we do not associate with them but that is not what our Lord would have us do. I pray that if any of you have someone in your life that you should try to get to know better and learn to love that with Gods help you may find a true and rich friend.

Fun at Findlay Lake

Two weeks ago we joined our son and his family at Findlay Lake which is not more than and hour away from were we live. Our son loves to run and compete in races. This was a five mile race around Findlay lake (which is not far from a famous ski resort Peak and Peak). The weather was perfect and just the kind of day for a race. The most exciting part about it was that our son won the race and coming in first was the first time that this had happened. The trophy he received had a geraffe on it and we had wondered way. Now this is why I am mentioning this. Several years ago there were three famous hunters that traveled all over the world hunting and killing (sounds terrible) wild animals. They had every one of them stuffed and had quite a collection. Since they had so many they approched the town members of Findlay lake and donated all these animals to the town. If you are ever in the area in this part of New York state do not miss the museum that the town built for all these animals. The most amazing one is a 27 foot geraffe which needs to be redone but it is something to see. There also is a crocodile and alligater and so many more stuffed animals that would be impossible for us to see in a life time. The picture I put in is of myself my daughter-in-law and grandson. We really had a great day.

a mural

Three years ago I started to do murals at Church and for my daughter. The first two were done at homes that where not hers. Since our daughter and her family have moved back home I got to do this mural (there are two other walls that are done) for our new grandaughter that is now six weeks old. My goal in life before I got married was to become a comercial artist, however, since that did not happen I was a frustated artist doing art work at home for myself and family. It was not until I took a bible study at our Church about being a misundrstood artistic person that myself and others in the class realized how much we are misunderstood. So my focus now on life and drawing and painting has been to just enjoy theGod given talent that I was blessed with and to show it in other ways. Such as being able to create four murals at our Church for the Nursery. I no longer am frustrated and am glad to be able to paint and draw for the enjoyment of just doing it.

Our Guide

There are so many wonderful verses in the Bible that we can cling to that tell us how the Lord is with us throughout our lives. Jeremiah 29:11 is one that is always used. However, I discovered another one that tells the same thing but in a different way. Psalm 32:8 The Lord says,"I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. How great to know that we have so many of these wonderful words of the Lord to see us through the hard times in our lives. I hope this verse will remind you of Gods faithfulness to all of us.