Dear Friends…. Our niece, Melissa, sent us this prayer this week… It spoke to me, and I hope it speaks you. Blessings, Janet Give us this day, Lord, our daily miracle. Even if we are incapable of noticing it because our mind is focused on great deeds and conquests. Even if we are too …
The following passage is from the book, “Be Good To Yourself” by Orison Swett Marden: “When we learn to look for the good in people instead of the bad, we shall bring out the good instead of the bad, for our estimate of others helps to form their estimate of themselves; and no one can …
A friend sent me the following. I thought it good enough to pass on. Janet. The following passage is quoted from Diane Johnson as sourced from the book, “Over the Top” (Zig Ziglar): “Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to …
I heard of a Christian group that formed on a college campus. It was a newer group at a campus that had recently launched, and the group members were eager to do something big and evangelistic. They wanted to coordinate a fall festival or cookout at the campus, inviting the neighborhood around the church to …
This has been a very hard week for our congregation. A wonderful 5 year old boy was taken home to heaven.
Happy New Year, Peace and God’s Blessings to one and all. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas. For those who did not make it to our Christmas Eve service, Wow! You missed out because the youth and children of Haven UMC did a terrific job with the pageant on the story of the babe …
Well, here we are coming up on Thanksgiving and the Christmas Holidays, with all the hussle and bustle that goes with getting the turkey ready, visiting with relatives, and holiday shopping. Let’s not forget to thank God for everything we have, and everybody in our lives, even those that have touched our lives ever so …
“If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.” Billy Sunday Prayer doesn’t always come easily for me. I know how to ask God for help and how to ask him for forgiveness. I know words to say that glorify God… I was looking out the window of the church office this morning, …
Like the rain that can’t be stopped from falling, God’s love and blessings keep on pouring. – Author unknown Some of you may have seen my license plate which says. “IMBLESD”. Some folks have come up with other ideas for what the letters mean, one person thought it meant “imbecile,” but my intention was to …
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot How true this is. I have found that as we age we tend to give up on new beginnings. We are content to say “Oh how I wish” or “If I were only younger”. And for some of us, we are …
I will be 62 next month. At this time of life I pictured myself being ready to settle back, relax and let the younger people do things. I guess I imagined that I would have accomplished every thing important to do by now. How wrong I was. In some ways this seems to be a …