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shop till you drop, in the Upper Room #XXVIII
15 years ago
General
Me and my lady was runnin around town and I asked if we can stop at the Christian Family Store to see if Manga Mutiny was there...we get there and there was another Manga attached to it Manga Melech, and there was a note on the order sheet. The guy said to me: "Well this one you haven't paid for yet, but there's a note that says: 'hold, he WILL want this."
I ended up with 2 Mangas, a Bible holder, a War of Ages CD, and the New Living Translation on DVD...yup, I hate money.
But I did find something in Mutiny (Genesis and Exodus) and I found one piece of info they should of left in...in chapter 9 of Genesis it talks about all the great heroes, I think they should of had a panel for it...the books are geared towards the young...
~Rev. Wally Bear
Witnesses
Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.
-2 Corinthians 1:3 (NIV)
TERMINALLY ill patients often know when death is near, yet I couldn't tell if Delores was just being overly positive. "I'm not ready to die," she said. "I'm going home." A nurse had paged me, the on-call chaplain, because she thought Delores was dying.
But Delores did go home, only to return for more chemo, more radiation. When I stopped in to see her one morning, I barely recognized her from the effects of her treatment. Suddenly, she exclaimed, "He was here, right here in my room."
"Who was?" I asked.
"Jesus! I was lying here in bed, and I looked up at that wall over there and --" she stopped. Her eyes filled with tears as she pointed toward the wall opposite her bed. "Jesus came through that wall. The room was flooded with light, and it was so peaceful! Thank you, Jesus!"
I found her joy so palpable that I started to cry. You can't work in a hospital among the critically ill and dying without struggling with God. In Delores' presence, I felt with my whole being that what we Christians say and hope and pray is true. The one who once walked among us, the one who died on the cross, is risen. He is faithful and will not leave us comfortless. Sometimes it takes someone else's faith to remind us of that.
Marcia Krause Bilyk (New Jersey, USA)
Prayer
O God, thank you for coming to us in our need and empowering us to live faithfully. Amen.
Thought for the Day
What we say and hope is true: Christ is risen.
Prayer Focus
Hospital workers
I ended up with 2 Mangas, a Bible holder, a War of Ages CD, and the New Living Translation on DVD...yup, I hate money.
But I did find something in Mutiny (Genesis and Exodus) and I found one piece of info they should of left in...in chapter 9 of Genesis it talks about all the great heroes, I think they should of had a panel for it...the books are geared towards the young...
~Rev. Wally Bear
Witnesses
Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.
-2 Corinthians 1:3 (NIV)
TERMINALLY ill patients often know when death is near, yet I couldn't tell if Delores was just being overly positive. "I'm not ready to die," she said. "I'm going home." A nurse had paged me, the on-call chaplain, because she thought Delores was dying.
But Delores did go home, only to return for more chemo, more radiation. When I stopped in to see her one morning, I barely recognized her from the effects of her treatment. Suddenly, she exclaimed, "He was here, right here in my room."
"Who was?" I asked.
"Jesus! I was lying here in bed, and I looked up at that wall over there and --" she stopped. Her eyes filled with tears as she pointed toward the wall opposite her bed. "Jesus came through that wall. The room was flooded with light, and it was so peaceful! Thank you, Jesus!"
I found her joy so palpable that I started to cry. You can't work in a hospital among the critically ill and dying without struggling with God. In Delores' presence, I felt with my whole being that what we Christians say and hope and pray is true. The one who once walked among us, the one who died on the cross, is risen. He is faithful and will not leave us comfortless. Sometimes it takes someone else's faith to remind us of that.
Marcia Krause Bilyk (New Jersey, USA)
Prayer
O God, thank you for coming to us in our need and empowering us to live faithfully. Amen.
Thought for the Day
What we say and hope is true: Christ is risen.
Prayer Focus
Hospital workers
