9.1-Our 52nd Anniversary

-
9.1-

Our 52nd Anniversary



SHEILA AND I DON’T AGREE ABOUT

The marriages that Sheila and I admired as we dated were full of grace and truth. We didn’t see our families of origin as having arrived as model families though they were trying to achieve very successful family lives. They needed grace, mercy and forgiveness as we do.

We are celebrating our 52nd anniversary today. We have been blessed with the ability to celebrate life. We have daily long talks.

Regarding our past anniversaries, after our children left home we celebrated on 00 years and 05 years by going on trips to New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Maine, Denver, Durango, Colorado, Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Our children and grandchildren celebrated with us on Thanksgiving and Christmas aligning with their work schedule.

Sheila and I are total opposites – maybe that’s why we talk so long every day.

SHEILA AND I DON’T AGREE ABOUT:
Dallas Cowboys or Denver Broncos.
Dogs or Cats.
Early or Late.
Dress – Comfortable, Sloppy, Nerdy or Casual, Business Casual.
5 Second rule.
Thermostat at 74 or 76.
Loud or Quiet.
That every post needs to be a mini-sermon.

THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE AGREE ABOUT.
Used, reliable cars are good.
Exercise is good. Skipping exercise is bad.
Mexican food, BarBQ, Caesar salad, pizza, peaches, nectarines, grapes, Gala apples are good.
Silence can be a good response when tempted to argue with family and friends about things that don’t matter that much to Jesus.
To give your children roots and wings is good.
To run with wise people is good.
To delight in the words of Jesus Christ is very good.
To pray for each other, children, grandchildren, in-laws, parents, sibs, cousins, friends in Jesus, and enemies is good.

We are blessed much more than we deserve.
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners among whom we are the worst.
We need God to be merciful to us – we are sinners.
We need to grow in submitting to God and each other.
We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose our response to circumstances.
People can bear fruit in old age.
We need to grow in being full of grace and truth.
We need to praise God Sunday through Saturday.
Thanks to all of you who read this and share our lives and love and make our lives richer.

Larry and Sheila Wishard
September 1, 2019



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

9.4- Broken eggs.

-
Image
9.4- Broken eggs. I had been warned Don't try to carry too much in from the grocery store at once. Learn the hard way or the easy way. Why does the only thing that falls off is the most fragile? The carton was crushed. Several eggs were broken. I have learned to keep looking when a little frustration comes to stay alert. Some good can come out of something bad. Getting laid off from the wrong job can lead to the right job. Getting bumped from the wrong flight to get the right flight, five minutes later plus a free flight. Now I watch for the turn and learn from frustrating little things. Broken eggs. Scrambled eggs. Romans 12 14  Bless those who persecute  [ q ] you; bless and do not curse.   15  Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.   16  Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be  [ r ] haughty in mind, but  [ s ] associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.   17  Never repay evil for evil to anyone.  [ t ] Respect what is right
Read more

9.2- There was this grasshopper who appeared to be very old and very wounded.

-
 9.2- There was this grasshopper who appeared to be very old and very wounded. He drug himself along. Where he was amazed me. On the ground level at the gas station near Gordon Texas was dirt and oil and the danger of feet and tires. As I pumped 39.30 worth of fuel I wondered how did he get out of the dirt and danger to the safety of the top of the gas pump? As I get older I sometimes feel I am dragging along like a grasshopper. My spirit is fueled by seeing how my life includes my maker providing safety for me by the help of family, friends and strangers. Two such are my nephew, Lynn And Sheri Luttrell. He is a prof. at ACU and she the owner and leader of stepping Stones school. Got to spent two days of fun, 42 and homemade ice cream last week. Ecclesiastes 12. 12  Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years approach when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;   2  before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened
Read more

9.3- I have been given a bed to go to sleep in where a window is high and laying on my back I can see

-
 9.3- I have been given a bed to go to sleep in where a window is high and laying on my back I can see the moon at times. Flat of my back I can choose to think of the maker of the moon. A space craft from India landed there yesterday near the south pole of the moon where they think there may be water. Once the greatest human who ever lived faced his hardest days. He spoke words of steady trust and submission to his loving heavenly Father, maker of heaven and earth. "If possible may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26. 39  And He went a little beyond  them , and fell on His face and prayed, saying,  “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You  will .”   40  And He *came to the disciples and *found them sleeping, and He *said to Peter,  “So, you  men  could not keep watch with Me for one hour?   41  Keep watching and praying, so that you do not come into temptation; the spirit is  [ p ] willing,
Read more