11.20- Family love. Our designer placed a hunger in our hearts for family love.

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Family love. Our designer placed a hunger in our hearts for family love. I'm 77 now and 70+ of my Thanksgiving days have been experienced in three houses in North Texas. All three houses have smelled intense smells of turkey, ham or BBQ. There was also the fragrance of family love as a gift from our Father in heaven. Grateful for health and jobs and food produced by sunshine, rain and hard working people from farm to table.

Psalm 68

Psalm 68:6

God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious live in parched lands.

Acts 14

8 In Lystra a man was sitting whose feet were incapacitated. He had been disabled from his mother’s womb, and had never walked. 9 This man was listening to Paul as he spoke. Paul looked at him intently and saw that he had faith to be [f]made well, 10 and he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” And the man leaped up and began to walk. 11 When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voice, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have become like men and have come down to us!” 12 And they began calling Barnabas, [g]Zeus, and Paul, [h]Hermes, since he was [i]the chief speaker. 13 Moreover, the priest of Zeus, whose temple was [j]just outside the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds. 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their [k]robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out 15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men, of the same nature as you, preaching the gospel to you, to turn from these [l]useless things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them. 16 [m]In past generations He permitted all the [n]nations to go their own ways; 17 yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, [o]satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.” 18 And even by saying these things, only with difficulty did they restrain the crowds from offering sacrifices to them.

2 Tim 1.

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus [a]by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

2 To Timothy, my beloved [b]son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience [c]the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my [d]prayers night and day, 4 longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy. 5 [e]For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelled in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well. 6 For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of [f]timidity, but of power and love and [g]discipline.