12.14- My family and my extended family has learned a lot from failure as most of you know.

 12.14-

My family and my extended family has learned a lot from failure as most of you know. One thing we were taught that was right and worked well is our understanding of God.

What we think about God could be the most important thing that is in our minds each day.

Before we ate a bite of food in my home each day my dad would address God this way.

"Our

Kind

Heavenly

Father"

That set our identity in Wayne Wishard's family.

It did then and does now in .my heart.

"for these eggs, ham, bread and coffee."

Our identity had been set by his mother and father who knew that God kind. Dad's earhly father moved over to the invisible, heavenly realm when dad was only twelve.

It seems his good idea about God being a "kind heavenly" God had been set by listening to Momma Wishard's prayers in their home.

Out of that idenity our work as farmers, ranchers and grocery store workers and community workers was the joy and fun of living in a loving relationship with our neighbors in Ladonia, Wolfe City, Honey Grove, Bonham, Sherman and Paris Texas.

2 Corinthians 5

16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one [f]by the flesh; even though we have known Christ by the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new [g]creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their wrongdoings against them, and [h]He has [i]committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be [j]sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.