What a Sunday!

I love Sundays...especially because I get to connect with people at church I haven't seen all week. Today I got to baptize a lady...she was excited and I was excited...and the cool thing is that scripture teaches us that THIS is when the heavens rejoice...when someone comes to claim Jesus as Lord & Savior!

We had a great meal with our kids, the ones in town, anyway...and then went to visit our across the street neighbors. Their son (and his new wife) were in town just for the week end from Colorado. It was fun to see them for a few minutes.

Then, we took all our kids to the movies...we do this as a family, a lot! Some of my favorite memories of our family are all of us piling in the same row with 3-D glasses to watch what ever was 'on' for the week end...but because it was an icy night, we were about the only people in the room! We are truly movie-nerds...we do movie quotes in our regular conversations...so it's hard to 'get' the under lying meaning sometimes, unless you can identify the movie & lines!
The girls & I saw 'Benjamin Button' and the guys went to see 'Gran Torino'...
'Benjamin' was good, not really my favorite 'kind' of movie...but it was well-done, and I enjoyed it. Of course, Brad Pitt makes it worthwhile, as well!

I made a new friend last fall when I went on a retreat in our area. This friend told me when I met her about her granddaughter that had been born earlier in the year, but had heart problems, and had already had a couple of surgeries on her little heart. I think to date she's had 3 surgeries, and I'm pretty sure she hasn't had her first birthday, yet. Well, I got news last night that this little girl died last week, not sure why or what the circumstances were...but she's gone. This kind of conversation is always hard for me to listen to, because my heart just goes out, of course, to the mom...and the dad...

This makes me just pray for them, because the father of lies wants to cloud their judgement, make their mind 'set' against the things of God....I think this is what makes me most sad. People are in so much pain when this happens, that they are susceptible to all kinds of lies from Satan.

This will be a matter of prayer for me...until I write again, though remember: Love the Lord YOUR God with all your mind, soul, strength and heart!--Luke tells us in chapter 20...look it up!