The Grove (5th & 6th Grade Ministry) invites you to join us on June 12, 2011 for “Barefoot Sunday”. During this event we will be collecting shoes for Soles 4 Souls, an organization that distributes shoes to those in need throughout the world. Please come to worship that day in a pair of new or lightly worn shoes. During the worship service, you will be invited to take off your shoes and present them as a gift to someone in need. Also consider contributing $1 per pair donated to help cover shipping costs of the shoes.
Wood? Check. Saw? Check. Leveler? Check. Screws? ….
Screws!
And away you go back in the car, down the street, across the parking lot, down the aisle and back to the check out. That’s how home improvement projects go sometimes. You decide to finally build a storage shed or put up a back splash or install that new tile, but it never goes exactly as planned. You are all ready to try your hand at a new project but something is always missing. A Plan.
No, I haven’t gone “Gaga”. I was born this way …
I was and there’s no denying it. Ever since I was a kid I knew there was something different about me. I LOVED going to church. I liked helping people. I tolerated late night ministry meetings. My life was filled with these “peculiar” patterns and behaviors. Then I began to notice that my school friends didn’t do the same things I did. I started feeling like an outcast, a loser. Everything I was doing was so “weird” and all I wanted was to be cool and have some friends. But soon the friends were few and the loneliness was great.
I recently watched a show called “Master Class” featuring one of my favorite people in the world, Dr. Maya Angelou. She was the guest for this episode and she shared some of the things she is learning in life. Before I go on I have got to say, she is a woman of grace and dignity. Her life represents an amazing life filled with both promise and tragedy but mostly a life lived with purpose secure in the knowledge of who she is. Not what she does, but who she is. I naturally was interested in how she had become such a person.
In Memoriam: Gene Frenkle: 1950 – 2000.
Turning thirty isn’t that bad. I’m serious! I just “celebrated” this milestone a few weeks back and I must say that life at thirty is not bad at all. In the days since my millstone, excuse me, milestone, I’ve had something of an epiphany. I recognized I was barely living my life. I realized that I was doing a disservice to others and myself. I needed to come alive!
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