It has been sometime since I have had the chance to blog. I have had a full couple of weeks. The first week of Aug we had Mega Sports camp at church and every night I was at the church with my 2 grandsons. It was a basketball camp and I was the prayer coach. That was exciting. I saw answers to prayers and children come to know Christ.
Then last weekend we went back to St. Joes and Lake MI for the weekend. We love going over there. This time we took Roberts brother and Sister-in-law with us and the big boat. We took the boat out on Sat. morning and I got soaked which was the highlight of the weekend for "some" people.
Then this week I was doing a job at work that I don't usually do and that was a learning lesson. Today my mother came over and I scanned and printed off some pictures for her. One of the pictures I had never seen before. It was the picture of the young lady holding the baby. That was my grandmother (the baby) and my great-grandmother. That picture was taken in the summer of 1915.
The other picture is the picture of my mother when she was about 4 months old. It was taken in the spring of 1937. It started the mind to thinking about family and relationships. Of course the most important relationship we have is the relationship we have with Christ. As I thought about my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother the one thing that links us together is the blood!!!
I have sat under the ministry of many great speakers and Bethany has some of the best. I have let their message mold and encourage and have remember some of the sermones but mot many. One in paticular I remember is when Bro. Rob Burkhart was peraching his last sermon as Christain Education, Associate and what ever other roles he played as pastor. It will stick with me forever. It was there are no "grandchildren" in heaven. I am so thankful for that.
As I look at the pictures and have shared them with my grandchildren it is a reminder how far from personal these people come. Jake my almost 10 year old grandson was asking about the pictures and they were his great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, and his great-great-great grandmother. Thank God for firt generation relationships!!! He is our FATHER!!! We are all brother and sisters. No thining of the blood here. First generation all the way.
I John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!!!
