It's Getting Closer!!

Eclipse is right around the corner!!!! Tomorrow I will be buying tickets for Twilight Club. We're gonna do the trilogy. Twilight at 7:15pm, New Moon at 9:30pm and Eclipse at 12:01am. YAY!! Then we have a hotel room reserved for the night. Jennie works at a hotel on the beach and that's where we're going. I think we'll play all the movie board games. The girls don't want to play Eclipse yet because they don't want to ruin the movie. They won't even watch commercials advertising it! Silly girls.

The boys are slowly trudging along with school. They're such good boys. They don't even give me grief over not having a "summer" break. Though they will be mostly reading during school hours this summer. Brandon is currently into the Lightning Thief books. Brett is still reading the Cirque de Freak books and the twins just grab a random book and read. They haven't really been interested in series of books yet.

I just finished Breaking Dawn. I read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner as soon as I finished Eclipse and WOW! I hope Stephenie tells Freaky Fred's story too! And of course Nessie & Jacob's story, and I hope she goes back to Edward's story. Hey how about the nomads and the Denali Clan and....I simply can't get enough of her vampire world! I've been tempted to read The Host but haven't quite gotten the desire yet. Now I'm reading Bitten & Smitten by Michelle Rowan. It's ok so far. Found it at the Goodwill for 75cents.

OK that's all I have to say for now. :)
Shelly


“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” Luke 6:35



I don't know if you've noticed, but this sinful world is a pretty selfish place. That's why, when I hear of an especially caring act, I'm glad to share it with others.

Not so long ago, I read of a small-town barber who noticed that he had quite a few new customers walking in the door. Business was booming and, without trying to appear ungrateful, he poked around to find out why.

It took a bit, but he was soon told that the other barber in town had had minor surgery and wouldn't be able to get back to work for a few more weeks.

Amazingly, at the end of every week, the Christian barber took all the extra money he had earned and gave it to his competitor.
I did tell you the barber was a Christian, didn't I?
A Christian showing Christian compassion.

When I heard the story I wondered, "Would I have acted that way?" Let's take that thought one step further. Would I have even thought of doing something of that kind?

I just don't know. I do know this: from now on, I will try, in the Name of Jesus, to go that extra mile. I'd like to invite you to join me.
It won't cost you very much. Certainly nowhere near what it cost the Savior to rescue us from sin, death and devil.

Indeed, it costs Jesus' people so little to be kind and generous; and it mends so many fences when we go just a bit out of our way to reach out.

It's a wonderful lesson from a Christian barber - - a lesson for a pastor like me and a person like you.



Pastor Hersch