I was feeling down this afternoon with the circumstances of life. Yesterday marked the 22th anniversary of my father's death, my mother couldn't talk to me at all on the phone, and the bills are slowly starting to pile.
Then I watched your stadium wave video. The excitement that you had lifted my spirits. I fondly recalled the treks from out seats at Phillies games in Vet Stadium to the deepest part of upper centerfield. I remember the joy of those moments. As Alan Jackson says in his song Drive:
Maybe one day they'll reach back in their file And pull out that old memory And think of me and smile.
I found a few verses that have helped me go forward with my daily relationship with Jesus Christ:
II Cor 4:8-18 -
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Thanks for the laughs! I must say, I was very surprised and amused to hear my son get so excited over "The Wave" going through the stadium. I'm so glad you are finding things to get excited about!!
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I was feeling down this afternoon with the circumstances of life. Yesterday marked the 22th anniversary of my father's death, my mother couldn't talk to me at all on the phone, and the bills are slowly starting to pile.
Then I watched your stadium wave video. The excitement that you had lifted my spirits. I fondly recalled the treks from out seats at Phillies games in Vet Stadium to the deepest part of upper centerfield. I remember the joy of those moments. As Alan Jackson says in his song Drive:
Maybe one day they'll reach back in their file
And pull out that old memory
And think of me and smile.
I found a few verses that have helped me go forward with my daily relationship with Jesus Christ:
II Cor 4:8-18 -
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
My Dear Son - I love you and miss you very much.
May God Bless You. Seek Him. Vaya con Dios!
Dad
From Mom.....
Thanks for the laughs! I must say, I was very surprised and amused to hear my son get so excited over "The Wave" going through the stadium. I'm so glad you are finding things to get excited about!!
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