last week was an intense, exhausting week. monday spent a long day painting dick and eileen's spare bedroom and it's bath. we were able to get everything painted and the furniture placed, then sat down to pizza in front of conservative-talk-radio tv..is the best way i can describe it. tuesday, wednesday worked full days, thursday russ stence, a friend from rochester, ny, and melody, his daughter, joined our bus from leidy church in going down to the right to life march in washington, friday i collapsed, saturday was an all day meeting out in lancaster county. am thankful that the Lord enabled us to get everything done on monday, that He brought me some work-for-pay, that He enabled us to be a part of some 3 to 400,000 pro life people, enabled the three of us to pray in front of the white house for president obama and sing 'mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord' there, enabled us to interact with so many people, especially teenagers, who were interacting with our sign of a 22 week old aborted baby and the message on the other side which said,' would it bother us more if it was 'legal' to grant men the 'privacy' to murder babies they didn't want?' and to end up singing a number of songs during the march, on the streets of washington, in the mass transit area, in the bus (we all three love to sing and melody, in particular, has a beautiful voice)...quite frankly, it was hard to stop the 'primed pump' once it started...maybe God will bring us together again..people interacted, sang with us, many took in the multi-media message. (Lord, would You take the seed sown and multiply it in justice and righteousness for the oppressed) , that He enabled me to recoup from physical exhaustion and spiritual oppression ( i don't believe satan, the Deceiver and Destroyer, was or is happy with what went on in washington), that He enabled me to gather much more inside information through first hand reports of the rapidly increasing governmental incursion into the private sector, knowledge about improving diet and the means of growing that type of diet....and that in the midst of all the spiritual-physical chaos of the week that He has kept me and caused me to seek Him to the degree i did. truly, without Him i believe i would be obliterated. God is good! just about the time that the pastor announced about the flowers, from a wedding, that were on the piano my eyes scanning the bulletin lighted on ' flowers today given by stephen paine in loving memory of his parents, alvin and evelyn paine' which were one of the many details which never appeared on the week's radar! well at least they know i love my parents...probably have to sneak something up there next week..maybe...
you know i have so much more i'd love to tell you about but i think i need to stop for this week. hope you have a good week...oh one more. i called in on the reporter's anonymous 'sound off' line and said, 'oh Lord, forgive me for not obeying Your command while i observed president bush destroy us. forgive me for not making entreaties for him every day! help me pray for president obama everyday! they all scare me, Lord, when they keep talking about the solution to our problems being WE rather than falling down before You, looking only to You. oh God of the Bible, put Your merciful finger under President obama's little chin and raise it gently to see only You, to do only what is Your will. oh Lord, along with president obama's little chin would You mercifully raise our little chins too! for You know that cursed is the man who puts his trust in man'. also.... heard this am that president obama signed FOCA friday pm...this draws my mind to psalm 2, 'why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord...saying, "let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us". He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. the Lord shall have them in derision...He shall speak unto them in His wrath... Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. be wise now therefore, oh ye kings. be instructed, ye judges of the earth. serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way when His wrath is kindled but a little. blessed are all they that put their trust in Him'. hope you have a good week. love, dad
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