November 4, 2014

Greetings from Sisseton, South Dakota!  Larry and I just flew into Fargo, ND from Florida. 

 

We drove our motorhome out there to get it into a safe and warm climate, away from the upcoming arctic and snowy South Dakota winter that we're sure will be upon us soon. 

 

It was 82 degrees when we left Florida and it's supposed to be down to 28 degrees tonight in South Dakota - ouch. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will be glad to be here for my mom's 99th birthday on November 16th. What a milestone! She gave birth to twelve children, which now with all the marriage and children there are about 130 in our immediate family.  She's been doing amazingly well until about a couple weeks ago when we nearly lost her.  This family knows how to hit the throne room for prayer, and she's made a huge turnaround. The doctors are amazed.

 

I am blessed and have been grateful to have her in my life for 70 ½ years - wow. We will have a small party for her, not a big one as originally planned, due to her health.  She is truly been such a blessing to all of us and her love for family, God, the Word and for prayer have truly created a legacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry and I celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary with our friends Bob and Sharon Conklin from Hutchinson, MN.  It was nice to visit with friends that we've known for many, many years and who used to do scheduling for us.  Now we start our journey toward our 50thanniversary in 2015…time flies!  I thank God every day for my wonderful husband, who is my best friend, a great father to our children and grandchildren and a passionate evangelist. 

 

With this being Thanksgiving month, Larry and I are reminded we are so thankful to have friends and family like you who are so precious to us.  The other day my brother Dale sent me an email that I want to share with you. It is challenging and hopefully it will bless you like it did me:

 

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?

 

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. 

We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.  My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received."

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them."

I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally! At the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment

Section, "my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed.

"How is it that there is no work going on here?" I asked. "So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments."

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked.

"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord."

"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy."

"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day."

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 700 million people in the world."

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are envied by and more blessed than three billion people in the world."

"If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare."

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm. You're unique to all those in doubt and despair."

"Okay. What now? How can I start?"

 

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special, and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. Have a good day. Count your blessings. And if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are!

 

 

Gloria

 

 


{Don't Forget to Vote!!}

 

 

 

Be sure to vote today! 

What a privilege it still is to have a part in making decisions... Do it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


{Pic of the Week}

 

 

 

 

 


 

{Recipe}
 
 
Apple Crunch

1 c. oatmeal

1 c. flour

1 stick margarine

1 c. brown sugar

7-8 apples, peeled and sliced

1 c. sugar

Cinnamon to taste

 

Crumble together the oatmeal, flour, margarine and brown sugar.  Take half of the mixture and put in 8x8 or 9x9 pan. Add apples. Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon over the apples.  Take the remaining crumble mixture and top the apples.  Bake for 45-60 minutes at 350 degrees.

 

 

 

{Household Hint}
 
 

Here is a use for those single socks we all have around. Fill one with long grain rice or dried beans and tie a knot in the end of the sock or sew it up on end. Microwave for 2 minutes whenever you need a heating pad for a sore neck, back, etc.

 

 

 

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