Evening on the Lake

Last Friday evening, while the Worden Children were staying with us, we all headed over to Lake Erie so the boys could try out their new fishing rods and to enjoy God's glorious creation!

The beauty of God's creation - new life!

While driving to the lake we spotted this strange object flying above the trees. We have actually seen this motorized kite several times in the downriver and below area and even though I wouldn't really want to fly one, it sure is neat to see them glide by. 

Silhouette in the clouds.

Nice catch John! ;) 

Even though none of the boys caught anything, I think they at least enjoyed their first experience and can't wait to try their hands at it again. 

 

 

Granny, 113 Years Old!!!

Most everyone wants to live as long as possible. The Doctors have found many ways, such as chemo, heart transplants etc. to keep people alive a little longer. One secret to long life is found in the ten commandments in the Bible. The 5th commandment says: "Honor your father and mother that you may live long on the earth." The Bible also tells us how to treat those that have lived long on the earth. Leviticus 19:32 "You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord." Job 12:12, "Wisdom is with the aged men, and with length of days, understanding. Proverbs 16:31, "The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness."

Three years ago, my family had the pleasure meeting one of those gray haired elderly people, at a senior home in Florida where my Grandparents held a Bible sing along. This certain lady was affectionately called Granny.
Granny was, at that time 110!! She was a very sweet lady who loved the Lord and came whenever she was able, to the services my grandparents held there. Despite her age, she still used a walker then and insisted on getting out of her chair herself, saying that "she was a big girl.."

Through the years we have thought and prayed for her, and every time her Birthday came around we would send an e-mail to Grandpa and Grandma, asking them to say Happy Birthday to her for us. Just last year, Granny had been moved to the Oaks, a nursing home, being unable to care for herself. This year just after her 113th birthday in April, our grandparents sent us an article that had been in their newspaper about her. It was very interesting, and informed us that at one time no one had known how old she really was, until her granddaughter Marie Daniels found a fishing license of hers that recorded her age.

Granny (Roxene Riggs) is a Christian and has a love of reading, especially the Bible and other Christian literature and magazines. Mrs. Daniels said that "she (Granny) has always been a very caring person… very humble, and always appreciative of anything anyone does for her." Some of Granny's favorite sayings are, "keep on keeping on", "I want to be ready when the Lord calls", and "Do what you can when you can."

As you can see Granny is of a persevering character, and my whole family has been blessed by her.

The LORD's Day Blessings

Every day is a day "that the Lord has made," but this past Sunday seemed to be a special gift from God. This Sunday was different as our little fellowship of 6 families met in the Eddy's basement for our service. (We greatly appreciate all the work that went into emptying, cleaning and fixing it up.) The message was on the Spiritual Blessings we have from God in Christ found in Ephesians 1. What marvelous but deep truths we contemplated as we learned of the spiritual blessings which are ours: election before the foundation of the world that we might be holy, adoption according to His good pleasure, redemption through Christ's blood and forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace! Each of these gave us a lot to praise God for as we realized that they were all given to us for His glory and not our own. We ended the service with lively songs of praise to our great and glorious Lord!


Following are some pictures highlighting our blessed Lord's Day!

After a delicious meal we all gathered in the Eddy's living room to sing songs to the praise of HIS glorious grace!

 

Fellowship around the campfire included eating hotdogs and s'mores, and singing songs of praise to our LORD and Savior! 

Faith Ann and Carmen Klaty. 

Twirling skirts and laughing voices... 

The mothers enjoying a refreshing walk along the paths on Eddy Acres.

Miss Carmen Klaty among the dandelions.

The young ladies enjoying a walk while in search for sticks for roasting marshmallows. 

The violin trio... Faith, Lindy and Theresa playing Brethren We Have Met to Worship.