Taking Hebron

If you lived through the nineties I’m sure you can remember Beanie Babies. A toy craze that turned into chaos and insanity as people fought to get them all. Bedroom shelves were lined with them, toy baskets over flowing, and people storming McDonalds to get the latest Teeny Beanie. Toys you were super careful with when you played with them, buying tag protectors so they wouldn’t get wrinkled because no matter what you NEVER wanted to take off the tag! (-: Yesterday, Al and I were going to go to the Flea Markets and I invited Lindsey to join us. I really enjoyed bringing Girl along for she had eyes for different things than me and I discovered a whole other world of stuff I’d never noticed. She was especially taken with all the little stuffed animal bears. As I looked with her I wasn’t surprised at all the Beanie Babies we saw. I couldn’t help but think though, this once coveted and priceless toy, was now piled up in an old basket in the back corner of a sellers stall, being sold f...

Today's Bible lesson was about Jesus feeding the 5000 and how Jesus is the Bread of Life. And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. John 6:35

   I recently self-published two books I’ve written. I don’t really like using the term “Self-publish” for I feel it creates the idea in people’s minds that the product is second rate. (Even though in reality it is just as good of quality as a publishing house book.) Well tonight my sister told me of a comment someone made to her about my books. The person asked why I hadn’t gotten them published through a publishing house so that my books would bear their (the publishing houses) name and advertising.    Why didn’t I pursue publishing in this way? Because six years ago I wrote a book called The Invitation . Everyone who read it loved it and said I should try and get it published. I sent in the manuscript with great hope and I was rejected. In my disappointment the Lord said He would publish my book, all by Himself. I thought that sounded pretty good at first, until I realized He hadn’t told me when He was going to do it. Over the years I sent a couple different manu...