Dear Mothers,
This morning I was watchin' TV. And I got in on the end of a message by Bishop Eddie Long. And he was talkin' about how some folks want to give God their money, thinking that this will pay for their sins. They are in sin and so they give a big amount of money and this soothes their conscience. And when he got ready to say that, my ears just perked up because most TV preachers want money at any cost. They wouldn't care if it was from a pimp.
Wow, I don't know what will come out of me this morning as I feel so full of the Holy Spirit. This oughta be good! I guess I will just jump in and hang on.
This morning I was watching TV and waiting for Olivia J., age 4, to get here. Anyway, I like to watch Gloria Copeland every once in a while. I just watch these lady preachers to try to see what makes 'em tick. As I watched Gloria, I thought, "Ya know I like her style in a lot of ways." She kinda has a West Texas kick in the pants way about her. And I mean she does have a message, it seems. But I just laughed out loud at one point and prayed out loud. "Now, Lord, if Gloria would just adjust her motor, she could be so much more powerful and do so much more good than she does now.
Dear Mothers,
Well, I have baby Olivia Rose (5 weeks) this morning. She is sleeping so I will have some time to write.
Mercy! I was watching Joyce M this morning and man alive. She is just out and out putting down the submissive wife. She says that a preacher tried to tell her that her husband should preach and she should be quiet at home. So her husband tried to preach and he didn't know how. So she preached and won many to the Lord. And she told how the crowds followed her. None of what she said was backed up by scripture. She is getting her calling from looking at her experiences.
Dear Mothers,
This morning I was back at it, watchin' Christian TV. Well, I sorta like that show Ever Increasing Faith. But with any TV evangelism, ya gotta watch it. So at the beginning of the show, they had this dopey chick on there. And in a nutshell, this is what she said. Her church where her husband was a deacon believed in wifely submission. And this chicken's girlfriend told her she didn't have to submit to her husband. So she decided to go pray with Pastor Price and he got her straightened out. And she told her husband that they needed to go to Pastor Price's church so they did. And she got her prayers answered because she put Jesus first.
This morning, John's wife Christine and David's Tiffany are coming over with Baby Rose and Romeo to visit a while. Tiff is to have her baby in September. Christine has some baby things here that she wants to give to Tiff. So we will eat lunch and go through baby clothes. I think I will have goulash as I think the grandchildren will eat it, too.
Good Morning. I am up makin' coffee and straightening up the house. It is so cold in this house, and my e machine gets cold. So the keys stick and have to be warmed up. So I do some replies to get the keys warmed up and then I do the regular writing. We put our heat down to just over 60 degrees at night. So when I come out here, it is COLD. I have to get warm and my e machine, too.
Good Morning. Mary didn't get Brandon to the hospital until late yesterday, as he was asleep for the day after being so sick all night. So I don't have any news yet.
Just wanted to write a bit about church. I know what ya all mean when you say you are happy in your church. And I am glad -- this is good. But the ones who have left the churches, it isn't because they have had bad experience there. No, I love church people and they love me. Well, I suppose some folks leave as they have upsets, etc. But that is not my reason. I just left as I felt led to.
Last night, I was so tired and was waiting for Jim to get home from work. I decided to watch TV. We have limited cable. So ya get the dumb channels that no one watches that has any brains at all. But I turned to this new Christian channel and there stood Mr. Dollar $$$. You know the ministry of Creflo Dollar?
Dear Mothers,
It's early morning. I was praying in my bed and knew the Lord was calling me to get up and write. I am telling the Lord, "Oh, Lord, this bed is so warm and comfortable next to Papa." Yet I knew that the Lord was stirring me and calling me. Many times I have ignored His early morning call. I have lived to regret it, as then I have to go the whole day with a message in my heart and wait again for the night to write it. Kind of like swallowing an elephant and holding it in all day. It's better to just obey the Lord and get it over with, then rest.
