Primitive

Last Sunday our family visited Smoky Mountain Primitive Baptist again.  We look forward to our times with the people there.  The pastor's wife is battling breast cancer, and I was thankful to get to visit with her again and maybe encourage her.  It made me think about my own battles with cancer and what was most important to me then.  Just knowing that someone cared about me, cared whether I lived or died, that mattered a lot then.  It does now, but in a different way.  Then I was in a scary place.  A place of fears and a feeling of a lack of control.  Then I really needed help on my way.  I could not face things on my own.  I needed a Savior - Someone who is all powerful and who loves me, really and truly loves me.  He was there.

Two Sundays ago our family was in Kentucky.  A church in Mt. Sterling asked OBT to come and preach during their annual meeting.  We had visited this church before and always enjoy our times with the saints gathered there.  We stayed at the pastor's home and are immeasurably blessed by their friendship and love for us.  We were blessed by the meeting and the fellowship of those we spent time with - some we know well; others we just met.  God richly fed us, and we thank Him for all blessings.

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." - Romans 14:17

Our house has problems that need to be fixed.  The estimate was very high.  The insurance denied coverage.  Then the Lord sent two preachers to help us.  He is good and worthy of all praise.

What We Read - August 2010

Encyclopedia Brown finds the clues by Donald J. Sobol

Eddycat teaches telephone skills by Ada Barnett

A Bedtime Book by Joan Walsh Anglund

Wildflower tea by Ethel Pochocki

ABC cats by Kathy Darling

Two little trains by Margaret Wise Brown

The vegetable show by Laurene Krasny Brown

Kirsten saves the day by Janet Beeler Shaw
Kirsten learns a lesson

The little lame prince by Rosemary Wells