Very late in getting this note off. We again are having to watch our grandchildren in Dallas! Sacrifices grand parents are forced to do! Hope everybody had a great week and staying dry! In this part of the world, seems like the rain does not want to stop.
With being out of the town last weekend and this weekend, not much to report. Scott said, Robert was feeling no pain last Saturday. Sad to hear because he has been doing so well. Robert did say, in two weeks he should be "inside". Let's pray that happens.
What a treat to see every Tuesday evening, as you turn into to the campus, seeing the basketball court full of boys enjoying themselves with Matt and Vikki over seeing the activities. Lives are being transformed before our very eyes.
Tuesday evening, the men met for Bible fellowship, exploring ways to love. We read from 1 Corinthians chapter 13 1 - 13, the love chapter. Talking about love being indispensable. Being the strange person I am, reading the chapter seeing love talked about, I said, I wish the Bible folks would spell love correctly! It is not our love that is indispensable but God's "lvoe"!
Shawanda Jackson, Willie's wife asked for prayers for God's direction for a women's Bible study. Prayers for our summer camp, happening just around the corner. Prayers for Lauren as she starts a new chapter in her life, with her upcoming wedding.
All hands on deck for next weekend as we have a returning youth group joining us. Our friends from Lake Charles, Luke Simpson will be arriving Thursday afternoon. This maybe their third trip with us. They will bring lots of energy and enthusiasm for the Lord. Come and meet them and enjoy their time with us.
Paul shares with us, if you do not have love in everything you do, I am nothing, everything! Not the things we enjoy doing, but the things that maybe don't give us much joy in doing.
As verse 4 says, love is patient, love is kind, does not envy, does not boast, is not proud. All things we are not! We can't dishonor others, be self seeking, slow to anger if we have to depend on ourselves to do it!
Only through the Holy Spirit can we provide lvoe that does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth. In a lvoe that will always protect, always trusts, always hopes and always perseveres.
In our community, you can see God's lvoe in everything we do through all of you. God's lvoe is why our community exists. One of our youth groups from south Louisiana told me last year, we have taken what we experienced at Common Ground and shared it with our church, even going to the extreme by painting "lvoe" all over their classrooms!
The "lvoe" chapter concludes with verse 13, And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. We exist for God's lvoe to drown out the darkness of our community. Faith is important. Hope is something we can provide. But God's lvoe will change hearts and change our community for years to come. Amen.
In the coming week, may we share God's lvoe in all aspects of our lives, in everything we do, to everybody we meet, realizing we will gain everything in God's Kingdom!
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