Yesterday morning, Steve was planning on heading to a preachers meeting at Cape May, New Jersey. This is the Cape May lighthouse taken at evening. Ironically, because of some lighting issues that we are having at our house, Steve chose to stay home and be here when Carl, our deacon electrician arrived to check things out. We have light surges every hour...we have had continual computer problems...we have a high electric bill...are they all related? It is irritating having lights surge down and then back up! Is it dangerous? Could we have a fire?.
Carls expertise quickly pointed to our problems that do need to be resolved. In other words, we need to get the problems fixed! Carl did some repair work and I have not seen a power surge since then. Thank you, LORD, for using Carl to point out the problems and begin the solution process.
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I am specifically thinking, on this FAMILY FELLOWSHIP FRIDAY, of areas that I have needed to "fix" in my life over the years. Various family members will lovingly point those out to me. I have to say that the most convicting times are from the WORD, THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. It's like a laser light pointing straight to the scripture need of the moment.
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Something that was POINTED out to me recently, during our study of James, was concerning my being religious. The WORD shed LIGHT on my life and I was quickly convicted. I need to fix the problem! Many people in this world claim to be religious, yet GOD sheds LIGHT on the subject by POINTING directly to who He considers to be religious:
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What a teaching! What a great FAMILY FELLOWSHIP ACTIVITY:James 1:25-27
"If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.
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This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world."
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- Some children you know don't have a mommy around. Some don't have a daddy around. Are there children you know who live with a relative because dad and mom are both out of the picture? Talk with your kids about this verse and brainstorm ways to "visit" that child. My own children have many memories of children who were "orphans" since we worked and lived at a children's home when they were younger. They became aware at an early age of the needs.
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- Widows are everywhere...even a few widowers! Are you loving on the widows of your local congregation? Are you teaching your children to? Adopt a widow!What fellowship! What family teaching! Some of our fondest memories are from our "widow connections". In the first part of a recent post, I shared about our Texas widows: http://momstransformed.blogspot.com/2008/09/find-us-faithful-in-all-our-september.html#links
Steve shared it similarly on his blog yesterday: http://www.cochrist.org/
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As I am finishing this post, our lights have just surged three times. Thank you, GOD! Thank you for allowing there to be something that points out that there is still a problem! GOD is good all the time and all the time GOD is good! GIGATTAATTGIG
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Because of JESUS, we are the LIGHT family,
Patti Light Sikes
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