Final Message for 2009

I just read this scripture from the Message Bible and I knew that I needed to share it with you.

"If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him! That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens. All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs....These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting dimishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting.

Those of you who attended Billy's funeral, heard his recorded voice blessing our grandchildren.He said to them..."Tyler, all creation is straining on tiptoe to see you come into your own.Trevor, all creation is straining on tiptoe to see you come into your own." He continued to bless Seth, Joshua, Gracie, Ava, Cole, Kaylah, Gabriel . I want to add to his blessing today. First Brett, all creation is straining on tiptoe to see you come into your own. Hayley, Richard, Brad, Heather, Jeff, Shanna, Nicky, David, Jaime, Michelle, Carol, Gene, Leslie, George, All my blogging friends: You are soon ready to be everything that God wants you to be. Come Lord Jesus.