When I got married in 1967, I started a new life. I had a new name,new address,new checkbook, new,new and more new. Adjustment is never easy but oh what a wonderful life I had with Billy Crain. To have something of value that will last, we must be willing caretakers of the small beginning. This valued object-person-relationship will take many forms and cause everything in you to change to maintain the growth. Remember, if something isn't growing, it is dying. Most people think love is a feeling. Anyone who has raised a child knows that love is persistent effort over a long period of time. The process of finding new life for Jennifer Crain, or any of you who have had a major life-change, must stay focused on the only one who promises that change will bring joy and peace. Change makes us feel "out of control", and we are " not in control". Keeping a focal point when this happens keeps us from getting dizzy and lost. That focal point must be the resurrection of Christ Jesus. This is what I come back to when nothing seems comfortable. NIV-Romans:6;3-4 "...don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too MAY LIVE A NEW LIFE." Ask Him to show you what His resurrection looks like to you and for you today!
Joy and Peace to all of us in 2010.
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Dad's Lessons from the Sandlot
Dad's Lessons from the Sandlot was written in 2006, two years before Billy Crain passed away suddenly on June 3, 2008. He never got the book published, but our family felt inpired and led by God to find a publisher and get the book in printed from. The book uses the transparency of Billy's baseball stories to expose God's hand in the details of our lives. The ultimate journey leads us to see God is in our stories and to train us to recognize it is really HIS STORY in our humanity. To order your copy today contact jennifercrain@sbcglobal.net.
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I like that. You have to maintain your focus so that God will bring about change and maintain growth. I want to be like Solomon and have a God-listening heart (1Kings 3:9). I want to be like David and maintain faithfulness and integrity in worship; even as he came as he was (1 Chron 29:17), brought what he had, and expected God to speak to him, love him, and lead him. Even Job put his questions to God, refusing to take silence from God or pat answers from men for an answer. I read in a Job introduction today that real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain. Love you mom.
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