Where Is He?

Some say, "Then where is he?"

Do not challenge his words. Jesus has not forgotten. He is patiently waiting, giving everyone who seeks him time to find him. When he does return, it will catch many by surprise. Make certain you are not one of them.

A Prayer begins . . .

Our Father in heaven, who but you has taught us to surrender all of our cares to you. Is it any wonder that we revere you? Help us to live lives of moral excellence for we desire to know you better. We eagerly await your return.

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Making A Difference

Kevin and Karen Miller, More Than You and Me, Touching Others Through The Strength of Your Marriage, Focus On The Family Publishing, 1994, pp. 8, 9.     SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 1561792179
Keywords: Adam, eve, working together, married, couple, mission, seven-year itch, 12-year anger, 18-year blahs, companionship, Dennis Rainey, children, Jesus, James H. Olthuis, Focus On the family Publishing, Miller, Kevin Miller, Karen Miller

"Adam and Eve must have had fun working together in the garden. No commutes, no child care, no financial worries. Just the opportunity to be with each other all day and feel the satisfaction of doing something together that neither could do alone.

We hunger for this today: cooperating together, meshing, working like a mountain climbing team, ascending the peak of our dream, and then holding each other at the end of the day. God has planted this hunger deep within every married couple. It's more than a hunger to create new life. It's a third hunger, a hunger to do something significant together. According to God's Word, we were joined to make a difference. We were married for a mission.

Marriage expert Dennis Rainey says, 'One of the missing ingredients of couples today is they do not have a mission; they do not have a sense of God having called them together to do something as a couple.'

But often, as we begin to feel this basic longing, we don't know what it is. We get the 'seven-year itch' or the '12-year anger' or the '18-year blahs.' We think, What's wrong with us? Our companionship may not be perfect,but we have each other. And, many can add, We have our children. So what are we missing?

We may be missing one-third of what God created marriage for--serving Him together. Counselor James H. Olthuis writes, 'To try to keep love just for us . . . is to kill it slowly . . . . We are not made just for each other; we are called to a ministry of love to everyone we meet and in all we do. In marriage, too, Jesus' words hold true; in saving our lives we lose them, and in losing our lives in love to others, we drink of life more deeply.' "

SoAmazing Review: Kevin and Karen Miller, in More Than You and Me, advocate couples serving together, and agreeing on a mission for their marriage.

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Timely Advice

Barbara Johnson, Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends, Word Publishing, 2000, pp. 29, 30.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0849937051
Keywords: mothers, help, encouragement, God, prayer, hourly, work

"No matter how smart we are, weary mothers need lots of help and encouragement--the kind that comes from family and friends, and especially the kind that comes from God. But sometimes we get so busy--and so exhausted--we forget to tap into this ultimate resource. Sometimes all it takes is a reminder. One friend of mine, the mother of two trying teenagers, bought herself a cheap digital watch that she set to softly chime every hour. 'Throughout the day, whenever I heard that little beep,' she said, 'I paused a moment or two in whatever I was doing and whispered a little prayer on behalf of my kids.'

She told her teenagers what she was doing, and the results were amazing. Her daughter, stressed out in her high school classroom and unable to focus on the test that lay on the desk before her, happened to look up at the clock. 'It said ten o'clock, and I remembered that you were praying for me,' she told her mother one day. 'It was as if a very calming blanket of peace gently wrapped itself around me, and I was able to clear my head and finish the test.' Her son confessed to similar results a few years later. 'When I was a senior, there was one day when school was out for the day, and my buddies and I were out in the parking lot, talking about what we would do for the rest of the afternoon. They all decided that instead of going to their after-school jobs, they would hang out at the shopping mall awhile and see if there were any good-looking girls there. I was all set to go with them, but just then the bell in the church tower across the street chimed three o'clock, and I suddenly got an image of my Mom, praying for me at that exact moment. I got in my car and went to work.' "

SoAmazing Review: Barbara Johnson has a gift for disarming her audience with outrageous humor and then nailing them between the eyes with the truth.

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