We all have a story. Each unique. The similarity being the Father's voice calling us out of darkness. Inviting us enter into the Light of Salvation. It is for each of us to surrender to that Voice. Recognize we are dead in sin and in NEED of the Savior,~~~Jesus Christ~~~ THIS IS THE SEASON OF BEGINNING MY LIFE. 'HE SEARCHED ME,HE KNEW ME,HE CALLED ME BY NAME.' BYRoberta Lee Wilcox@3-2002 At the age of seven I heard somebody say they loved me. "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE."John 3:16 It is my first memory of hearing someone say they loved me. I was startled. I don't have memory of love coming towards me before then. Except for my father. I knew he loved me. I knew there were other people who must have loved me. I was a first child. A first grand and great-grand. I just don't remember their love. There IS a story told about my first months on this earth. It is told repeatedly by my mother. She tells it with disgust and dislike in her voice. She tells how as an infant I 'bawled' (her word) all day long. But when my father came home he would say, "What's wrong with Daddy's little baby?" and I would shut-up. Then my mother tells how I wouldn't go to sleep unless I was holding one of my fathers fingers. When he would try to remove his hand because he needed to sleep, I would start 'bawling' again. My mother always ends the story by saying, "She always was a spoiled brat!!" She also related to others how she hated me, because I took some of my father's love from her. Thus was the beginning of my sojourn on this earth. The foundation set for the forming of future relationships. That is, until the Father in Heaven stepped in and changed everything. For many years I was bitter and angry at her story. Ashamed that she was telling everyone how unloveable I was. Then one day I 'heard' what she was really saying. Out of her own mouth she was telling the world the secret kind of mother she has always been to her children, beginning with me. From that time on her power to hurt me began to evaporate and lose its sting. Because of the Father's Love in Heaven I was able to forgive my mother in 1981. I have not taken that forgiveness back, even tho in 2001 I learned she and two others had conspired secretly(July 1986) to harm me and my family again. I will never take that forgiveness back. I hope someday she is able to admit and receive that forgiveness for her own peace of mind. I have peace...I would not deny it to anyone else. I have learned that 'hurting' people, hurt people. They deserve our pity and compassion...and our prayers. "BUT AS FOR YOU, YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME: BUT GOD MEANT IT ONTO GOOD..."Genesis 50:20 At the age of seven I heard somebody say they loved me. "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE."John 3:16
MY BEGINNING SEASONPART IITHE SEASON GOES ONPART IIIThe King IS Coming Snuggling InfantPencil Art of Jesus ChristBYJean KeatonUSED BY PERMISSION
