Blessings to you, loved ones.  I’m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.  Linda and I pray for all of you throughout the week.  You are always in our hearts.  Here’s what’s coming up.

Last week was not a typical service.  We took the time to celebrate the life of Tim Terrell, who went to be with Jesus the Thursday before.  There is always sadness at such times because we love and miss those who have been taken from us, but there is also rejoicing as we know they are whole and happy with Jesus and we will see them again.

Cindy is doing ok, but keep her in prayer and stay in tough.  Priscilla is recovered and expects to be back with us. Keep Kimi in your prayers for her health.

We will have the communion ceremony as part of our service this week.  I want to share with you a little encouragement.  It can sometimes seem like nothing we do really matters.  Maybe we’ve come to a place when there isn’t much we can do.  Maybe we look back on what we have done and it doesn’t seem like enough.  We can’t change the past, and as for the future it might help if we could see things just a little from God’s perspective.  His accounting system is not at all like ours.  He looks at the heart, and when He find faith and devotion there, He is most pleased.  Others may think we’re fools, but His opinion is the only one that matters.

This is wonderfully illustrated by the account of the woman who anoints Jesus with expensive perfume just a few days before He is to be crucified.  We’ll read the account in Mark 14:3-9, but you can also find it in Matthew 26 and in John 12.  Jon gives us some details the others leave out.  What this woman did seemed silly and wasteful to those who saw it, but Jesus set them straight, telling them, “wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.” (14:9)  And so it is.  We’ll speak of it again Sunday, and I hope you’ll be there.

Love y’all!

Larry