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"Hey it has been" always seems to be the how i start of my own personal blog. crazy... I am not for sure what to write today. this is just a couple of day's after our fall Festival. it's a great cool Day. had some good hospice visits today. I know you are thinking how do you have a good Hospice visit.. you do. any time you go to visit with them and see how alive they still are and can speak words of comfort, words of excitement, & share words of hope with them. that is a meaningful time for them, and for you. i think i have FB something every Thursday for the past couple of Thursday's about keeping up with you loved ones or friends that find them up in that situation. still be there loved one, still be there friend and do the best that you can to go and see them. even five minutes can turn there day around. it makes everything a little more brighter and hopeful for them before they go to be with our Lord. Be sensitive to there schedule if you can. find out when they feel the strongest, and when they feel there weakest. and if you have to like me, get into a habit of when you are going to go see them. as unordinary as that is, or unspontanious as that makes you feel. it guarantees a time that you get to spend with them, and that start to look forward to that, because they know you are coming at set day, or at a set time. i don't know what works best for you but this has worked best for me, because then i make sure i get to see them. as for the family, doing great, growing like weeds you can check out most of the wild goings on of the Smith clan by keeping up with our facebook. i try to post video from time to time. i will have been 4 years AT CF coming Feb 19th. it seems longer then that, but it doesn't seem that long at all as well. Crazy knowing i made the transition here from being youth to being an associate pastor. I have done so many funerals & wedding in the past 3 years, you just can't imagine. An all kinds as well. it's amazing to see people try to handle Joy & Sorrow. Speechlessness of comes to mind in a good way. Most all people are cared for deeply and are missed by someone. the extent of grief & remorse runs deep in the lives of many, just the same as happiness, and Peace. no matter where you are in your walk, i pray that you know you can turn to God in the mist of you hurt, your pain, your joy, and your sorrow, and find Peace in God through his Son Jesus. He cares for you so greatly. Doesn't mean you problems get fixed. Lord knows i got problems that are no where fixed from personal, to financial, to spelling.. ha ha.. that is not include how mentally incompetent that i am... ha ha... But He does say He is there for us through the Holy spirit. and I believe that is the peace we can find in the mist of our storms. it dose not make sense any of the time, most of the time. But it's there when we need it as long as we are willing to repent and turn back towards him. He is there, Eagerly.... waiting..... to complete the good work He began in us.... May today, you find hope & peace in God's word. Know that this the one thing that will be able bring you peace when nothing else can. and if that is one of the few and only things i can ever share with anyone i pray that it is this Saving Grace that you have stumbled on today. John 3:16-17 For God sent his one and only son so that who ever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn it, but to Save it. something to make you smile Jax laugh.

long time

It has been along time since i have posted last. alot going on in the life of our church family. always is, life never slows down, it just keeps moving forward. i am amazed some times at the amount of people who try to stop it though, some people are caught up in it, and some people are riding the wave, and some people feel they can barley even keep there head above water..
i starting to run into more and more people who are afraid to hope.
that would rather submit there life to cope with the worst, then try to hope, believe or even want what is right.
they Give up. Father, how do i help them to understand not to give up. Please guide me in my studies of your word, in prayer for your people, Lord please show them how alive you really are & to have hope again.
please do this in the name of your Son Jesus..
Amen.