A MESSAGE

There are many things in life that can make a person happy but I believe that the biggest thing is peace. Peace of every kind. When a person is at peace there is no stress to overcome. There is no unhappiness. All misery has been removed. In other words, there are no worries to deal with.

Being at peace especially with the Lord means there’s nothing to have to overcome. Even the remotest hint of trouble we know will be overcome by Christ’s. There is no feeling that is better. It is the greatest way to live your life. Do you believe? Do you honestly believe? Every time our family is faced with a financial problem I tell my wife that God will overcome it and not to worry. And you know what? It always comes true. We have never gained riches but we have never gone under either. God always has made something happen to help us over a current situation. I place my complete faith in that.

Another thing I always do is say the 23rd Psalm before I go to sleep. I especially love the part that says” my cup runneth over”. I cannot even begin to count the number of times God has intervened on my behalf and I only tried to count the number of times I should have died. I suggest you try to do that sometime. I mean, really think about it. Just one example, when I was about four years old I rode my three wheel tricycle down 14 concrete steps. I will not even begin to try and explain why because it was stupid, plain and simple. All I remember is the big tire in front going down that first step and then me and tricycle went down 13 more. I was taken to the hospital and fortunately nothing was broken but I was really banged up.

For over two weeks all I could eat was Campbell’s chicken with rice soup and through a large straw. My face was that swollen up. I can still remember that day as if it just happened. It will be forever inbedded in my mind. The

tricycle was totaled out; there was no saving it; it was a mangled mess. God was surely with me and that is only one of many many instances. If God is with me during these really hard times why should I believe that he would not be with me in the really mild events?

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