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Sunday Servant

This morning I ran around like a mad woman to get my two boys dressed and ready for church then to get myself ready.... Then to run through & get food at Burger King...... Then to pick up my Bass player for musicians practice....

See this Sunday was a bit more hectic considering my husband was preaching at our newly launched daughter work and I was doing the "Sunday Routine" solo! No worries though when we are busy doing God's work we are Happy Christians (I heard a smart lady say that once) I try to always be sure I'm smiling when serving in the church because that's what God likes to see! Today we took communion at Faith Tabernacle and it is always such a humbling time! Taking that sacred cup that is filled up with God's love and blood is a feeling no words could describe!

I played "The Old Rugged Cross" for the first time ever and playing it while absorbing the congregation singing as a choir in unison all while we felt God's love pour over us! Well, that's something you have to experience to truly understand. The words of the song simply tell a story of the sacrifice Jesus made.....

"On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame." Those first few words always greet me with an overwhelming flow of emotion!

"So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, 'till my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it some day for a crown." I vow each time I stand in reverence to a most holy God that I will never take for granite the ultimate sacrifice he made that day and I will love the cross and hold true to it each and every day!


God's love is more powerful than anything else in this world and to know that in spite of our sin and faults he died for you & me! I am thankful for God and his abounding grace that knows no end... for that knowledge alone I have nothing to complain about. What could I possibly fret over that could be more impacting or life altering that to know that God will never leave me or forsake me? He is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother!


As my husband says "my greatest accomplishment is to be a Servant of God and Servant to Man."

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