We’ve had a particularly bad time for the years since 2001 – September 9th…
Although we knew the source of our attackers and how they grew… it took us a while to get things set up so we could – as a nation – undertake to correct the problem.
So today’s blog is rather short and sort of wanting to launch out into a field we have not fully explored or been able to utilize as we wished.
We reeled in the entire clan that had been located in Hawaii for the past several years… but a shrinking ability to gather enough folks together to properly worship as was needed and felt – ended up with something more like a ‘family church’ than a place for public worship. One of the biggest difficulties from the beginning was an inability to locate -- and assemble sufficient funds to purchase – a suitable meeting place. Land on
I’m not the one to narrate all this – I write it simply to explain what occasioned the need to make some changes and shift effort into activity and availability of the resources to carry on an effective use of the efforts of people based there.
Now we’re looking and praying for the Lord’s guidance for each of our children and their families, to be effective in the areas in which the Lord desires for them to go. So last evening was spent partially in watching thunderclouds roll in and move off to the northeast… and reunite at the local airport all that clan getting ready for a new chapter in each life.
Barbara and I – along with the other set of grandparents that live in the same vicinity – are looking forward to this visit and expecting great things from the Lord as HE bestows it upon this part – and all parts – of our immediate family. We’re scattered from
So… please be understanding and patient with us as we re-plant and reorganize our group – expecting the Lord’s direction for each person and what HE wants for us to be productive and useful in HIS kingdom. Thanks…
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack and Barbara Buttram
“JUST A MINUTE”
WE HAVE CROSSED THE RIVER AND COME OUT THE OTHER SIDE
MizP: Jist a Minit -- Mr. Jack – has you evah bin through an operation like the-us?
Jack: You mean the conclusion of Osama Bin Laden?
MizP: Ah reckon ‘cornclusion’ is about rite.
BB: Souns good ta me, Miz Pearl.
MizP:Oh ain’t tha-ut th’ truf…
Homer: Hit’s great ta git ridda such a person who’s brot pain ta so many…
MizP: At’s perzackly th’ way Ah feels, Homer.
BB: You reckon everbody knows whut we is a tawkin’ ‘bout, Mr. Jack?
Jack: I don’t see how they could have missed it, Billy-bob.
MizP: Hit din’t come a minit too soon. We’s bin a waitin’ almos ten years.
BB: They’s lots a folks woudda loved ta wring his neck in September ‘01.
MizP: Ah agrees wif you Mr. Bill …But well… hit hits me wif a lotta sadness.
Homer: Lot’sa sadness Miz Pear?
MizP: All them peepul outside th’ White House an awl… A’hm sad.
Jack: Sad – about what exactly?
MizP: Hit’s so sad fer one person ta mess up his life – but awl them other people jumpin’
out ta ‘scape th’ flames.
Homer: Is sad Miz Pearlie…
MizP: When we’s havin’ our chirren’s Bible Club in th’ summer -- if’’n Li’l Osama hadda chanct ta
larn he’s loved by Jesus…
Homer: …Thang’s cudda bin diffrunt…
BB: Ah reckon they won’t no Bible Clubs they-uh.
Homer: Not s’many missionaries er those as cudda tole bout Jesus love.
Jack: A couple of words come to my mind ---
MizP: Whazzat, Mr. Jack.
Jack: When they were torturing Jesus -- nailing Him to the cross – do you remember what he said?
BB: Rangs in my hed sometimes …
MizP: What is hit, Mr. Beelie…?
BB: He said – “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
MizP: Oh…
BB: Ah’ve thought a lot ‘bout how we awl needs fergivness…
Homer: You’re shore rite about tha-ut.
Jack: And we have to stop here today… because we’re out of time.
I hope you think about what Billy-bob said –ask the Lord for forgiveness.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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