"FROM THE OLD HOME PLACE "

How far back do your memories go, and what do they consist of? Are your memories of things that cause you to have that “warm fuzzy feeling of a job well done”, or are they things that you would really prefer to forget?

Today I was looking at a folder of stories from our early days here in Belo Horizonte, and I’ll admit that they brought on that “warm fuzzy feeling”. There was the story about Jessica, Juliano and Silvanás little girl at age four – now she’s 16 and is our church musician for most services – when our youngest, Vera Lucia was telling the story of “Barney’s Barrel” as they all sat on a rug on the cold winter-time floor in a class room with no heat. They were all feeling the cold, and feeling sympathy for Barney as he entered the door of the rescue mission, and heard the story of the “Wordless Book” for the first time. Then and there he opened his heart to Jesus.

At this point, Jessica interrupted and said, “I know that story, and what Barney did. I want to do that too. I want to receive Jesus into my heart.”

I also read and remembered the day when Maria do Carmo, a school principal, stopped the van and asked permission to go to our Sunday School to be allowed to observe our teaching methods. Her two daughters had been attending, and had shown a remarkable retention level of the Bible lessons they were taught. Since then, these two girls, their mother, and one brother have accepted Christ.

How far back do your memories go, and what do they consist of? You will only be able to HAVE these memories if you make them while you can. Otherwise, they will only be imaginations of “what might have been...”

 

 

JSturgill
11/01/2007
Vol.1 - No.4

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