COMFORT, COMFORT...

NOT ONLY "YOUR" GOD, 

BUT OUR GOD!!

ALL WE CAN EVER COUNT ON, FOREVER.

I'M SO BLESSED TO BE FOR NEARLY 4-2/3 YEARS

 WITH MY DEAR BHUTANESE BROTHERS, SISTERS,

GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

ALSO, DEARLY LOVED FAMILIES AND FRIENDS,

ESPECIALLY MARK AND LORI WHO WERE

MISSIONARIES IN NEPAL AND

HELPING MANY IN OUR NATION,

BUT LIVING IN OMAHA.

I MET 2 BHUTANESE IN EARLY MAY, 2010. 

NOW I HAVE ABOUT 200 IN MY LIFE

 AND ARE MUCH LOVED.

DAVE HAS DONE MUCH FOR THEM, TOO, 

ESPECIALLY RE: COMPUTERS, MUSIC, FIXING 

APARTMENTS AND HOMES.  DAVE IS A TREAT, AS USUAL.

MY SPECIAL COMMENT RE: TODAY AS WE PREP

TO GO TO THE NEXT YEAR OF OUR LIVES.

MY FIRST PHOTO, A WEEK AFTER I MET THE FIRST 2. 

 

 WHAT A TREAT!  AND FOREVER. 

BLESS YOU AND YOURS.

OH, AND BTW, THE TOP PHOTO WAS TAKEN AT A GLAD TIDINGS WHEN SOME OF THEM WERE BAPTIZED AND MANY HAD COME FROM THEIR CHURCH LOCATION TO WORSHIP AND REJOICE WITH THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO

 HAD COME TO THE LORD FROM OTHER gods.

 

GENERATION TO GENERATION

A GROUP OF MY DEAR BHUTANESE  WERE BAPTIZED 3 YEARS AGO AT A LAKE...AND, ON THAT MEMORIAL SUNDAY WEEKEND, IT WAS NOT WARM.  BUT IT WAS A HUGE BLESSING TO SEE THEM SO PLEASED 
TO HAVE COME TO THE LORD OFFICIALLY 
THROUGH THE BAPTISM.  AND IT TRULY WAS

 A GENERATION TO GENERATION.

[AND -- OH, YES -- DAVE AND I LOVE THEM!!]

G-GIRL BAPTISMS... AMEN!!!

What a blessed morning we had.  Reached Stonebridge Church here in Omaha right before 11:30 and, when walking in, saw my daughter, my grandkids [the girls and others], the girls' friends and some of our family friends arriving.  A pile of neat people.

The baptism began just a few minutes after the service started.  One worship song, announcement time, and then the baptism occurred during worship song #2.  It was wonderful.  Six girls, three of ours, one from another family, and two from another, and all baptized by family or friends.  WOW!  Never seen it quite that flexible.

However, here're the photos.  The Twins, Makayla and Miranda, are 15; Juliana is 10.   [The photos are not good enough, because the action went faster than my camera. "Beautifulness" doesn't count; the watery event DOES.]

Dave and I and all the church attenders ... a few hundred ... rejoiced, clapping, and hollering happily, and glorifying the Lord.

Did I pray publicly?  Of course not!  Did I pray in my heart?  Yes.  Several times. -- This morning before our attendance, during our time there, and after heading home.  And this is what, basically, is my prayer for them:

Father, in the Name of Jesus, I lift up to you 3 of my dear ones.  And I thank you that their hearts are turning more and more in Your direction.

I ask you, Father, to show them what the spiritual gifts of their lives are, that they will come to understand the joyfulness of serving you.

Bless their parents, their step-parents, and family friends, such as Dick, who baptized them, and others who are being placed in their lives to help them grow stronger

 and more solidly in You.

Finally, Dear Lord, now and forever,

 I bless You for Your presence 

in their lives.  

Amen.