Get your Friday feet on!

Happy Friday! Get your Friday feet on and kick all your trials right to the Lord’s loving hands. Yesterday Emily and Russ went to get their blood tested at UAB. Gray doesn’t have the results back yet but they called from the clinic and said they wanted the kids tested. Good Lord willing we will hear something tomorrow. Gray met with several of his friends in Birmingham to play Frisbee golf. They all went back to Tuscaloosa to eat dinner at a friend’s house. Emily had to work in T-Town and Russ went up there as well so they could all eat dinner together with friends. We are so happy that Gray has the energy to enjoy physical exercise and fellowship with friends and family before the draining road of treatment. Yesterday also would have been Mama and Daddy’s 66th wedding anniversary. I’m so blessed to have the legacy of love and prayer that they’ve passed on to me. Have a Fabulous Friday!







Today’s devotional and prayer are from “Today’s Verse” by, Phil Ware:



Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.



—1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV)





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Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Where does your heart live? That's what these verses are all about. It's about where we spend the most time with our hearts. Is there a constant awareness in your life that God is present? Is he the unseen but always present companion in all your ups and downs? Or is God here when it is convenient and gone when things are busy or we feel that everything is going okay? Joy comes from knowing we are never alone. Prayer is the ongoing conversation we have, Spirit to Spirit, child to Abba, human with God. Thanksgiving and joy are the great reminders that we have been blessed no matter what the outward circumstances imply.



Prayer...

Precious and Righteous Father, thank you for being there, always. Give me a deeper appreciation and a more profound awareness of your presence today. May my life reflect the joy you have given me by saving me by grace. And may my heart always find its home in you. Through the name of Jesus my Savior and friend I pray. Amen







Today’s Cheer Song is a song I wrote for Mom and Dad’s anniversary one year. It is called “A Legacy of Prayer” Enjoy! Love, Carol







A Legacy of Prayer







1. You taught me that prayer is like breathing



Communing all day with the Lord



Nothing is too small for His notice



Commit everything unto Him







Chorus:



A legacy of prayer you’ve given to me



Trust in the Lord and His sovereignty



You taught me through actions and not just your words



The wondrous treasure of life in the Lord







2. Sometimes the hurts were so painful



Receiving the taunts from the world



But our family devotions each morning



Gave me courage to take what they hurled







Chorus







3. I pray that our children are seeing



This wonderful gift you gave me



And that one day in the future



They’ll pass down this great legacy







Chorus



The wondrous treasure of life in the Lord!

P.S. Gray heard from the oncologist this morning. The cancer is not in his bone marrow yet. He will go for an echocardiogram on Monday to amke sure his heart is strong enough for the intense chemo he will be starting on Tuesday. He will receive 7 days of chemo and 28 days of recovery in the hospital. We are so thankful that it hasn't spread and they are treating the cancer so aggressively.