Thursday, March 01, 2007

Update

According to the number of views to my profile, there's been a lot of lookie-loo's visiting here. I know some are genuinely concerned about me, others are just curious and some are looking for ammunition. Whatever the case, for the sake of those who are concerned and praying for our welfare I'll give a quick update.
First of all, I send sincere thanks and gratitude to those of you out there who have been and continue to pray for my husband, me and our family. Without giving any credit to the enemy and his agents for the attacks they've waged against us, I give ALL CREDIT, praise, glory and honor to the Lord in heaven who has defended us and delivered us from evil. God has been so faithful and we continue to trust Him to be our Physician, Lawyer, Deliverer and King. It's my desire to be faithful till my dying day; indeed, till my very last breath.
We've sold our home in Virginia and have moved all of our belongings to the new place in Cleveland. At the time of this writing the furniture has been in Cleveland for 2 weeks, during which we have been away from home about half that time. Yet I have been able to get about 4 rooms completed and more than half of the boxes emptied. The house has got some great Hide-and-Seek places for the grandkids and we look forward to their visits as soon as possible. There's a pond in front of the house that Brother Smith caught something out of last week. I don't know what kind of fish it was. Being a westerner, I only know what it was not--a trout. I look forward to getting all unpacked and preparing for lots of houseguests. I'm already getting booked up for BTI and the Assembly. :-) I suppose that's the thing I will probably enjoy the most living in Cleveland--the opportunity to share hospitality with Church of God folks. As soon as I get the house in shape we have a list of people we want to have over for dinner to thank them for all their support and assistance during these past 8 months of upheaval in our lives. Right now it's such a relief to have the Virginia house finished and sold, and to have our travel trailer parked outside our Tennessee house. I don't feel so scattered now.
I'm so grateful to the Lord for what He's doing in TCOG and the sweet spirit that has moved in this last year. I've seen more love and compassion the past several months than I ever have in my lifetime of being in the Church. There's a growing desire amongst our people to surrender more and more to the Lord; to put aside self and our wants and desires and to please God whatever the cost. It will be worth it all someday soon. AMEN!

P.S. - Thanks, Danny, for your prayers. Turtle Lake seems like a few lifetimes ago!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i just thought i would be the first person to say hi. i haven't heard from you all even through the grape vine and i just wanted to give our prayers to you.
Josh and debbie davis

~Amy said...

Happy Birthday, Sister Smith. Hope you had a good one.

:o)