Month: August 2024

3 Little Pigs

Teacher’s Heart

One thing that I loved in all the age groups I taught was teaching about the 3 Little Pigs.  As  teacher in public school I wasn’t allowed to teach about God and Christianity as a rule.  However, I got to teach about the 3 Little Pigs and I have to admit, the story may or may not have had a good Biblical moral attached to it.

The little pigs leave their momma and go into the world.  They must learn how to live without her help.  While I am teaching the story in my terms I have the students decide what house would be the best to build.  When they have built their house I take a small fan and see if I can blow it down.  I explain that the fan or the wolf is things they might go through in life and it’s not always about the battle that we face but the outcome that matters.

The first little pig is lazy.  He decides instead of taking too much time building a house and making a ‘good’ life it was just easier to party and hang with his friends.  He goes out and finds straw or dead grass (the students use mini straws) and puts it together with scotch tape to build a house, but he doesn’t bother laying down a foundation.  The wolf comes and blows the house down.  The pig isn’t too worried, he continues to be lazy and decides to go to his brother’s house in the morning.  The second little pig is a little bit better and takes duct tape and sticks to put together a house.  He knows that duct tape holds it all together, or so he hopes.  The little pig decides to go watch movies with his friends and drink some beers to celebrate their friendship.  Again, he has no foundation.  His brother joins him while at a party.  The wolf comes and blows down his house.  The 2nd little pig isn’t too worried, he decides that his brother and him can go get some duct tape in the morning and patch it all back up.  The 3rd little pig is smart!  He loves to build things and lays down a foundation on some rock, levels it out then lays down bricks and mortar (the kids use Legos) to build a cute little house for him.  After several days he is finished and he makes himself furniture and a place to cook his food in the fireplace.  The wolf comes and he tries with all his might to blow down that house, but nothing works.  The 3rd little pig knows that his foundation is strong and he is thankful and rests in the idea that tomorrow, he will continue to be safe.

The 3rd little pig listened to what his momma told him and he lived happily ever after.

Luke 6: 48, 49

 

Healing

Lone Goose

What is healing to you?  Do you believe that to be healed every body part works right, no one dies, it’s all good?  In 1998 I was told that I had 3 months to live.  I went through all the steps to get myself ready to ‘die’.  Even though I fully believed that God had orchestrated everything at the time and all that I was going through was of Him.  I still felt that God could heal me by taking me home or He would heal me in His way on earth.  Later, I learned that His plan wasn’t for me, it was for someone else to find Him and realize that He existed.  

It would have been just fine for God to come down and heal my brother from his injuries, and we would have been happy about that too.  However, it wasn’t that God didn’t heal him, He just didn’t do it the way we had hoped.  The victory was already won, Brian was healed the moment his Earthly body died.  I believe that God could have healed him on earth, but it was time for Brian to go home.  In recent weeks he spoke to me about getting to ‘dwell in the house of the Lord forever’ and ‘run in the green grass’.  He was ready, he knew where he was going.  Satan may have thought he had won, but Brian went to see His Jesus and he was healed.  Did someone die that you thought should have been healed?  If they were saved, they were healed.  I have learned to believe that my daughter was healed and she resides in heaven with so many people that have gone before me.  They have all been healed by the power of Jesus.  Do I wish they were here?  Oh yes!  

People ask me why I believe.  I believe because God has already healed me!  He has healed my mind, He has healed my spirit and yes, He has healed my body.   There are quite a few things I can no longer do, but there is plenty that because of Jesus I can do!  I get to see things from perspectives that most people don’t.  I get to learn things because of my disabilities and I learn them in ways I would have never understood before.  Is it annoying…sometimes, oh yes!  Do  I complain?  Yes, probably more then I should.  When I get to Heaven I know that God will have healed me fully, for now, my healing is from the Lord and I praise Him for it!

Much To Do

There is so much to do!  Last year this time Chad and I were trying to figure out how to get out of our house and move into a smaller house where I would have an easier time getting around.  We had viewed a house in NC and was having someone to come over and check out our house to see how we could sell it on the market.  I told Chad that we needed to have the goal to be out of here by Christmas.  Something kept holding us back.  I was too tired, Chad was sick, then I was sick.  It just didn’t seem to open up so that we could start getting stuff out.  It wasn’t until the weekend after my brother died that one of  my friends to come over and help.  It was a good day to not have to think about emotions.

My emotions come in waves.  Brian and I were good friends and I was able to say goodbye and I love him, before he died.  Some moments I think I should call him up and tell him what is going on.  

Since his wife is moving into our house, moving isn’t going to happen.  However, we still need to get rid of a lot of our stuff so that we can all fit into the house.  There is SO MUCH TO DO! 

The Bible has something to say about so much to do.  Matthew 11:28-30 says, ‘Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will fid rest for your souls.  For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.’

Yes, I have so much to do, yes, I know that I have other things to think about, but my burden will rest upon God and He will give me rest, even in the busiest times.

Psalms 23

The Lord is my Shepherd

 God is always the main one in control.  Though we don’t always understand what is going on or why, we can be certain that He is in control.  

For the now, I am doing just fine.  A little more tired than usual and my arms are getting numb fast, we arn’t looking at what is about to happen.  Rather, we are looking at how we can spend our time together worth while.  My dad use to say, “Life is as it is, and that is how its going to be”.  He wasn’t saved until the very end, but he made sure we all knew this and lived by it.  We are going to take our days one day at a time.  Tomorrow is the future and yesterday is the past.  Most of our moments aren’t thinking about what is possibly going to happen, but how to help my brother’s wife with what she is having to deal with.  In all God is still good, even in the death of my brother.