Carla’s sister came through her ordeal okay and is back at home recovering from surgery.

Our daughter is doing well, back at home where our son and the grandkids are caring for her.

Carla’s brother is coming along nicely and is almost ready for his second knee surgery next month.

It’s been a long and eventful month, so far, we have some set backs but we trust we will get through them.

Luke 23:39-43 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

⁴⁰ But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

⁴¹ And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

⁴² And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

⁴³ And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

It is never too late to turn our hearts to God.

No matter what we have done, who we did it to, or how we did it, if we truly repent and ask God for forgiveness THROUGH Jesus, He will give it.

We all have heard the stories of the worse sinner in town coming to God and His Salvation.

It is gives us great hope when we have loved ones who are outside God’s Grace and refuse to admit their need of forgiveness, that even on their death bed they can find redemption.

As we know many people count on the mercy of God to give them time to come to Him and they go about their lives saying that sometime in the future they will change, but right now they are having too much fun.

While we can tell them of their errors – while the Holy Spirit can prick their hearts and make them aware of their need for salvation, only they can make that decision.

It is very painful to love someone and see them reject God – and be told by them they never want to hear about it from us again.

But they cannot stop us from praying for them; we can ask God to send someone they will listen to and we can continue living for God as an example.

I have seen too many deaths where the person was alive one moment and killed in the next.

We cannot depend on God’s patience and use it to justify our refusal to serve Him.  We never know when the second chance we thought we would have is taken away in a blink of an eye.

I am so thankful that Jesus demonstrated, in His forgiveness of the thief on the cross, that we can still have hope for our loved ones.

Later, Art :-)