Happy Monday!

I am a bit sad as the TCU Frogs lost tonight to Boise State. Both teams played so hard. There is a lot of purple blood that flows at Burton Hill. The black arm bands may be seen tomorrow.

Psalm 63: 1-3 “O God, you are my God, I seek You, and my soul thirsts for You; my flesh faints for You. So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary, beholding Your power and glory. Because Your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise You.”

Tonight I watched two amazing teams battle on a football field. One team had to win and one had to lose. And then I watched the news reporters praise the team who won and bash the ones who lost. The reporters were “slingers of stones.” In the Old Testament there were those who were slingers of stones: those who took judgment into their own hands and decided that the only way to fix the problem was to kill. There were those who may not have been stone slingers, but they put dirt down wells to contaminate the water. These dirt pourers made the very life source, water, unfit to drink.

Are we slingers of stones? Do we say unkind things about others and harm the life source in others? The old saying “sticks and stones…words will never hurt me.” I don’t agree with this old saying. Sticks and stones will cause wounds that will eventually heal. But words…words can be really hurtful and are often never forgotten.

Tonight will we remember that TCU had their first undefeated season in a great many years or will we dwell on the loss they experienced because of the stone slingers and the mud pourers? Let us try to not have stone slingers in our lives and let us not become stone slingers ourselves.

Take joy in the journey and wear comfortable shoes. Love you all friends and mighty prayer warriors. Bruce, Gaylene, Geni and Travis.

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I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am moved only by what I believe and I believe God.

Prayer alert: Please pray for little Abbie. Her dad’s funeral is tomorrow. She is now living with her grandmother. We will be helping the family throughout the week. Her teacher, Ashley, will be helping her and the children in her classroom deal with this loss and the fire that destroyed her house and all of her possessions.