Yesterday was as wonderful as we thought it would be. The fellowship was great and it is such a blessing to welcome a new family into membership and to welcome my son into full membership! One of the ladies told me that she was surprised to see that I didn't cry. Well, I did. From the time my son-in-law and daughter walked up to the front for the baptisms and for my son-in-law to join the church to the time we took communion after my son was confirmed, tears of joy were streaming down my face. It was such a blessed day!
The past couple of weeks I have really been thinking about the damage that gossip and slander does in this old world. It is so true, what God says about that little bitty tongue. So much evil comes from it. There is a new girl at school whose reputation is being ruined by the other girls. Whether it is because of jealousy or what, I don't know, but whatever it is, it is hurtful. Reputations are ruined and lives are wrecked because of that evil little member of the physical body. What is in our brain comes out there so it truly shows the wickedness and sin that reside in every person on earth. I have watched the students at our school show that to each other. The girls especially are vicious to each other. And perhaps the worst of it for me is that adults here join in the gossip and help to ruin the reputations of young people when they really don't know what they're talking about. For the past couple of years I have been trying to walk away from all of that but the temptation to join in is so strong. Sometimes I succomb to it. I shared at church that I had purchased a microwave and a mini fridge so that I could keep them in the library and not have to go to the teachers' "workroom" to eat my lunch. But God has a way of making us deal with out sin. The fire marshall and the superintendent decreed that we all had to get rid of the microwaves and the fridges, not only because of fire danger but because of the cost of the energy it took to power all of those microwaves and fridges. So I started taking my lunch in the workroom again. It is fun for me to socialize in there but soon I find that we are straying to the topics of the latest gossip or who did what evil thing to whom. I guess that I will have to get my lunch warmed up and then come back to the library. The bible does tell us to flee from temptation. Our sin is that sometimes we don't want to! We want to hear all about the latest scoop. My daughter is so right when she tells me to just stop talking about it and move on to something uplifting. That is my project for the week this week and I am going to work on this diligently for the rest of the year (and my life!) But for now, one step at a time.
Time for me to go once more.
Till next time...
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