Friends,

I wanted to sit down here at my computer this afternoon and tell you what I have been doing. Today as I write I am listening to the “Anne of Green Gables” soundtrack. M\It is my very favorite movie. I want to watch it again. If I can find the time. Someday I would also really like to visit Prince Edward Island. That has always been my dream.

Anyway, last night it was blowing snow. This morning we awoke to snow everywhere. It is beautiful but I think I am ready for spring and summer now.

Today I have been helping my Dad. I work from my office which is right next to Dad’s and really enjoy writing, reading and also helping Dad with whatever jobs he wants to give me.

I have also been helping my Mom with “The Character Lunch” each morning starting at 10:00. Mom, Heidi and I will all go to the Kitchen to make the sandwitch of the day. We also always put a character definition in the boxes.

And then Mom will go out to the sky walk with either Heidi or Me and we help

This weekend is a big deal to us here at the Character Inn. The Family Enrichment Weekend is going to be going on and I get the wonderful opportunity to speak for the young ladies session. I am excited and yet have a sense of responsibility to really say something to these young ladies that will help them in their walk with the Lord. So I am praying God will give me His words to say.

I am really looking forword to this ministry to families. How they need to be encouraged so I pray everything goes well and God really does encourage them through this weekend.

Well I would like to close with this poem I was reading in the book called “Toward Jerusalem” by Amy Carmicheal, and one we would really like to apply this weekend to each of the families that come through the doors. Wheather it be a smile, encouraging word, helpng them with their bags, teaching the children in any way.

Love Through Me

Love through me, Love of God,

Make me like Thy clear air

Through which unhindered, colours pass

As though it were not there.

Powers of the Love of God,

Depths of the heart Devine,

O Love that faileth not, break forth,

And flood this world of Thine.

- Amy Carmicheal

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Today I was reading in my little devotonal book called “You Are my Hinding Place” by Amy Carmicheal. The title was “Just His Touch…” I also had some thoughts on this wonderful subject in the Bible I have not thought of before.

Jesus was met by many sick people wherever He went. Mark 6:56. “And withersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of His garment and as many as touched Him were made whole.” (Also read Mathew 14:36)

We all have times when life is not happy, fun and the sun isn’t always shining in life. We are having a bad day. Times are hard. I have gone through hard times myself. Very hard times.I have cried many tears. Though the darkest days of my life are when the light of the Lord Jesus has never shone so brightly to me.

Maybe you face a really painfull decision, one you know you have to make. Maybe you are not in the happiest of sprirts. Maybe you are discouraged by the sin that keeps coming up in your daily life towords your family. Maybe you have experienced really hard times, like losing someone dear to you.

Jesus passes by for you today. I love that. He passes by today!! Just to think we get the chance to reach out and touch the hem of His garment.

I grieve to think of the many days in which He Himself has passed and I have let Him go, yet needing Him so much, thinking only of the things I am going through I let Him pass by without reaching up for His garment. He is right there. We get the life-changing chance each day to reach for His garment. Don’t let Him pass. We need Him. He will make us whole.

Mathew 9:20-22 “And behold a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind Him and touched the hem of His garment. For she said within herself, if I may touch His garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned Him about and when He saw her He said Daughter be of good comfort thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.”

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