God's Promise

After having been in Plano for several years we started moving again in January 1997. Larry got a job with a company building hotels and that meant that we would move to different cities. I really would rather have stayed at my home but I knew God was in this. The first move was to Tempe, AZ. One night Larry and I were talking and praying about this change and I asked God what would I find on this journey of moving place to place. He answered me that we would find love and friendship everywhere we went.

And we have.

Many are people that we don't see or talk to except once in a while but we know that we are in their hearts just as they are in ours. Right before we moved here to Kansas City our life began to explode with people and I look around me now in the spirit and see that I have a very lovely spiritual family. People we love and who love us. We hold these people tightly in our hearts yet loosely, knowing that the God we all love and live for will have us in the place he wants us and it is better to live with no demands being made on each other. But we also can live in the expectancy of what the next get together will hold. We have learned that if we allow God to orchestrate our relationships then our times of being together are full of life.

So I look around me and see that once again, here in this place, God has enlarged our family. We meet with a group once a week and these have become our closest spiritual family.

Thank you guys for all that you have given us. Thanks for the love and acceptance. Thanks for challenging us a causing us to grow and open ourselves up in ways and degrees that we didn't even know we needed to grow in. Where ever we go you go with us. You are part of who we are now and always will be.



I look out my window and see my neighbor's house. Sheri is a very lovely lady and wonderful neighbor. Sheri loves God and people and is willing to give a great deal of herself for the sake of others. Sheri, we love you and your little family - maybe Lizzie and Schigh will find a way to get us together down the road sometime.My neighbors. Larry especially was glad to find us in the "middle" of a neighborhood away from busy streets. Our house is set on a quiet street with good neighbors all around. People you would trust with your life and all your belongings. People who watch just close enough to see that everybody's OK and would be there in a minute if you needed them.

Our spiritual family at the Rock. Know that we take you with us in our hearts. Our hearts and our home are always open to you.

And then there were a few situations that did not end so well and whether there will be resolution in these relationships or not remains to be seen. But to you as well I say thank you for all the good deposit from you to us. Thank you for opportunities to learn and grow. We bless you with prayer for God's best for you.

Thank you Father for all the experiences of our life but mostly for the people. It's in their faces that we see you. It's in their words that we hear you. It's in their lives that we experience you and we don't want to be without them.