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carriedinthecross

Never disregard the grey hairs in your congregation. They have been the fire in the hearth for more years than you have been able to tie your own shoes.
Yes they can be trying. Yes they use outdated words. Yes they move slowly and remember things that happened before the Berlin wall fell. Who cares! They are are power house that you will only understand after they are gone. So love them now. Appreciate them now. Let them be part of things. It costs you little. We always talk about how Jesus loves children, but He also loves seniors. (Lets’ just be honest. He loves all of us.)
Even to your old age and gray hairs
    I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
    I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4

Someday you too will be the grey in your church. Hopefully you will have been as much of a force and as much of a blessing as the ones you are sighing about now.

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I am a young woman who grew up in British Columbia. In BC was all I ever wanted; I had my poodle (Max) and all my friends, Saturdays at the Vancouver Aquarium and Sunday afternoons at one of my favorite beaches it was paradise. But God had a different plan for my life and my dad's job landed us in Alberta and now where I remain, in small town Souris Manitoba. The transitions from paradise to prairie were difficult and I will admit that now 10 years later I still refer to home as Abbotsford BC. Through this crazy pathway trek across Canada I have had one true constant, God; and though none of it was easy, everything that has happened in my life has formed in me a true lasting friendship with the one I call Immanuel. Because no matter how far from home we are God is with us, and thanks to God I have found an almost completely over looked beauty in Manitoba. If you open your eyes you will see that God has planted wondrous things everywhere you go.

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