you’re special
Well my
dear ones,
At
Christmas, and Valentine’s Day,
the Hallmark
Channel runs marathons;
and my
wife records all those movies
so we
can watch them together.
They’re
always well done;
and it’s
a nice way for my wife and I
to
spend a batch of time together.
However,
if I were to get my idea
of how
life is supposed to be
from
current movie trends,
I would
have to conclude that
it’s
bad to be alone...
and
that’s just not true.
In his
letter to the church at Corinth,
the
apostle Paul said,
“I wish
everyone were single, just as I am.
Yet
each person has a special gift from God,
of one
kind or another.”
Paul
was given the gift of
being
God’s scribe for half the New Testament.
And if
you’re single,
whether
by choice or not,
whether
short term or long term,
God has
endowed you with gifts
and has
a plan for your life
(&
better than our own plan =>)
to let
you use those gifts in helping others.
Our
society today puts a premium
on
finding someone, on having someone.
But you
don’t need to find someone
in
order to be someone;
in
God’s eyes,
you
already are someone,
you’re
special! =D
grace,
peace, and love to you,
dave
“For I
know the plans I have for you,”
says
the Lord.
“They
are plans for good
and not
for disaster,
to give
you a future and a hope.”
--- Jeremiah 29:11
Whitney Houston
Well my
dear ones,
I haven’t
said much lately
because
I haven’t had much to say.
Due to
current events,
I was
going to talk about
my old
friend, “the Love Doctor,”
but every
time I went to write,
I got
the feeling “not now.”
Instead,
in the fullness of time,
God
laid it on me to talk about
Whitney
Houston.
http://theeverencouragingword.blogspot.com/2016/04/whitney-houston-remembrance.html
I grew
up listening to her,
and I
always loved her amazing voice,
which
others have even called
“the
voice of an angel.”
Before
her rise in the music world,
she
honed her voice at the
New
Hope Baptist Church in Newark NJ.
Whitney
hit the music world in 1985;
a
rising star,
she
sold over 170 million records worldwide;
she was
also the only artist with
seven
consecutive No. 1 Billboard hits.
Sadly,
along with her great fame
came a
great fall;
the whole
world saw her fame and beauty marred
by her
battle with a powerful addiction
to
drugs and alcohol.
But
according to Houston's spiritual mother,
gospel
music legend Shirley Caesar,
there
was another side of the songstress
much of
the world failed to see –
a woman
who loved and desired God in her life.
In her
final days,
friends
claim Houston had a premonition
about
her death;
that
she "felt like her time was coming"
and
"really wanted to see Jesus."
Two
days before her death,
Witney
sang "Jesus Loves Me"
at the
Tru night club in Los Angeles.
It
would be her last song to the world.
impromptu
at the club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeODskvJ4yg
full
live version of the same some here:
http://www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Home-Page-News-and-Views/Whitney-Houston-talked-about-seeing-Jesus.aspx
In the
1996 movie "The Preacher's Wife,"
she
stood alongside Denzel Washington
to tell
a story of inspiration and redemption
through
God -- singing songs like
"I
Love the Lord" and "He's All Over Me."
Well if
the Bible’s right
(and my
7 years of research says it is =>),
then
Whitney is alive right now,
alive
more so than we are at this moment.
“Whitney! Love you, girl!
I look forward to seeing you in heaven;
mayhap you’ll let me play bass for you
(...first I need God to grant me more talent
so I can be worthy of that honor =>)
You’re an inspiration to me,
and that’s how I’ll remember you
till I see you in person.” ---dave
grace,
peace, and love to you,
dave
Whitney Houston remembrance
