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Volume 1: Issue 2 – Summer 2006

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As the months pass by I grow more and more excited and amazed at what God is doing in our midst. The messages and studies we are involved in parallel so closely with what God is giving the church body as a whole. Revelation Chapters 2 and 3 contain several references that encourage us – even warn us – to listen to what the spirit is saying to the church. There’s a lot going on at Life Church and as Pastor Royal says, “Get plugged in.”

As I shared with many of you back in September, God has called me to a place of spiritual motherhood. And as such, I have both a sense of urgency and a desire for each of you to become all that God intended you to be – nothing less. I feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility for your spiritual growth and well being. Like a mother bear, I feel ferocity to protect you. Like a mother eagle I need to make you uncomfortable enough to want to get out of the nest and fly on your own. And like any mother, I desire you to grow strong and healthy with every possible advantage and opportunity available to you.

Some of you have joined Life Groups; our Friday morning group (1st & 3rd Friday at 9:30 a.m.) is growing. It’s a great time of sharing and we are truly “mining for the riches of God”. Quite a number of you faithfully attend the Wednesday evening (6:30 p.m.) Hour of Power prayer meeting, and the participation at our monthly meeting (4th Friday at 7:00 p.m.) is wonderfully encouraging to me. We also have launched the “18 to 20 something” group which meets every Friday at 7:00 p.m. I see so many of you getting curious about the things of God. I see you reaching, stretching outside of your comfort zone, even sacrificing to put your hands to the work, to dig deeper into the Word, and to seek after His will for your life. Through this I see you emerging stronger, energized with a new boldness and glowing with that inner beauty that comes from time spent in His presence.

Some time ago, one of my brothers planted ornamental pear trees along his driveway. I had never heard of them but they were beautiful trees. As we were talking he explained that they bloom in the spring but never bear fruit. They are purposely cultivated for their beauty. As I’ve been seeking God for our Women’s Ministry here at Life Church, He keeps bringing me back to that conversation. In March of this year we had a wonderfully successful Day of Beauty. Yes, we had many vendors presenting and demonstrating outer beauty tips and products to you, but the focus of our day – the thing we kept coming back to – was our S.H.A.P.E. (Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences). We learned about how God has a plan for each of our lives, how we are each unique and how He has gifted us and is working in us and through us for His glory. 1 Peter 3:4 and 1 Sam. 16:7 tell us it’s our heart and our spirit that are of great price to God, not our outward appearance. We have been chosen by Him, we are called to bear fruit not to be like those ornamental trees; though beautiful to look at, they bloom in the spring with the promise of fruit (2 Tim 3:7), yet they bear no fruit (Luke 6:44-49).

I sense God calling the Women of Life Church to get serious about our walk, about the call on our lives. Dig into God’s Word; find out for yourself what the fruit is and how you can begin producing His fruit in your life.

God bless you as you seek Him.

Judy

To contact me: [email protected] 860-482-8651 or 860-309-2484

Upcoming Events

Becoming Women of Faith Life Group- 1st & 3rd Friday, 9:30 a.m.*

Women’s Ministry Meeting & Bible Study4th Friday of every month at 7:30 p.m. (exceptions – Nov 17th &

Dec 15th )*18 to 20 Something Life Group

(Young women, whether married or single) Fridays 7:00 p.m.

Women of Faith® - Contagious Joy - National Conference

Aug. 11-12 - Hartford Civic CenterBecoming a Mentor

Fall of 2006 - - details to be announcedChristmas Craft FairSaturday, November 11th.

*All are welcome; bring your Bible and a heart for Christ.

Our Father Wants Us HealedA Bible Study by Jean Redekas

III John 2 “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.” Our soul is our mind, our will, and our emotions. What does it mean to have our mind prosper? When we gain knowledge, our mind prospers. When we

meditate on the Word of God, our mind prospers. To the degree that our souls prosper, that will be the degree that we prosper in health.

Take someone who has never heard the Word. When he gets sick, the only thing he knows to do is go to a doctor. When the doctor can’t do anything more for him, he’s stuck. Where else does he turn to? Now take a person who has just been saved and he gets sick. His first reaction will be to go to the doctor because that is what he is used to doing, but now he will hopefully pray too and

Table of ContentsBook Review – Digging the Wells of Revival………………3Beauty Tips………………………………………………...4Craft Corner……………………………………………….4Devotional…………………………………….…………...7Editor Contact Information………………………………..8Food Shopping For Your Health…………………………..3Hospitality…………………………………………………4

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look in the Word for help. He may go to his Pastor for healing. If he believes, he will receive it. But you take someone who has been studying the Word for years. He knows the Bible. He knows the character of God; He knows the life of Jesus. If he gets sick, what does he do? He goes to the Word first. He knows that there is Power in the name of Jesus to heal. He knows that the Word says that “by His stripes we were healed”. He receives his healing. He will prosper more in his health than the person who doesn’t know the Word.

We all need to get to that point. It’s great to go to the Pastor or someone else for prayer, but if you’re sick in the middle of the night, what do you do? Do you wake up the Pastor or do you know the Word yourself so you can receive your healing yourself?

Take our children for example. When they are babies, we feed them and cloth them. We do everything for them. As they get older, the more they can do for themselves. By the time they are adults, we expect that they can take care of themselves. We don’t have to feed them anymore. They can eat by themselves. God expects us to grow up too. When we are new babes in Christ, we can go to the Pastor for healing and we will receive it by faith. But there comes a time when we have to mature and receive of the things of God for ourselves, whether the Pastor is there or not.

God is willing

John 6:38 “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”Jesus came to the earth to do the will of the Father. No other reason. He didn’t do what he wanted, only what God told him to do.

Matthew 8: 2 & 3 “And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”

John 8: 28 – 29 “Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.”

If we want to know what the Father thinks about something, look at what Jesus said and did. He only did what the Father taught him to do. If Jesus went about healing sick people, you know that that is the will of the Father. Jesus only did what pleased our Father.

John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” God is a God of abundance and life. Satan is the one who kills and destroys. Satan is the thief, NOT God.

Psalms 89: 34 “My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips.” God will never break His covenant with us. Jesus paid for it with His blood! God is not about to break it. What is the Covenant? Look in II Samuel 7: 9-16 and Deuteronomy 28 for starters.

Acts 10:38 “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

Jeremiah 30: 17 “For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds…”

Hebrews 13: 8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” If He was willing to heal back then, He is still willing to heal today.

John 14:26 “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” Just a side note here: so many people have said that they were sick because God was trying to teach them something. That is totally wrong. God did not make people sick to teach them anything. Gods will was for them to be healed. According to John 14:26; it is the Holy Spirit who is the teacher of the church, not sickness and disease. If only we would listen to that still small voice, it would save us a lot of trouble.God’s will is that we have a long abundant life.

Psalms 91: 14-16 “Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.” I have heard so many people say that God does not promise us tomorrow, but

according to his word, His perfect will is that we have a long life, that we have a tomorrow. That is the promise, but there are conditions. In this verse, the condition is that we set our love upon Him, that we know His name, and that we call upon Him. What is His name? Jehovah. We have studied that with Pastor Al. We need to know the names of God. Also, the Bible says that Jesus came in His Father’s Name. Look in the Book of John. It’s all throughout the book. The name of a person tells a lot about them. For example: In clothing, a lot of times people will only buy clothes that are name brand because they believe there is quality in the name. When we have character and integrity in business people will say, “Oh, Gary Redekas, I’ll do business with him, I’ve

heard of his work, he has a good name.” People may not even know him in person, but they feel like they do because he has a good name. Well, Jesus has a name that is above every name, and when we know Jesus, we know the name of God and we need to call upon that name.

Deuteronomy 5:16 “Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

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God Wants Us Healed – a Bible Study, continued from page 2

According to this scripture, He says that our day will be prolonged and it will go well with us. The condition is that we honor our father and our mother.

Exodus 23:25 “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfill.” Condition- Serve the Lord; Promise- He will bless our bread, our water, & He will take sickness away from us and He will satisfy the number of our days.This is a good scripture to stand on if you’re pregnant too.

Proverbs 4:10 “Hear, O my son, and receive my saying; and the years of thy life shall be many.” Condition: Hear and receive His sayings. Promise: the years of thy life shall be many.I hope you can see through all these scriptures that God loves us and wants us healthy and He wants us to have a long life. We are His hands on this earth. As long as we are alive and well we can do more for God. He won’t benefit by our being sick or dead.

Book Review by Diane Westcott

Digging the Wells of Revival By Lou Engles

Did you know that every prayer you pray is kept before the throne of God? Did you realize that when other Christians pray in agreement to those prayers, the “prayer of agreement” is at work, even if it has been 500 years?

Matt 18:19-20 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

This book is not only a testimony but proof positive that the Word of God is true and that God hears and answers prayer, in His Time.

After reading a particular portion of this book, knowing some history about what Lou was writing about, I saw this in action. What Lou and other intercessors were moved to see and pray, God fulfilled before my eyes. It had been over 80 years of prayer before the agreement came forth and God fulfilled His purpose, but what a powerful move of God it is.

This book will build faith into your prayer life. That’s a promise.

Food Shopping For Your Healthby Cheryl Velasquez

American consumers make their food choices based on the following five food criteria: taste, price, convenience, appearance and shelf life. Notice that these have nothing to do with health!

Nutrition counselor Jim Marlowe states:

"If you are making all your food choices based on these [criteria] you may be indulging your taste buds, staying within

your budget and minimizing your trips to the grocery store but your cells may all be starving for nutrients that they aren't getting because they are not in those foods. I am not saying to ignore taste, price, convenience, appearance and shelf life. Go ahead and consider those, but consider those after you consider the nutritional value because nutritional value is the real reason we need to eat--the body needs nutrients and it is important to wake up to that and the sooner you wake up to that the better."

Learn How to Shop SmartThe fresher the food, the more nutritious it will be. Look for produce that is fresh and firm. Fresh food is always better than frozen, but frozen is better than canned. Sometimes, because of the season and form of distribution, frozen can actually be more nutritious than fresh. Downside on frozen: enzyme (cells) damage occurs which compromises its nutritional value. Try to mix up your daily consumption of fresh and frozen.

Processed foods, including canned goods, are among the most nutritionally devoid foods.

Meats and FishPick the leanest cuts of meats and poultry. Free-range meats and poultry are always the best choice. Bell & Evans is an excellent choice for chicken and turkey and is now available in many supermarkets and the price is affordable. Most chicken sold in the supermarkets is raised in factory farms, in extremely overcrowded conditions which pave way for disease. Many also are genetically modified. If you don't use free range or organic, be sure to remove the skin before eating.

For beef, again try to buy all natural and look for labeling that states "no hormones, antibiotics or chemicals used." Cows are in unhealthy and dirty conditions and forced to overproduce milk by being fed hormones, thereby causing infection, necessitating antibiotic therapy. These hormones and antibiotics are in the milk and meat we digest. Coleman beef is a good choice and there are many organic brands of milk now available.

SeafoodIf you do choose to eat fish from your grocery store, choose ocean-caught or "wild" seafood instead of farm-raised. Numerous studies have shown that farm raised may be harmful to your health due to the poor conditions in which the fish are raised and again the administering of harmful antibiotics. A great choice is fresh, wild Alaskan salmon: fresh, smoked, or canned.

Remember; be healthy in body, mind, and spirit!

I Timothy 6:8 “And having food and raiment let us be there with content”.

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Beauty Tips by Gemma Paul

Powder: Your makeup won't last the day without a little staying power from powder, it helps absorb the skin's natural oils to help control shine throughout the day. You can brush it on over a clean, moisturized face for a fresh, no-makeup look.

Use a loose powder to set your makeup. It works the best and lasts the longest. Loose powder contains more oil absorbers than pressed, so it is the best choice for oily skin.

Do you have beauty questions? Write to the Editor and they will be answered in the next issue.

Audrey Hepburn wrote this when asked to share her “beauty tips.” It was read at her funeral years later.For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone…People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

(Submitted by Judy Johnson)

Craft Corner by Jessica MacMurray

Ages: 2-5

Lesson Focus: Jesus loves children (Matthew 19:13-14). Read story from a child-friendly Bible.

Song-time: "Jesus Loves the Little Children" *

What You Need: Unpainted wood hearts, sponges, acrylic paint, trays, black marker, magnet, glue.

What You Do: Write child's name on back. Pour paint into trays. Dip sponges into paint and dab the heart with color. Be careful not to muddy the colors. Once the paint is dry, write, "Jesus Loves Me" on the front of the heart. Glue magnet to the back.

Recipe Corner

By Kristen Williams

Pistachio Cake

1 white cake mix4 eggs½ cup of vegetable oil1 cup water1 small box of instant pistachio puddingMix togetherBake at 350° for about 35 – 45 minutes

Topping: Mix together the following ingredients

Medium Coolwhip1 small box of pistachio pudding1 cup of milk

Refrigerate for about 10 minutes and put on top of cake after cake has cooled down.

Hospitality by Alzenia Waddell

Ladies of Life Church: Hospitality Ministry needs your help.1. Coffee House: Work with the Youth some Sundays. This

would include supervision of youth, serve foods, clean kitchen.

2. Dinners and Luncheons: Help prepare foods, set up, serve and clean up.

3. Food Pantry: Help keep food pantry clean and put away food. Food will need to be rotated.

4. Visitation: Visit people that are healing and pray with them, prepare foods, some light cleaning, and run errands for them.

5. Work with me in various areas of church on ministries.

Please contact Alzenia at: [email protected].

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Have you come to the end of your rope and don’t have anything left to hang on to? Hang on to Jesus. He will never let you down.

American Standard 1917 Edition

JOHN 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

JOHN 3:17 “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

JOHN 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Accept Jesus into your heart right now. You will never regret it. It is very simple to do. Just say this prayer: “Father, in the name of Jesus, I come to you and I ask you to forgive me of all my sins. I ask Jesus into my heart right now. You said that if I believe in you I would not perish but have eternal life. I believe that and I thank you Jesus for setting me free. I give my life to you Jesus and I say that not only are you my Savior but now you are my Lord. Thank you for loving me. Amen”

Join Life Church on Public Access TV(Check your local cable company for day and time)

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Somers, South Windsor, Suffield, Union, Stafford Springs, Wethersfield, Windsor Locks & Holland, MA

Comcast – Channel 5Serving: Simsbury & Windsor

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Cablevision of Litchfield – Channel 5Serving: Bantam, Cornwall, Goshen, Litchfield, Morris, Northfield, Oakville, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren &

Watertown

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Something to Think AboutClay Balls Author Unknown

A man was exploring caves by the seashore. In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls. It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.

They didn’t look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him. As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as

he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock. Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls. Each contained a similar treasure. He found thousands of dollars

worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left. Then it struck him.

He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves.

Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!

It’s like that with people. We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel. It doesn’t look like

much from the outside. It isn’t always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.

We see that person as less important than someone more beautiful or stylish or well known or wealthy. But we have not taken the

time to find the treasure hidden inside that person.

There is a treasure in each and every one of us. If we take the time to get to know that person, and if we ask God to show us that

person the way He sees them, then the clay begins to peel away and the brilliant gem begins to shine forth.

May we not come to the end of our lives and find out that we have thrown away a fortune in friendships because the gems were

hidden in bits of clay. May we see the people in our world as God sees them.

Poetry

Reflection by Edward DuBois

I see a reflection of a boy on the lakeHe has no direction or path he must

takeHe’s been through rejection and

made many mistakesThen I made a correction when he

seemed almost fakeI knew who he was…he was man

without God.

You Made Me by Dominick Paul

Before I was myself you made meWith love and patience, discipline and

tearsThen bit by bit step back to set me free

Allowing me to sail upon my seaThough well within the headlands of your

fearsBefore I was myself, you made me

With dreams of what I was to be And hopes that would be sculpted by

the yearsThen bit by bit stepped back to set me

free

Relinquishing your powers graduallyTo let me shape myself among my peers

Before I was myself you made me

And being good and wise, you gracefully As dancers when the last sweet cadence

nears Bit by bit step back to set me free

For love inspires learning naturallyThe mind assents to what the mind

reveresAnd so it was through love you made meBy slowly stepping back to set me free

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I love you MomHappy Mothers Day

evotional by Judy Johnson

TarnishedI unpacked a box a while back that had accidentally been put in the basement when we moved. Carefully nestled in soft fabric, in the bottom of the box, was a silver candy dish, I hardly recognized it. At first I wondered, “Why on earth had I bothered to pack, to keep, such an ugly thing”. But then I remembered it! I realized what it was, I saw beyond the tarnish and remembered its beauty. What had happened to it? When it was so carefully packed away, it was a thing of beauty - it sparkled and shone. I could see my reflection in it. But, it had been left unattended. It had been allowed to just sit, and not be used, and as a result it had become almost unrecognizable! I took the dish, got out the silver polish, and went to work, and very quickly its luster returned; soon I could again see my reflection.

In Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Christ is calling today - calling the lost, the hurting, and the hopeless – to come to Him. No matter what the condition of your heart, how tarnished you may feel, Jesus wants to take you into His family. John 6:37 says, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out”. He takes us just as we are because He has a plan for our lives. Even though you may not know Him, He knows you and is calling you to “Come unto me . . ”. 2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” Like the woman at the well (John 4), Jesus isn’t interested in your past, He’s interested in your future with Him. He’s interested in you allowing Him to work in and through you. 2 Tim 2:21 says, ”If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.”

Many times in the scriptures we are referred to as vessels, and like my silver dish, we can become tarnished and unrecognizable. Have you put yourself on a shelf, or in a box, not allowing yourself to be used by God? Do you sometimes think, “God, that’s too hard a thing for me to do”? Are you feeling a little tarnished? Has your light faded? Well, I’ve got great news for you; God has his own silver polish, GRACE. Grace polishes us and makes us shine! It makes us to reflect that image of God to our world. Grace is Romans 12:10, “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”. This grace comes by laboring and yes, at a cost, but creates a rare and precious jewel for our crown. It’s not something you will find touted in our world today. 1 Peter 5:5-6 tells us that grace is given to those that humble themselves, 2 Peter 1:2 says it is multiplied through the knowledge of God, 2

Peter 3:17-18 warns us first, then encourages us to grow in grace, and 1 Peter 1:13 tells us to “gird up the loins of your mind”, but in this, not to lose hope, “hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”.

If you’ve not received Christ as your Lord and Savior, ask Him into your heart today. If you are sitting on a shelf, climb on down. If you’re tucked away in a box, reach up, ask one of your Sisters in Christ to help you get out of that place. Be encouraged today and be an encouragement to others. Jesus said in 2 Cor 12:9, “. . .My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.”

Jude 24-25Humor is Contagious

A young man goes to buy the best car on the market, a brand new Ferrari GT. It is also the most expensive car in the world, and it costs him $500,000. He takes it out for a spin and stops

at a red light.

An old man on a Moped, looking about 100 years old, pulls up next to him. The old man looks over at the sleek, shiny car and asks, “what kind of car ya’ got there sonny?” The young man

replies, “A Ferrari GT. It cost half a million dollars!” “That’s a lot of money”, says the old man. “Why does it cost so much?”

“Because this car can do up to 320 miles an hour!” he states proudly. The old moped driver asks, “Mind if I take a look

inside?” “No problem”, replies the owner. So the old man pokes his head in the window and looks around. Then, sitting back on

his Moped, the old man says, “That’s a pretty nice car, all right…but I’ll stick with my Moped!”

Just then the light changes, so the young guy decides to show the old man what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds, the speedometer reads 160 mph. Suddenly, he notices a dot in his rear view mirror. It seems to be getting

closer! He slows down to see what it could be and suddenly Whoosh! Something whips by him going much faster! “What on

earth could be going faster than my Ferrari?” the young man asks himself. He floors the accelerator and takes the Ferrari up to 250 mph. Then, up ahead of him he sees that it’s the old man on the Moped! Amazed that the Moped could pass his Ferrari,

he give it more gas and passes the moped at 275 mp. WHOOOOOOOSHHHHH! He’s feeling pretty good until he

looks in his mirror and sees the old man gaining on him AGAIN!

Astounded by the speed of this old guy, he floors the gas pedal and takes the Ferrari all the way up to 320 mph. Not ten

seconds later, he sees the Moped bearing down on him again!

The Ferrari is flat out, and there’s nothing he can do! Suddenly, the Moped plows into the back of his Ferrari, demolishing the

rear end. The young man stops and jumps out, unbelievably the old man is still alive!

He runs up to the old man and says, “Oh My God! Is there anything I can do for you?” The old man

whispers…”UNHOOK…MY…SUSPENDERS…FROM…YOUR…SIDE VIEW…MIRROR!”

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Picture by Jean Redekas

“O Jehovah, lead me in Thy righteousness, Because of those observing me, Make straight before me Thy way”

Psalm 5:8

f you have any comments, questions, or

additions to this newsletter, contact the

Editor.Jean Redekas

[email protected]