Today Blake and I headed to our local grocery store to pick up food for the week. As we were walking down one of the isles we ran into one of the members of our old church. Her name is Peggy. Peggy is a jolly ole' gal from England. Seriously, she is a wonderful spunky lady. She and her husband is originally from England and adopted Blake and I very quickly when we got married. So there was Miss Peggy in the isle, we didn't notice her at first, but she noticed us. She looked at Blake and exclaimed, "What are you doing here?!?!!!" Blake looked over and saw the smiling Miss Peggy. Soon church began in the middle of the isle. God really used Miss Peggy to up lift us today. She shared with Blake how she missed him sharing at the Breaking of Bread service. She told she always found it thought provoking and wonderful. This made Blake's day sense lately he has been informed of things other wise about his thoughts. Some how soon though we started talking about church communities expectations of one another. In her english accent she said,"Oh, everyone at church wants to put on a big fake smile and say 'everything is fine!' and we shouldn't be like this." To add to the importance of what she was saying by putting on her fake smile and fake happy eyes and ended with a disgusted look. It made me laugh. She then went on to talk about how it is wrong of us to want each other not to be ourselves and the pressure that we put on one another to make sure we are not. She then smiled and said, "The only person I know who can change me, has been changing me for over 80 years and He hasn't stopped yet." I loved it! She reminded me that the only changing power is God's and even when I'm in my 80's it still isn't over, but to that end, no one's opinion matters on how I should change and be, but the opinion of my Lord, my God, my Master. How rich that statement is.So God bless Miss Peggy Ritchie! What a wonderful women! And praise God for making sure we had church in the middle of the grocery isle. I think Blake and I would agree it was much needed.
4 comments:
Church all the time, everywhere with everybody.
I love it!
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well, I knew you would like this. I thought about you when I wrote this. I thought "Rick would LOVE this, this is so him" :)
its good when God's people gather, isn't it?
a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y-!
Had church at a jack-in-the-box Sunday afternoon.
Out on the boat Sat morning.
On the phone with an out of towner Friday
A few days of not doing church has me looking for a fix. I love gathering with other believers, sharpening each other, worshiping corporately...asking those tough questions and not getting 'just' a quick text book answer...even welcome an "I don't have a clue".
Keep those 'eyes' open...opportunity surrounds us :)
I love gathering with other believers, sharpening each other, worshiping corporately...asking those tough questions and not getting 'just' a quick text book answer...even welcome an "I don't have a clue".
amen! I always love the, "this is what I have come up with. could be wrong, do want to compare notes?" and the "I don't have a clue" :)
Keep those 'eyes' open...opportunity surrounds us :)
exactly! :)
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