Friday Writings......5/27/16

Good morning...

      Today I spent a lot of time on the phone with a friend who is going through a really painful time in her life...both spiritually and physically. She feels that she is all alone and all the people that she had known and helped through their own issues are no longer willing to reach out to her in her need. I was left not knowing what to say with her. I see her issues and know her past, but I really was not able to say anything that might be helpful to her. I felt powerless and inadequate. I did not have an idea and it felt like God was silent. Then it occurred to me that perhaps He did not want me to say anything. I have a cross in my bathroom that has this on it, "Good morning, this is God. I will handle everything today. Rely on me." So, I handed it over to Him.

Have a Friday that is more fantastic  than Creme Brule!

God bless from
Corinne

The Devotional Component of Friday Writings in Women's Focus Ministries was written by Corinne Mustafa and is entitled,  "Wedding Daybreak." In this writing the sun is a metaphor for the warmth that God gives His people through His love. Here is one of the stanzas of the poem...

"They bask in the radiance of her wakeup call

But only few can see or even understand

The intensity of protection and provision

The delivery of His gift of affection brings."

Thank you God for all the mornings we are given because of Your great love.

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  Today's Devotional   

 "Wedding Daybreak"

written by

Corinne Mustafa

 

The sun stretches her shiny arm-like rays

As she rises from her nocturnal divan
behind the eastern hills

Not intense yet as clouds of sleep
Still shroud the luster of her arrival 

To launch another nuptial day.

Like a bride she peeks out
from behind a wedding veil of foggy lace 

Still dimming the blaze to come

As she slowly opens her amber cyclopean eye.

It is a day for glory this

And nothing will be able to hold her back

As she blesses the waiting world below

Bringing her Master’s warmth and life

Carrying His devotion and protection

To all who wake to greet 

Her golden, glowing arrival.

They bask in the radiance of her wakeup call

But only few can see or even understand

The intensity of protection and provision

The delivery of His gift of affection brings.

Few ponder a sunrise and comprehend

Even fewer still appreciate or recognize

That the incredible splendor of this gift

She delivers for Him each day

Is the radiance of our 

Groom’s good morning kiss.

(C)Corinne Mustafa

Because God has created in such a way that the sun rises and sets each day, we can see a reflection of the life cycle of a person in it. A person is born in the morning, and enjoys her first sight of the things of earth. Her mother's face...her father's loving touch...the feelings of safety that are found from the rituals of time as it spreads out.

Every morning the day dawns. Whether sunny, cloudy. or rainy, whether the sun can actually be seen in a blue sky or hidden behind clouds, the sun is there giving life and warmth from her heated furnace. I had the vision of the sun as a messenger from God who greets us daily like a groom and brings the warmth of His love to His bride. It is likened to a wedding day when the groom sends love and messages to his beloved to rise and shine just as the sun has already done. He sends a kiss of love and warmth to welcome us to our day which blesses us throughout the day.

We should try to hang on to our groom's gift all day and let it direct our passage through that time which is filled with His warmth. Thank you, God.

                     

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   In The News   

Microchipping your children could happen
'sooner rather than later,' NBC report

"We're fine with people who don't look like us," he writes, "as long as they think like us."

Universities, once recognized as bastions of tolerance and diversity, bear perhaps the greatest blame. Kristof cites studies showing that just 6 to 11 percent of humanities professors are conservatives. Fewer than one in ten social-studies professors call themselves conservative. For perspective, consider that twice that number identify as Marxists!

And lest anyone blame this on conservative self-selection, a third of academics openly admit that they would be less likely to hire a qualified candidate who voted Republican. Black evangelical sociologist George Yancey says he faces more discrimination on campus for his Christian beliefs than he does off-campus for the color of his skin. This aggressive bias turns classrooms into hard-left "echo-chambers" where only one side of any debate is ever heard.

Kristof took his concerns to Facebook, where he asked his mostly liberal followers why those who pride themselves on tolerance can be so intolerant. The replies he got were stunning.

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"Much of the 'conservative' worldview consists of ideas that are known empirically to be false," commented one fellow liberal.

Why stop with conservatives? asked another. "How about we make faculties more diverse by hiring idiots?"

Wow. Kristof was understandably dumbfounded. "My Facebook followers have incredible compassion for war victims in South Sudan, for kids who have been trafficked, even for abused chickens, but no obvious empathy for conservative scholars facing discrimination."

Speaking of Facebook, Kristof wasn't the only one this month coming clean about left-wing bias. Several former Facebook employees recently told Gizmodo that the social media titan's "news curators" "routinely [suppressed] conservative news" on the site's trending module.

Rather than serving as an unbiased meter of what people are talking about, concluded Gizmodo, "Facebook's news section reflects "the biases of its workers and the institutional imperatives of the corporation."

Whatever your political persuasion, this skewing of education and news to push an agenda is toxic to free societies. It's gotten so bad that even a few brave liberals are asking, "Is this really what we stand for?"

And we should applaud them! But it's only a start.

If we want other voices heard in academia and the media, we have to make the case for why that's crucial — both by helping our friends and neighbors recognize the bias, and by offering our own voices in answer to the echo.

Originally posted at breakpoint.org.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/liberals-confess-to-their-intolerance-164445/#0GYPdxOwqp4thF46.99

(Worthy News) - We don't think twice about having the vet put microchips in our dogs and cats if they can help reunite a missing pet with its family. But how willing would you be to have a microchip embedded in your children in this age of Amber alerts?

According to an NBC News report, the technology has been around for several decades, and putting microchips in children will happen "sooner rather than later."

According to WFLA TV (NBC's Tampa Bay, Florida, affiliate), electronics experts say microchipping children is safe and effective, and that Americans eventually will come to accept the process to insure their kids' safety. One day, the report says, it will become as common as barcodes.

The report then features an electronics expert who says that microchip testing in humans is already happening: "The military is not only testing this out, but already utilizes its properties," says Stuart Lipoff. "It's not a matter of if it will happen, but when."

What are your thoughts about this. 
Does it sound sinister or helpful"
Would you allow micro chipping of your children?

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   Today's Inspiring Graphic   

That would be quite a recommendation for the bitten!

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   Christian Humor for a Laugh Today   

Church Bulletin Humor

Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. 

These announcements actually appeared in a church bulletin 

or were announced in a church service:

1. Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa will be speaking tonight at Calvary Memorial Church in Racine. Come tonight and hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

2. Announcement in the church bulletin for a National PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals."

3.Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.

4. Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again" giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

5."Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands."

6.The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

7.The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight:

"Searching for Jesus"

8.Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

9.Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

10.During the absence of our Pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit.

11.The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir will sing "Break Forth into Joy."

12.Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.

13.Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.

14.Don't let worry kill you off-let the Church help.

15.Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church.

So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

16.A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

17.At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?"

Come early and listen to our choir practice.

18.Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

19.The senior choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning to join the choir.

20.The Lutheran men's group will meet at 6 P.M. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel.

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Prayers are lifted up
daily for our readers
by the Devotional Writers 

and the Monthly Writing Staff

of Women's Focus Ministries.

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