The Millville United Methodist Church Shirley's Scene

Shirley Leonard

Shirley's Scene

Thanksgiving will be different this year with Mike & Mary in North Dakota visiting Shantel and Chad . I love it when I open my email box & see something from Shan marked, "Hi, Grandma" especially when it comes with a photo that shows me how much bigger she is. In February, they'll celebrate their second wedding anniversary and by then it won't be long until the baby comes. Our first great-grandchild should arrive late in March, just about the time of the Rev's birthday. How exciting is that!! Ever since I learned they're expecting, Bible verses about God's faithfulness in each generation jump off the pages.:

Future generations will serve him; they will speak of the Lord to the coming generation. People not yet born will be told: 'The Lord saved his people.' (Psalm 22:30 TEV)
Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done, so that people not yet born will praise him. (Ps. 102:18)
What you have done will be praised from one generation to the next: they will proclaim your mighty acts. (Ps. 145:4 TEV)
Tell your children about it; they will tell their children, who in turn will tell the next generation. (Joel 1:3 TEV)

We have just voted to buy the land for the new church. That decision will effect generations to come after all of us. Can you catch a glimpse of that amazing eternal river of time flowing on and on, in which we are carried for a season as part of the Father'stender love…

You let us drink from the river
of your goodness. You are the
source of all life.
(Psalm 36:8&9 TEV)

Let's count our blessings and be ready to tell the generations to follow about them.

In His Love,