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Prodigal:\u00a0 This is where Billy Graham began his preaching.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I am Happy Billy you are with Our Lord and to his family I am sorry for the grief you are experiencing.<\/p>\n

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The past 24 hours have been interesting in a way that makes to want to reflect on life for a moment as the sun washes the world with light and a new day.\u00a0 A couple of things have happened.\u00a0 First of all Asher decided to show up 18 days early, weighing at 7 pounds and 11 ounces.\u00a0 With that brings the hurrying, the amazement that a new personality, new person has just entered into your life and the thoughts of what joys and blessing will come to us who know him.<\/p>\n

Then on the other side of the coin.\u00a0 The announcement of death.\u00a0 This death is not without hope though because we know Billy Graham is with our Lord.\u00a0 Billy was someone who I admired.\u00a0 I never met him,but I will in heaven. He was born and raised in North Carolina with three siblings just like me and then even came to Florida and started preaching.\u00a0 I do not preach but I also started my ministry in Florida.\u00a0 So a little bit of that shared journal has made me look into his life.<\/p>\n

What impressed me about Billy is two personal stories that I have heard.\u00a0 He would never be in a room alone with a woman that was not his wife.\u00a0 The second is that one time he slipped and fell and cracked his ribs and then went on to speak to others about God hours later with no pain killers.<\/p>\n

The little decisions in life and little moments make up your character.\u00a0 It is sometimes the things that people don’t see.\u00a0 It is the little things that can be the hardest to do.\u00a0 It is the little things that we believe do not make a difference.<\/p>\n

I have been on a journey of late and that journey has brought with it ups and downs.\u00a0 I have run into the question of what happens when people refuse to accept God’s love?\u00a0 What happens with they are blind and deaf?\u00a0 What happens when these people will refuse to accept God’s love and remain blind and deaf until the day they die?<\/p>\n

My journey has been a surrounding of this.\u00a0 So I have sought to figure out what the Lord wanted to show me with these circumstances.\u00a0 \u00a0The Lord has then been able to show me an answer. The answer that was shown is to love them and have compassion on them in your heart.\u00a0 God has allowed my eyes and ears to be open and to receive His love. All I can do is be a reminder that God is love.\u00a0 You accept it or you don’t but I am accepting it.\u00a0 I am living with thankfulness and I am living with praise that God is love.<\/p>\n

What will I say to the blind and deaf, to those who have not accepted God’s love?\u00a0 Thank you and praise you that you have been in my life.\u00a0 I have truly learned to love because I know I can love you whether your eyes and ears open or not.\u00a0 I can have compassion on you and still pray for you whether you understand God’s love or not.<\/p>\n

God you have made this day and given me my daily bread already.\u00a0 God, I will continue to praise you and I know there will be nothing finer than to meet you when my time on earth is done and experience that love in a perfect heaven with your angels.\u00a0 \u00a0In the meantime, while I am here, I will continue to bask in your love for me everyday.\u00a0 I will continue to have compassion on those who remain blind and deaf.<\/p>\n

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Psalm 26:12<\/p>\n

My feet stand on level ground; in the great congregation I will praise the LORD.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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