Prepare Ye

This is Ananias' article from the April Messenger newsletter. The Earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it; the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers. – Psalm 24:1-3 My Big Guy read chapter two of Ask, Thank, Tell to me, the book I wrote about last month. It was all about gifts. I like gifts. My Big Guy will give me the gift of toys to play with. I get so happy when he gives them to me. I run around the house and shake them. I’ll find a comfy place to lay down and play with it and chew on it. Sometimes, I play a little too rough with the toys and chew a hole in them and all the stuff comes out of them. Sometimes, when I shake it, I don’t have as good a grasp on it as I think I do, and it goes flying around the house. When those things happen, My Big Guy takes the toy away. Sometimes forever, or sometimes, for a little while. The point of the chapter in Ask, Thank, Tell is that the gifts we get from God aren

This is my Pastor’s Ponderings from the April Messenger. I want to comment and expand on something that Ananias wrote in his article this month. He really is learning a lot from this book. I’m hoping that since he realizes all of his toys belong to me, maybe he won’t chew through them so quickly. As Ananias, and the author of Ask, Thank, Tell, Chick Lane, has pointed out, the gifts and blessings we have come from God. While they are ours to use, they are still God’s. God has given them to us to use, but they are not ours. Nor is anything. Everything comes from God and everything belongs to God. We are just given the responsibility to use them. This is a challenge for us as people, and especially as Americans. We like to think that we are self-made, that we have what we have because of hard work. To a degree that is true. We see that our hard work and extra effort allow us to do better and provide more things for our loved ones. But the abilities we have, even that motivation