My church, Countryside Church of Christ
100 Countryside Dr, Edenton NC
(252) 482-3788

shared this recipe with our congregant on Sunday. I wanted to share with all and give each and everyone a big shout out to visit us when you’re in town. Or, if you’re local and looking for a friendly Bible teaching church we would love to have you visit us. Happy Thanksgiving to all! ✝💜 Tammy

My  name is Socrates. I was adopted and given a forever home. I am so very thankful. I have suffered  this past year with allergies that  resulted in a bad skin condition. We have found a medication that has helped me return to good health. I am very thankful.

What are you thankful for?

 

Alice Furlough

Missing our family and friends, whether they are on earth, in heaven or other are a natural part of the human heart, it seems to me. We often miss a way of life, an age, a time gone by, a career, a friend? 🚣🏽🏇🚕⛹🏿⛳️🏀🏈⚾️🎾⛱🎊

I hear young parents often today say we are making memories. That’s true, and they do render happy thoughts. We seem to have longings for those happy memories yet at times those same memories often ache the heart because they grow in mind in glamour or other but the act doesn’t fit our season of now life. They don’t fit our adult size like a knit sweater made by grandma that only fits age three not thirty-three.. But the memory tries to stretch the knit to fit just about any size. You know one size fits all.

I love memories that have been made by family and friends. Yet, I often am perplexed, puzzled and sad when myself or/and others give me their ‘now story’ that needs so much more than an ice cream escape when we just scratched our knee.

I started a list of memories that are mine that has lasted through seasons of life. And, some memories that give me a social tea time. One of my very favorites that medicates all my needs is; my Mother, her one Bible, her knees bent in prayer 🙏🏻 and those magical words spoken about me as her warm hand held mine. I still feel the warmth as it seemed to leave her hand and give strength to my whole being that melted away whatever that had brought us to our knees. Now, on to my social tea time. Growing up in a family of ten we were in giggles, mischief, sandwiched among gifts and talents to benefit our ten. Those memories 🏀⚾️🏈⛹🏿🎣 make me blush with pride to share with family and friends over tea. Well, more like coffee for me! ☕️🍩🍦🍰

We would love to hear your memories that means a lot to you. Also, ones that carry a built in parachute when a Mickey Mouse band-aide just won’t do. 💟✝✡☮

A thought that keeps recurring to me. The leader of a nation does not make the people what they are but the people make the leader.

Think about this, God didn’t want to give Israel, His people a King but they wanted one. (1 Samuel 8:10) God didn’t want to punish His people but they choose their rewards. “They shall eat the fruit of their doings”….(Isaiah 3:11-12) “Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.” (Psalm 28:4)

We, the people, have heard from the mouths of two want to be leaders of the free world. We have heard very distinctly what each candidate  stands for? Their ideals, ideology, principles, and moral beliefs are very well documented. We, the people will speak on November 8, 2016 and show the world what we as a nation stand for.

Let us do as Dr Ben Carson, the notably brain surgeon has suggested, “use our minds to think.” Do as Mr Pence, a VP running mate has suggested, “pray”. Do as both candidates have suggested, VOTE!

 

“For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth.” Psalm 47:2

When I was a young girl I would often swim in this very place. I was even baptized here as a teenager. It captured my imagination then and has never ever faded but only intensified my mindful and thoughtful moments.

In thinking today, I ask myself what one thing has this body of water with its many facets of a body taught me? I would have to answer; “For the LORD Most High is to be feared, A great King over all the earth. He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet.…” Psalm 47:2,3 (NAS) The sun, 🌞the moon, 🌚the stars,🌟💫 the winds and the movement of the  ‘Albermarle Sound’ answers to no man or woman. But, yet the Lord most high knows the intricate working of each of these untouchable created beauties.

I would like to invite you to stroll with me on the shores of creation and inhale the awesomeness of God and exhale in words of joy that He is the great King of all the earth.

Then place the president to be of the US in the setting of the sun and share how small or how large all this rhetoric from pundits, media, candidates, politicians, friends, family and churches loom in the Eye that has been set in both the rising and setting of the sun.  🌕🌖🌝🌛🌜🌞🌓

 

 

Psalm 46:10 (NIV) He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth…

Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you fish🎏🎎🎣⛹🏼⛷ for people.”- Matthew 4:19 (NRSV)

Paul said, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of ⛪️💡✝💓Christ.”- 1 Corinthians 4:19 (NIV)

Mike Pence said,  “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”-

Tim Kaine, said, “Clinton’s a good Methodist and I’m a good Catholic even though We Support Abortion.”

WHAT SAY YOU?