This last week...
This is a message sent to the Assurance Church Yahoo! Group – Spiritual Tidbits. Feel free to forward this email.
This last week was so…. Although I don’t get overly emotional, I am physically drained. It was harder than I thought to see my grandfather pass away. His passing has been on my mind every holiday for the last couple of years now. He was 90! Every holiday I would think in the back of my mind, “this could be the last holiday I spend with my grandpa.” So, in a way, I was kind of preparing myself a while back. But still….
My brother and I were the last ones to leave the gravesite. I figured the family wanted someone to stay behind till the very end, so I told my dad and uncle that they could go on to the house and my brother and I would meet them there. We stayed until they poured the last of the dirt!
Because we didn’t have church this Sunday….(thanks everyone for understanding), I wanted to share a little bit of what I was going to talk about.
When I returned to my car, I turned on talk radio (it is my habit to do that when no one is in the car with me). There on the radio was Rush Limbaugh talking about the servicemen who were killed in Iraq this week.
Rush wasn’t talking about my grandfather. I don’t know if he would have really cared. It didn’t seem like the people cutting me off on the road seemed to care either. We went back to the funeral home to pick some stuff up that we left behind – one of the directors was there – he seemed to care – but it is his job. The minute we left, he probably didn’t care anymore.
What I’m trying to get at is – we make a difference in the lives of people. There are some that don’t care, there are some that we truly affect. It is our life that speaks to them though. My grandfather touched a lot of people. In the last couple of days I’ve heard some new stories, and I’ve even read some nice stuff people have written online at http://www.legacy.com/HOUSTONCHRONICLE/Guestbook.asp?Page=Guestbook&PersonID=15815669 But there were a lot of people that didn’t know him. It’s not his fault, nor is it their fault. It is just the way we connect with other people, the paths that intersect with other souls….
As we connect with people this week…and the next….and the next…. think about how you are touching them! Are you making an impact? Are you making an impression that will last? More importantly, are you making an ETERNAL difference in their life? That could be the nicest thing anyone would ever say about you – “they turned me on to Jesus” or “I saw Jesus in him/her.”
When it’s all said and done, what else is there? You, Jesus and Eternity – somewhere………
I have posted last weeks sermon online. It’s God’s Ancient Remedy for Stress Relief and Peace – Shabbat. You can listen to it here ( http://www.13gen.com/PICS/shabbat.wma
Feel free to download it, copy it or pass it along if you would like. It’s not too big of a file – about 2 megs. If you want a copy to save to your hard drive, let me know.
Peace,
Todd
www.assurancechurch.com
http://360.yahoo.com/todd_sepulveda
Do you part! Forward this email to some friends and spread His Word!
This last week was so…. Although I don’t get overly emotional, I am physically drained. It was harder than I thought to see my grandfather pass away. His passing has been on my mind every holiday for the last couple of years now. He was 90! Every holiday I would think in the back of my mind, “this could be the last holiday I spend with my grandpa.” So, in a way, I was kind of preparing myself a while back. But still….
My brother and I were the last ones to leave the gravesite. I figured the family wanted someone to stay behind till the very end, so I told my dad and uncle that they could go on to the house and my brother and I would meet them there. We stayed until they poured the last of the dirt!
Because we didn’t have church this Sunday….(thanks everyone for understanding), I wanted to share a little bit of what I was going to talk about.
When I returned to my car, I turned on talk radio (it is my habit to do that when no one is in the car with me). There on the radio was Rush Limbaugh talking about the servicemen who were killed in Iraq this week.
Rush wasn’t talking about my grandfather. I don’t know if he would have really cared. It didn’t seem like the people cutting me off on the road seemed to care either. We went back to the funeral home to pick some stuff up that we left behind – one of the directors was there – he seemed to care – but it is his job. The minute we left, he probably didn’t care anymore.
What I’m trying to get at is – we make a difference in the lives of people. There are some that don’t care, there are some that we truly affect. It is our life that speaks to them though. My grandfather touched a lot of people. In the last couple of days I’ve heard some new stories, and I’ve even read some nice stuff people have written online at http://www.legacy.com/HOUSTONCHRONICLE/Guestbook.asp?Page=Guestbook&PersonID=15815669 But there were a lot of people that didn’t know him. It’s not his fault, nor is it their fault. It is just the way we connect with other people, the paths that intersect with other souls….
As we connect with people this week…and the next….and the next…. think about how you are touching them! Are you making an impact? Are you making an impression that will last? More importantly, are you making an ETERNAL difference in their life? That could be the nicest thing anyone would ever say about you – “they turned me on to Jesus” or “I saw Jesus in him/her.”
When it’s all said and done, what else is there? You, Jesus and Eternity – somewhere………
I have posted last weeks sermon online. It’s God’s Ancient Remedy for Stress Relief and Peace – Shabbat. You can listen to it here ( http://www.13gen.com/PICS/shabbat.wma
Feel free to download it, copy it or pass it along if you would like. It’s not too big of a file – about 2 megs. If you want a copy to save to your hard drive, let me know.
Peace,
Todd
www.assurancechurch.com
http://360.yahoo.com/todd_sepulveda
Do you part! Forward this email to some friends and spread His Word!
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