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Friday, October
12, 2018
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"Out
Of The Miry Clay"
Message
summary:
Today, we share a literal experience of
being delivered out of the miry clay,
but for all of us it can be our
testimony spiritually!
Listen to our message on your audio player. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings" (Psalm 40:2). This
weekend I will have another birthday
milestone, another year under my belt
(or suspenders in my case). I am glad
I've learned a lot through life and have
been protected and/or delivered from
more than a few stupid things I have
done, particularly in my youth. One
would like to think there comes a point
in life when you just stop doing stupid
things but I am not there yet as
evidenced by a potentially serious
mishap I had on Sunday afternoon.
After
lunch Brooksyne and Ester stayed at the
restaurant to visit with a friend.
I decided to get back on a rail trail
and rode over to Lewes Delaware, a
quaint, colonial era town that bills
itself as the first town in the first
state. The area was first discovered by
Henry Hudson on a voyage into Delaware
Bay in August 1609, and first settled by
the Dutch in 1631. It has an excellent
harbor and remains home to a large fleet
of fishing boats.
When
I got there I was just too tired to ride
the bike all the way back to Rehoboth
Beach so I waited for Brooksyne to come
and pick me up with our van. I just kind
of poked around on the bike and saw a
boat launch leading down to the harbor.
It was low tide so I thought I would
just ride down the ramp to the water and
turn around, not paying any attention to
the dark color on the ramp.
As
soon as I hit the dark color I lost
control and spun out, losing complete
control of the bike. I managed to spread
eagle as I fell but still had no control
as my legs kept spreading farther out
since it was so slippery. Those of you
with a nautical sense realize what I had
done. The dark color on the ramp was
very wet, slimy mud from where the water
had been at high tide a short time
earlier!
Amazingly
(and thankfully) I regained control
before going down in the muck
completely. I carefully extricated
myself from the mess and worked my way
off the ramp back to dry ground.
I
was sure glad to be back on firm ground
although my shoes and bike were a muddy
mess. I sat on a bench as I caught my
breath and mused over my stupidity as I
considered how serious of trouble I
could have been in. It was a steep ramp
leading down to the water and I realize
I could have fallen really hard or just
slid into the water which would have
gotten deep very fast. I think I could
have swam out but my bike would have
been deep in the harbor!
As
I waited for Brooksyne an old gospel
song came to mind which I haven't heard
in years based on the daily text:
He
brought me out of the miry clay,
He set my feet on the Rock to stay; He put a song in my soul today, A song of praise, hallelujah! For
me, at that moment, it was quite literal
but for all of us it can be our
testimony!
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Today we will share
our final set of photos from
our visit this last weekend to
coastal Delaware, today from
Lewes.
The scenic Lewes
Harbor
The boat ramp on
which I went down was just to
the right of this but I didn't
have the presence of mind to
take a photo!
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A
restored lifeboat in Lewes
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Cannonball House in
Lewes.
Can you see the cannonball in the brick on the lower right? For the
geographically inquisitive
here is the region in Delaware
where we stayed last weekend.
(Google map)
Today's
Suggested
Music and Supplemental
Resources
"He Brought Me Out Of The Miry Clay" Video The style here takes us back to our Bible School days and the way church was in the seventies. In addition this is a church in Arkansas with a real southern gospel approach. We dedicate this to our Arkansas preacher friend, Tommy Carpenter, whom we would imagine has been to this church! "Rescuer" Video
Rend
Collective
Finally today:
Yesterday we stopped by to see another Val-Co team serving the community at Blessings Of Hope, a ministry that is essentially a food bank to food banks. This team is demonstrative of the various people we work with as chaplains and apart from just two long-time Lancaster County natives in the photo we have South African, Puerto Rican, Vietnamese, Moldovian and Dominican Republic. They are shown holding candy they had just bagged from a huge bin donated by a major candy maker. Aaron Fisher, the founder of Blessings Of Hope, is behind Brooksyne. What a blessing to see these folks get along and work together for a good cause!
Yesterday at
Blessings Of Hope we
also visited Wilmon, a driver for the
Bowery
Mission in NYC. Wilmon has a
wonderful conversion testimony from
2008 and now works for the mission.
The Bowery Mission has served homeless
and hungry New Yorkers since 1879,
when its neighborhood came to define
the term "skid row." Video
After
six
visits to company locations yesterday
we stopped in at Costco on the way
home and were blessed to see Yelena
with her two sons. We regularly
visited Yelena when she worked for
Val-Co before she and her husband
Peter welcomed their two sons into the
world.
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