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BRAND NEW YEAR- WHAT WILL I DO?
-Johnny Mack Young
Will
I camp on my regrets or set sail on my aspirations?
Will
I stew in the foul broth of my own resentments or apply healing salve to
someone else’s injuries?
Will
I feed cynicism or idealism?
Will
I set a course according to my fears or my faith?
Will
I wait for exactly the right time and place or do what I can with what I have
where I am right now?
Will
I be shrewd enough not to be taken or innocent enough to give?
Will
I give my enemy exactly what he expects or surprise us both with word of
kindness?
Will
I say simply “Lord send me” or first ask Him where He wants me to go?
Will
I do right because it is right or because it was what I wanted to do anyway?
Will
I be teachable or unreachable, lovable or untouchable?
Will
I be a brother to my brethren, a friend to my friends, and a neighbor to my
neighbors or will I just be too busy?
Will
I slink in the shadows of doubt or walk upright in the bright daylight of hope?
The choice is my very own.
I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me. –Philippians 4:13
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IN
OUR PRAYERS- SHUT-IN: Jason Duke (Camden Health Care), Levi Towater (skilled care in Mount Juliet), Jerry Young (Lakeside in McKenzie), and Kay Miles (at home). ONGOING: Hank Rook, David Spain, Ernest Thorne, Randy Hatch, Laverne Hatch, Charles Sisson, Jerry Massey, Vickie Cox, Dwight Bullington, Ross
& Darnell Cole, and Mercedes
Gibbons. UPDATES: Mary Lou Christian (returns to Atlanta for another
treatment today) Jill Shomaker (in
Vanderbilt Hospital), Matt Martin (scheduled
to return to work on January 2nd), Margie Martin (at church last Sunday, will see her doctor on
January 3rd), and Muriel
Larkins (at home not feeling well last Sunday).
JANUARY
CELEBRATIONS: Birthdays- Brylee Williams 1/4,
Jana Higdon 1/6, Chaisee Rich 1/8, Haley Hughes 1/12, Seiley Parish 1/12, Sydney
Parish 1/17, and Haden Williams 1/26. Anniversaries-
Jerry & Samma Hastings 1/6. Please
notify Johnny Mack of any needed changes.
DEVOTIONAL: We will have a brief devotional Wednesday
night, December 29th, instead of our regular class.
SUNSHINE
SISTERS: Dues are due next Sunday, January 3rd.
REMINDER: Don’t forget the Children’s Home Container
on the table in the foyer. Thanks!
THANK YOU: Thank you
very much for all your kindness in 2015 and your very generous gift last
Sunday. We are very happy and honored to be a part of the good Bruceton Church
of Christ as we enter 2016. God bless you all with a very Happy New Year! –Johnny Mack & Kayren
PANTRY ITEM: Canned Ham & Tuna
Firmness in enduring and
exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the
whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. -Robert Burns
