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Let’s pray for Jack.  He just made it on Santa’s naughty list.

George Mueller’s one of my heroes of the faith.

He was an intense Christ-follower, a great man of faith, and director of orphanages in Bristol, England, cared for 10,024 orphans in his life. He was well-known for providing an education to the children under his care.

A story is told when his wife became ill with rheumatic fever, he went to God in prayer…

“Yes, my Father, the times of my darling wife are in Thy hands.  Thou wilt do the very best thing for her and for me, whether life or death.  If it may be, raise up yet again my precious wife – Thou art able to do it, though she is so ill; but howsoever Thou dealest with me, only help me to continue to be perfectly satisfied with Thy holy will.”

What a prayer!

However you deal with me, only help me to continue to be perfectly satisfied with Your holy will.

Wow.  What quiet assurance!

Lord, when tough circumstances arise, I know that You are more than able to deliver.  But when You don’t, help me to continue to be perfectly satisfied with Your holy will. AMEN!

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Because of the many parties, sometimes the last people we get to spend time with is our kids.  I know I’ve fallen into that trap.  But we have to be deliberate for this thing not to happen.

My wife is so good with this.  She prints out a December calendar and gets us all in a meeting to plan the whole month.  Remember if you don’t fill your calendar, someone else will.

For this month’s plans…

• Our own family Christmas dinner – this is a time when we usually spend Christmas dinner just for us.  We go to a restaurant we’ve gone back every December 23 for the past several years – Outback in C5.  We have our little celebration and do our gift giving there.  It’s always a highlight in our Christmas celebration.
• Watching the light show at Ayala
• Ornament making
• Visiting Real Life’s Feeding program

to be continued…