SONSHINE: A FATHER'S DAY TRIBUTE

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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Good morning and happy father's day,

As I am sitting here on a already somewhat humid Mississippi morning, drinking my coffee, I was contemplating whether or not to write something regarding Jack's invite to share what father's day means to me.

At first, I was not led to write anything until I heard the sweet voices of my children downstairs, eating their special father's day pancakes in raspberry syrup. My wife Eliyah was sharing with them a story about each one of them when they were babies.
One was afraid of the slick marble floors at the mall, thinking they were ice. The other did not like touching the grass with his bare feet and would raise his legs up as much as possible as one of us would try to lower him onto the grass. So on and so on.

Reminiscing and hearing the laughter of my children made me realize that this is what father's day is all about. Remembering what being a father is all about. To me it is very simple. The sweet sounding laughter of my children lets me know that all is well. For as long as I hear that intoxicating laughter, I know that I am doing the right things as a father.

I planned on taking it easy today and do absolutely nothing. Well, it's a plan anyways. I know that I will end up doing something out in the yard, or a "project" around the house. I am just not one to just sit and do "nothing". Just know that no matter what I choose to do, or not to do, I will be listening for that child's laughter..................and smile.

Happy Father's Day
Mordekai
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I was so privileged this morning to share a wonderful Christ filled phone visit with our newly discovered friends, Eliyah and Mordekai. I cried and laughed during our conversation but most of all I was moved deeply by the tenderness and encompassing love I found in these two dear saints. At the end of our two hour visit I had prayer with Eliya as Mordekai took his turn tending to their four young children. I ended my part with prayer for Mordekai; that God would continue to bless him as the father of this Godly family.

I also reflected after sharing with this good brother, of how wonderfully this man honors and of how beautifully his wife and children (got to talk to the 2 and 4 year olds too) honor God and Mordekai as fathers with their walks and their words.

With that said, Joian and I desire to give you, our readers, opportunity to honor your fathers or even share what it means to be a father. Please, share whatever is on your heart concerning the subject of "fatherhood."

If you care to write a short message please E-mail it too me at:

jahennes@q.com

I will add your message here on the top of this blog as soon as I get it.
We know this is Florian's first Father's Day, celebrated with the recent arrival of Raphael. Joian and I thrill to imagine how he will feel tomorrow as he gathers his wife and baby in his arms and heart for the first time as a father on Father's Day.

My tribute would be the sharing of the link of an old blog and a favorite message of mine entitled "INTO A DAUGHTER'S HEART." It is a praise message to the grace of Our Father and an account of my personal foretaste of, "how we shall miss nothing, but one day enjoy all the goodness of this world on an incredibly higher level."

http://jack-sonshine.blogspot.com/2007/04/into-my-daughters-heart.html

Be blessed and we so hope you might share with us whatever is on your heart this Father's Day,

Jack and Joian

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Joian Ruth Schroff

God is good. And Joian, more than any of us, knows this. Our sister, and my best friend, rests in the Father's bosom, today. Dear Joian's sojourn, on earth, ended early last winter, after a period of illness.

Together, Joian and myself began "SONSHINE" in "07". Last June, we took our rest from the blog.

Great battles, were waged this last year, by both Joian and myself. One was taken and one was left. Neither, the taking, nor the leaving, lacks in His perfect providence, afforded each. I can't explain, nor fully understand, how each can be perfect. Never the less, I do know, Joian understands it perfectly.

Today, Joian, more than any, knows God is good.

Jack

PS. Thoughts of your joyful rest relieve my tears, tonight. I miss you, my friend. I'll see you soon.

Great Quotes

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God, Himself. Madeleine L' Engle
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"If anything about my salvation or right standing with God depends on my faithfulness, I'm toast, damned to hell." Gavazzoni
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Any infinite Being who feels it is their duty to torture me for eternity, should switch to decaf. Joe
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Everyday people are straying away from the church and going back to God. -- Lennie Bruce
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"He took responsibility for all the evils that have befallen man that day He gave His life. This has never been adequately appreciated by religion. It needs to be appreciated." (Roy)
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"Isn't that what man always wants- a divine force he can control? That's actually the definition of witchcraft." (Florian)
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"Christianity is not about polyester and pot roast. It's about Christ and what He's doing in you and me at the moment." (Holly)
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"It's his life for ours. We die, he lives, and then the mystery is that we live again." (Joian)
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"God's Spirit, is a pure motive" (Cardinal)
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach. A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." (H. MacGregor)
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Pretty soon, everybody will get what they deserve, which is Salvation, Reconciliation, Restitution, Restoration, Immortality and Incorruption - now ain't that the coolest thing! (Keith)
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The bible is not an owners manual and trying to apply it to our lives reeks of salvation by works. (Cam)
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I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy rapture
I die every night (Novalis)
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Where shall we find an abandonment that is as comprehensive as the will of God. (Fenelon)
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He wanted no one but God to witness what he did, just as the only reward he expected was God Himself.(description of Bro. Lawrence)
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The humility of the cross became more desirable to him than all the glory the world had to offer. (description of Bro. Lawrence)
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Prayer is helplessness casting itself upon power; it is misery seeking peace; it is unholiness embracing purity; it is hatred desiring love. Prayer is corruption panting for immortality; it is the eagle soaring heavenward; it is the dove returning home; it is the prisoner pleading for release; it is the mariner steering for the haven amid the dangerous storm; it is the soul, oppressed by the world, escaping to the empyrean, and bathing its ruffled plumes in the ethereal and the divine.(unknown)