Merry Christmas John,
I wanted to thank the Lord for our Christmas Eve celebration of “God’s Mystery” – His Son, that we enjoyed last night. The reading was wonderful and the music and feelings too. We are so blessed to understand what we do understand, and to have these feelings that go with it. And I wanted to share about Song and I getting to take home Brother Coy and Theresa last night.
A week or so ago, Brother Thomas called me on the phone. He was feeling “alive” in the Spirit, and our simple conversation picked me up that afternoon. When I hung up the phone that day, the feeling of my heart was, “Jesus, let me bless that man somehow: he really made my day sweet.” That’s what we can do for one another when the Spirit is in it.
Anyway, several days pass, and I’m on the airplane coming home, and I saw his signal text asking for help in taking Brother Coy home from last night’s meeting. When I called him the next day to ask if anyone responded, he said that nobody had yet, so there was my opportunity to give Brother Thomas a rest. I told him we’d take Brother Coy home for him, which we did.
Needless to say, the trip with Coy was a blessing to US! He told us a lot of history and information that we did not know about Brother Frank, and Preacher Clark, and Sister Leatha’s family, and of course, about the holy Ghost. They showed us where saints lived, and were buried…. a real history lesson of our family. We got home at midnight but it was worth EVERY moment to my heart. I went to help a brother, but a brother blessed ME. When we dropped them off and it was quiet in the car, Song turned to me and said something like, “What a wonderful people they are – so simple and real”…. then she paused and said, “It would be a wonderful opportunity for young people to do this, and go with Coy to or from the meetings once in a while…. they would be blessed.” I had to agree with her, that it would be a blessing, on occasion, for young OR old to spend time with Coy like we got to last night. He will certainly leave you with Christmas “cheer”!!
Beyond all that, we really got a taste of what Brother Thomas does for our family here, by offering to take Coy to and from the meetings – He drives at least three hours each time (getting him to the meeting, 3 hours, and then coming home, 3 hours – per meeting.) We get a wonderful blessing by knowing brother Coy – I’m so thankful that Coy feels the same about us, like he said.
Jesus answered my prayer last night. I knew it was Him. And he did lots of other things through brothers and sisters last night to bless me – too much to talk about in an email, things that left me both crying and thankful. I love us, because He first loved us. We are truly hidden. Who could possibly understand the amount of love we get to share? What a wonderful Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas,
Gary