Florida Wedding

We had a great trip down to Clearwater, Florida last week, for the wedding of our daughter Emily to Todd Briles. They were staying up in Clearwater, but we found a nice hotel 6 miles south in Indian Rocks Beach, just west of Largo. Thanks be to God for answering the prayers of myself and Mary...I can close my eyes and be back in time, kneeling beside our old couch in the house up in Hancock, Michigan, where many prayers were offered up, asking God to provide a godly young man to be prepared for a husband to Emily. That would have started back in 1995, when Emily was 6 years old. May God richly bless their marriage and family.

Todd & Emily Briles  4/12/13

We took a lot of tracts with us, Spanish & English, along with "God of Wonders" DVD's, and some of Mark Cahill's "One Heartbeat" books to give away during our travels and our stay in Florida. The Lord gave us many opportunities to speak with both believers and with those who do not know Him. We planted some seed and watered some others. One of the housekeeping staff, Maria, was a case of watering. While speaking to her of the things of Jesus Christ, she told us that her daughter was a Christian and had been speaking to her of the same things. We thank God for the chance to add to this witness, and we left her with a "Mr. Good Guy" tract in Spanish and a "God of Wonders."

Me and Mary at the Beach about 2 blocks from our hotel

If you're ever down in the Clearwater area, a great place to witness is at the bus stops for the bust that travels from Clearwater to St. Pete. It's called the Trolley, and people are always sitting at these stops, waiting to catch the bus. If I get a chance to get down there again, I may just catch the Trolley and take it up and down the coast, looking for gospel conversations and witnessing encounters.

The picture above is of our last evening at Indian Rocks Beach.

And below is what we were looking at. As we sat gazing at this splendor, we agreed with the Psalmist...

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." (Psalm 19:1-3)

And as beautiful as this was to us, we know that this is merely a faint shadow of the glory we will experience when we step into the Lord's presence; that those in Jesus Christ who have gone to the Throne before us are right now experiencing! What a great God we serve....I pray that all of us who know the King of Kings will serve him in this life, until he comes. Amen.