COME JOURNEY WITH ME -
MY EARLY JOURNEY
]I CAME TO CHRIST AS A GENTILE,
THEN I DISCOVERED MY JEWISH ROOTS.
IN MESSIAH I HAVE BEEN MADE WHOLE.
Ephesians 2.14
FOR HE IS OUR PEACE,
WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE,
AND HATH BROKEN DOWN
THE MIDDLE WALL OF
PARTITION BETWEEN US.
WALKING BY FAITH - MUCH TO PONDER
Better is the ending of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit better than the proud in spirit.
Ecclesiastes 3: 8
Mother was about to give us
a fourth sibling.
We happily sat for Grandfather
while he took our picture.
Mother
was standing behind the door
watching us.
And uncertainty was in the air.
Daddy was away to war, in the Philippine Islands.
We did not know how or why but
whispers of uncertainty
were all around us.
And God kept me blissfully close
to God in all that time.
I passed my 12th birthday when Sandra came
to be my little sister. My birthday was in June.
Hers would be in September.
Not sure, but I think this photo was
taken when it was Easter - and it still
was SNOW on the ground.
Think about what Solomon said in Ecclesiastes of the end is better than the beginning.
So often we do not know why troubles come.
We worry over things that never happen.
Yet, just at the same time my sister was born
I went to School in the 5th grade,
and a dear man of God who loved his Bible
came
into our class
and if we wanted one,
we could have a New Testament.
So that day, receiving my first
New Testament in the King James Bible
I read how I could be saved.
It made the difference in my life.
Could that happen for you too?
The only sibling I have now is one sister,
named Diane. She and I both love the Lord Jesus.
We know that something happened in my life,
because when it did,
then something happened in her life.
We both found God as a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46.1
Here I am in September with
Diane out in front of my Aunt Esther's house.
Daddy was away to war in the Philippines,
and uncertainty was in the air,
but I remember Grandma and Esther
taking me to see Mother
in the hospital.
I only could look through a window
to see my little sister in the baby basinet
she was in.
Diane and I and Skip (what we called my brother Harry)
were glad that this baby had come.
The beginning of a child.
But the ending is what matters.
When I first asked Jesus into my life,
no one in my family knew the Lord.
We moved too much, were too poor to get
fine clothes, and were what
a lot of folk
called
"trailer trash"
I was oblivious.
My mother loved me.
She loved us children unconditionally.
And because of that,
my heart knew
that GOD WOULD BE MY BEST FRIEND
FOREVER.
All of my family came to know Jesus,
each in their own way, they turned to Him
because they knew Junie was praying for them.
JOHN 3.16
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.
JOHN 3.16
Even in death, there is victory
knowing that Jesus Christ is our Lord
and Savior. Here my father was photographed
by a dear man who was the Undertaker at the
place where my Dad was buried. He sent
me a photo of my Dad and told me that my
father had a military burial, as a Veteran of
the U.S.Army in W W II.
I am glad I knew my father.
More important, I am glad he listened to me
when I told him about Jesus, because even though
he could sing Tenor with a voice as beautiful
as Bing Crosby, and had sung with the New York Episcopal Boys' Choir, he never really believed God would listen to
him until he saw what God did in my life.
At a time when I really needed his advice,
he reminded me of my commitment to God,
and it saved me from the terrible mistake
of
marrying the wrong person.
I got to see him before he died, in 1987 on our BIG Trip.
Here I got to sing for him
and to thank him
for being my Dad.
He said, What did I ever do for you? You did it
all yourself."
I told him, "Dad, If it had not been for you,
I would have never been able to marry my dear
Henry, and to have my beautiful children. You
did something good for me back in Sacramento CA
when you were having a rough time for yourself.
You never complained. You heard a lot of what
I said about "I was waiting for the right man"
And then I really was astounded, when,
after I had accepted a ring from someone
I hardly knew, you stood it for 3 days, then
on the occasion of my starting to go to see this
person from whom I had accepted a ring,
Dad stood by the Garage door and quietly spoke.
June, he said, if you are the Christian girl that you say
you are, and if you are right in saying that you are waiting for the Christan man God has prepared for you, then you will march over to this fellow and return this ring. I know his kind.
He looked at me, and his eyes were earnest,
not hard, but concerned.
He was not angry with me.
He just wanted to warn me of what I was doing.
This was my dad and mom in 1933 waiting for me.
This was the last time I saw Dad in 1987
He still sat straight, and had cut his beard and
shaved, because he knew we were coming.
I believe that I was able to thank my father for
having me.
Someday
in heaven
we will meet again.
I know that because
of Jesus who died for our sins,
and became our Passover Lamb
then he died and
was buried
and rose again
the third day
just like He promised.
DADDY is now there.
My husband is now there.
Most of my family are all gone ahead of me,
but thank the dear Lord, I know I will
be with them
most of all
WE WILL GATHER WITH
ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE
AT JESUS FEET.
This was me with Dad in 1982 when I first met him
after many years of not knowing where he was.
He was in a Veteran's Nursing Home in Sacramento CA
and well cared for there. It amazed me that
because God brought him back into my life, I
got to share how I understood that it
was God who loved us, both Jew and Gentile,
and here I am, part Jew and part Gentile,
and because of Jesus
becoming a man
and still was GOD - THE I AM
I am able to claim
GOD IS MY FATHER
Eternally
His.
Daddy finally understood
real Christians do not hate Jews.
And that Jesus died for ALL
ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
Romans 3.23
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
Romans 6.23
