Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Pastor Joe Wright 's Prayer



The prayer as delivered on January 23, 1996 by Pastor Joe Wright to the Kansas House of Representatives.
Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness and seek Your direction and guidance.

Lord, we know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we've done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it moral pluralism. We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism.

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem.

We have abused power and called it political savvy.

We have coveted our neighbors' possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our fore-fathers and called it enlightenment. Search us oh God and know our hearts today;
try us and see if there be some wicked way in us;
cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state.
Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your will.
I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

COLD WINTER bbrrr...




Itwas freezing in Japan when I was visiting last February but now in Oz, it was not only chilling but we are scare about the new flu among us .

Everybody said this year is much colder than last year. I agree.

The houses here maybe are not suited for cold weather. It is freezing inside !

When I was moving from Japan to Australia, my Japanese friends laughed when I told them I packed my "Kotatsu" . It is an electrical heater table. You will never use this electrical table .

After one year I set up my heater table and It is warm and confortable to knit and quilt at the table .I decided to do a gift to myself I made the grannybag for me and I am doing the quilting to my table as you can see. It is not finished yet never mind I have the whole winter to do.

GBU

Granny's bag




I did it !! It is an amazing little small bag and so easy to do!
GBU