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.

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

Lunch

Today it was a good time to be with friends. We laughed a lot and wow a delicious meal has been prepared to be appreciate. Thks MSY for this wonderful lunch.
GBU

Reflexions

Hi everybody

It is hard to understand that life is difficult , that love is not easy , and the sour and bitter times , suffering and failure, are inevitable for each and every one of us .

It is difficult to me to understand and accept that the darkness belongs to our human condition and we must live and bear it .

I recognize that we have the darkness of our painfull feelings and that we have to accept the true sense of life, our capacity to love and create meanings between our joy and our despair , that they not remain divided or hidden from one another. It makes life easier.

What I am trying to say how hard is for me to push myself doing things I don't want do.

Forgive is not a simple process. Apologize for something is easy , but how about your inside Do you really forgive?

When you have to forgive someone and think you have to put this in the past and don't think about it anymore or when you don't want to be with some specific person, it is hard to avoid.

What I have to do? I think in three words .. Hide, Avoid and Pretend the problem is not there.

I remember one Sunday the pastor's message says " when you do this you have killed the person or in other words you have commited murderer. "

Last two days I had a hard conversation with my daughter, I was surprised by her , when she talked a lot of things I have never imagined. She has been hurt by me . She is suffering in silence and after come out she feels relieved.

But for us adults, how should we do something against our feelings?or How many times I have "killed" someone?

I think to forgive someone is not easy and It is long term process.

GBU

Criticism

Hi everybody

I noticed when I like someone and this person make some stupid things ..I start to criticise. Then, I realized how mean I have been.
I remember when my father refused to take his medicine ...ooh...we had a big fight not only me but my mom joined me as well .It happened every day ....He was so sturborn =(
He said " My God will heal me .
He didn`t take his medicine and refused to go to the doctors.
That was a hard time . My father runned to toilet to vomit blood every night .
After every horrible episode my father insisted again." My God will heals me. "

I am not say I am not believe in miracles. In the Bible we have a lot miracles . But I believe in Science and Medicine as well and when we see someone we love ..we have to do something. haven't we?

We had to smash his medicine into his glass of milk.

He used to drink the milk without knowing the medicine was inside and he used to complain where have we bought the milk because it has a horrible taste.

Since then my father stopped going to vomit every night .

I discovered there is a substitute for criticism. It's called love. Love heals. Love protects. Love builds up. And more change occurs with love than with criticism.
And that is the kind of Love come from God because you don't need to make your point, that you are right , but you are more interested in the well been the other person.

GBU

Prayer

Dear Friends

I want to pray for who need heal.

Jesus Christ is our healer ,I came to God to plead for friends , who needs be restored and be healed.

"Heavenly Father, I am reached by your love , and your love never ends. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go. Help my friends who are sick . Give them strenght to stand this tough times.

I praise you for everything and all honour and glory belong to you Jesus , my Saviour.

In Jesus name

Amem