Harmon Killebrew CUP KKIM/KARS DDC

Dear KKIM/KARS Family………

May the Peace, Strength, and Wisdom of our Lord be with you and yours………

My friends Jesus made his message so simple, so simple and loving…..and we have complicated it…….today my prayer is that this CUOP makes it more simple and clear……..

From Matthew 18…….

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

Then He called a child to Him and had him stand among them.

“I assure you,” he said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child—this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one child like this in My name welcomes Me.”

Sharon’s Mom Betty, is stable in the hospital undergoing tests, The problem may be linked to her foot surgery last week, it is now infected and causing problems. Simple foot surgery that went array.

We have another update on Scott Cheney…..he is more active and we are very encouraged. Please keep Betty and Scott in your prayers.

LIGHTNTNESS and the darkness………..

The Darkness is How today’s society makes a hero out of movie stars like Arnold Schwarzeneggar, The Terminator sure terminated his family didn’t he? I said years ago how could the Republican Party ever hold up a man like this and call him a star in the Republican Party? Goes back to what we were talking about earlier this week about greed, money…..who are our hero’s?

When I was growing up we had Hero’s……people we looked up to…….I do not hear the term Hero much anymore…….It was not meant in my day to Idolize people…….but hero’s like Abe Lincoln, George Washington, John Glenn the astronaut, The Police and Fireman in your community, Your Sunday School Teachers, Your Pastor, People around you that you looked to as a role model’s and people you could turn to for advice.

As we pointed out on NM News and Views Monday with Archbishop Sheehan and on the CUP Tuesday many don;t have role models, many don’t have a Mother or a Dad in the home. I am even getting calls from people needing a Dad….wanting a role model.

The Darkness is An Albuquerque School Teacher texting sex messages and nude pictures of himself to an 11 year old girl!!! For heavens sake what has this world come to?????

It seems at least every month we have the darkness of an APS School teacher involved in sex with a student.

Then we had the APS basketball coach in an Jr High or Elementary school tell a girl she had to have sex with the players if she wanted to be a student manager on the team!!!!!!

And then we have these Politicians and School Board members wanting to pump more money into this system thinking that will solve the problems……society always thinks money is the answer!

Jesus Christ is the only answer……..bring Jesus back into Public education!

A reader of the CUP said yesterday…….Dewey you have a very nice and polite way of saying in the CUP,  the World is going to Hell in a hand basket!

Those in darkness are……..those that do not know Jesus Christ are. Those that abuse our Children and do not know Jesus are.

That is why we must be the Salt and Light and carry out the Great Commission……..

So many are not growing up with parents, hero’s, role models……..

THE LIGHT: I first started cheering for Harmon Killebrew when I was 6 years old! This Minnesota Twins Baseball Hall of Famer passed to heaven yesterday at age of 74.

I had the privilege of meeting Harmon on several occasions and interviewing him twice on radio..once for an 1 1/2 hours!!!

I watched this man play…I watched how he treated others……..I read what he said as a player and a man…..I talked to him….I hugged him each time I met him……..He taught me and others much……….that you can be a fierce competitor……and also be a loving man…..I have taken that onto being a Pastor…..trying to be fierce for God, but also loving……being BOLD for JESUS but loving at the same time.

I looked to Harmon more for the person he was……than the ballplayer he was……..

Former Kansas City Royal 3rd baseman George Brett said, “Harmon was a fierce competitor…..a real competitor, but the nicest guy you would ever meet. Today it is so hard to find a great competitor and at the same time a very loving man, I don’t know if they go together anymore today…..”

The Body of Christ needs to learn from this…….Jesus turned over tables…….but He is our true love……..The Church must be bold and loving at the same time.

More on being fierce and loving………..

Jack Morris, the longtime Detroit Tigers ace who won Game 7 of the 1991 World Series for the Twins, said he believed that Tuesday was more of a celebration of Killebrew’s life than it was a mourning of his death.

“I’ll always remember the good in Harmon, and like Paul Molitor and like Kent Hrbek, to remember the innocence of being a young kid who just looked up to a guy he didn’t know because of what he did as a baseball player, that you hoped that maybe someday you could be like,” Morris said. “As a grown man now, I look back at him not as that guy but as the guy that tried to show me you don’t have to be angry, you don’t have to be mad. You can love and share love.”

WOW! Powerful word’s from Jack Morris on Harmon…..Morris for those of you who don’t know was such a competitor in his day…….some would say he took it to far……but read again the lesson’s he learned from the life of Harmon.

Frank Quilici, an infielder with the Twins in 1965 and again from 1967 to 70, also served as the team’s manager from 1972 to 1975. This gave him plenty of time around Killebrew, who played for the Twins from 1961 until 1974. While Killebrew is recalled as a gentle giant, Quilici said that didn’t mean Killebrew lacked a temper.

“There wasn’t a patsy in him, believe me,” Former Twins Mgr and teammate of Harmon, Frank Quilici said. “If he got angry, he got angry inside himself and you could see when it was because he got quiet. He just was determined, whether he struck out, whether he made an error, maybe something was going wrong as far as the ballclub went. You could see him gritting his teeth. … Inside of him, he was one of the biggest competitors you ever met in your life.”

Said Morris: “The one thing that hits home the most with Harmon is his strength. Not as a player, but as a person. In his strength and his kindness. To me, he was a real man, he was all man, because he loved so much. He is this family that we call the Minnesota Twins.”

My biggest point here that I am trying to bring across is that you can have boldness……be a fierce competitor on the field of life and at the same time show and give Godly love.

Today it seems we have become afraid to be fierce for Jesus..be Bold for Jesus…..because we are afraid to offend or get people mad at us…..we want to be as they say, Politically correct.

Some would call what Harmon had, Quiet Strength…….My dad had it my Uncle Joe had it…….I don’t know if mine is always so quiet!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!

It has been a sad time for me these last couple of months in having Uncle Joe leave for Heaven. Yes, I know he is in a better place….I get told that a lot….but at the same time I miss the day to day conversations and the wisdom he would pass along to me each day as we talked on the phone..that has left a huge void in my life.

Then learning of Harmon’s illness and recalling the memories of how my Mom suffered through cancer treatment……and then Harmon’s passing……….

Where have our Hero’s gone?

Am I to old for this World?

Am I from a different time where who I think who should be role models for us, are not even thought of by today’s society?

Where has the America that I knew gone?

I grew up in a small town…………where to this day I can hear the band playing the national Anthem, the flag waving…….the fire trucks passing and people holding their hand over the heart………The Church bells ringing on Sundays………..

I don’t even hear the Church Bell’s ring anymore………….in America………

Please join me and praying for America………..

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family

PS please read Matthew 18 again and again and pray over it…….