Dear KKIM/KARS Family,
May the Strength, Peace and Wisdom of our Lord be with you and yours forever and ever!
Let our concerns today be about cultivating a calm and quiet soul as we trust our Heavenly Father with the profound matters of life.
Our Constitution was made…for a moral and religious people. It is…inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams
Back in my hometown of Windom, Minnesota the County Courthouse is right in the center of town. The Cottonwood County Courthouse is on the square……surrounded by businesses on each side. This historic Courthouse is so beautiful, it really sets off my hometown. In this weeks issue of American Profile they feature small-town courthouses. In the article they do talk about the Carlsbad, NM Courthouse. Go to www.americanprofile.com
There is also an ad for the music group “4Troops” in American Profile,.thanks to Pastor Leonard for introducing KKIM/KARS to “4Troops”. We played some of their music from their Cd over the 4th. Great music from American heroes!
By the way we got great feedback on our July 4th programming with Don Johnson and Jerry Stewart. We give Praise and Thanks to our Lord for these two wonderful Godly men! Let us also give Praise and Thanks to our Lord for radio stations like KKIM/KARS that will broadcast programming like that!!!
Your support of KKIM/KARS is so much appreciated!!!
Onward Christian Soldiers!!! AMEN!
Let us not forget…..God used Moses and Paul to remind us HE transforms “the least of us” to be light in darkness!
WOW! Thanks for all the birthday greetings! I heard from some folks I had not heard from in a very long time! God Bless you! Your words of honey touched our soul!!!
I am so blessed that I got to preach God’s Word on my birthday and also Pastor over Communion, that was a first for me..For God’s Glory Alone. In seeking out wisdom from other Pastor’s and praying about Communion, God showed me that many take it for granted……..it is just something we do at Church.
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “take eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me. In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
1 Cor 11: 23-25
The Daily Cup has more of a meaning to me now, since I presided over Communion. Receiving Communion also means more to me now, because of what I experienced in Church Sunday.
I should add that receiving communion is so very special, and then when I took more of an active role in the Church and was blessed to be one of the servers, communion even meant more…..now having presided over communion….WOW! Let me suggest to you something……ask your Pastor if you could be a server of communion……..pray on it…….it will mean more to you than ever before….. I promise you that!
We had such a blessed 4th at the house, even thou just Lars and Mike were able to be with us. Gretchen has been sick with a bad cold since returning from Alaska, Greg had to work and Steph lives out of state.. Sharon sure can cook up some great dishes and desserts!!! WOW! take that DQ!!!
Lord Willing Lars and I are going to head up to Chama, NM for a Father and Son trip this Friday.
Have you read the book, “The Council of Dad’s”? True story of a Dad who gets cancer and the story centers around how he works through his illness. I am just into a few chapters..it is excellent. Everyone should read it!!!
From a Friend whose husband is facing weeks and weeks of chemo,…..in an email to me………You (meaning me, Dewey) don’t know how long you have………that is so true…….get’s back to Heaven is a prepared place…….Are we prepared for Heaven?
I suggest to all to read the book, 90 Minutes in Heaven and also now, The Council of Dad’s.
The Author of Council of Dad’s, Bruce Feiler, tells his own story…….he loves to travel…….he once asked what is a traveler?
The answer he got: A traveler is someone who can let go of what is familiar and in a very conscious way seek out what is different. It is someone willing to slow down enough, get off the pressured, achievement track, and seize the opportunity. It is someone willing to break the routines of home: what you eat, when you sleep, how you wash. WOW! Sounds like a good walk with Jesus Christ to me! There is a GIGANTIC message here for everyone of us! I pray that you get it!
How about this:
A new poll is out and it shows that 26% of Americans do not know which country we gained our Independence from!!!! Some said, Japan, Mexico, Spain…….WOW! This says a lot about us as a Country and our Educational system!
Some of you tell me you appreciate this history lessons you get here at the CUP……Lord Willing in the next couple of posts I have some dandy info for you…..The Lord has shown me more and more to be the Salt and Light and preach about the history of the United States of America the Nation founded by God! I do not think that many of our elected officials even know much history of our won Country. What has happened is our History has become the works of people with a Worldly view instead of a Godly view. Look at who is writing the history books in our schools, that is if they even have teach history!
The Lord calls us all to fill a role for HIS purpose…….He shows me most everyday what HE wants from me! Are you listening to HIM for your call?
We have been talking about Heaven a lot lately on KKIM/KARS and here at the CUP…..then comes this wrote up at www.startribune.com
As you read this write up pray for the widow…..read her words….”I don’t always go to Church, but I want to believe.”
Friends, there are so many people out there…….who want to believe…….but don’t full dive into the Lord’s love for them. This is why we must continue to be the Salt and Light of the World……..carrying out the Great Commission……..reaching out……..
‘Death is very hard for me to take’: Pa. widow, 91, found living with corpses of husband, twin
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM , Associated Press
July 5, 2010
WYALUSING, Pa. – The 91-year-old widow lived by herself in a tumbledown house on a desolate country road. But she wasn’t alone, not really, not as long as she could visit her husband and twin sister.
No matter they were already dead. Jean Stevens simply had their embalmed corpses dug up and stored them at her house — in the case of her late husband, for more than a decade — tending to the remains as best she could until police were finally tipped off last month.
Much to her dismay.
“Death is very hard for me to take,” Stevens told an interviewer.
As state police finish their investigation into a singularly macabre case — no charges have been filed — Stevens wishes she could be reunited with James Stevens, her husband of nearly 60 years who died in 1999, and June Stevens, the twin who died last October. But their bodies are with the Bradford County coroner now, off-limits to the woman who loved them best.
From time to time, stories of exhumed bodies are reported, but rarely do those involved offer an explanation. Jean Stevens, seeming more grandmother than ghoul, holds little back as she describes what happened outside this small town in northern Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains.
She knows what people must think of her. But she had her reasons, and they are complicated, a bit sad, and in their own peculiar way, sweet.
Dressed smartly in a light blue shirt and khaki skirt, silver hoops in her ears, her white hair swept back and her brown eyes clear and sharp, she offers a visitor a slice of pie, then casts a knowing look when it’s declined. “You’re afraid I’ll poison you,” she says.
On a highboy in the corner of the dining room rests a handsome, black-and-white portrait of Jean, then a stunner in her early 20s, and James, clad in his Army uniform. It was taken after their 1942 marriage but before his service in World War II, in which he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, James worked at a General Electric Corp. plant in Liverpool, N.Y., then as an auto mechanic. He succumbed to Parkinson’s disease on May 21, 1999.
Next to that photo there is a smaller color snapshot of Jean and June, taken when they were in their late 80s.
In many ways, Jean shared a closer bond with her twin than her husband.
Though June lived more than 200 miles away in West Hartford, Conn., they talked by phone several times a week, and June wrote often. The twins — who, as it happened, married brothers — were honored guests at the 70th reunion of the Camptown High School Class of 1937.
Then, last year, June was diagnosed with cancer. She was in a lot of pain when Jean came to visit. The sisters shared a bed, and Jean rubbed her back. “I’m real glad you’re here,” June said.
On Oct. 3, June died. She was buried in her sister’s backyard — but not for long.
“I think when you put them in the (ground), that’s goodbye, goodbye,” Stevens said. “In this way I could touch her and look at her and talk to her.”
She kept her sister, who was dressed in her “best housecoat,” on an old couch in a spare room off the bedroom. Jean sprayed her with expensive perfume that was June’s favorite.
“I’d go in, and I’d talk, and I’d forget,” Stevens said. “I put glasses on her. When I put the glasses on, it made all the difference in the world. I would fix her up. I’d fix her face up all the time.”
She offered a similar rationale for keeping her husband on a couch in the detached garage. James, who had been laid to rest in a nearby cemetery, wore a dark suit, white shirt and blue knitted tie.
“I could see him, I could look at him, I could touch him. Now, some people have a terrible feeling, they say, ‘Why do you want to look at a dead person? Oh my gracious,'” she said.
“Well, I felt differently about death.”
Part of her worries that after death, there’s … nothing. “Is that the grand finale?” But then she gets up at night and gazes at the stars in the sky and the deer in the fields, and she thinks, “There must be somebody who created this. It didn’t come up like mushrooms.”
So she is ambivalent about God and the afterlife. “I don’t always go to church, but I want to believe,” Stevens said.
Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at UCLA who researches how the elderly view death and dying, said people who aren’t particularly spiritual or religious often have a difficult time with death because they fear that death is truly the end.
For them, “death doesn’t exist,” she said. “They deny death.”
Stevens, she said, “came up with a very extreme expression of it. She got her bodies back, and she felt fulfilled by having them at home. She’s beating death by bringing them back.”
There was another reason that Stevens wanted them above ground.
She is severely claustrophobic and so was her sister; she was horrified that the bodies of her loved ones would spend eternity in a casket in the ground. “That’s suffocation to me, even though you aren’t breathing,” she said.
So she said she had them dug up, both within days of burial.
She managed to escape detection for a long time. The neighbors who mowed her lawn and took her grocery shopping either didn’t know or didn’t tell. Otherwise forthcoming, Stevens is vague when asked about who exhumed the bodies and who knew of her odd living arrangement. She blames a relative of her late husband’s for calling the authorities about the corpses.
“I think that is dirty, rotten,” she said.
State police — who haven’t yet released the identities of those who retrieved the bodies — will soon present their findings to the Bradford County district attorney. A decision on charges is expected in a few weeks.
Stevens has talked extensively with both the police and Bradford County Coroner Tom Carman, who calls it a “very, very bizarre case.”
But the coroner has nothing but kind things to say about the woman at the center of it.
“I got quite an education, to say the least. She’s 100 percent cooperative — and a pleasure to talk to,” Carman said. “But as far as her psyche, I’ll leave that to the experts.”
Here is a very important announcement from Bill Redmond………..
HAPPY JULY 4TH
On the day that this great nation celebrates its independence, TVAC-NM has the distinct honor to announce the 2010 NM Biblical Worldview Conference!
THEME: THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION
Protecting Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty
WHEN: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8 AM-12:45 PM
WHERE: Albuquerque Convention Center
SPONSORS: Archbishop Michael Sheehan, Fmr. Congressman Bill Redmond
SPEAKERS: Chuck Colson, Michael Novak, Os Guinness, Joseph Bottum
For details and ticket purchase, please visit www.tvacnm.com.
PLEASE JOIN US! We expect considerable demand for tickets, so we encourage you to purchase them ASAP to avoid disappointment.
Attached is the event’s downloadable flyer that you may print and post. We encourage you to distribute it to your church leaders and all those who fight with us to defend life marriage and family here in NM and in our great nation.
Thanks for your unfailing commitment to life, marriage and family!
Sincerely,The Traditional Values Action Committee-NM
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What a blessing we have that this Godly event is going to be held here in New Mexico!!!! Praise God!!!
Let us pray…………
Lord, thank you for your blessings of today……..thank you Lord that we can come together here at the cup…….Lord, what can we do for You today? In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. Acts 20:24
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family