New Year offers a blank page for our life’s story
Health and Wellness Ministry started Wellness Classes on January 8 at 6 p.m. at Union Grove United Methodist church. The classes are free and will meet on Monday and Thursday of each week at 6 p.m. Join us as we learn to create balance in our lives. This Ministry is under the leadership of Pastor E J Shepard. The facilitators for the classes are Sis Necotis Williams and Sis Irma Ormond. For more information you may call 601-953-1892.
The Spirit of Sharing Program will be Saturday, January 13, 2018 at 2 p.m. at Roosevelt State Park in Morton. Please bring at least 2 nonperishable goods for each person in attendance as a donation.
Union Grove United Methodist Church will hold its Annual Usher Day Program on Sunday, January 28, 2018 during regular worship services that start at 11:00 a.m.
I would like to wish a happy belated Birthday to my nephew Devon Johnson and wish a Happy Birthday to my nephew Gerrand Bobbitt, whose birthday is January 12, 2017.
We have just entered into a new year. With each new year, we feel like it is a new beginning, a fresh start. That is why it is called “new”. I have heard it said that our lives are like a book on whose pages is the story that we are writing about ourselves. I have also heard it said that when a new year arrives, we have been given a new book full of blank pages on which to write our lives for the coming year. We are then challenged concerning what we will write in it this year.
I want to take that challenge one step further. Instead of asking what will you write in it, let me ask you this-- what will you allow the Lord to write in it? I wrote my own life story for many, many years. It turned out to be a “tragedy”. As I read back over the “pages” from my past, it was really sad at times, tragic at other times, and some parts read more like a “horror” story.
If you want your life story to turn out well; if you want the blank pages that are ahead of you to be filled with success, joy, abundant life, wisdom, prosperity, etc., then you need to let the Lord Author it for you. How? By surrendering your life to Him. You do it by letting Him choose what is to be written there. You do it by surrendering your will over to His will. Doing our own “thing”, following our own desires, living out our own will, will write a sad, sad story. When we look back through those pages, we will see regret, blame, frustration, sorrow, guilt, and so on. But when we surrender to His will, what is written on the pages of our lives will read so much differently.
