Terrie's Tender Touch

Thanks for the rain Thanks for the storm Thank you for all the times I’ve needed Your Strong Arm For in my times of weakness I learned to know Your Strength And I realize You’re with me all the way! Thanks for the sun Thanks for the warmth Thank You for all the blessings You have so bestowed For in my times of brightness I have seen just how You Shine And I realize You’re with me all the time! Father, I just can’t thank enough Saviour, I want to show my love Thank You, Lord for all You,ve done I realize I need You all the time Thanks for Your love Thanks for Your grace Thank You for dying on the cross to take my place For when I needed saving You left Your throne above You paid my debt by shedding Your own blood Father, I just can’t thank enough Saviour, I want to show my love Thank You, Lord for all You've done I realize I need You all time I realize, I realize, I need You all the time

This past week we had the extreme joy of celebrating my in-law's 65th Wedding Anniversary!  In August my parents just celebrated their 59th Anniversary and in just a few weeks my husband and I will celebrate our 37th!  We are very blessed with a wonderful heritage of marital longevity.  My grandparents were married 68 years when my grandpa went to heaven, and my husband's grandparents were blessed to see 57 years together.     I am thankful for the example of marriage that both my husband and I have been privileged to witness in our lives that helped set a pattern for us to follow.  As first generation Christians, my husband and I have earnestly sought to pattern our lives by biblical principles in marriage and for that we are so very thankful.  The love that we share in Christ and with each other surpasses the love we felt the day we got married - and believe me, on that day in 1975, I was certain that I could not love my husband any  more than I did at the time. 

As many of you may know, we are now in our 6 th month on deputation as USA Church Planters – missionaries to America!   Before we began this adventurous journey the Lord worked mightily in my heart to prepare me and to confirm in my heart that this is what He wants for us to do. My husband and I are not your typical missionaries on deputation – we are grandparents!   Some would even venture to call us “old!”   My husband often sites Caleb’s spirit as one he shares “…and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.   As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof