I have become a twice-a-month singer for the Senior Center here in Donalsonville. It is a great time for me and for them; we enjoy each other. I go there to sing on second and fourth Wednesdays at 11:30 AM and then have lunch with them.
Our church has been responsible for the Sunday afternoon service at the Nursing Home here during August. I have enjoyed being a part of that as well. Then to preach at my home church, Friendship UMC, is always a joy and a blessing and I was honored to do that in August. So I have been near home all month, but it has been good.
It looks like we will make our first work mission on Roger's house in October. We need workers, but we need money for materials more. Please pray for this work, that God will send the right help for his servants on the Rez.
For some time in our Wednesday night Pastors Bible Study, we have been reading the Psalms. Most of them, if not all of them, are credited to David as the writer. I guess whenever I think of disappointment, I think many times of David. David was a great man, maybe the greatest man to live until Christ. There is no way that civilization can ever pay its debt to David. In the greatest dream of his life, he met disappointment. He was successful as a musician, as a giant killer, as a general of the army, as a king and as a literary genius. None of these things were what he wanted most in his life. More than anything he wanted to build the Temple.
He had the plans drawn, he selected the site, he even purchased some of the materials, but he never accomplished his dream of building the Temple. He never saw the Temple, his son Solomon built it. David was disappointed. In his own mind, he felt he had failed and in the thinking of the world, he failed to accomplish his greatest dream. According to that standard, David and many others have failed. But listen to these words from I Kings 8:18. "And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart." How about your heart?