Today is Monday, February 26th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1006

What is something someone does when it is icy and snowing outside and part of the time the electricity is off inside? That's what happend at the Weld's house part of the day on Saturday! One good possibility when our options are limited is to read a book, which I did and am doing.
 
Here is an exerpt from one of the books, "Facing Your Giants" by Max Lucado:
(he is talking about David on the run from Saul, how he lies to some of the people he bumps into, he is alone and afraid....David escaped from Gath and holed up in a cave at Adullam where he came to his senses and again chose to follow God.)
 
"Gath. Wilderness. Adullam. Folly. Loneliness. Restoration."
 
"David found all three. So did Whit Criswell. This Kentucky native was raised in a Christian home. As a young man, he served as an officer in a Christian church. But he fell into gambling, daily risking his income on baseball games. He lost more than he won and found himself in desperate debt to his bookie. He decided to embezzle funds from the bank where he worked. Welcome to Gath.
 
"It was only a matter of time until the auditors detected a problem and called for an appointment. Criswell knew he'd been caught. The night before the examination he couldn't sleep. He resolved to take the path of Judas. Leaving his wife a suicide note, he drove outside of Lexington, parked the car, and put the gun to his head. He couldn't pull the trigger, so he took a practice shot out the car window. He pressed the nose of the barrel back on his foehead and mumbled, 'Go ahead and pull the trigger, you no-good slob. This is what you deserve.' But he couldn't do it. The fear that he might go to hell kept him from taking his life.
 
"Finally, at dawn, he went home, a broken man. His wife had found the note and called the police. She embraced him. The officers handcuffed him and led him away. He was, at once, humiliated and liberated; humiliated to be arrested in front of family and neighbors, but liberated from the chains of mistruth. He didn't have to lie anymore.
 
"Whit Criswell's Adullam was a prison cell. In it, he came to his senses; he turned back to his faith. Upon release, he plunged into the work of a local church, doing whatever needed to be done.
 
"Over a period of years, he was added to the staff of the congregation. In 1998 another area church asked him to serve as their senior minister. At this writing, that church is one of Kentucky's fastest growing congregations.
 
"Another David restored.
 
"Are you in the wilderness? Crawl into God the way at fugitive would a cave. Find refuge in God's presence.
 
"Find comfort in his people. Cast your hat in a congregation of folks who are one gift of grace removed from tragedy, addiction, and disaster. Seek community in the church of Adullam."

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