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THE LAST TIME I HELD YOU The last time I held you the angels had cried, The last time I held you was on the day that you died.

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THE LAST LOVE LETTER

THE LAST LOVE LETTER

The minutes seemed to race by at an unbelievable speed, and knowing that not one second of time could be brought back; pushed me to try even harder to write my last love letter to my dear wife who laid dying from cancer in the other room. What could I say that has not already been said? How could I turn the pain and sorrow in my heart into something meaningful and rewarding for her? The fear, the…

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THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SHIRT

JUST FOR GIGGLES

 This evening I went back to one of my websites that I hadn’t visited for a very long time and came across this crazy article that I wrote. My wife Sandy, God bless her heart, put up with my crazies forever it seems. She would laugh and take it all in stride. We enjoyed picking on each other in a lovable way and so I wrote this one out of fun between the two of us.

  THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING SHIRT

 It has been a long time since the-e-e-e shirt, you know the one; the one that was your favorite and for some unknown; or should I say some long since forgotten reason, it turned up missing! No one would confess to taking it even after a series of investigations by the department of B-A-S-T (The BED AND SOFA TAGS Agency), you know who they are… They’re the ones who come out as soon as you cut off a bed mattress tag or a sofa tag. Somehow, they know as soon as you do it. I think that there may be some sort of electronic sensor embedded into the tag fabric that alerts the B-A-S-T Agency as soon as some hardened criminal like my wife cuts one of them off.

 I should have known to keep an eye on her since she has that shady way about her and that innocent look in those deep piercing eyes. The mystery of the missing shirt had surfaced on a miserably cold day on January 7, 2014 when I was about to put on a flannel work shirt with a button missing off of the front. Knowing that my wife was not one to upset while in her PJ’s and fuzzy slippers with the flapping soles, I asked her as kindly and compassionately as I could where the sewing kit was? With her lame left eye and a cup of coffee dangling from her left hand she brushed back a loose hair curler and asked, what do you want that for? Trembling in fear for my life I said very slowly and nervously that I needed to sew a button on my work shirt that came off.

 She told me to go sit down!!!! And with that I immediately obeyed her and sheepishly headed off to my computer room looking like an old dog, crouched down with his tail between his legs after a harsh scolding.

 After a few minutes and a huffing and puffing sound, I heard the Clydesdale sound of footsteps coming up from the kitchen level. Nervously I kept peering at the Computer Room door when suddenly the flash of a yellow plastic sewing box came into view. I cried out in fear for my life when I saw it and with white bare knuckles, she handed me the sewing box. I trembled as I opened the box to get out a needle and thread. Carefully with the accuracy and precision of a surgeon’s hand I sewed the button on to my flannel work shirt. A tear of relief ran down my cheek as I sewed my little heart out putting my button back on my shirt. 

 As I sat there relieved that I was able to accomplish such a notable task I heard my wife in the other room opening the closet door and she re-entered the Computer Room holding the-e-e-e missing shirt from long ago in her hands. She handed me the shirt and said that it was laying in the bottom of the closet because it needed a button sewed on it.

 After she left the room and in secrecy, I sobbed for probably twenty minutes while I sewed the button on my shirt. Deep down inside I knew what this meant.

 My poor shirt had been missing for a long time. I bought it when I was fifty years of age and now after 16 years it resurfaced again. I heard my wife in the other room cry out “Darn Socks!” and with that she slammed the closet door shut.

 She came back to the Computer Room where I had finally dried the tears from my eyes. She then handed me the socks with holes in the toes and said “Darn Socks!” I nodded my head that I agreed with her and I too yelled out “Darn Socks!” And with that I threw them in the waste can.

 That afternoon I called the “B-A-S-T” Agency who promptly showed up at our door. The officer in charge handcuffed my wife and took her to the car. I waved goodbye to my dear wife Sandy and as they drove her away, she yelled out, shaking her fist, that I would starve to death without her!!!

 I closed the front door, sat down, and paged through a recent photo album. There on the very first page was a picture of my wife and I staring me in the face, with a comment written below which read “Me and Tilly.” Tilly was one of those endearing names that we husband’s sometimes give to our wives, a nickname meaning “Tilly the Hon” since she was my honey. As I sat there my mind wandered off to my High School years and my old girlfriend Belinda. I had given her a nick name also. It was really a play on words. I affectionately called her “Bow-Linda.” That girl was so bowlegged that she could straddle a pickle barrel and not touch either side.

 As the day wore on into evening, I put on my missing shirt and went downtown to a local favorite Stake House. As I placed my order the waitress remarked that she liked my new shirt. “Yes, it is quite new I replied!”

“Would you like to order anything to drink with your meal, she asked?”

 “Yes! I believe that I would like a Diet Water please! I have a note here on the back of my hand to take my Alzheimer Medication at this time.”

 And with that she turned around and threw her hands up over her head in disgust. The owner of the Stake House came over and apologized for her rude behavior. He told me that she was a parolee from serving time from a conviction from the B-A-S-T Agency for cutting off mattress and sofa tags and not sewing buttons on her husband’s shirts. With that I just smiled and under my breath I said that I hoped that Tilly likes her new orange PJ’s.

 “O MISS! Could I have another diet water please?”

One thing that I have learned in life is that you can’t please everybody; but ticking them off is a real piece of cake!

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WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE ME?

WHEN I LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN

When I look down from Heaven and I see your tear stained face, I smile with joy now that you have found, forgiveness by God’s grace.   I thought that we would never meet, it seemed so far away. But now there’s hope and happiness, that will be yours and mine someday.

 WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE ME?

Initial Writing - October, 2014

Today was a sad day for me and approximately four thousand of my friends. It hurt us all to know that we were not given a voice. I listened with excitement when the doctor mentioned RU-486 to my mother. You see God gave me understanding just as He gave John the Baptist understanding when he was still a baby resting in the comfort of his mother’s womb, and he heard the great news about Jesus. He was so happy that he leaped for joy. (Luke 1:44) When I heard RU – 486 I thought about all of the numbers that God put into His Bible and what this combination of numbers must have meant. When I heard this mentioned I was so excited because I thought that the Doctor was asking my mother a question when he said, RU. You see the numbers tell a story that had me excited enough to say that “the numbers are about me mommy; it’s about you and me!!!!”

The number four is typically used in the Bible to represent “CREATION”; and I thought to myself, that is what I am! A new creation for my Mommy and Daddy! The number eight is typically used to represent “NEW BIRTH”, and I thought about all of the love that I would show my Mommy as soon as I was born. In my inner most thoughts and dreams I could feel her nose against mine as we looked into each other’s eyes as we felt a special bond with one another.

I tried to show her that I loved her while I was in her tummy but I knew that as soon as I was born a whole new experience would evolve for me and my Mommy and Daddy. I would be just like them as a human and that is what the number six means in the Bible: “HUMAN.”

“You see Mommy and Daddy we were made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) and we were made as humans to protect and care for one another and that is where love begins.”

“As soon as I was conceived, I knew that you would love me and I would love you even more than I do now. God knows us before we are formed. (Jeremiah 1:5 and Isaiah 44:24)”

Two weeks ago, Mommy and her friends saved some puppies that were about to be destroyed; and I am so proud of how hard she fought and argued for their right to live. That’s my Mommy; she is a real hero to a lot of people. Everyone should have a great mommy like mine. I can’t wait to grow up to be just like her!

“Mommy!”

“Something is wrong; and I am desperate for your help! I am having a very hard time breathing; and the fluids in my body are drying up. Why am I so hungry? Why am I so thirsty? Aren’t you eating enough to feed us both Mommy?”

“Mommy!”

“This is starting to hurt me! Please Mommy! I need your help! Why aren’t you helping me? Did the doctor give you the wrong medicine? Why am I starting to be born when I am so weak and the time for me to be born is not now?”

“Mommy; remember 486: Creation, New birth, Humanity. Why are you in pain mommy?”

“Why don’t I feel the natural love between us anymore?” (Romans 1:31, 2 Timothy 3:3)

“Why are you crying Mommy?”

“Mommy I can’t hold on any longer! Please do something to save me.”

“Will you fight to save me just like the puppies?”

“I love you Mommy!!!!!”

RU-486

RU-486 is a drug that produces an abortion. It is taken after the mother misses her period. It can be used up to the second month of pregnancy. It works by blocking progesterone, a crucial hormone during pregnancy. Without progesterone, the uterine lining does not provide food, fluid and oxygen to the tiny developing baby. The baby cannot survive. A second drug is then given that stimulates the uterus to contract and the baby is expelled.

Women who abort with the drug RU-486 experience nausea, severe cramping, vomiting and bleeding. But the resulting emotional distress may have even greater repercussions. Rather than being “over with” in a few minutes (as in a surgical abortion) this abortion could last for over a week. Then, when the woman finally does abort, she will expel a tiny dead human being - her baby.

 THOUGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR

I have often wondered about the long-term emotional effect that these people go through. It’s not like you can go back and change what happened. Are they tormented by the thoughts of what they had done long after the abortion process? And I wonder just what kind on counseling if any do they get prior to abortion, or even afterward for that matter? Do they think about it, ever? Are there things that happen off and on throughout their life that remind them of what they have done? How much of this are they really confronted with in discussion prior to having an abortion; any kind of an abortion?

I know very little about abortions and all of the procedures involved. Someone very dear to me shared with me years ago that they had an abortion, and they told me the immediate effects of guilt and shame that they went through. I felt very sorry for her and thought to myself, had she really known all of the facts about the later experience, would she have gone through with it? Wouldn’t she have been much happier to have had the child and lived out the consequences of her parent’s anger, or the decline in her social status among her friends and other family members or acquaintances? Was the price really worth it?

This person told me that the type of abortion that she had was a suction type, and as I said before I know very little about abortions. From what I read on the internet the actual procedure lasts about 10 – 15 minutes and then a couple of hours of recovery before the patient is released to go home. So, it sounded to me that overall in about a half a days’ time, you could go through the procedure and then be home afterward. I don’t know that the woman which I speak of ever talked about it anymore after that. Least ways I have never heard her speak about it. She told me that shortly after having the abortion that she was so eaten up with guilt that she went to the man that was the father of the child and said that she felt like they should go together and pray to God for forgiveness. I know that this all weighed heavy on the woman afterwards and I can’t help but wonder if she ever had any flashbacks about it? I sometimes think that maybe she did.

Fortunately for this woman, she got saved sometime after having done this and went on in her life to become a mother and a well-grounded woman in the faith. I am ever so thankful that God can take a broken vessel and make it into something that He can use for His glory. Only He is capable of doing that.

Later in life, the woman had graduated in death from this life into the next: and I can’t help but smile as I played with the idea in a dream to myself, what it would be like for her, if she walked across the stage of Heaven to receive her graduation diploma; that her little boy would be there to greet her, and in the flood of love and tearful emotions, they finally got to embrace and share their lives together. What a reunion that would be.

CLOSING REMARKS

Dear friend, I don’t know where you stand in all of this, and I can’t help but wonder if you may be experiencing those moments of sorrow and shame, and maybe wondering if you can do anything about it? The good news is that you can. I believe that all babies that die before the age of accountability go to Heaven immediately upon their death. And the great message for you in all of this, is that God forgives, and He is willing to forgive you and to help you heal in this matter.

The important thing for you my friend is to know that you can change your future and rectify your wrong by going to God in prayer and placing all of your faith and trust in him to forgive you and He will. He is but just one prayer away. So, if you are willing to take that step of faith, then please bow your head and say this simple prayer:

Lord, I know what sin is and I know that I am a sinner. I believe that you are the Son of God who died on a cross, was buried, and resurrected from the dead for me. I ask that you would please forgive me for every sin that I have ever committed in my life.

I am placing my full trust in you only to save me and wash away all of my sin with your blood. (Revelation 1:5) Please send your Holy Spirit into my heart to save me. Amen! (Galatians 4:6)

If you made a decision to pray and ask Christ to forgive you then we praise God for you. The bible teaches in Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

You should write down the:

Date: _______________________

Time: __________________________

Place:___________________________________________________

of your decision. Record this information in your Bible as a record of that decision. It is part of your testimony.

Please contact us through Myerstown Baptist Church, 59 N. Ramona Road, Myerstown PA. 17067, or visit our website at http://www.myerstownbaptistchurch.com/ to let us know that you have made a decision for Christ so that we can pray for you and rejoice with you. We would like to send you some information to help you get started in your Christian walk and too answer any questions that you may have. God bless you! And may your reunion in Heaven be the most beautiful experience that you have ever had in your life. God loves you!

  THE CHALLENGE

I hope that all of my dear friends and family will take this message to heart. We have a responsibility before God to do what we can to win these poor unfortunate souls to Christ. I say unfortunate because I can’t help but believe that many of these women were pressured into aborting their baby from so many pressing influences, whether that be so called professional medical experts, family, friends and even those that were partner to the conception of the child.

The unfortunate side to all of this is that many of these women I believe were duped into thinking that the abortion will all be over and forgotten in a relatively short frame of time. So, we are left a lot of times with more than the baby being the victim.

We are talking big business here, and when it’s not their baby what do they really care? To many of them it’s the cha-ching sound of cash flow.

The real tragedy I feel, is that there are a number of people out there that have been carrying around this scar, this burden and they don’t know that they can do something about it. I’m in favor of helping as many of them as we can. Those that have already gone through the abortion process and those that are about to. We need to share the good news of the gospel and give them hope that God is the one that can heal their wounds, not time, not psychiatric help, but God! Let’s do what we can to be a part of the solution. We all have things in our lives that we are sorry for, and I’m thankful that once we are saved, God no longer condemns us for our past mistakes. Let’s help these people to see and know that.

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BEING MISUNDERSTOOD

BEING MISUNDERSTOOD By: Gary L. Rodgers (All scripture notations are taken from the KJV unless noted otherwise) Have you ever said or done something that was taken wrong by another person? Your thoughts and words were headed in one direction while their ears and mind were receiving it in a different way. It happens doesn’t it? I was listening to an evangelist deliver a message on the radio and he…

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WHY ARE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE

WHY ARE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE

WHY ARE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE By: Gary L. Rodgers   2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent (without self-control), fierce, despisers of those that are…

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THE FEAR OF THE LORD By: Gary L. Rodgers     Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Psalms 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. If I were to summarize what I felt was the one thing that society at large is lacking in our world today, I would have to say that it is probably The Fear of the Lord!…

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BEING SET FREE

BEING SET FREE

By: Gary L. Rodgers

When the Lord frees the lost sinner from the guilt and condemnation of sin the lost sinner is truly set free, but as a Christian are there things that can constrain us in other ways? If I were to pin point a specific item that has caused me to struggle in my Christian walk I would have to say that it has been this matter of not clearly grasping the truth…

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WHERE DO YOUR ROADS TAKE YOU

WHERE DO YOUR ROADS TAKE YOU

WHERE DO YOUR ROADS TAKE YOU

By: Gary L. Rodgers

  I was sitting at my desk one evening and thinking about the many roads that I have traveled in my life. There were roads that ran through some of the most beautiful country side imaginable. In mid-summer, wild flowers seemed to pop up here and there displaying their many colors shapes and sizes, while I had the pleasure of catching the aroma of…

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WHERE DO YOUR ROADS TAKE YOU

WHERE DO YOUR ROADS TAKE YOU

By: Gary L. Rodgers

I was sitting at my desk one evening and thinking about the many roads that I have traveled in my life. There were roads that ran through some of the most beautiful country side imaginable. In mid-summer, wild flowers seemed to pop up here and there displaying their many colors shapes and sizes, while I had the pleasure of catching the aroma of…

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THE CHRISTMAS STORY

THE CHRISTMAS STORY

By: Gary L. Rodgers

  Luke 2

1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and…

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Giving

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GIVING

By: Gary L. Rodgers

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

So often in my prayers when I find myself asking for something of the Lord I do wait in hopes of…

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WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE ME?

WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE ME?

WILL YOU CHOOSE TO SAVE ME?.

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WHICH BIBLE SHOULD I TRUST AS THE WORD OF GOD?  WHICH BIBLE SHOULD I TRUST AS THE WORD OF GOD? By: Gary L. Rodgers       It’s mind boggling when you go to purchase a Bible today with all of the various translations of scripture that you find available.

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