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September 2014 Articles

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• Just Rambling September 2014

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Just Rambling September 2014

Just Rambling:

Today is September 4th, 2014. One year today since I had my surgery. I still joke with my wife, Donnette, about our trip to Bass Pro a few days before my operation. We had already had my last office visit with Dr. Nanda—the one in which he tells you of all the risks of the surgery with the most severe being death. I kid Donnette about a trip to Branson, Missouri and a cruise to the Caribbean we bought while we were in Bass Pro. I tell her and others in her presence that I fooled her-she didn’t know I was going to make it so she loaded up with trips for her and her second old man. This has been good for a lot of laughs during the past year but Donnette is about tired of me telling it. Really I was the one who booked the Branson trip and she booked the cruise. She now tells that I was sucked into buying the Branson trip by a pretty, young lady selling the trips and the cruise was just another trip we were offered by purchasing the trip to Branson. Maybe so! I think I am ready to call a truce in the story telling since she has turned the tables on me. Later this month Donnette and I are headed to Branson, for a few days. It has been many years since we were in Branson so we are looking forward to the trip. The cruise? Well Donnette and some of the kids are planning to take this trip in January while I stay home to dog/cat sit and to take care of the cattle and horses. As you can tell I enjoy teasing my wife but I can get very little on her—she can come right back at me. For the past 29 years she has been such a blessing in my life. She has been my partner, my confidant, my encourager, and my strength. The following scriptures all describe my wife. Genesis 2:18—And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Proverbs 12:4—A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. Proverbs 31:10—Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. Proverbs 19:14—A prudent wife is from the Lord.
I thank God for sending Donnette my way. She is the best wife, friend, mother, and grandmother. Life is short on this earth so if you haven’t expressed your love for your wife, mother, or grandmother why don’t you do so and be very thankful for the blessing you have.
As I talk about my spousal relationship with Donnette I think about the spousal relationship that God intended for all men and women. He intended a man and woman to enter into this relationship not a man with a man or a woman with a woman, even though our nation now recognizes same sex marriages in many states. It was so gratifying to hear this week that a Louisiana judge upheld Louisiana’s ban on same sex marriage. Of course the gay rights organization will appeal but maybe, just maybe, Louisiana can hold firm on its ban of same sex marriages.
Genesis 2:21-24 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh.
Now the Lord didn’t say man with man or woman with woman—Did He? Wake up America before it is everlastingly too late.
Van Bennett

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