September 2014
Camp Reunion
This is the time of year for our family reunion.
What I love about reunions is all of us coming together.
Sharing new stories.
Telling old stories.
Meeting new family members
and remembering those who has gone before us.
We share our history.
We reconnect with each other.
A prayer is always said before our meal.
The speaker has changed through the years.
Over the years the group has become smaller.
And it has somehow fallen upon me to say the prayer.
As I leave Friends Creek to go pick up my mom for the reunion I start to pray.
I ask God to guide me with the words to say.
Not too long...not to short.
Put on my heart words to say.
And a clear voice to speak.
It is at that time that God speaks to me.
He brings to my mind that just one week ago
my mom told me she found a notebook of Dad's
in which he had wrote prayers.
I called her up and ask her to bring the notebook with her.
I am thinking there must be a part of the prayer I can read.
When I open up the notebook and read it
I realize it is a prayer that Dad had wrote
for his family reunion.
This reunion.
The Camp reunion.
There are pages of the same prayer,
dated 1990 to 1992.
The words are perfected as time went by.
It was put upon my heart
that this daughter is to read a prayer
wrote by her dad 14 years ago.
His words are spoken to his family through me on this day.
Heavenly Father
It feels good to be able to come before you in prayer as a family on this special occasion to give you the praise and glory for the many many blessings we have received.
Lord, we thank you for your ever present love and the blessings of family, friends, health and jobs that we enjoy each day.
And Lord, we ask you teach us what we need to know.
Bless each and everyone here today with a generous portion of strength and wisdom that we need in our every day struggles.
As we come before with bowed heads let us not forget family members and friends that have walked us and shared their lives with us but have passed threw the pearly gates before us into your promised kingdom.
We ask your blessings on the bountiful table set before us, that is might be used as nourishment to our minds and body for your glory.
We pray each one here today will have a safe journey home.
In Jesus' precious name we pray.
Amen.
And so..
at this family reunion of 2014
we not only connected with those around us
but
with words written
14 years ago
we are
still
connected with those above us.
(note....Marvin T. Sowers wrote this before he became really sick)
(note....Marvin T. Sowers wrote this before he became really sick)