E  mmanuel from Pastor Kurt Busiek

Kurt Jr. had shoulder surgery this week to repair a torn labrum.  The surgery went well.
I had a kidney stone "zapped" yesterday.  So far, so good.  Thanks for your prayers.

Pray for:  Delbert Morris and Rubin Ahlborn in Marietta Memorial, Geraldine Cox in St.Joe,
Pauline Toothman in Camden Clarke, Kathi Alfred, Walt Barbour; Gary & Sharon Beall, Debbie Boyd; Ralph Click-awaiting test results;  Karen Cox; Sebastian Huffman (Rod & Pam Wharton’s grandson); Jim Johnson;  Matt, Violeta & James Lewis-safety in Serbia;  Angie Palmer (Mary Lewis’ daughter)-dermatomiositis; Jack Poe in Worthington; Deb Shawver; Glenna Smith (Bev Walkup’s sister)-seriously ill; Melissa Snider; Evelyn Wade; Mary Jo Barnette-cancer treatment; Anne Baughan (teacher at McKinley); Steve Cooper (Hadfield’s son-in-law); Bob Howard; Rick Kalt; Bob McHenry (son-in-law-Pauline Toothman)-radiation;

Here are some quotes I've found helpful.  Have a good one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.  God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with needs and hurts.  We may pass them by, pre-occupied with our more important tasks, as the Priest and Levite, perhaps reading his Bible, passed the man who had fallen among thieves.  It is a strange fact that Christians and even pastors often consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them.  They think they are doing God a service.  But it is part of the discipline of humility that we not avoid someone when we have the power to help. We must allow God to direct our days.”

Mother Teresa:    
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.  Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.  Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.  It never was between you and them anyway.”

C. S. Lewis: 
Christ says, “Give me all.  I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:  I want you.  I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it.  No half-measures are any good.  I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there.  I want to have the whole tree down.  I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out.  Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think are innocent as well as the ones you think are wicked—the whole outfit.  I will give you a new self instead.  In fact, I will give you myself:  my own will shall become yours.”   
from  Mere Christianity