The Love That Completes Me

The Love That Completes Me



I have been wanting to write a story for this blog for a couple weeks. Things kept happening to keep me from it. The computer, that I have is about 10 years old, it has decided to do its worst. Running so slow, that I couldn't write. Shutting down in the middle of my writing and losing anything I wrote. Critical errors pop up. You name it. So for days I worked on this thing, to clean it up the best I could to get it running again. Then my husband, who hardly ever gets on, decided he would delete a bunch of things he considered useless or not needed, to help the computer run faster….he accidentally deleted my stories I was working on. Of course, I cried. But I am over it now. This day, I worked on the computer some more and it seems to be doing “okay.” So I am going to give writing a good try today.

Some of what I write, I have written and sent out in the past to some friends and family. I take some of that and add to it, change it up a little to try to make them newer for all to read and still get those stories out to those who have not read them.
So to some of you, some of these stories will be familiar.

We just started attending a fantastic church here in Harrisonburg called, Valley Church.
We really like this church a lot. We have been in prayer since we moved to this area, for a little over a year, for a home church, that best fit us as a family and our relationship with God. The best fit our beliefs and style of worship. We prayed for a church that had a pastor that preached the truth and didn't “tickle the ears of others.” One that had a heart filled with God’s love and His ways. God answered our prayers.

When I go to this church, I feel like skipping in with gladness in my heart and when it is over, I feel like skipping out with gladness in my heart. I am not kidding at all!

My family and I are so happy when Sunday comes, we can’t wait to go to church. We even watch the clock, and every now and then one of us will say, “can we go now?,” “is it time to go to church now?,” “well, lets just go ahead and go to church now.” Even if we don’t have to go just yet.

This past Sunday, I was the one lagging behind. Doing last minute this and that before getting in the car. Everyone was in the car waiting for me, even though we all decided to go 10 minutes sooner. All I kept hearing from inside the house was, HONK! HONK! HONK! Them out there banging on the horn in the car. I could hear them talking too, because the windows of the house were open and the car windows were down. “What in the world is she doing in there?” “What is taking her so long?” “See how she ALWAYS holds us up.” I was thinking, “goodness gracious, we’re even leaving 10 minutes early.” To make them happy, I hurried my hurrying. When I went out to get in the car, they had back up, pulled around, and had the passenger side door open and ready, right in front of the house door when I came out.  I heard, “It is about time woman.” We weren’t even late. Just excited about going to church.

I have a plan for next Sunday though. I set it in my mind when I got in the car…I am going to be the first one out there in the car, honking the horn and hollering, even though we will be leaving early!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of you don’t know this, but I am part Cherokee. My dad’s mother was full-blooded. Well, I have learned Cherokee got a way about them, called secret revenge. Now as a Christian, I gotta be nice about it. Don’t worry, when I get out there in that car next Sunday, I will be smiling while I am honking the horn and hollering!

What gets us all happy and excited about church is, it’s not the church in its self…it is the people, the pastor, the Spirit of God is there.
Believe it or not, in some churches God is not invited in. But I can tell you this…He is invited to this church!

I am so thankful to be led and taught by a Pastor that totally seeks God with all his heart and tells the people the truth. You can feel his Christ like love for everyone. You can hear the heart of God when he preaches. This Pastor wants you to know and understand God’s love for you and His ways for your life.

Because this Pastor is this way, I can’t wait to get to know some of the people of that church!

Well, my point is…in all this is, that I plan to go to the Women’s Bible study that starts this week. Women need women. Younger women, need godly, older, graceful women to guide and teach them. To uplift them and encourage their lives, as women, as mom’s, as wives, as friends, and in all their relationships. Especially their relationship with God.

Now, it has been years since I have been to a Women’s Bible study. There are many “life happens” reasons for that.
When I went, I was the younger woman needing the guidance of the godly older women. But now I am 40..I am in between. I need to be both. I need it all.

I thought of a situation that happened some years back, when we lived in Ruther Glen. At the church we were going to then, there was a new class getting ready to begin. So I went to the introductory meeting. There were probably near 75 women there. I sat in the back. During that meeting, there was this woman, sitting in the front…in the front and center. She made herself known…she talked out a lot and had many things to say about anything that came to her mind. I was annoyed.

Toward the end of the meeting. The leader said she wanted us all to write our names and phone numbers on a piece of paper that they had handed out and for those who was interested in taking this course, we were to put these papers in a basket and then we were all going to draw one out of the basket and whose ever name we drew was to be that person’s prayer partner.
I watched that woman that was sitting front and center of the room, fill out her piece of paper with her name and phone number and put it in the basket.
I thought, “Oh my goodness, I sure hope I don’t get her as a prayer partner.”
After everyone put their information in, the basket got passed around. When it got to me, in the back, I picked my person…..or rather God did…I got her name.
Yes, the one in the front and center that talked way tooooo much about anything and everything….How did I come to know this…well, she had went to the leader to ask her if the leader knew the person who she had drawn the name of…and the leader did and pointed me out and the lady came gleefully toward me. She announced, “I got your name, I am your prayer partner!” I said, “Oh.” Thinking, my own thoughts concerning that, like, “good grief.” Well she said, “Whose name did you get?” I looked at my paper and read off the name. She jumped up and down and said, “That is me!” “We have each others name!” “We are each others prayer partner!”
Out of all the women in that room, we ended up with each other’s name.
I learned a lot about her.
I learned she was a remarkable woman, joyful and gentle…she had a sweet spirit and made a great friend and prayer partner.
I had judged her and didn’t even know her. God knew her. And God knows me and that we needed each other.

One thing I am careful of ever since then…is judging others. Especially if you don’t even know that person. We don’t know each other’s heart and how precious another person is. We don’t know that person’s story, their life, God’s plan and His touch into their life.

I don’t know what you may get out of this story. But I do hope what you get out of it is, love others. Even your family, waiting for you in the car, who is honking the horn over and over and hollering at you.

We are told to love, by our Savior, Jesus Christ. There are so many wonderful scriptures pertaining to love. Here are a few.

Galatians 5:22 ..“The fruit of the Spirit is Love….” That is the first fruit. It is an evidence that you belong to Christ.

Galatians 5:14.. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”   Don’t love yourself more than someone else. Don’t think of yourself more than someone else. Don’t think your any better than someone else.

Ephesians 5:2...”And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.”
Don’t allow your life to represent anything other than the lovely smell of Christ’s ways. He died and rose again because of His great love for us. Let our lives represent that love.

Proverbs 17:17...”A friend loveth at all times.”
Jesus is your friend, be a friend to others and accept them and love them with your heart.


Kim Wenrich
2 Corinathians 5:17
Psalms 139
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