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You Can’t Get to Heaven on Roller Skates…

Recently our family celebrated our daughter’s birthday.  Our daughter invited a few close friends over to the house for crafts and some American-style cake (Wilton’s butter-cream icing recipe done up right and generously spread all over the straight-from-the-box Betty Crocker Chocolate Cake—aren’t birthdays great!)  For the main craft, the girls sewed, stuffed, and decorated tiny pillows to take home with them as a souvenir.  The last half of the party the girls decided they wanted to go play outside.  The girls played with bubbles and took turns playing with the roller skates we gave our daughter for her birthday.  When each girl had her turn, there was always a friend there to hold on to in order to maintain balance and to keep from falling.  Nevertheless, the girls did manage to meet the cement from time to time.  On those occasions it was fortunate that the girls were also wearing the safety pads bought to go with the skates.  Watching them, I was reminded of the children’s song, “You Can’t Get to Heaven on Roller Skates.”  These girls were having a hard enough time making it safely to the end of the driveway and back.  Even while leaning on each other, they were still in need of something to break their fall.

 

 

 

 

Will you join us in praying for Mori-chan and Mishi-chan pictured here:

 

Dear Lord Jesus, please help these girls realize that they have no means to be made right with God the Father and enter His presence except by You.  Please convict them by Your Holy Spirit of their own inadequacies and tendency to go their own way.  Please help these girls to lean on You, above all others, so that they might give way to your Will and thus find true balance and security in this life.  Become for them, Lord, a buffer–fixed between them and the path to self-destruction.  In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.

written by Donna Qualls

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