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Turkey, Stuffing, Potato’s, topped off with family and giving thanks

Posted on November 28, 2008 | 3 Comments

Yesterday was a day spent giving thanks by many around our nation.  We gathered around tables, booths, or bars, and spent time with others consuming near fatal amounts of turkey, and trimmings.  Yesterday was a day set aside by our forefathers as a time to look back and remember all that God has done for us.  

The other night I was sitting at our church’s thanksgiving eve service by myself all alone in the back row, feeling bad for myself.  I was listening to person after person share how God had healed them and helped them in the last year, and I was having a hard time just thinking about how God chose to take my Dad home and not heal him.  I’ll be honest, it was hard.  Really hard.  

But in the midst of it all, I started to tune out those who were speaking and I began a list in my journal of the things I’m thankful for.  Here’s what I am thankful for in 2008…

  1. My wife
  2. My wife
  3. My wife
  4. My Kids
  5. My Family
  6. God providing for all of our needs
  7. For God clearly moving us when we need to be moved, and settling us when we need to settle
  8. For my friends
  9. For God chasing me
  10. For the trials 
  11. For my Dad’s Legacy
  12. For my Mom
  13. For my WIFE
  14. For God teaching me and changing me
  15. For Tears
  16. For a great group of people that I get to serve alongside of
  17. For my life

There is so much to be thankful for.  It is really easy to be negative though isn’t it?  Just to look at the downside… But I’m grateful for so much!  What about you?  What are you thankful for?  

~Peter

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What a blur…

Posted on October 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

So, I am sitting here thinking and trying to get ready for our fall retreat for our High School Ministry at FBC, and I am just drawing blanks.  I feel like I’m not firing on all cylinders.  I look back at the course of the last two weeks and realize that it is blurry.  There are a few moments that I remember with razor sharp accuracy.  However, the minutes and hours have all kind of fuzzed over into one big painful memory.  [For those of you who may be jumping in you can read about what I'm talking about, here, here, here, and here.  You can click here to see my dad's testimony.]  

Today I got back the video from my dad’s memorial service, and I wanted to share this one video with you.  I promise that I won’t inundate you with video’s and other stuff, but this is to special not to share.  

After watching this over and over again I find it amazing to think about the way that my dad, even when unable to speak, continued to touch people’s lives.  So many people take for granted how much their actions speak; how much their lives speak.  

What is your life speaking right about now?

~Peter

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Dad’s Testimony

Posted on September 28, 2008 | 5 Comments

This was recorded about a year ago.  What an amazing man.  I wanted to share this with you all.

~Peter

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Well Done Dad… Well Done…

Posted on September 23, 2008 | 19 Comments

 


The race is over.  He finished well.  ”Well done my good and faithful servant.”  Those are the words that my dear dad heard as he entered into spending eternity with our God.  Today his fight with Lewy Bodies Disease is over.  Today his fight with this body, and the confines of it, are over.  Today he is set free!  

I wept thinking about how he will be able to walk again.  How he will be able to think again.  How he will be able to sing and pray again.  How he will be able to speak again!  I miss him terribly already.  

God gave me this scripture passage today while I was sitting in my office lost in thoughts and memories.

“But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.  I was crying to the Lord with my voice, And He answered me from His holy mountain.  I lay down and slept;  I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.”  Psalm 3:3-5  

Thank you to each of you who have helped pray, and ask God to take my dad.  He has heard our cries!  Praise God.  

I have this song running through my head right now…

Blessed Be Your Name In the land that is plentiful,  Where Your streams of abundance flow Blessed be Your name Blessed Be Your name, When I’m found in the desert place, Though I walk through the wilderness Blessed Be Your name,

 Every blessing You pour out I’ll turn back to praise When the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name, Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be Your glorious name,  

Blessed be Your name When the sun’s shining down on me When the world’s ‘all as it should be’ Blessed be Your name Blessed be Your name On the road marked with suffering Though there’s pain in the offering Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out I’ll turn back to praise When the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your name Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your glorious name Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name, Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be Your glorious name,  You give and take away, You give and take away, My heart will choose to say Lord, blessed be Your name…

Dad, I am proud of you.  I miss you.  I love you.  And I want to be just like you.

~Your Son

Services will be held at Waxahachie Bible Church:
Viewing – Thursday 5:00 – 7:00
Memorial – Thursday 7:00
Graveside – Friday 11:00 (City Cemetary)

“In lieu of flowers the family requests that you gift three missionary couples dear to Daddy’s heart. Checks can be made to Waxahachie Bible Church (memo Jeffrey Gowesky Memorial).”

Waxahachie Bible Church
621 Grand Ave.
Waxahachie, TX 75165

Boze Wayne Funeral Home
1826 US Hwy 287 Business West
Waxahachie, TX 75165
972-923-2700

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How have we gotten here?

Posted on September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

This morning I can’t stop the questions from rolling through my mind…  I am tired of all these questions…

How have we gotten here?

Did we really just make arrangements for my dad’s funeral?

Am I really flying to Texas with a suit?

Seriously am I preparing to talk at my Dad’s funeral?

How do I present the gospel and keep from crying?

Why now?

I can’t wait for him to be with Jesus… When God?

Can I truly sing “It is well with my soul”?

God make it well with my soul!?!  

How do I keep my patience with people when my fuse is so short?  

God please find me faithful as I walk through this valley of shadows.  

I write this with a lump in my throat and a pain in my chest.  Please keep praying for me and my family.  My mom’s name is Sarah, and I have three sisters, Heidi, Heather, and Marcy.  We covet your prayers in this time.  We know that our dad will spend eternity in heaven worshiping God the creator of heaven and earth, of all the seen and unseen.  Yet my heart is selfish.  I want my dad back.  I want to talk with him and see him.  I want to feel his arms embrace me in a hug.  One day in eternity we will meet again!  What a day that will be…

To keep updated on my dad and all that is going on, visit our caring bridge site.  

~Peter

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