The more the merrier:)

scott,
i think our potluck list is growing longer…
:~D

good to see you guys!
sorry i haven’t gotten back to you all sooner… thanks for your comments about my dad… i am thrilled about his response to the truth…

scott, i will be praying for you… seems like you got a lot on your plate…

and speaking of plates, and food, and potlucks (LOL), i think we should add a few names to our potluck list: joan, peregrina, the merry widow, lance, tim, and msatty (hope i’m not forgetting anyone)… and what would a potluck be without phil and pastor john!
:~D

maybe one day…

hugs to all,
jen-o

Oh girl! I totally agree with ya. Though my mom is the sicilian and my dad is native american/german, his moms side. I only knew of my grandfather when I was young and the times they would come out to visit. But oh do I remember his ranting and raving. I couldn’t undrstand why he seemed so angry all the time.

But it is good to know that God never gives up on us, always calling our hearts to live eternally with him. So, it does my heart good to hear that the Holy Spirit used your sicilian stubborness (LOL!):) to plant that seed to give him the opprotunity to believe and except Jesus as his savior. We’ll be praying for him.

Oh, by the way. I learned all my cooking skills from my mom, and I also can cook up an awseome spaghetti dinner. Maybe one day we can bring our cooking skills together and have a good ole sicilian pot-luck with all of us together. Hey, wouldn’t that be a kick, we would all be talking over each other, but it would be a blast to meet you, Remnant, Linda, Nanc, Aneriz and ya even ole Dave Lucas and some of the others, even Pat.

I would ask for all your prayers, after 30 yrs of being in the construction field, plus not having attened school for that long. I have enrolled at Phoenix College to study for my Civil Engineers degree (AA). My knees and body have been punished to long from operating heavy equipment, so I think its time I moved from the great outdoors to the corporate indoors.

Living in Black Canyon makes it tough, becasue none of my courses are on-line, so on monday and tuesday nights I have class and own and operate a business during the day. So I would ask that you would pray for my strength and that my time will be first with Jesus and everything else be secondary.

I’ll post when I can, but I’ll keep up on yous guyzz comments, capice’ (pardon my tongues) LOL!

God bless all, love ya
Scott

What great news about your father!

My father was Irish Catholic and died a heathen and my mother was a Scotch Presbyterian and accepted Yeshua before she died. Being a mixture of both, I was at constant war with myself until Yeshua came into my life.

All my uncles married Sicilian women because they were Catholic but they could cook, a skill not known to their Irish counterparts. I’ve always wondered how my aunts ever got anything done, as they use their hands to talk and were always talking!

In Messiah
Remnant

speaking of sicilians, i talked to my 77-year-old sicilian father for an hour and a half on the phone yesterday (he still lives in NY)… anyway, i called him up and said, “i think you should get born again”… (heehee… you would have LOVED to hear that conversation!)…

oh, i got the usual - “i was born once, why do i have to be born again”, etc. … and why don’t i go bother my mother with this nonsense, he doesn’t want to hear it… but i was on a roll, and the sicilian in me was NOT going to let it go until he heard the whole story (LOL)…

so there we were, 2 hot-headed sicilians, going into the rant and rave mode (normal stuff)… you know, how we both have to talk at the same time and try to talk over each other to get our point across (in LOUD voices… LOL)… no matter what objection he raised, i brought it back to the gospel… no matter how hard he tried to change the subject, i brought it back to the gospel… he told me i was driving him crazy, and to go call my mother and bother her… (LOL)… but i told him that i already did that… :~)

i knew that i had to address the catholic issue… (you know, italians, catholic, nuff said)… and that was one of the reasons he didn’t believe in God… he’s always called it a bunch of fairytales… for 25 years, he has outright dismissed anything i had to say about God, Jesus, and the bible… i brought up the question of hell, and he laughed and told me - maybe he’d rather go to hell cuz that’s where all the fun stuff was happening… (that just made me rant and rave all the more… LOL)… well, i must have been preaching cuz he told me i should go find a podium a couple of times (LOL)… but i also must have dismantled a few things cuz i heard silence a couple of times as well…

so i told him how to get born again (even though he didn’t want to hear it)… and i painted the most fantastic picture of the gospel focusing on the end times (the rapture, the tribulation, the millenium, etc.)… even i knew it sounded like far-out science fiction… (maybe i was just giving him more ammunition for his non-belief system)…

BUT, somewhere near the middle of our long conversation, he began to get quieter and quieter… that NEVER happens!… you KNOW something is up when a sicilian gets quiet!!… and then slowly, he began to AGREE with me… mama mia, can it be true?… did he just get born again in the midst of my ranting and raving over the end times?… i think so!… cuz there is NO WAY a person of this world could possible understand (let alone agree with) the science-fiction sounding picture i had just painted… it would have been foolishess to him, crazy-insane even… hey, i really put it out there… LOL…

at the end of our conversation, he was going to go take a long walk AND TALK TO JESUS!… who would have thought?… never in a million years… you’d have to know this man and his life-long attitude about God to understand how incredible this is!

i still can hardly believe it!
(i have never heard my father so quiet and contemplative)…

well, i know i’ve gone off on a lengthy tangent… (LOL)… but i thought you (scott) would enjoy a story about my sicilian father and would be able to appreciate my sicilian interactions with him…
:~D

shalom, and ciao bella, my sicilian brother in the faith!
jen-o

those sicilians are a hot-blooded group, or should i say hot-headed… LOL… no one could accuse them of not speaking their mind (LOL)

i was raised by my sicilian grandmother and italian grandfather, and their whole host of extended family… i don’t think i heard a conversation in a normal tone of voice the whole time i was growing up… ranting and raving WAS the normal tone of voice… LOLOL

i’m glad someone on here understands me…
:~D

shalom,
jen-o

p.s. i do so love a good rant! (heehee)

I knew it. No wonder why we understood each other I got that sicilian in me too.
I’ve been trying to catch up on all the posts. Just haven’t had time to say much, school has taken up the time.

Brothers and Sisters are we not living in the most exciting times. With all the threads that Pastor John is posting, that of course our drive by news media won’t cover. We need to be prayin up, lookin up, and no need to pack up, cause praiseallujah WE ARE GOIN UP !!!!!!!

Love the rants jen-o

God bless all
Scott

that’s wise advice… i think i’ll take it…
:~D

i know when we think too highly of ourselves, we may also fall… i guess the more highly we think, the farther the distance to fall, eh?

shalom,
jen-o