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TRUST

Posted by Cheryl Burrhus on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Enjoying the Journey

**Proverbs 3:5-6 ~

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.

***Trust ~

*reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing

*confident expectation

*hope

*believe

*rely upon

*expect confidently

*instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon

*assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another pe...
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CELEBRATE RECOVERY AT THE ANDOUILLE FESTIVAL

Posted by Cheryl Burrhus on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Enjoying the Journey

I have enjoyed so much the two days I have spent out at the Andouille Festival! It was great! I met a lot of nice people and ran into old friends. Today I met people from CR at Celebration Church in Metairie. I also have a FaceBook friend from another state that is in CR who looked at the pictures I took and commented that their local CR group was looking for something like this to do as an outreach to the community. One of the ladies that did facepainting said some of the little kids were ...
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PRISON MINISTRY

Posted by Cheryl Burrhus on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Enjoying the Journey

Every Saturday, I go with some other ladies to hold a church service at one of the local prisons. When I was first asked to be a part of this a couple of years ago, I thought there was no way this was something the Lord wanted me to do because I wouldn't possibly be able to understand or help the ladies there. I had never used drugs and alcohol or been in any kind of trouble. I didn't think I had anything to offer them! I thought they would think that I could never really understand anything ...
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EMPTY NEST

Posted by Cheryl Burrhus on Saturday, May 29, 2010, In : Enjoying the Journey

This week my "baby" will leave for college! Where did the time go?

When CJ was born, he had a heart defect and died three times before they could perform surgery when he was 3 months old! The surgery was a great success ~ thank You, Jesus! He has amazed doctors his entire life after all he has been through! He began playing sports when he was only 4 years old! He played baseball, basketball and/or soccer until he was about 13. Personal computers put a stop to that! ;-) He is a computer whiz n...
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