Jan 7

I slept in til 4am this morning and finished up yesterday's blog. I have a slight headache so I think I'll pound down some water, that usually takes care of it. I had an awesome time of worship this morning, just finished! I mostly did my own songs this morning. One of my favorites is about Sara Faulkner (spelling?), who was going to 1st Presbyterian Church of Palmdale when we first got there. I needed to put someone on the prayer chain and asked who I should call and I got a resounding answer," Sara Faulkner" Ok, I called this Sara and the lady answered. When I told her I had a prayer request she asked me to hold on while she got something to write with. I should tell you that I'm not one for holding long conversations on the phone, its not something I like to do. Sara came back on the phone and I don't know how she did it, but in the process of taking the prayer request, she learned about who Ernie Brady was. I didn't think I said all that much, and I stayed on the phone an hour with her!! She said she'd like to meet my family the next Sunday at church and imagine my surprise when she walked up and we learned that Sara was blind. She hadn't mentioned it once on the phone, she was more interested in me than talking about herself, and I would find out from more conversations with her later that that was who Sara was, all about others. I was also shocked when I was in my first bible study with her, she knew her bible and could recite scripture too! I was pretty shook up when she passed away, and wrote a song for her. After I wrote the words, I couldn't get thru singing it without crying for about the first 20 times. Sara was blind for the last 33 years of her life, but when she got to heaven, you bet she could see, and in the song all she wanted to look at was Jesus. God bless you Sara. The nurse is here and trying again to get blood from my catheter. Its only worked twice in the last 5 days, they had to stick me all the other times (I get blood drawn twice a day). I had stretched too far to put my guitar away and Baxter started beeping (that's what he's best at), thats why the nurse came in. My counts are down today so I have to have transfusions, 1 platelet bag and 2 blood bags. So, we know Heaven is a free gift, that it's not earned or deserved, and that every person is a sinner. Now we need to know that sin must be punished. "For the wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23) and that God doesn't grade on a curve, He expects obedience at all times! "Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect." (Matt 5:48) We can't save ourselves from our sins, even if we try to do good things. If you were making an omelette, and you had 5 good eggs in the bowl but put one rotten egg in there as well, we couldn't serve it to company and expect it to be acceptable. Even less can we serve up our lives to God, which have many fine things in them that men would call good and yet are filled with thoughts and deeds that are "rotten" and expect them to be acceptable to God. "Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." (James 2:10) This means what? That its impossible to save ourselves, or to earn our way into heaven. This comes into sharper focus when we look at what the bible says about God. Tomorrow! I guess none of you have heard yet that pink is the new black! Its gonna be in style so all you guys better go out and get pink jammies to be in style!!! (this I'd like to see!!! LOL!) I finally finished my transfusion about 9pm and went to sleep.