Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 4 Number 12, “Want to be Blessed? Here’s How!”
March 24, 2021

For a number of years, Karen had more and more requests to speak at ladies’ events. She had a way of balancing being my wife, the mother of our children, the pastor’s wife at church, a good friend to many as well as a conference speaker. She somehow did all this without appearing to be frazzled.

I do know that she kept a running study beyond her personal devotional time with the Lord. She was always preparing ahead for an upcoming ladies’ seminar. While her thoughts were being crafted for ladies’ ministries, these preliminary thoughts are very good for us as well. She was thinking of the blessings that come through burden bearing.

I am holding her Bible as I am preparing this edition of “Karen’s Notes.” Let me write out Romans 15:1-3 and then I will share what she wrote. Her words on these verses were very brief. But I think they are very encouraging.

“We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached Thee fell on me.”

Karen circled the word “ought” in Romans 15:1.

Karen wrote: Be burden bearers. We need to put others first. Jesus touched the leper, forgave the adulterous woman, healed the nobleman’s son, and was also patient with His own inner circle. He’s still working on me.

Michael’s observation: As Karen’s time to go Home to be with the Lord grew closer, she enjoyed me holding her hand and reminiscing about our experiences together. From the times that social services brought children to our home in the middle of the night to helping ladies through the worst moments of their lives, she knew the joy and blessing that came by being a burden-bearer. Ultimately, while being a blessing to others, we are the ones truly blessed.