The Gathering Place Where Family Matters

I don’t know where this event took place, but I am holding the notes she used. Karen used an acrostic spelling out the word “FUN.” Last week I shared with you that F stood for “Faith.” Obviously every local church will be greatly blessed when the believers there demonstrate faith.

Today we move to the letter U

Sometimes at the top of Karen’s handwritten notes she would list the date and place of her seminar presentation. She didn’t on this one. However, I am holding in my hands the typical small sheet of paper employing red ink for the outline and blue ink for the notes (I wonder where she would have gotten such an idea?). Wherever she was speaking, she was going to surely catch their attention with the title about every church and the word fun. Actually, this was going to be an acrostic FUN.

Sometime in 2002 Karen was speaking at a ladies’ event on the topic of trusting the Lord in every situation and season of life. When we truly walk with the Lord and trust Him, we discover the wonderful blessing of knowing that the Lord never will forsake us. He will never leave us. Let me share the Scripture passage she was going to present, and then I’ll share a few of the things directly from her notes.

Karen was my dear and gracious cheerleader. She was such an encourager. Often she would show me the notes that she wrote as I was preaching. Over ten years ago I preached a message from 2 Timothy 4. Let me share the text and what she wrote in her own Bible study journal.

I married an athlete. No wonder when she heard a message that I preached from Hebrews 12, she dug in further into her own study of the text and wrote some observations for herself in her Bible study journal. Her notes are brief but really powerful.