Lord we lift up Your Holy Name.

We know this life is not a game.

As we live from day to day,

May we be able to find the Way,

So we can be in Your Heavenly Realm

With only You at the helm.

Help us to teach others today

To stay close to You in Your Way,

So forever in You we will all stay.

By: Jim Thomas

Paul wants prayers to be made for everyone so that we may live peaceful quiet

lives in Godliness and holiness, knowing that there is only one God and mediator

between God and men, who is Christ Jesus. (Jim's notes from I Timothy 2:1-7)

I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers . intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

I Timothy 2:1-5

“My own writings”

As we live from day to day we never know how each day will fit into the next.

Our oldest Grandson, Zackary, is in the U.S. Navy and has just been deployed

to the Persian Gulf on his first mission. I came across this poem that Jim wrote

back in 2007, a couple of years before his”Home Going,” How fitting it is that

he is talking of Jesus being at the Helm of life, and to see how it relates to our

     Grandson being on the helm of a big cruiser and to know God is always in control

                  of our lives.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;
They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.
For He spoke and the seas obeyed Him..

Psalms 107:23-25