Anne Heartline

I have a lot of great memories of Mrs. Heartline. She most likely was my favorite sunday school teacher. I remember I was in fourth grade and riped my dress and I was so upset that I was crying really hard not the fact I riped my dress but that I would have to give my ticket( the ticket was for the goodies box that Mrs. Heartline set up) after the other Sunday school teacher told me that. Mrs. Heartline took my ticket and toke up up to where my mom was to fix the dress and go back to class. When we got back to class Mrs. Heartline gave me the ticket and a hug. Two weeks later when I walked into the classroom for Sunday school class Jim Martin, told us that Mr and Mrs. Peters were going to be our Sunday school teachers because Mrs. Heartline had found out that her cancer had returned. A boy behind me, ( I don't remember his name) said I know what that is its were people die, and I hit him, and so did a few other people.



A few months ago my brother Josh saw Mrs. Heartline so we walked over and started talking to her. Mrs.Heartline was asking Josh how he was and then asked me for my name. When she asked me I told her and she gave me a huge hug and told me that she had been praying for me everyday during her devotions, when she told me that I wanted to just start crying because up till then I hadn't really thought about her or even go up to talk to her when I saw her at church.

Mrs. Heartline showed her love for God by sharing his word and praising God during everything that was going on. She praised God through even to last moment when she was in God presence.

My brother, if you look this picture you will not be able to that both Josh and I were born early.

Adoption

Fourteen years ago, I came to live with my family, not by birth but adoption. For the last few years, I've tried to forget that fact of my life, because I do not like where I came from or how I came into the world. A few months ago a couple at my church are adopting a boy from China, and I thought that was really cool because adoption is an amazing thing, and I am so glad that I have a family that loves me and a place I could call my own. My story, I almost died because I was born Two months early and weighed only four pounds. Days before that my birth mother was put on bed rest because the sack was tearing and my life was at stake of getting caught in it and suffocating in side of her. After being in the hospital for days, she left to go be with some friends and the sack tour completely away causing her to go into labor, and putting us both in danger of dying. When she got to the hospital, the doctor did a an emergency C-section because my life was fading and my birth mother would die soon later if something wasn't done, I was born 4 pounds and had to remain in the hospital for a month. At that time my birth mother had a boyfriend, who was not my birth father, but toke care of me as if I was his own. A year and eight months later after they broke up my birth mother called up a lady named Polly Kelly to ask if she knew if anyone was willing to adopt a little girl who was almost two. Polly told her bible study, and in that bible study Dawn Shultz knew a couple who would love to have daughter but weren't able to, and that couple were my parents Dawn and Janet Hehe.( A few months before my dad had said if God wanted us to have another child he would have to drop it on our door step) and God basically did less then two months after my parents heard of me, my birth mother flew out with me to take me to my knew home. My birth mother and I stayed with Polly Kelly were we stayed for a few days while I got comfortable being around the Hehes, after a few days I was moved into my home which on January 21 will be fifteen years, it wasn't until may that it was official and my name was changed to Mistyanne Marie Hehe.

God has really been good to me. He saved my life when I was born he toke me out of an unstable, non-christian home into a home where I have two parents that love God and where I have two brothers. If I was still with my birth mom, I know that I wouldn't be a child of God.

Future and how clueless I actually am.

Ok so I pretty much expected that I knew what my future held and all that. That I would know where I was going to college. Yes my goal is to go to Califonia Baptist University but, hey I might get everything done but, then not get accepted and have to pick a diffierent college. So I learned that I really have no clue what is at the end of this last year and half a highschool. God is the only one that knows anything, yes I can plan all I want but at the end I'm completely clueless. I dont even know whats going to happen in the next five minutes, I may be dead. It shows how the future is really the future.

Feeling joy through pain.

How can you be happy when your in pain? Having the joy knowing your dying? One of my elementary school teachers, has cancer and she has been told she doesn't have long to live. Her whole attitude towards it is AMAZING! I have to say she is one of my hero's. I don't know how I would respond I'm thankful that God hasn't put me exactly in that position. For the teacher if you guys could lift her in pray that these last few months won't be as painful as it could be and that she will feel comfortable.

Yesterday at church, I asked myself how much pain, I could handle, at the end I am a wimp, plain and simple. I dont do well with pain or when I feel awkward. So thats something that I have to work on so that I'm not a coward.

Cold and wet

As I looked out the window I was grumbling about how wet and cold it was outside. Then I realized how lucky we are to have rain, or have water in our homes. There are plenty of countries that have no water so they have to walk to the rivers and lakes, creeks. we should be thankful that we are very spoiled. Thankful that it does rain, that the rain brings water to the mountains our drinking water.

What is Persecution?

Do we actually know what persecution is or is it something that we heard in history? Today at youth group, one of our leaders message was on persecution, and showed us how we really don't know what it is, we are some what lucky to live in United States but not really. What challenges are faith other then trying to fit in or something like that.
Some of the Queastines I asked my self-
Could I rejoice through pain? Sadly I know that before this serman, no way, I am a wimp when it comes to pain, Mr. Sarr talked about how the christians in I Peter were burnt to the stake for the joy of the ruler to have light in his garden and they were praising God as they were burnt alive. I don't like when I burn my finger on my straightner let alone to have my whole body burning with a fire that wont go out. I would find it very hard to find joy in that. Then the other was Would I find joy in persecution, as well I am a people pleaser which is sin because we are not to have are main goal to please man but God. I encourage you if you did not hear the message: DON'T WASTE YOUR DEATH, to go and listen to it, I was majorly convicted by it.

I Peter 4:1-2
Therefor Christ suffered in his bod, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

When Mr. Sarr read that verse I thought about how Christ was persecuted for OUR sins, he had so much for love for us that he gave his life for us. He gave what was most important his purity so that we could live with his father, after the sin in the garden we lost the purity that we got when Christ died for us for. Think about it though Christ the spotless lamb died for ALL our sins, the sins that we have already sin and are to sin, Christ was not only gave is life, he had his father turn his back on him.
Matthew 27:51- " At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The Earth shook and the rocks split.

John 3:16 " For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life."