Christ Church United Methodist Sutton WV - Volume 3  Issue 5   April 2008
The staff or ReachingOut and members of Christ Church United
Methodist wish to extend their deepest sympathy to the families of
Willis Lee Hutchison, Ralph Skidmore and Harold Ringler, upon the
death of their loved ones.

I hope this little poem helps soothe your pain.
I'd like the memory of me to be a happy one,
I'd like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
I'd like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,
of happy times and laughing times and sunny days.
I'd like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry before the sun.
Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
Life is a splendid thing, for sure
Or could be, quite a lot,
For being showered with loving friends
Is for sure, the nicest thing we've got.
God's been watering all our hearts
Of this we do not doubt,
For in planting only lovely things
We get the good things out.

If we've got some love to share
With a friend all tried and true,
We can sure feel sort of cozy
Tucked under God's heaven so blue.
But sometimes these days it pours with rain
And we can hit some right raw mud,
But when we patch it up with loving
We get to chuckle at the fun.

Wasn't God so nice to make the cloudy skies
Come out with all the sunny hours
Then in rolling out the cutest kids
He planted all the flowers.
This place is not all bad yet
From all the praying on our knees,
Because then it has a kinder face
With all the nicest you and me's.

God gives us all a healthy bite to eat
And with more than enough to spend,
Is generous too, to share even
A little extra to lend.
These days we find there's way too much
Of shoving just to get,
So we need to leave a lot more space
For loving others yet.

I do thank our caring Heavenly Father
Our brightest morning star,
That He is keeping watch so things
Will be so blessed, just as they are.
I want to send you lots of happy thoughts
And prayers for God to bless you every day,
With the softest of April showers
To bring you the loveliest flowers in May.
April 7 - Robert Flint, Jerry Long       April 9 - Charlotte Stockwell
April 10 - Carolyn Long                     April 12 - Katie McPherson
April 14 - Aubrey Robertson              April 16 - Joni Cutlip    
April 19 - Marjorie Grishkin                April 21 - Chris Bly        
April 23 - Kenneth Stockwell              April 24 - Bill Martin
April 4  - Don & Alma Flint           April 11 - Jim & Linda Jenkins
April 14 - Jeff & Kara Stewart      April 21 - Butch & Janie Cutlip
April 25 - Daniel & Joyce Decker
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