A Thankful Heart

A Pastor opened up a revival service for testimonies and his young son was one of the first to stand up. We could see the lump in the Pastor's throat and apprehension in his face as he wondered what his son would say. He was probably questioning his own decision to open up the floor to testimonies.

The young man said with complete sincerity, "I want to thank God for my family. We are not a perfect family, but we are a family."

I know the Pastor/Dad felt like crawling into the Bible stand as we all smiled politely and laughed like crazy inwardly. We all had a good tease and laugh about it later but it has become a common phrase in the BoggsMobile.

We will look at one another quite often and say, "We are not a perfect family, but we are family."

That pretty much sums us up. Even though we might like for the world around us to view us without all of our warts and other imperfections, the truth remains we are not perfect, we are not whole, we are not exactly what we planned to be by now. Yet we are thankful we are not what we use to be and certainly not as low down as we could be.

We are very thankful as a family that God has been so very good to us. That does not mean that everything is rosy or that we can even begin to understand some of the things that are going on around us. It simply means we are thankful for the place that God has brought us to at the moment in spite of what we think about the present circumstances.

We are thankful every day. We must be. When Paul describes the perilous times we live in, he includes two words grouped together; unthankful, unholy. I do not believe these words are placed side by side on accident. When we are unthankful, unholy will not be far behind.

So, we are thankful for all God has done every day. But today, we will be thankful on purpose. We will gather with family and formally praise God for all He has done the last year. We will praise Him for the good, the bad and the ugly. In everything we will do our best to give thanks!

One thing we will be praising God for is definitely on the good side of the ledger. Odie visited the neuro-ophthalmologist Wednesday for her periodic check-up since she woke up on April 13, 2014 completely blind in her left eye. Each visit since God began restoring her vision has been marked by progress and good news. It has been miraculous.

Yesterday the news was a tremendous continuation of her miracle. Odie's good eye is 20/20. The left eye, the eye that was blind had improved to 20/25 last summer. 20/25 was awesome after being completely blind but she is still getting better. Now the left eye is 20/20!  We praise God for helping and healing Odie!

May God help us all to find something or several somethings to thank God for today.

Thanks for reading and have a good Thanksgiving Day.

Davy

Salsa Anyone?

I can hear the question on the tip of everyone's tongue right now. "I wonder if the Boggs' have been to Acapulco since they have been in Ohio?" 

My answer? 

"Is the pope catholic?" 

"Is the sky blue?"

"Is the sun still shining?"

"Is the earth still spinning?"

"Is the government still spending money?" 

"Do turkeys gobble?" 

"Does a one legged duck swim in circles?"

Of course we have eaten at Acapulco! We have been home over 48 hours, for goodness sake! In fact, we have visited Acapulco a few times in the last two days. We have pictures to prove it!

The first time we ate there Monday we met my Dad and Mom but failed to get a picture of the crowd. One evening we walked in and our good friends were waiting for a table. They asked us to join them and we were thrilled to do so. We love Bro. Keith and Sis. Jen and their family. All three of their kids have always been so precious and sweet!

We enjoyed another great meal and wonderful fellowship. It was a super evening with friends. Bro. Keith insisted on picking up the tab for dinner and we sure do appreciate it!

We did not get to go for lunch Tuesday. I had some dental work Tuesday morning and they had to numb both sides of my mouth. It was a challenge to talk, chew or swallow without making hamburger out of my tongue so I skipped lunch. No sense ripping open my jaw or tongue right before Thanksgiving dinner!

It has been good to see all my friends at Acapulco and to drink some of their award winning salsa! Wow! That stuff is good!

Hopefully I will have another dose of salsa today and then I will compromise and have some turkey on Thursday! I know that will be good too!

Thanks for reading.

Davy

AmazonSmile - Boggs Family Ministries

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, Odie thought it would be a good time to remind you that you can get the same low Amazon prices and yet help Boggs Family Ministries a little bit with each purchase.

I mentioned back in January you can go to smile.amazon.com and choose Boggs Family Ministries as your designated charity. You will be given an opportunity to search for a charity and you can search Boggs, Boggs Family or Boggs Family Ministries and Boggs Family Ministries Inc, Waynesville, Ohio will come up in the list. Then select it.

Caution: There is also a Bogg Ministries in Miamisburg, Ohio but that is not us.

Once you designate Boggs Family Ministries, 0.5% of your smile.amazon.compurchases will be donated to Boggs Family Ministries. You will be ordering from the same companies, receiving the same prices and the same service but you will be helping support Boggs Family Ministries. 0.5% is not much on a single purchase but if a bunch of people choose Boggs Family Ministries for their designated charity and then do their normal Amazon purchases through smile.amazon.com, 0.5% would certainly add up after a while.

Afterward if you continue to shop through your regular Amazon link then the ministry will not receive the 0.5%. You must change your Amazon link and do your shopping through smile.amazon.com in order for it to work correctly.

Thank you,

Davy, Kelly and Odie

Boggs Family Ministries, Inc. 501c3

Weekend Woundup and Weview November 22

The weekend began in Vonore, Tennessee at East Tennessee Luxury Coach. This has become our Tennessee home. Jeff Rowe takes good care of the BoggsMobile and helps keep us on the road. I thank God for him every few days!

Here are a few pictures from Vonore. This beautiful coach is only 3 years newer than ours but it is in fine shape!

This one is a 2015 triple slide coach.

Hooked up and ready to go Saturday morning.

The weather was cool and sunny and perfect for driving Saturday as we turned south to Georgia.

Then we hit a construction zone that was also the scene of a terrible accident. It took us one hour and six minutes to go about 8 miles.

Bro. St. Cyr's church is a storefront in downtown Adairsville, Georgia. It is a beautiful building. We pulled in front and parked in the street to unload our sound system.



The bus pictures and several of the pictures during church were sent to us by Sis. Donnie St. Cyr.

After we were loaded in we went about 15 miles south to the KOA in Cartersville.

The singing started at 6:00 PM and we had a full house!

Davy and Pastor Tony St. Cyr.

Our dear friends, Bro. Greg and Sis. Teresa Tinsley drove nearly two hours to be with us. They really surprised us by coming and made our day!

We sang to a capacity crowd Saturday night and they responded great. It was a wonderful night and was followed by a wonderful service Sunday morning. It has been a few years since we have been with the St. Cyr's and we really enjoyed the weekend!

After a great service Sunday morning we ate lunch with Bro. and Sis. St. Cyr at a great local buffet then cranked up the bus and headed for home. It was a long drive home and the traffic seemed heavier than usual through north Georgia and all of Tennessee. The traffic finally thinned out after London, Kentucky although it kept getting colder by the mile.

We drove 442 miles in 7 hours and 30 minutes and we pulled into the Lazy OD Ranch about 10:30. We had the car unhooked, the BoggsMobile turned around, backed into the barn, the electric hooked up and the doors shut by 11:00. We pretty much have that down to a science!

I forgot to mention it was 25 degrees outside when we arrived home and 33 inside the barn. We are nuts for going north this time of year!

That pretty much wraps up our weekend. Thanks for reading.

Davy