The New Life, Inc.

My Dear Children

I must warn you! You have a very insidious enemy at work in you, and this enemy uses your thoughts and your emotions if you do not guard them and question them at all times.  I had a conversion experience forty-four years ago when I went to the alter and called on the Lord to help me.  The Lord has been with me all these years in my good times and my bad times.  He is with me now as I write this letter to you.

I must confess to you that I have evil thoughts and evil desires.  I have had to contend with these evil thoughts and desires all these years.  I understand the scripture that says, “Evil is in me, the one that desires to do good.”

May God bless you with discernment to tell the difference between life and death?  That is the issue!  It seems like God has made you and I responsible for how we respond or how we handle our thoughts and emotions.  No one else can do that for you.  You are the responsible ones.  Even while we are at a tender age, evil begins to show itself in us by our words and actions.  I share this with you because I do not remember anyone ever making me aware of this evil in me for many years.  How do you fight an enemy that you are unaware of?

The mind is an amazing thing.  It can store a lifetime of memories.  It can accumulate so much knowledge, not only that it can reason and weigh and test.  It can hear and see and receive thoughts and images from other places, other things and from God.  This is one of the things I am convinced of, we can receive Gods thoughts.  We can also receive thoughts from other sources as well.  This begins to happen to us at a very early age, there are not many around that know how to help us deal with our thoughts and emotions and as a result it takes most of us a life time to come to some place of victory in our minds and hearts.

I know that most of us don’t want to believe there is evil in us but if we begin to pay attention to our thoughts it will not take long for you to see it.  We are not to be controlled by our thoughts and emotions.  We are to control our thoughts and emotions.

I encourage you to do this!  You must do this if you want a good life.  Look around you and see the people that are controlled by every thought and every emotion that comes to them!  Do you want to be like that?  No!  We are to be a people that are spirit controlled that have self-control.

My dear children do not let your tricky thoughts rob you of peace and joy.  Pray and ask the Holy Spirit for good discernment in your thinking and in your emotions.

The Lord bless you with a good mind and clean heart,

Your loving Father

My Dear wonderful children,

As I was taking my walk this morning, I was thinking how good it is to be alive. We had a good day yesterday celebrating Easter Sunday.  We went to church and Chris played some of the music.  He did a wonderful job and he folks here really enjoy his music.  He starts playing about half hour before the church service and many come early just to listen and sing along.

Gloria and Joe came over and joined us for dinner at the hall. Gloria is my next to the oldest sister and she has a home in the park next door.  She spends about eight months in Florida every winter. Joe is a nice fellow.  He has a hearing problem, which is too bad because he loves music and likes to play the piano.  

Joe shared something with me several years ago that really blessed me.  I had a problem with the church, with the ritual, pomp and ceremonies; I didn’t like them very well.  I happened to mention it one day when I was talking with Joe and he said to me; “I like all of that, I really enjoy it.  It brings the whole service alive.”  He continued; “I love parades with all the ceremonies and the floats and music and the clowns.  I think it is great. It does something for me, it stirs up my spirit and makes me feel good.”

Joe helped me to see something new.  I took a new look at the church service and at parades. I saw they were important and that if we allow it, these special ceremonies can touch us in a very special way.  They can help us get in touch with some wonderful things that happened in our past.  I thank Joe for sharing that truth with me.  I now see that somewhere in the past I was robbed.  Now, that blessing has been restored to me.

My dear children watch carefully that you are not robbed of some very precious things. We have a lot of robbers and thieves and some of them are in our homes and churches. They are not even aware that they are robbers; but if they steal something valuable from you they are. You can also be a thief if you rob someone else.

What are some of the valuable things we can steal?  For many years I lost the joy and spiritual blessing of ceremonies and parades.  We also can be robbed of peace, joy, friends and things we enjoy doing because someone else does not want to do it.

Well because of Joe, I now enjoy ceremonies and parades.  They are important in my life. Yesterday was Easter Sunday and I enjoyed it very much.  The ceremonies reminded me of what Jesus did for me on the cross and all the years of my life.  Last Sunday Pauline and I sang a song at church that we enjoy doing from time to time. The song we sang was “He touched Me.”  Before we sang, I told the congregation the name of the song we were going to sing and asked the question; “How many of you can put up your hand to acknowledge the Lord has touched you.” The church was full and almost every hand went up.  That was such a blessing to see that Jesus had touched all these lives.

Easter Sunday was such a blessing to me because it reminded me that the Son had risen.  He had not only risen for me but for so many others as well. My children I hope and pray that every one of you can lift your hand and say; “He Touched Me”!  And may the Son rise in your heart every day of your life.All my love and prayers,

Your Loving Father

My dear Children,

I now regret that I did not get to know my grandfather better.  We lived together in the same home from the time I was one and a half years old until he died. Of course I knew he lived there and I remember as a child that he used to hold me and rock me in his old rocking chair by the kitchen window.  If I remember correctly he could still see a little bit from one eye. He had lost one eye somehow and had a glass eye to replace it. But he was going blind in the other eye. In a few years he was totally blind. Today they could have saved his sight.

I don’t remember him talking very much.  He would sit many hours a day rocking by the window.  He did have a radio that he would listen to every night. I often wondered what he would think about all those hours. I don’t remember hearing him complain about his blindness. One day he spoke to me about it, he said; “I would give anything to be able to see you playing in the yard”. That is the only time I ever heard him say anything about his eyes.

Now I don’t really remember anything about him dying. It seems like all of a sudden he was gone.  I am sure he must have died there at home; back then most people did die at home.

Even blind, he tried to do what he could.  There was a wire four or five feet from the ground between the house and the barn and he would go to the barn several times a day and try to clean out the cows and take care of things.  There were four bedrooms in our house one on the first floor and three on the second floor. My grandmother was a big woman and she used the room on the first floor. I think she had problems with her legs. My sisters used one of the rooms upstairs my dad another and I had to sleep with grandfather. He slept quiet enough, but what I remember is that both he and the bed had an old person smell and every now and then we ran into a bedbug problem. The other thing was the thunder jug! It was under the bed and that was what my grandfather used but all too often. I had the job of dumping it out. I am glad those days are behind me.

I was the baby of the family and I was so wrapped up in myself.  I was the center of the world and as a result I learned nothing about my family. I am sure my grandfather could have told me some wonderful stories about his life and his family. I believe he came down from Canada.  There is a big Nault family up there. I never got to know any of them. My grandmother was an Indian woman I will tell you more about her another time.

My grandfather built the house we lived in.  I think he was a blacksmith and he might have had a accident doing that and lost his eye. We had a blacksmith shop near our house and the lighting hit it one night and it burned to the ground.

I wish I could tell you more about grandpa.  He was a kind man and I often wonder what he thought about all those hours. I believe he knew the Lord Jesus, because he had such peace

I like to think he spent some of that time praying for all of us. For all of my children reading this, learn as much as you can about your family. Listen to their stories and tell your stories to whoever will listen. Pass something along to your loved ones. With the computers today it is so easy to write and save and pass these things along to the next generation.

I want you to take time to do this! Thank you for it!
I also want you to pray for one another and do it every day.
The Lord hears your prayers and he does answer them.
I pray for all of you very often.

Your loving Father

My Dear Children,
I have been thinking of you today and I have prayed for you as well. I think of you every day and I pray for you every day. I hope that you think of your family every day and pray for them every day; you should they are your blessing.

I have found that as you think of your loved one each day that different thoughts come to your mind. The thought that came to my mind today is that I am proud of my children, my natural children as well as my spiritual children. You do so many things that I am proud of. I know that every one of you have failed at times but in spite of that you have pressed on with life and have become over-comer’s I am proud of you.

I know that in the future you will fail and fall now and then but I know you will get up and press on again so I want you to remember I am proud of you. Don’t be to hard on yourself when you fail or when others fail you just quickly forgive and press on. Do not harbor any bad will toward yourself or another it just bring sickness and weakness into your own body and soul and causes your spirit to be heavy and unhappy.

There are two ways of doing things. The right way and the wrong way; always try to do things the right way. I will tell you why! When you do things the right way it makes you feel good. When you do things the wrong way we don’t get that good feeling.

The reason I am proud of you is that so often you have done things the right way. Sometimes when you do things the right way no one notice’s except one in heavenly places and then He is proud of you.

Sometimes it is very hard to do things the right way and very easy to do them the wrong way. I know that you will have the strength to go the right way. I am proud of you!

Well I guess that is all that is on my heart today I will write to you again in the near future.

With all my love and prayers.
Your Dad

I am doing something new and different.

For many years we did a newsletter every month with a message and other information.   We are now down to two newsletter a year, one for the spring tour and one for the fall tour.  We will continue to do those two.

About four years ago I started writing letters to my children, the purpose was to put them in a book for my children and my  grandchildren. I wanted them to know about God and Jesus and our faith walk.  I wanted to encourage them and to correct them and to share our love and teach them the things of God. I wanted them to know about all the wondeful things god had done for and through us.

Several times I have mentioned to others this work I was doing. “Letters to my children”.  Each time I mentioned it The answer I got was, “I want it too”!

For several months the holy Spirit has been telling me I was to start posting these letters on e-mail and our web site.  I have decided to obey and do it.