Crappie Tournament tomorrow, Neighborhood Watch meeting Thursday
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Richville Rundown
Sheila Ward
The Richville Volunteer Fire Department is sponsoring a Crappie Tournament tomorrow, Saturday, April 27. It will be at Lake Mitchell – Barrett’s Landing. Entry fee is $100 per boat. For more information or a form, see a member of the fire department.
Richville Neighborhood Watch will meet Thursday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richville Fire Department. A potluck supper begins at 6 p.m. Come out and find out what’s going on in our community.
Also, the annual Richville Volunteer Fire Department will be having its Boston Butt sale for pickup on Saturday, May 25, from 7 to 9 a.m. They are $35 each. Be sure and see a member to purchase your ticket. They are delicious!
Don’t forget that the Coosa County Historical Society meeting scheduled for Sunday, April 28, has been postponed. Announcement will be made when it is rescheduled. However, the Old Rock Jail continues to be open each Sunday from 2 to 4 in April, May and June except for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. We will be closed for the months of July and August, opening back up the second Sunday in September until October 13.
This is the last column for April with May starting next week. There are several sayings that come to mind about spring and the months of April and May. April showers bring May flowers is the one that reminds me you have to take the good with the bad. Also, for every action there is a reaction.
So, thinking about those things brought me to my scripture. This week it’s about blessings we give and ones we receive from others. Luke 6:38 reads, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Have you ever thought about the kind of blessings you give to other people and how it measures up to what you receive? When you measure flour and sugar for a recipe, you just don’t dump it in the measuring cup. You shake it or press it so that the air is gone, and you get a full cup before you take and level it off.
Luke is saying don’t just dump a little and think what a blessing you’ve been, but pack it in, shake it down and then run it over the top. Also, remember the golden rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do to you.” Apply that to what you do, and your blessings will return many times over. Remember that you can’t outgive God.
We have several in our community that are recovering from surgeries of different kinds. Be in prayer for them, as well as their caretakers. Our prayer list at church has many names that are suffering with cancer, as well as other physical and spiritual needs. Please pray for those in our community that are experiencing sickness, as well as those that are grieving with the loss of a loved one. We need to remember the shut-ins and their families, as well. So please pray for their healing in God’s will. God knows their names and needs. Until next week, take care and be joyful!
