Touch the Fringe of His Garment Everyday in Faith~Hope~Love: 1St Corinthians 13:13

By Miz Judy L’Au Meyers and Mr.Mel H.Meyers

It is with our deepest pleasure that we offer you faith, hope, and love in Touch the Fringe of His Garment Everyday.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546245322

Miz Judy L’Au Meyers

Miz Judy has from the age of 12, taught a Sunday School class, using her own art and illustrations, for stories to share with, 2 and 5 year olds. She was asked by an evangelist to preach her first sermon at the age of 12, on the story of Adam and Eve. And this opened the door wider into full time preaching the Gospel. Her writing career was at the same age, telling about the Lords Work. At age fourteen she started into another new adventure to further her seamstress skills. She started her own pattern drafting and making garments, one of a kind, for herself and others that needed her service. She preferred the formal wear, for weddings, over the creations of everyday clothes. And loved writing Drama and plays, creating clothing the time periods. In the mean time she continued in the lords work. And then by the time she married, in 1956, she soon after, opened her own Silhouette of Fashions and taught others to model and do stage walking. Even in her designs she mad mens and young boys tuxedos. When wining a scholarship, Miz Judy, decided to go ahead and open her own business, to help other modeling agents to draft sewing-books for teaching classes, mostly by postal mail. In this type of work and writing, she continued to teach art and crafts to students, from grade school through college. She kept her classes private, in her own home, as it was easier to work with a few students, and not a large audience. She enjoys genealogy and especial history of her family heritage, She had been asked to write a novel based on the Civil War stories, which had been handed down to her from Grandparents, and then, using her ancestors....they became the main characters with fictitious names. She brought the book to life with Romance, love, hate, slavery and conspiracy, all the while keeping the Lord as the center of all pages. Miz Judy, enjoys helping other folks to write their own story for printing. Shes been working on several books at one time, over a good number of years, and on many many subjects One is a 7 to 8 family generation cookbook. The other is poems collected and saved, that she and family have written. One book shes wants to get out, soon is on the paranormal activity, about the real and supernatural, of good and evil. Miz Judy, says her life is a Patchwork of self-taught education.,and since she retired in 1995, prefers taking time with her family, and preaching the Word of the Lord, and writing. Mr Mel Biography He has always been known as a quiet man, which never liked to speak before spoken to,.He respected the elderly, and especially his parents. Very early in life, he learned manners to be a gentleman, and in school and his chosen working careers, he done them well. He grew up with an older sibling of five yeas, and they were raised on a farm. He learned early what hard work was all about. As a child, he preferred to play by himself outdoors, and enjoyed board games, reading and putting together puzzles with his family and cousins. In his teenage years he began to see the world in a different way, and the reason for living. Mel, never liked to talk about politics, or war issues and avoided, all of this kind of conversation, when possible. His reason was that he had been raised in a stick doctrine of the Law of the Lord, from his father, whom, was Deacon in The Church of the Brethren... His mother had been raised and attended her own Lutheran Church, and on occasion he went with her, for special fellowships and dinners. In his early teens, throughout adulthood, he chose to stand up for what he believed in. Mel had started his early ministry for to the Lord, while in his teens by recording the Sunday service, and making sure the elderly, and shut-ins, had them to listen too during the week. He sometimes traveled to other towns to share them. When it was time to leave his parents- (family nest), He decided not be drafted into War and went off to do other duties for his Country, and to combine, other educational services, like refinishing furniture, and building. In College studied for a degree of becoming a Milk supervisor for the area, that he lived in. It was just before he went off to college in 1994 he met his soon to be wife, at a district, out of state... Brethren Youth conference.. And two years later they married. Together they worked with the Church, and done years of dedicated preaching, and traveled as an Evangelist team. Mel kept busy in his own business, farming, and in Home Remodeling houses for the Government. He also stayed with his fathers farming and business of plumbing, heating and roofing, until moving to another location in 1967, and worked on his own farm of 100 acres. At this new farm, he and Miz Judy, continued their own outreach center for Youth and took in some of their parents, and name the homestead... Hope for Youth Center, and here they raise their then 4 children, and bordered lots of other children and families, for 20 years. At this time as family, they were still traveling to wherever the Lord needed them to go, and worked with Teen Challenge in New York and Columbus, Ohio, and with other Ministers and laymen as they traveled. Mr. Mel states, that they had their Church at the Youth Center, and shared with other Pastors, to come and hold service. Their tent meetings, kept on growing and they had to get a larger tent over the years, to accommodate the crowd of people that attended the revival services. He kept other activities every month of the year, with other churches. They kept, busy, in the spring until late fall, they had lots of camp outs, dinners and picnics. The barn was always cleaned out to hold seminars. In the fall and winter, was outdoor contest, of making snowmen, forts, skiing and tobogganing. And making candies to, baking contest of making cookies and pastries.. They had lots of fun. Being in the full Gospel, of the Lords work, Mr. Mel says he was taught many lesson, of living in peace and Harmony. And enjoyed helping Miz Judy, to put this latest book in format to be published.

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Touch the Fringe

of His Garment

Everyday in

Faith~Hope~Love

1ST CORINTHIANS 13:13

Miz Judy L'Au Meyers

Mr. Mel H.Meyers

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Contents

Prologue: Devotional Literature; Vocabulary: (Spiritual and Personal Formation)

Acknowledgments and Dedications…

Chapter 1 Books of the Bible…

Chapter 2 Is there evidence that by Faith God is in existence?

Chapter 3 Jesus Wore Robes…Cloak.. and…Mantels…

Chapter 4 The Ugaritic Ancient Language…

Chapter 5 Abraham and Sarah…

Chapter 6 Paul’s Life was much like ours today…

Chapter 7 When you come to visit me,

Chapter 8 Communion, Fellowship Suppers and Picnic Dinners.

Chapter 9 My Mother and Mother-In-Laws Hands.

Chapter 10 What is a Father. Our Earthly Dad?…

Chapter 11 Really what does the Wedding Ring mean?

Chapter 12 Wanting things to happen…

Chapter 13 Your Works for the Lord can be Great…

Chapter 14 Woe ~ Have I found myself a Servant in life?

Chapter 15 Lord I need you now and not tomorrow…

Chapter 16 Does God Hear Unbeliever’s Prayers?

Chapter 17 A Prayer for Healing:

Chapter 18 Feeling Shammed when you know you’ve sinned…

Chapter 19 Good Day, and may this be a Happy One

Chapter 20 My Personal Tapestry.

Chapter 21 Do not try to control Everything.

Chapter 22 What is the link that is missing in your life?…

Chapter 23 God Sometimes Removes People from Your Life…

Chapter 24 Eviscerating the Human race…

Chapter 25 Condemnation:

Chapter 26 What does the word Winning really mean?

Chapter 27 When the mind begins to get foggy…

Chapter 28 The Glory of Growing Old…

Chapter 29 Marriage and Funeral

Chapter 30 Grieving..

Chapter 31 What is Narcissistic Behaviors?..

Chapter 32 What is the War I am Fighting?

Chapter 33 What is Panic Attacks?!

Chapter 34 Wise sayings about Fools:

Chapter 35 Allow God to put your feet back on solid ground…

Chapter 36 In the Last Day:

Chapter 37 In the Last Day:

Chapter 38 Our Church Today..

Chapter 39 Excuses ~

Chapter 40 Should I wash another person’s Feet?

Chapter 41 Tithing and the Benefits of it:

Chapter 42 Words have been Spoken!

Chapter 43 Don’t Allow the Blisters in Life to take over…

Chapter 44 The Miraculous Resurrection of Jesus…

Chapter 45 For Deliverance put away the foreign gods…

Chapter 46 Therefore be ye also ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect

Chapter 47 I Need No Mansion Here Below

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Prologue:

Devotional Literature; Vocabulary:

(Spiritual and Personal Formation)

How God Makes Us into Who He Sees Us to Be.

It is with our deepest pleasure that we offer you, Faith, Hope and Love, in Touch the Fringe of His Garment.

You may use any Bible you choose throughout this book.

New International Version…(1st. Corinthians 13: 1-13)

King James: version….(1st Corinthians 13:1-13)

What keeps us pure? That’s the question behind a key point of Christian theology; and we’ve read all kinds of books on sanctification… Yet in reading page after page, only grown more and more confused. It seems every church leader has their own idea on the subject of how to preach, teach, and what hymns are to be sung. After much prayer, we believe God gave to us a way to understand his work of purifying and sanctifying us to be His servant.

Footnote; Here is a simple definition, as the Holy Ghost explained it to (me) By Miz Judy.

Sanctification is the Spirit of Christ in us—making us to be in reality what God sees us to be already through justification. Plainly stated: God has already made us just (or, right) in his eyes, and that is a wonderful holiness. But now he is bringing this holiness down to our practical lives. This is the work of the Spirit of Christ in us—to conform us to what God already sees us to be. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" 1 Thessalonians 5:23).

Christ is our Perfect Love.

Most of us know that Christ is the perfect model of love. We know the message in 1st (Corinthians 13), about the preeminence of love, and we know that God is love. But then we foolishly try to love more in our own strength. We make well-meaning, deliberate attempts to overcome selfish habits and our natural distaste for cranky, obnoxious people. But when we react unkindly and sense failure, we just go back to the drawing board, convinced that if we only try harder, or read more scriptures, we’ll somehow get better at loving others.

Paul spoke of love in the Spirit, which is something totally separate from human ability. Remember his teaching to the Galatians? The fruit of the Spirit is love (Galatians 5:22). Love is a fruit growing within us from a supernatural source. It’s not your love, and yet it is, since the Spirit works in you both to will and to do loving things that are on his mind. He is our life and bears the fruit — not us. That is why he was sent to live in us.

How else could Stephen, as he was being stoned, say, Lord, do not hold this sin against them (Acts 7:60)? Only the love of God could make him love like that.

Without the miracle of God’s love, life has a way of hardening all of us. We become cynical, crusty senior citizens without the glow of the first love we experienced at the beginning of our life in Christ. This is not only bad for us but also for the cause of Christ to a watching world. But it doesn’t have to be that way. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green (Psalm 92:14).

Let’s ask for a fresh baptism of God’s love. Let’s then walk in that love so everyone encountering us can have a peek into the heart of God.

[God] delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us (2 Corinthians 1:10).

Paul is speaking here of God’s delivering power — past, present and future! He is saying, God has delivered us in the past, he is delivering us now, and he will deliver us in every future trouble and trial. We do not have to fear anything that comes our way because we know God is going to deliver us!

That is a powerful declaration but many of us forget the past deliverance of our Lord, just as the children of Israel did. Oh, the deliverance God gave them! Leading them with a cloud by day and fire by night; dividing the Red Sea so they could pass through on dry land; giving them manna out of heaven and streams of water out of the rock. (Read these accounts in Exodus 13:21; 14:21-22; 16:31; Psalm 78:16.) But still they tempted God and spoke against him.

Sadly, that often happens with us. We say, Well, I was in a tight spot and God delivered me. But this is different.

Our loving Father wants us to come to a place in our faith where we trust him in every crisis, every temptation, without question. He wants us to never again doubt his power to deliver us.

Don’t misunderstand me. We still have to fight the good fight of faith. The Lord has a way of allowing us to be burdened beyond measure at times, as Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1:8. This means he was tried beyond his own strength and could no longer trust in himself. So he turned to God!

Sometimes we have to admit we are in over our head and get on our knees before the Lord! I encourage you to cry out to the Lord today and trust him. He is faithful to deliver you.

1st Corinthians 13: 1-13

1…Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2…And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3…And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4…Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5…Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6…Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7…Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8…Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9…For we know in part, and use prophesy in part.

10…But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11…When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12…For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13…And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Now I move on to why I write in my own style: My purpose is to give words to the reader, to help encourage each of of you little more humanism, quotes that is a gift direct from God of His blessings for us all, to seek into them everyday of our living purpose. Devotional literature is for yielding one’s very own feelings and wills to teaching unto others, as yourself wants to be taught-When we have come to see the Grace of God, and go his way, He will always encourage that we have a purpose of heart to continue with the Lord. Acts 11:23.

We cannot grow in knowledge and wisdom when things are way to easy..we grow when we have to face a challenge. Psalms 1:1… Blessed is the one who does not walk in steps with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners sit in the company of mockers. Its not always going to be an easy road to take., It will take effort to gain in courage and in strength for our Body, soul, and mind to function and we must crawl out of the rut that has us all shelled in for the message to be delivered of Hope from the Lord. Hebrew 8:12- For I will be merciful to their iniquities and will remember their sins no more. And by all means take nothing for granted. Remember as we read and study that a relationship are like a bird of the air. If we capture one we dare not hold to tightly or it will die. If held to loosely it will fly away. Same with God, hold on to Him with care, and he will for sure remain with you right to eternity. Three things cannot be broken Friendship, Heart, and Promise. These 3- are the principles for a happy life. Use one another like an object of keepsake, do not use people, but love them, then reach out to help when they are in desperate need. Try a hug a day, will make the day less stressful.

What is the difference between a preface, a foreword, and an introduction? There is considerable confusion about the difference between the three, and judging from what the others tell in a Stylish- writers Manual says. Myself I mixed the two up in my own books, because sometimes I’ve had to back-track…. where an editor changed my Introduction into a Foreword, which I then changed to a Preface. It should have been an Introduction, about the book itself. Or where the editor wanted to change my spelling—that later was not right to do. Let me give to you an example. Look what jes’t-walked inside the backdoor. (referring to unexpected- company that had arrived unannounced)..or if someone I thought was to much into my personal business or wanting to change an entire sentence and paragraph. I used the Quotation from my English teacher Miss Goodman, when she was helping to get me into journalism and writing for the news..and college papers..(another story later) Ischkabible. (Is-kabble). Get out of my face. Which means. "Don’t you worry and fret about it. This is my business, and I will handle it by myself. (Later I will talk of that word from my own. Vocabulary Dictionary- in which I-made for myself, to use, many years ago, while still in grade school that followed me the rest of my life in all issues of publishing.

The rewards to writing comes from the book after grueling over hundreds of pages, on by one, day by day, into many wee hours of the next day as there is not shut-eye times to take even a quick nap. There is days of frustration, overwhelmed, and discouragements from your very own family of critics. I try to not share much with anyone except with my husband that usually knows what I am pursuing to write about for myself or a client. And yes, at times he says his so-so- and we work together to make a sentence better. I’ve talked to some authors over the years that put themselves on the pedestal..making it look like I was the hopeless beginner. And I can tell you by fact, God has my best interest, and he keeps opening doors to writing so much more more of the Uncomplicated literature when writing books. Since age 12, he gave me my first Sunday school lesson to teach a beginners class for Sunday school one morning, and by that evening it turned into the main sermon, when the evangelist asked me to show my illustrated on a sheet of paper, with the devil’s body as the entire tree trunk- and (I used the symbol of an Apple) knowing most people related that as the fruit of the tree which it was not) It was the bad evil spirit that crept into Eve, when God had already told them that was one tree of knowledge they were never to touch…- whom in return, Eve was told by the devil that it would not surely make her die, so she gave in and then told Adam, Look I am still living And without hesitation, Adam listen to her and not to God and when he disobeyed, took it one step further in sin by lying, when he told God..that his wife Eve gave the Fruit to him…etc. Genesis 1: (More on this later chapter of the book)

As it is even today I’ve had to learn with the lessons on living that mistakes in speech and grammar can make one sentence say nothing at all correctly. Or as my dad use to teach us. Put your own foot in your own mouth and you will pay the consequence. In other words your own self-esteem and bad ego…. better mean something for your own reputation. Don’t try to be what you are not. {he would pound this into our minds all the time {, or my mother would say. Allow God to work through that tongue of yours. Get your mind on God and not the things of this world. Years it took me to get all that figured out. From the Miry clay. God had to mold, then refine me in a spiritual fire. He wants no spot or crack or wrinkle in heaven. I am to be buffed as a fine polished gem, that he had allowed me to be born for.

For over two weeks we had been debating rather to keep some appointments, and just go ahead and cancel them all out, and take off a few days. We had been two years remolding our master bedroom, and bath, and considered it was done, all except a few little minor details, and I could sew the drapes and etc later. But we needed a tiny weekend vacation.

While at the same time debating what was best for us to consider doing, we’ve been wondering, what to do for a deadline, to get this book to the right market. We hadn’t yet decided on the right place to publish in, and knowing our monthly budget was very low to begin with. God we learned soon after we tried one publishing company, now had better plans, anyway. And that first company had excuses to not print it free to begin with. That was fine with us, because we wanted our own copyright anyway that they would be claiming.

Mr. Mel felt that we might need to put off publishing until July or later, and have more monthly bills caught up. Now I was still engulfed in getting this new book to press and we had one more issue to tackle. For some reason we still felt uneasy that this book had something missing that had to be spoken about. While all the time getting the manuscript into the right files, and in sequence chapter arrangements, our question was What is missing? This was a question we kept praying about.

Now if you have read my other book I wrote using Author House, for Publishing in 2008- I will not get into all details, of what I witnessed, (you can read that in the book, if you haven’t already, If the Shoes Fit Wear Them. If they Pinch and Blister, Its Time for God to Change Them. Chapter 12, {Is Heaven Real) And within this chapter, the Lord said on the first line. Open thy eyes to see a Glimpse of me. You will be walking into Heaven with me in the entire journey of the chapter, right into the experience, when I had died on an operating gurney, from a serious operation to take place that never happened. The doctor told me later. That she was just about to use the knife, to cut into my flesh and rip out that gallbladder. when the last words I heard someone behind me speak…. Recess, recess, and the doctor was talking back to them. With raised harshness. Don’t you kid me at time like this!", and at that moment I seen my soul raising up toward an open pathway, and a beautiful light. I could see as I looked down at my body, it was lifeless laying there, and at the precise moment, I was taken too heaven.

I will express it this way, without lots of details, (You can read that, in the book mentioned above, within the entire story.

I will now, jump back to when the Lord sent my spirit back to that earthly body. It had been in so much pain, even the doctors were still guessing it could be gallbladder attack. I was sent back to my room, while they were still deciding what to do next. But for a good while they talked, and there was no way they were going to try again to put me under the knife. And I was still being poked and pushed, ad probed, as they kept an eye on me.

A Few hours later, a couple new doctor(s) came to my room, and looking me over like the many times prior, and again each one checking X Rays, and they were still baffled, And the surgeon (doctor,) bless this lady), decided to go to her office to pray. Within 15 minutes… she was back in my room smiling.

God has opened another door. I’ve made arrangements with another surgeon that I know. he is a specialist. and we’re sending you to the hospital where he works out from. She patted me on the head, and then hugged me. He is a good surgeon. He wants to run new testing. If anyone can figure out why your having so much pain he will figure it out. she again grinned, He owes me a favor anyway., and I know he will figure this all out. She then gave me some medication that he wanted me to take before I was sent there bu ambulance.

Now I must go back to when the Lord had given to me many things to share while I was walking around Heaven with him. He was showing and teaching me what I hadn’t fully grasped onto yet; and one of them ~ was right after I had asked him this questions, Why do I need to go back to that ill body?

Now on the day I was in Heaven, and the Lord was holding my hand, we were sitting on a bench, as he had said we needed to rest before we were to continue on the walk..etc.., as he, kindly, with loving words spoke. You will remember when the time comes. He was referring to the questions I had been asking as to how I was going to remember all this.

He again, gently touched my hand I need you to go back, because later, I want you to write all that I have shown and taught you to tell.

Lord I continued to asked. How will I remember all this you’ve shown me? How will I know what to say to people, when I preach, or when I write books? I asked the Lord, over and over, many things I was taught, only because I knew there would never be a Dictionary on earth that was going to help me when that time came, and absolutely no professor with any kind of knowledge, or any English teacher either. Nobody would know how to do all these a justice. I just knew that there is no human on earth that would know what I was even talking about, if I mentioned the vivid colors of things, that are not like we see on earth, and the smell of Fragrance was not the same, as we walk through the gardens and meadows. While in Heaven all things were bowing down and worshiping him, while we walked along the pathways of rocks and foliage. Even the birds, could be heard singing and praising Him. If you as an earthly human have never been to Heaven; then there is no way, you’d be able to explain it, And above all from a theological literature. I knew before doubt when I left Heaven that day, I never have been the same as the moment I took that last breath. Yet since then my mustard seed of faith has grown very large. I knew that day that, beyond doubt, if I was being sent back to earth I needed the answers to all things, that I had been shown and taught with new words. I would need for sure, the right words and spelling done correctly, and how to describe in human terns all about the entire Heaven Experience that I had. This Death Blessing"…. has now been with me for a good many years. And the Lord, did and still does have a purpose for me for being here. He is still giving me daily, many new vision of insight to use the earthly knowledge to write as to what he wants spoken. I would never be able to write a book without Him.

It was soon thereafter the successful operation, in the other hospital, I was now

Witnessing even more to the miracles of the Lord. I made sure everybody that walked inside my room, especially many doctors and nurses, cleaning ladies, and just strangers in the passing, heard the story. Yes Heaven is Real. When I got full recovery, I would go out shopping, and in meetings, to speak. It was had hard now not to talk about Heaven. I was encouraged, by pastors and clergy of all denominations to tell this story. I wrote those pages with the Lord beside me. All because it wasn’t my time leave this earth and live eternity with the Him yet. I am sure he will tell me when its time to go.

Since that moment to this day, I have so often been in a foggy-writers blank..and I know there is something I’m not able to get on paper to make sense. But out of memory… Wham-0! its like out of thin-air of magic…. it happens, and sometimes so fast that my fingers float over the keyboard, and this baffles me too, as every word is typed, they automatically go into proper place. In fact I type words and sentence that I’ve not spoken to anybody, and never use in everyday conversations, even with Mr. Mel, many words are so unfamiliar even to me, that I often times go right into researching, and have spent hours in a library, for making sure each word found, will belong in its proper place, by not make something in the paragraph that is not. Correctly to be said.

It has been the same thing with writing this book, I had days of what is called Writers Fog. where the mind is so confused with everyday interruptions. I’ve I had a deadline to meet, and that was by using my own pace of time and not going by a publishers demands. I have in front me other books that one day we want to send to be printed. None have ever been revise to do yet. Right now we’ve just finished proof reading this book for ourselves, that your about to read. We wanted to make sue it was proofed read once more, since we started to write it, which has been six months ago, just for putting it into a draft; This book has to be as near to perfect as we can make it for the printer, by making sure all files are exactly where we want them in sequence. Over the past few weeks, on several occasion, we were about to toss it all out the back door, or to a roaring fire. On on Friday the 25th of June, 2018, the telephone kept ringing off the hook, and most calls were coming in as unknowns and we deleted them immediately. Right in the middle of proofing, the phone rang, we found out later I had hang up on an important call. I phoned the person back, and warned them very loud and clear. The next time you phone me, use your real name, and not just a phone number, or I will never get back with you. (Boldly and harsh sometimes I’ve had to become, even with family, friends and business places, that we’re not going to answer unknowns. Now on this particular morning, while in my private time of Devotions. We had just ended in prayer, asking the Lord to guide us through the day. Setting the first cup of coffee on my desk, with the intent to relax, and I hardly sipped a teaspoonful from the cup, when I noticed the files, were ready to be sent to the Publisher. When out of mid-air of the mine…a brand-new Spark lit up the foggy writers moment. I was again now sure, I had to rewrite Chapter One, and add a Prayer at the top of the page. I went to Mr. Mel’s office and asked him what we should now do, because this seemed so unusual, only because I’ve never done this in other books written. I have many times in meetings opened the service in prayer, or before we gather for a vote on something in the congregational meetings. And what seemed odd was the Lord wanted this prayer wrote. (which to me seemed very unusual, because I had no clue how to start it for this Chapter.

Footnote: Your about to flip to that Chapter to read the entire content, we had to rewrite all over.

Thus it is, God gives the introduction, and all the hundreds of scooped out words for each book to be written. I then have to use my own knowledge, that I am indebted to the lord..and then go out of my comfort zone at times for making His words come forth to be put into a book, that we later can be proud to see in print.

I am only telling you this for showing how the Lord, works with me. Every since that day I spent with Him in Heaven; He has everyday since that time, kept his promise, That I will know what to write when the times arrives to speak His Words… all for His own Glory.

Acknowledgments and Dedications…

In this book, titled "Touch the Fringe of His Garment."… hath given to us satisfaction in expressing our love for each one of you. Many have asked to stay anonymous for personal reasons and we will honor that too. For all of You that have contributed with us, in many ways, over the years, and have devotionally stood behind us in Bible-studies, and in hours of prayer, there will never be enough words to tell you~ that your so very much appreciated.

Many of you sacrificed your days off work, to come visit, or for us to go to the library for looking up data, for correction of spelling names, countries, and etc,: and spending time to assist us in some reassuring way by yourself typing in a page or two.

When there had been days, and we were ready to pull our hair out by the roots, you took us out of our office, for a few hours, to fellowship over lunch or a dinner, which meant the world to us.

For you that had given us time to think, you held us up with all your love and respect, for giving us days to recuperate back to what we call a Normal Moment, with peace and quiet. Without the assistance of Debbie Swick, whom we had brought into our family of many years, we are proud to call you, Our Daughter thanks for helping us with many skills over the years.

Then to our ‘Cousin’ Rodney Rock: for your photographic and artistic skills..You took the time to get the top of the brown out of our photo, and arranged the blue background to work exactly the way we wanted it to look like.

We acknowledge all of you patiently waiting to read this book, we need to explain the delay here, for the book to make more sense. The time for us to write this book, took less time then we hand anticipated, because some of you immediately found exactly what we were looking for…that would be a help to the reader to grasp the full meaning of the Life purpose of Jesus, as to why he was~ Born, Crucified and Resurrection. In some parts of the book, we needed more reference to the way we came up with the title to the book and to chapters. And digging into files we came a crossed those that our dear Jewish friend Joel and his friend a Rabbi, had through years of their studies, had shown us the Hebrew and old Testament in ways we never knew them prior. They had given to us data to store for our future study. This happens to be the correct time to now mention some of them, and in that resembelize the art work done for this book’s jacket cover, and only because its exactly like the way our two friends mentioned they were to be portrayed in this manner, using the right shades of blue. We believe some researchers, long before our time were more accurate than we would ever be, and the photographs, we will share will be more accurate then if we try to explain, by just using notes that go along with them.

Nobody really knows what Jesus look like, and we will not in this book even try to explain how we think he may have looked. So we put no upper body on the art work, for the Jacket cover, and just showing an image from the shoulder down, and chose a likeness portraying a women grabbing (touching) the fringe on his garment..that symbolizes, in the spiritual way, how we faithfully, take a hold of Jesus, when we first come to him and asking for his mercy