It's a Girl!

[Greg]

 

It’s a Girl!!

Kira Macy Heffernan

Date: 8 Oct (Mum’s Birthday too)

Time: 12:22 a.m.

Weight: 2422 grams (5 pound 4 ounces) 

Length: 47 cm

Place: Logan Hospital

Mother and the baby are doing well.

Kira is in the special care nursery at the moment, but she should be in with mum soon.

She was six weeks early.

 

[thmp...@aol.com]

Congratulations

That is awesome news. 

Good wishes and blessings to all the family Greg.

 

God Bless Love Penny, Greg and Elise. 

 
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From: Greg <gregandnao@digisurf.net.au>
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Sent: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:00:34 +1000
Subject: It's a Girl!

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It?s a Girl!!

Kira Macy Heffernan

Date: 8 Oct (Mum?s Birthday too)

Time: 12:22 a.m.

Weight: 2422 grams (5 pound 4 ounces) 

Length: 47 cm

Place: Logan Hospital

Mother and the baby are doing well.

Kira is in the special care nursery at the moment, but she should be in with mum soon.

She was six weeks early.

 

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[Linda Forward]

Greg, she's beautiful! Congratulations! I'm glad to hear both Mum and Bub
are doing well.
God bless.

Linda

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[abe andrews]

Way to go champ. You have done well you should be proud.

God Bless you and your small tribe.

Abe

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From: "Greg" <grega...@digisurf.net.au>
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 03:00:34 +1000

[Bethany Canavan]

Hey guys!! Take a moment and have a read of this. Someone emailed this to me and I found it really interesting and it does make you think!!! Love Bethany

P.S. Congrats Greg, that's fantastic to hear. You'll have to bring her in sometime to show her off to us.

 

> What Katrina Can Teach Us  by Max Lucado
>
> Who would have thought we would ever hear this phrase spoken on a
radio
> news report in America: "Today, about 25,000 refugees were moved from
the
> Superdome in New Orleans to the Astrodome in Houston."
>
> For days, we've watched the tragedy continue to unfold in Mississippi
and
> Louisiana and, if you are like me, you've wrestled with feeling of
shock
> and disbelief...feelings that, over the last five years, have become
all
> too familiar.
>
> We were barely into the new millennium when we saw towers falling in
New
> York City and planes crashing into the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania
> farmland.  We saw bombs over Baghdad and witnessed the ancient land
of
> Abraham become a war zone for his ancestors. You'd think we had seen
> enough, but then came the tsunami--a roaring wave that sucked life
and
> innocence out to sea.
>
> And now the fruits of Katrina. A city sitting in twenty feet of
water.
> Citizens hacking their way onto roofs and helicopters hovering over
> neighborhoods. Optimistic rescuers, opportunistic looters, grateful
> people, resentful people--we have seen it all.
>
> And many have seen it up close. Katrina came to San Antonio in the
form of
> 12,500 evacuees. Many of you are meeting them, feeding them, writing
> checks, and manning shifts. And you, as much as any, have reason to
> wonder...What is going on here? 9/11, Iraq, tsunami, Katrina. And I
didn't
> mention nor intend to minimize Hurricanes Dennis and Ivan and Emily.
>
> Jesus criticized the leaders of his day for focusing on the weather
and
> ignoring the signals: "You find it easy enough to forecast the
> weather--why can't you read the signs of the times?" Matthew 16:2-3
(MSG).
>
> What are we to learn from all of this? Is God sending us a message? I
> think so. And, I think we'd be wise to pay attention. There are some
> spiritual lessons that I think God would want us to learn through
this
> tragedy. The first lesson we see is...
>
> I. The Nature of Possessions: Temporary
>
> As you've listened to evacuees and survivors, have you noticed their
> words? No one laments a lost plasma television or submerged SUV. No
one
> runs through the streets yelling, "My cordless drill is missing" or
"My
> golf clubs have washed away." If they mourn, it is for people lost.
If
> they rejoice, it is for people found.
>
> Could Jesus be reminding us that people matter more than possessions? 
In
> a land where we have more malls than high schools, more debt than
credit,
> more clothes to wear than we can wear, could Christ be saying: 
"Watch
> out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does
not
> consist in the abundance of his possessions" (Luke 1-2:15)?
>
> We see an entire riverboat casino washed up three blocks and placed
on top
> of a house in a neighborhood. You see demolished $40,000 cars that
will
> never be driven again, hidden in debris. And in the background of our
> minds we hear the quiet echoes of Jesus saying, "What good will it be
for
> a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" (Matthew
> 16:26).
>
> Raging hurricanes and broken levees have a way of prying our fingers
off
> the stuff we love. What was once most precious now means little; what
we
> once ignored is now of eternal significance.
>
> A friend and I attended a worship service at Antioch Baptist Church
last
> Sunday night. Several African American Church leaders had organized
an
> assembly to pray for the evacuees that have ended up in San Antonio.
Many
> of them sat on the front rows dressed in all the clothing they owned:
> t-shirts, jeans. Their faces were weary from the week. But when the
music
> started and the worship began, they came to their feet and sang with
tears
> in their eyes.
>
> They were rich. Are you that rich? Were all your possession washed
away,
> could you still worship? Would you still worship? If not, you are
holding
> things too tightly:
>
> "Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of
> themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone
> tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we
could
> ever manage--to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be
extravagantly
> generous. If they do that, they'll build a treasury that will last,
> gaining life that is truly life" (1 Timothy 6:17-19 MSG).
>
> Through Katrina, Christ tells us: stuff doesn't matter; people do.
> Understand the nature of possessions. The second thing we can learn:
>
> II. The Nature of People: Sinners and Saints
>
> We see the most incredible servants and stories of selflessness and
> sacrifice. We see people of the projects rescuing their neighbors, we
see
> civil servants risking their lives for people they've never seen. My
wife
> Denalyn and I toured a shelter supervised by one of our neighbors
here in
> San Antonio. We met a family of some twenty cousins and siblings.
>
> One six-year-old girl told Denalyn about the helicopter man who
plucked
> her off a third story porch and lifted her to safety.  That child
will
> never know who that man is. He'll never seek any applause. He saved
her
> life... all in a day's work. We saw humanity at its best. And we saw
> humanity at its worst.
>
> Looting. Fighting. We heard stories of rapes and robberies. Someone
said,
> "The heavens declare the glory of God but the streets declare the
> sinfulness of man." The video footage in New Orleans has confirmed
the
> truthfulness of that quote. Can you imagine not being able to sleep
in the
> Superdome for fear that someone might try to rape your daughter if
she
> went to the restroom in the middle of the night?
>
> We are people of both dignity and depravity. The hurricane blew back
more
> than roofs; it blew the mask off the nature of mankind. The main
problem
> in the world is not Mother Nature, but human nature. Strip away the
police
> barricades, blow down the fences, and the real self is revealed. We
are
> barbaric to the core.  We were born with a me-first mentality. You
don't
> have to teach your kids to argue. They don't have to be trained to
demand
> their way. You don't have to show them how to stomp their feet and
pout,
> it is their nature... indeed it is all of our nature to do so.
>
> "All of us have strayed like sheep. We have left God's paths to
follow our
> own way." (Isaiah 53:6).
>
> God's chosen word for our fallen condition has three letters- s-I-n.
Sin
> celebrates the letter in the middle..."I". Left to our own devices,
we
> lead a godless, out of control life of ".......doing what we feel
like
> doing, when we feel like doing it" (Ephesians 2:3 MSG).
>
> You don't have to go to New Orleans to see the chaos. Because of sin,
the
> husband ignores his wife, grown men seduce the young. The young
> proposition the old. When you do what you want and I do what I want,
> humanity and civility implodes.
>
> And when the Katrinas of life blown in, our true nature is revealed
and
> our deepest need is unveiled: a need deeper than food, more permanent
than
> firm levees. We need, not a new system, but a new nature. We need to
be
> changed from the inside out. Which takes us to the third message of
> Katrina:
>
> III. The Nature of God's Grace: Inside Out
>
> Much discussion revolves around the future of New Orleans. Will the
city
> be restored? Repaired? How long will it take? Who will pay for it?
One
> thing is for certain: someone has to clean her up.  No one is
suggesting
> otherwise. Everyone knows, someone has to go in and clean up the
mess.
> That is what God offers to do with us. He comes into sin-flooded
lives and
> washes away the old. Paul reflected on his conversion and he wrote:
"He
> gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside
and
> out by the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5).
>
> Our sins stand no chance against the fire hoses of God's grace.  But
he
> does more than cleanse us; he rebuilds us. In the form of his Holy
Spirit,
> God moves in and starts a complete renovation project. "God can do
> anything, you know--far more than you could ever imagine or guess or
> request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around
but by
> working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us."
(Ephesians
> 3:20 MSG).
>
> And what we can only dream of doing with New Orleans, God has done
with
> soul after soul, and he will do so with you, if you let him.
>
> The most disturbing stories from the last week are of those who
refused to
> be rescued. Those who spent their final hours trapped in attics and
rooms
> regretting the choice they'd made. They could have been saved. They
could
> have gotten out.... but they chose to stay.  Many paid a permanent
price.
> You don't have to pay that price. What rescuers did for people on the
Gulf
> Coast, God will do for you. He has entered your world. He has dropped
a
> rope into your sin-swamped life. He will rescue, you simply need to
do
> what that little girl did, let him lift you out.
>
> I mentioned my visit to Antioch Baptist Church last Sunday night. A
local
> minister, Pastor L. A. Williams gave a message on this one verse:
"But
> Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord..." (Gen. 6:8).  The
minister
> helped us see all the things Noah could not find because of the
flood. He
> could not find his neighborhood. He could not find his house. He
could not
> find the comforts of home or the people down the street--there was
much he
> could not find. But what he could find made all the difference. Noah
found
> grace in the eyes of God. If you have everything and no grace, you
have
> nothing. If you have nothing but grace, you have everything.
>
> Have you found grace? If not, I urge you to do what that little girl
told
> us she did. When the rescuer appeared on her porch, she grabbed him,
> closed her eyes, and held on. That's all you need to do. And if you
never
> have, and would like to, I urge you to reach for the hand of your
rescuer,
> Jesus Christ.
>
> Your Redeemer lives, too. This hurricane was his tool to get your
> attention. Trust in Him while you still can.

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