Caleb Ministries

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05/11/2015

Caleb Ministries is currently taking donations to help the tornado victims in Van, Texas. Some items that they are in need of are baby food, diapers, wipes, toiletries, underwear, socks, bras, non-perishable food items, towels and bathrags, water and monetary donations are welcome as well. If you have anything you would like to donate please contact us

11/01/2014

Caleb Ministries is trying to help out a local Tyler couple. They are young and expecting their first child right around Christmas. They don't have the help from family and friends or the finances that some may have. She is 7 1/2 months pregnant and has a crib with no mattress and a car seat. I am asking that if anyone of you who live in the Tyler area would like to help and donate anything please let me know. We have received a mattress already from the crib. Thank you in advance and God bless you.

09/19/2014

Looking for answers, you need a way out
You've been trapped in that trial full of sorrow and doubt
You saw a trickle of sunlight but you found no escape
Just hold on to his promises, He said He'd make a way
Chorus
He'll make a way in the middle of nowhere
When it seems no one really cares He is there by your side
He'll make a way when you feel Satan close in
He'll make a way right on time
Verse II
Standing at the Red Sea, no place to go
Pharaoh's army was closing in, they'd soon overthrow
But right out of nowhere came a might strong hand
He rolled back the water, he made a way out again.....I love this song by the Crabb Family.......

For those of you facing your "Red Sea", no matter what it is, remember God will make a way. When you are just about to give in and you don't see any way possible. When you think it's time to give up the towel and settle for what this old world and Satan has thrown at you, know its time for God to show up on the scene and show out.

I thank God for being there and showing up and showing out. Our family has been going through a non grief battle for awhile now and we have stood our ground and believed for a miralce and for the first time in a long time I see an escape. I see a way out. I see the waters of the "Red Sea" slowly rising on either side and its time I danced in the middle of the "Red Sea" and praised my God for what he is doing and what he is about to do. Nothing we did changed the circumstance, but God (in his timing) has began to change it all.

I pray for each one of you that may read this that say's yea, that's me, I'm facing my "Red Sea" and I can't see a way out. I claim victory and peace in your life. Remember God will show up and He will make a way.

09/01/2014

My last living grandparent passed away August 3rd and because my aunt who is partially disabled and was about to have surgery we decided it would be best to stay with her and help her get through the first few weeks of grief and the recovery of surgery. On last Friday, August 29th we finally made it back home. This weekend I have really pondered and thought about being gone that long from my home. You see, I never got completely comfortable while I was there. I took pictures of Caleb, I took his pillow and shirt I sleep with and all the other things I needed but I often felt out of place. I couldn't feel Caleb's spirit like I do here. It didn't smell like him in the air at times. I couldn't just walk into Caleb's memory room when I wanted to look at his guitars and golf clubs or his beat up cowboy hat. I wasn't at peace at times while I was there. I slept on a hard bed, nothing like Caleb's soft bed I inherited. You know the old saying, There is no place like home. Well I sure agree. But that got me to thinking. This is truly not my home. One day I'm going to take flight and join my Heavenly Father and my son and all my other family members in Heaven and then I will truly be home. While this last month I felt out of place and not at peace at times because I wasn't at my earthly home, as a Christian that is how I feel at times now even though I am at my earthly home. I long for Heaven, I long to be HOME and walk the streets of gold and see the crystal sea. I long to talk with My Jesus and praise Him for all eternity. I long to get a bear hug from my 6'4" son once again. I long to talk to my Daddy, my Granny and Papaw and many more family members. I long to see the great men and women I have read about in the Bible. I long to see the nail scarred hands and feet. Oh I have such a longing for Heaven because truly there is no place like HEAVEN. We can't even fathom the colors we will see, the smells we will smell, the sounds we will hear, the food we will eat, the pure joy and beauty we will experience. Oh praise the Lord I am one day closer!!!! Til then, I thank God I am back at my earthly home.

03/12/2014

02/14/2014

Some thoughts I'd like to share:
If I asked you the question tonight what is life? Or better yet explain your life to others so that they could better understand the definition of life. Could you give me a truthful answer? Would you be ashamed to let others know the real you? Do you know the real you? Have you lived a life of only stolen moments and years of just going through the motions.
As I set and ponder on the thoughts running through my head tonight, on this Valentine's Eve, the day before my Caleb Cecil Daniels Luther would have been 19 years of age, I ask myself this very question.
I have spent many (actually most) of my years trying to figure out who I was while wearing a mask and refusing to show most people who I really was. I've been judged, I've been labeled and I've been abused and mistreated by others. But the worst of all I judged, I labeled, I abused and mistreated myself. While I can admit life has truly been unkind to me (if you would have told me these things would have happened in life when I grew up, I would have locked myself in coach Tipps class and refused to come out).Yes bad things happened but then I made bad choices too. Life is unkind. Life is cruel. Life will keep you guessing and keep you feeling lonely and sad. Life will trick you into thinking your living and make the best out of it when truly your making a mess and only pretending to go through the motions. But honestly was life ever meant to be lived like this. God wanted our lives to be very different. Remember the Garden of Eden.
With that you would think that I would have a lot of anger and a lot of regrets and feelings of WHY WHY WHY couldn't I have a better life.
Well you see... come January 24, 2013... If I hadn't been through the ugly before that day, If I hadn't learned how to wear that mask and pretend I was OK and living life while secretly inside I was drowning.... I would have been destroyed that day. I would have completely lost my mind. Don't get me wrong... I knew there was a God and I trusted Him with my life before January 24, 2013 but I didn't want Him to see all the ugly hurts and pain of my life. Silly huh.... We don't want God to see something in our life. Well I can tell you from experience, we can't keep nothing from God. And on that day the shell of my existence was stripped away and I allowed God to hold all of me, all the ugly pain, all the ugly hurts. Everything I had ever kept from Him shown through that night.
So a year and three weeks later am I still wearing that mask and am I still pretending. Well not near as much as before. I have let people in. I have learned to see the bad things in life as a blessing in disquise. I've finally learned from all the hurts and pain that it's made me stronger and enabled me to go through the greatest pain I have ever had to face and that is loosing a child.
Tomorrow my first born would have turned 19 years of age and Caleb truly knew how to live life. He wasn't ashamed of who he was, he stood for God and stood firm in his beliefs. He was the life of the crowd. In any room, he could light it up with his smile. So as I say to Caleb, "Happy Birthday son. I love you and miss you so very much!" please take a moment to ponder what life means to you and your loved ones. Make each moment count and never ever let a moment go by without taking the opportunity to let your loved ones know you love them and do your best to never go through the motions.
And most importantly please take a moment to see where God fits in with your life. Are you fitting Him in a little at a time or is He is your life.