BENJAMIN WATSON -- MY STORY

 

Ever have to deal with perfectionism?  I've never been a perfectionist but I've known some.  Benjamin Watson was a perfectionist. Above is his story.  Below is the trailer for a movie he has produced.  

COME AND SEE

 

GHS Bible Club 1960

In case you don't know it--  God loves you.   From Matthew 10 we learn-- 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 

Christians, (those who have put their faith in Jesus), know that God loves them.  I knew at a young age that God loved me.  I always delighted in attending church.  I knew everybody there loved me.  They had to love me --it's a command from God.  But at school nobody had to love me.  I was a little embarrassed to get up in front of my lunch shift and ring the bell while we asked a blessing.  But I remember what Jesus said in Matthew:10 32 "So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven." So I rang the bell and led the prayer.  

GHS 1957

 I strove to obey Jesus when He said in Matthew 28:19, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." My idea to evangelize my classmates at Groveton High School back in 1960 was to invite boys to Youth Group at Calvary Presbyterian church. With that in mind I even invited my friend, Nancy (Lukehart), along with two boys, (one was Jimmy Schaal who attended Groveton), to help build the Glen Kirk church camp. 

I am becoming more and more interested in spiritual things as I grow older.  With God's help I will continue to seek Jesus and His Kingdom and His righteousness, and I will invite people to come and see what Jesus is all about.

With the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) U.S. Supreme Court Justice on September 18, I am saddened.  Only God knows her heart.  But there is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus, (John 3:16.)  I pray she made her peace with God before she was gone. 

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

Where were you on September 11, 2001?  I had just attended my Groveton High School class of 1961 reunion back in Virginia.  Of the classmates pictured above two of them have passed away since that reunion.  I have kept in touch with several others.  We had concluded that reunion on Sunday, September 9.  Many had headed for home.  My husband, Chris, and I were staying in Alexandria and had planned to go into Washington D.C. and do some sight seeing with our friends Nancy Lukehart and Charlie Pavey.  We managed to take in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Monday the 10th.  On Tuesday the 11th we hoped on the train to head in to DC.  Suddenly someone said to somebody on their phone, "I can't believe they bombed the Pentagon."  We looked in that direction and saw the black smoke.  We looked at each other and said, "Today is not a good day to go into the city."  We got off at the next stop and headed back to Alexandria.  

Enjoying a meal with Nancy and Charlie

To make a long story short we were trapped in Alexandria until Saturday before we could get a flight back to Seattle on the day of my cousin Heather's wedding at Ft. Lewis.  We arrived just in time for the wedding.  Chris and our daughter Heather took the pictures. 

Heather and her dad

I found out later that I have two cousins where were born on September 11.  I will never forget their birthdays again.

Laurie has a September 11 birthday

Diana has a September 11 birthday

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.