Happy Tuesday!

I wanted to start todays blog by thanking God for two very special couples! Forrest & Amber Griffin and Rob & Julie Beauchamp… thank you for donating to our cause through the online donate option.

We, the leaders and members of Destiny Family Center sincerely appreciate your recent contributions! 20 years from today, when this ministry is far more visibly impacting the entire world just as our dream predicts… you guys will be remembered as the pioneer ONLINE contributers.

As with anything in its foundational stages… we should honor our initial contributers for their unusual degree of foresight!

This is a biblical thing to do.

The great Apostle Paul did this very thing in the book of Philippians when he honored his pioneering contributers in front of the entire world! God allowed Paul to spend up several paragraphs of precious biblical real estate for honoring his pioneering contributers… because honoring our pioneers is a very good thing to do!

Philippians 4:15-19 As you know, you Philippians were the only ones who gave me financial help when I first brought you the Good News and then traveled on from Macedonia. No other church did this. 16Even when I was in Thessalonica you sent help more than once. 17 I don’t say this because I want a gift from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness. 18 At the moment I have all I need-and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God.19 And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

Can you imagine what it must have felt like for those pioneering contributers from Philippi… to hear the legendary Apostle Paul recognizing YOUR courageous sacrifices… in a letter that would be so widely distributed… and eventually included in the canon of the New Testament, of the HOLY BIBLE?

Notice the BLESSING Paul pronounced over his pioneering contributers: “And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.”

This was a SPECIAL BLESSING to all his pioneering contributers!

So today, I just want to honor all of MY pioneering tribe members! Not only the financial pioneers, but also every volunteer and leader, and every enthusiast of what we are doing… to all the good people who do all those little things to propel this dream forward! Based upon the magnitude of our pioneering group… who can predict how large an impact we will have in the years ahead!

I am pioneering with you and you are pioneering with me… and we are pioneering for tomorrows better world!

Zechariah 4:8-10 After that, the Word of God came to me: “Zerubbabel started rebuilding this Temple and he will complete it. That will be your confirmation that God-of-the-Angel-Armies sent me to you. Does anyone dare despise this day of small beginnings? They’ll change their tune when they see Zerubbabel setting the last stone in place!”

For more on this topic, check out the following clips from my book, “Make Me a Legend!”

• The Dirty Part of the Job!
• Overnight Sensations!
• Dirty Jobs!

Have a super day everyone! Love you all!!

Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make the Difference!

Chuck

Happy Saturday!

My message notes for the Royse Merle Wall funeral… be inspired! Photo above: Merle and my son/his grandson Coree Balsamo.

PowerPoint: Royse Merle Wall

Did you listen to the lyrics to the song in this powerpoint?

• May the words I say… And the things I do… Make my lifesong sing… Bring a smile to you.
• Chorus: Let my lifesong sing to You… Let my lifesong sing to You… I want to sign your name… to the end of this day… Knowing that my heart was true… Let my lifesong sing to You.
• LORD, I give my life… A Living sacrifice… To reach a world in need… To be your hands and feet.
• So may the words I say… And the things I do… Make my lifesong sing… Bring a smile to You.
• This song describes my father in law, Royse Merle Wall.

Opening prayer

Dear God, give us grace today… carry us in your arms, like the footprints in the sand… help us to see this even through your eternal eyes… EMPOWER every one of us with a profound revelation of the tremendous victory this memorial service really is… so that we may push back some of our tears to applaud a hero this hallowed day! Give us a great reality of this one fact: that the real Royse Merle Wall that we all loved so much, is not in this casket… that he has graduated… he has finished his race… he fought hard and went out victoriously! Let us be warmed with the reality of this situation: that Merle is right now RECEIVING his REWARD… and that we WILL SEE HIM AGAIN! In Jesus name I pray… amen!

Opening comments…

Four years ago, it was my queen and mom Barbara Dobzeniecki Balsamo, and then there was Emily’s grandmother mother Elizabeth Musser, after that came my grandfather-I called him “Hun” Adam Paul Dobzeniecki, and this past April it was my forever young-Uncle Tuff. Today I stand before this great crowd to honor my father in law… Roycse Merle Wall. He was my father, and the greatest man I ever knew! This is the most BITTER, SWEET moment of my entire life.

On behalf of the family, I thank you all for coming to honor the man that honored all of us… for coming to comfort us in this time of overwhelming loss… for coming to celebrate the life of a LEGEND! Thank you all for coming here to applaud the strong and courageous finish of an epic race! To cheer our King Merle Wall across the threshold of heaven!

Merle loved Jesus Christ more than any person in my vast circle of friends… he loved his family more than any person in my vast circle of friends. He wanted to stay with us forever, but like all humans-Merle had to cross over-from time to eternity. His time came, and today Royse Merle Wall is with the lover of his soul-he is in that very real place he dreamed of going every single day of this past decade.

“He was one of the greatest people to ever live on earth! Every time he was with us it was like he wanted nothing, but wanted us to have everything! He was such a great person! And I know that some of him lives in all of us, and if we all become more like him everyday this world will become a much greater place!” -Heaven Balsamo

(Song-The Lords Prayer)

Opening Comments Continued…

I think about all those people at the family night… I estimate more than 50 of them traveled 2 hours both ways! Some of them bought hotel rooms so they could be here for both segments of this memorial! And look at all the people in this funeral!

Merle never had a speaking platform… he wasn’t a senator (and thank God for that, for he would have been a union worker democrat! Emily loved debating politics with her dad! We almost converted him during this past presidential election.)… Merle was a worker ant; he never led a great company, never chaired an influential board, and never made it to the front page of a newspaper or to any page that I know of.

And yet look at all these people he INFLUENCED WITH HIS LOVE! Hundreds of you good people… one family drove two and a half hours last night, drove west into an ice storm… and came back to be here today! People are here from as far away as Florida to honor YOUR husband, YOUR dad, YOUR PAPA! They came to honor a man who NEVER STOOD IN THE LIME LIGHT.

• Now look at Jesus Christ! In three years… he changed the world ONE PERSON at a time without a microphone, no website or television program… He just WALKED ON FOOT from village to village LOVING each special person he met.
• Here we are a few thousand years from those THREE YEARS… STILL affected by THAT LOVE right now!
  • Because LOVE like THAT never fades away!
• Merle also changed the world one person at a time!
• And that flies in the face of all my rushing about… my striving to publish my book and greatly expand my platform of influence so I can build tomorrow’s better world.
• My father in law, Merle Wall… he demonstrated the RIPPLING POWER OF LOVING ONE PERSON AT A TIME! (hand motion over the crowd rippling towards the back)

His life sent more than one MAIN MESSAGE… he blew my mind… the SIMPLEST MAN I EVER KNEW, and yet, the MOST DEMENSIONAL MAN I EVER KNEW! Every time I dissected the man… I saw something else I WANTED IN MY OWN LIFE!

I wrote the following message on my sons facebook wall @ 5:28am yesterday morning:

• Coree, I am so proud of the amazing person you are! When we dedicated you to God right after you were born, I prayed, “God, please let my son grow up to be just like Merle.” And here we are almost 19 years later… and God has answered that prayer! On the day papa passed away, when you came outside to help your sister, when you were still in so much pain yourself (the worse pain of your life)… and you wrapped your arms around her as she cried like I’ve never seen anyone cry before… I listened to you talk… and I was blown away at how perfectly you spoke to her.

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