Good Morning all:
It's 64 here this morning and a bit cooler. I can feel and smell the rain getting ready to come into the area. They say that we are expecting some large storms today. I hope it doesn't cut the power off. The television I can do without, but not the air.
Yesterday the Lord impressed upon me how hectic our lives as Christians become and how often we just quickly rush through our time with Him, almost making him a second, or even a third priority. I have found myself doing this over the past few weeks because of events that have entered my life, and the worries that they've brought. But, HE allowed those worries. He wants me to put them in HIS hands. Worry will only make the human body sick. And, if we truly believe what Christians are supposed to believe, that GOD IS IN CONTROL, we shouldn't worry. God is going to bring those events together to the praise of His glory.
So, I cut the worry buttons power yesterday.
Sue, I sat out on the back porch yesterday and talked to my mother and sister on the cell phone for nearly two hours. If the Lord provides, we hope to get to go home on June 2nd for my nephews graduation and a family reunion on the third. My uncle isn't doing well, and if he makes it to the reunion, it may be the last time. Also, my mother's sister isn't always doing that well either with her heart problems. Others in the family are having health challenges, and some of them may culminate in an early homegoing. I think it's important to go to be with family and be a blessing to them. It will also give me a chance to visit my father's grave, and Vivian to visit her mother's grave, fathers grave out in Dearing, GA, and her grandparents grave just up from my fathers and a couple of rows away from her mothers.
The verse about being appointed unto man once to die...and it hit me. Death can hit at any moment, but, if we, as the children of God are doing what we should, God will take care of the details. Our appointed time is something most of us will never know until it happens. I'm not going to live my life in fear of how or when I will die. God will see me through. Is that strange? I don't know. It's like I'm not afraid to die. Is that thing that happens as one grows older?
Anyhow, that's my rant for today, though it's not much of a rant!
God bless ya'll, and have a wonderful day!
Bro. T
I've even gone so far as to stop the car or turn the corner to go back to the school. That stops it! She certainly doesn't want her friends and teachers to see her in a tantrum! Of course she has no idea that I wouldn't really do it....or would I?