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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Marking Time


 God bless america
I have seen the documentaries on tv for the last week, it’s the 15th anniversary of that dreadful day.
I was in my classroom – going about my day when Terry called and said to  turn on the tv  The rest of the day was a blur of video reeling the horrific events.   Our lives in America were forever changed.  Over and over on billboards you saw the phrase “God Bless America!”  Flags were flown from everywhere – the back of pick-ups – in classrooms and front yards. 
So many lives lost – so much destruction and our focus was turned to a new enemy.  Terrorism was cropping up in the mid-east and we set about as a nation to stop it. Over the past fifteen years - one regime gets taken down and another crops up --  Our focus is now on defeating ISIS.  Fear breeds in our discussions, news reports and in our hearts as radicals now are cropping up in America.
Reading stories of the persecuted Church – they remind us that in the darkest of times the light of Jesus shines brightest in conversion both of self and others.  Brothers and Sisters in distant lands who have been incarcerated for years, talk about the strong and beautiful relationship they had with Jesus during this time. 
In the worst of times suddenly there is a new focus on Jesus.  Yes, as Israel did, we must fight the enemy -- but in all of this frenzy of our times – Love is Greater – for those who are different from us --- for the enemy within and without.

Jesus still is the only way.
Greater is HE that is in YOU than he that is in the world (Satan)
This verse from 1 John 5 restores my peace and gives me HOPE.

Sunday, September 4, 2016

A New Day


In the aftermath of cancer - one truth has become clearer and more evident.  We are not certain of the time that we have left on earth.  I had lived the past 66 years certain that I would live at least as long as my mother and be the healthy person that I've always been.

Going through cancer has given me the greater appreciation for the days or DAY that I do have.  I have become keenly aware that life can be cut short in a heartbeat - literally.   

I weigh the idea of retiring -- I don't want to miss precious time with the Grands that  I cannot recapture or to miss being with Terry making memories and sharing life.
Is teaching this next generation something of service that Jesus wants me to do.  If so, I want to make sure that from this point on,  I plant the seeds of HOPE deeper in my students.

I look at my Bible and remember the truths that I have learned and taught.  I feel that before I see my Jesus -- I want to soak in more of HIS Word. . . not that I am cramming for a final -- but that there is so much more of it that I want to apply and enjoy and lean on. 

The Psalmist wrote - "Teach us to number our days that we an gain a heart of wisdom."

Someone wrote on her FB status recently --- she didn't plan to get old so quickly.  That struck a chord with me.  Looking back -- marking time -- it has always seemed that everyone else had aged -- but I hadn't.  These last 18 months -- I have definitely felt all 66 of my years.


This morning we sang "It is well with my soul"  - it's an old song -- Every time I sing it -- I recommit to Jesus everything that is unclear and uncertain- knowing that HE's got this.

GOD IS SO GOOD and HE woke me up this morning and that must mean he has something for me to do THIS day.

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