Dragging Nona

I am tired and feeling a bit run down.  I think the hectic schedule of the last two weeks finally caught up with me.  Popa and I attended two church services this morning before heading to our flat for a bite of lunch and a much needed nap.  I am ever amazed at God's arrangement of our lives, HE is at work providing opportunity after opportunity for us to demonstrate HIS nature to a lost and dying world.  So often we fail to recognize HIS divine intervention into our daily routine.  We often miss the opportunity to share HIS love with others.  Life is made of up of sixty seconds in every minute and sixty minutes in every hour arranged in twenty-four segments we call a day.  Today is the only day we have, tomorrow may never come and yesterday is gone.  I ask myself "What am I doing for Christ in 'my today'?"  Am I serving others as HE served, am I loving others as HE loved, am I dying to self as HE died to self?  The answer is painfully obvious to me, sometimes I am serving, sometimes I am loving and sometimes I am dying to self.  There is still so much to surrender to God that I am overwhelmed at HIS long suffering with me.  Someone said this week, that we are always growing in grace and I say a hearty "amen"!  May I encourage you to submit to the examination of the Holy  Spirit and may you find yourself readily engaging in all the needed changes in your life.  Abundant life in Christ is the goal.  Press on to finish the race and complete the course in victory; our God is faithful to the end.  I missed Mr. Gaige's 6th birthday, can he really be that big already?  He did inform me on the phone that yesterday he was 5 and today he is six and HE IS BIG!  Happy Birthday Gaige, Nona and Popa love you much!  You are BIG!  Where is time going and how quickly must it pass?  Only what we do for Christ will last. The not feeling up to par Nona.