I borrowed this from a billboard that I passed on the way home, yesterday was Veteran’s Day…though a day late- I want to say thanks for giving to all those veterans who gave their time, courage, sacrificed family time, hard work, and those who gave their lives so that this nation remains free….Thanks so much to you and your families for giving to us!!!!!

I am so excited about being alive at such a time as this!!! The world is at all of our fingertips-I mean this in every sense, that is of course, unless you live in a third world nation or worse! We are able to see sites in every part of the world without even traveling there!
I once met a couple who lived deep in the hills of West Virginia who made the claim that they had never traveled away from their property…in all the years that they had lived there. Imagine… never even going to a store. I asked if they needed things , how did they get what they needed? They said that their neighbors brought them supplies now and again. I said to them.. “Don’t you even wonder what is out there… that you have never seen?” I cast an inquisitive stare at the two old folks…(their mountain hats tarnished by the elements); the old man put his arm around his wife and said, “Why do I need to go anywhere, when I got all that I need right’ ‘chere”….I was left thinking….you know we can go everywhere, see everything and still ask ourselves…”Am I missing something?”

A newborn baby has a perfect hand that reaches out to receive all that the world has to give to it. This hand has not known how to feed itself, does not know yet how to pray, has not lifted anything to give to someone else, has not felt pain or hard work, has not experienced disappointment,or has not learned to caress or lovingly touch another. It is yet still considered a valuable part of the body. There are those whose hands have caused great pain, whose hand has taken from others spitefully, who have wounded or even killed others, hands that have created many things but have also learned to tear things down, whose hands have hated, betrayed and hands that have been badly mistreated. Even these hands- though lost in pain and suffering are considered a very valuable part of the body. Through Christ, all things are made new.

“When the ocean was born I set its boundaries and wrapped it in blankets of thickest fog.Then I built a wall around it , locked the gates, and said Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther.” The amazing truth that man has discovered is how lovely and peaceful the ocean is and yet how very deadly those same majestic waves can be…. when those waves become unleashed upon the earth in power and vengeance. I sit in awe of a creator who has mercy on us…. to see us to safety when we ask him to.