Can It Change In An Instant?

Snapped This Photo Four Days Ago In NC
Snapped This Photo Four Days Ago In NC

Ever have those routine moments when life is just kind of cruising along on auto-pilot? It happens most of the time, right? We go to work, come home, eat dinner, etc.

I was in Toronto and North Carolina all week, and extra-anxious to be home. And it was dusk as my son and I were pulling into our neighborhood.

A group of neighbors were gathered halfway down the entrance road. I rolled the window down, “Do you need any help?”. “She fell off the golf cart, we’re okay for now”, my neighbor said. The flashing lights pulling in behind us told me to keep moving.

Then last night, a neighbor says her skull is fractured in a couple places, with bleeding on her brain. She’s 12, I think.

Told you all of that to ask you this: Would you please consider lifting this young girl up in prayer? She and her Family needs the comfort and peace that only comes from a tribe of prayerful people.

PS. It would also help to pray for the boy that was driving the golf cart.

Do You Mind?

Busy-ness Is Distracting
Busy-ness Is Distracting

Being on the road for five days this week was rewarding and taxing. Unless you do this frequently, it may be challenging to understand, but I hope you do, because it’s the challenging part I want to relate to you.

We are all faced with daily challenges. One person’s small challenge is another’s big challenge.

This will seem small in comparison to life-threatening issues, but herein lies a secret.

Being crazy-busy does not give us an excuse to be unfaithful.

So in picking up our son, late yesterday, as we got in the car, it hit me. I had not been on my knees in prayer yet. Each morning, it’s the same:

  • Wake up
  • Bathroom
  • Kiss Cheryl and Chapin as they sleep
  • Kneel at the foot of the bed
  • Say the three most important prayers

“Do you mind if I do it now”, I asked him. “No, I don’t mind”, he said.

He Did This To Me

Closed On Sunday For A Reason
Closed On Sunday For A Reason

“Excuse me!”, he said, as I was leaving the US Air check-in counter at the Charlotte Airport a few minutes ago.

As he approached from the next counter over, pointing to the ground, “Are these your sunglasses?”

“YES!”, I exclaimed. “Thank you very much.”

Thinking my sincere reply was enough to express gratitude, I began walking away. Three steps into the departure I turned around, went back over to his counter and said, “You have no idea how important these inexpensive and scratched up sunglasses are to me.”

He felt good, I felt good.

He did it to me and I paid him back.

Curse At God?

God Is Like A Fireman
God Is Like A Fireman

A woman’s life was in turmoil. Her life was collapsing. She was devastated and angry. Very angry.

As she pulled into her driveway, she sat in her car, cursing at God.

God thanked her, “That’s the first time you’ve ever spoken to me.”

God Is Everywhere

Toronto International Airport
Toronto International Airport

Life is like a treadmill at a gym. You get on and you go and go, but you never get anywhere.

We go through our motions day after day, sometimes, we have no idea how much time is passing by.

And then things happen. Unexpected things. Things that might leave us feeling regret.

There is no immunity from regret, but there is a prescription for it.