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Rejoice In The Lord. That was Sunday’s message. Rejoice!
This is a great goal, to rejoice. How is it done though? Life is so crazy busy that sometimes, I don’t know what day it is.
Ever feel like that?
Or, perhaps some people, this year especially, are struggling so much financially, that they can’t see straight.
So, what are we supposed to do? How does one rejoice under these circumstances?
We all know the answer, don’t we?
Oh, you know what, there are probably exceptions to when and whom we get to forgive.
Is that it? Is that what you think?
PS. Do you sometimes wonder if God ever has a tough time deciding?
Do you? Can you? Will you?
Traveling all last week, I heard many negative and malicious comments about Tiger Woods. There’s a fairly rampant, and unfavorable, judgement on Tiger Woods, the Golfer.
And when I took this photo, I was actually in a negative judgement mindset as well.
And then it hit me. What about Tiger Woods, the man, not the golfer. The human being, just like you and me.
If Tiger Woods asks God for forgiveness, do you think God will deny Tiger Woods?
Would God deny you forgiveness?
Then why would Tiger be any different?
Then why would I be any different?
Opportunity isn’t always obvious.
Passing through Atlanta airport the other day, and a hallway billboard caught my eye. It wasn’t Jane Goddall or the chimp that made me want to stop and look, it was the word – STEWARDSHIP – that did it.
If you visit jeffnoel.org, and don’t know, there are four other blogs I write daily. Over on the upper right corner is Blogroll, which has a one click function to the others.
Anyway, it dawned on me, humbly if I might add, there aren’t too many five-a-day bloggers, so it’s a working name for now.
Five-a-day blogger.
Sounds funny. And crazy. And slightly boastful. Oh well, my apologies.
So here’s another crazy thing, in writing this post, it dawned on me that I should mention, just yesterday, I coined also myself the “One-take-You Tube video” guy.
Back to today’s story on Stewardship. Here’s the one-take-You Tube video, as a result of stopping to pause:
Yesterday’s post ended with, “Five minutes later, he was an angel.”
However our encounter started an hour earlier. When I first approached him, he was having breakfast in the small food court. We were the only people there at the time.
I asked him permission to say something and, of course, he graciously granted it.
After sharing a very simple thank you with him – and I may have mentioned my Dad (Korean War) and Father-in-law (WWII) both served – we both smiled and went on about our morning.
About an hour later, totally by chance we end up sitting together for 3-4 minutes right before boarding.
The plane was a smaller regional jet and, being in Zone 1 (first boarding) I walked out on the tarmac and up the steps (like the President does) to get on the jet.
It was there that panic set in. “My phone! Where’s my phone? Oh no! I can’t be missing my phone. I’ve got to find it!”
As I was about to have a meltdown, and was walking the opposite way to get off the plane to go back inside the terminal, the Military Man, my new Angel, was holding it out in his hand.
God is good! 🙂