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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Spread half of my ashes at Logan Pass.
Spread the other half on the beach at Mitchell’s Sand Castles – our annual Summer tradition on Sanibel Island .
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Imminent. Looming. Threatening.
This is what we thought October 2008, just over a year ago.
Our beloved Canine Son, Carter, a nine-year old Yellow Lab, was very sick.
Our Vet spotted an unusual sore in the roof of Carter’s mouth during his routine annual exam two months prior.
The sore ate a hole in the roof of his mouth at an alarming rate – what seemed literally overnight. In hindsight, maybe we panicked.
We honestly thought that Carter may not see another weekend and we quickly made arrangements for “one last trip” to our favorite Family vacation spot, Sanibel Island.
We talked with our son (eight) about death. We talked about our favorite Carter memories. We talked about what we’d miss the most about Carter.
We said goodbye to Carter.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Carter is still with us. He still struggles with the complications from the hole when he drinks and eats, but overall, it’s a miracle he’s still here.
Tomorrow, the gift that visit brought us.
In 1973, I remember hearing a Lynn Anderson song with the lyrics, “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden.”
And while writing five blogs a day, I never want to promise you any thing that can’t be delivered to you.
The Tiger Woods saga was noteworthy at jeff noel.org because it challenged all of us to decide one way or another. (And even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice)
A jeffnoel.org reader emailed a valuable insight – none of us are in a position to forgive Tiger Woods. God and Tiger must handle this.
However, a point you may want to consider – the one that came immediately to mind – as you live your daily life, is this:
God will not withhold forgiveness to anyone who asks to be forgiven.
And if this is so, who is it in our lives that needs to be forgiven, but we have never offered them hope and encouragement?