Ponds

Going 65 on my way home from my brother’s after the Red Sox satisfying shellacking of the Yankees last Monday I hit one of the ponds that are common on San Antonio roads when it’s raining. I did a 360 and came to rest 100 yards short of who I take to be the pond’s previous victim, wobbling about the margin in the vicinity of his vehicle. I neither hit nor was I hit by anything.

               Less than 16 hours later, driving to work in the opposite direction, in approximately the same place under approximately the same conditions, traffic crept past an accident scene that included the remains of three mangled vehicles strewn across the highway, one a pickup with its cab clean off.

               Life can change in an instant; our lives hang by a thread. Pack your moments with all the love they’ll hold; it’s the only baggage that won’t be jettisoned when things begin to spin out of control.

Good Company 3

This Splendid Life can, indeed should, be yours!:

“Yet I am always with you [Abba; father];
    You hold me by my right hand.
You guide me with Your counsel,
    and afterward You will take me into glory.
 Whom have I in heaven but You?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but You are the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever . . .

As for me, my unity with You is my good.
    I have made You my refuge;
    I will tell of all Your deeds.” Psalm 73:23-28

Unite your life to the life of Yeshua* the Messiah, through faith, and your life will become a romance!

*Jesus’ name in Hebrew. This is what his dad would have called him; sounds just like the Hebrew word for salvation. The angel said to Joseph, “You are to give him the name [Yeshua] because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21)

Good Company 2

Imagine how you'd feel if you got to spend every day in the company of the one person you loved most, a person who loved you completely, with their whole heart, and would do anything for you. Imagine that you two worked together, ate together, played together, slept together, and that over time your love for each other grew and grew, as you came to know better the depth and beauty of their soul, and understand the complexity and simplicity of their love for you. Knowing silence would probably prevail between you, most of the time. Few words would need to be spoken. You two would communicate in ways far too subtle for words. Your love for each other would give you understanding of all your other relationships, and would illuminate them. 

Wouldn't that be a splendid life, even if you two faced tremendous challenges or even suffered great hardship together? Or would it be splendid precisely because of the difficulties you faced, hand in hand?

Good Company

Imagine how you'd feel today if you got to spend the entire day with the one person in the world who you love most, a person who loves you completely, with their whole heart, and would do anything for you.

Wouldn't that be a splendid day, no matter what you two needed to do together?