Thanksgiving 2007 will not be one my family and I will soon forget. As we set out for our home in TN, we drove the 8 hours and 500 miles, to spend the holiday with our friends and family, but it would not turn out to be. On Thanksgiving day after taking one of our children to the emergency room for an asthma attack, we soon realized that we could not stay where we were any longer. With only enough money to get back home or stay in a hotel, the choice was obvious, we had to make it back home, in MO, so we spent Thanksgiving night in our van in a parking lot of the local Wal-Mart. We did not get to spend the holiday with many of the people we had hoped to, other plans prevented that, we did get to see a friend we have not seen in awhile and it was good seeing that his life is turning around in such positive ways. Dave, man, we love you and are praying for you!
We learned a lot this Holiday, about Life, God, Family and Friendships. While in some ways, this is not a huge revelation for our family, it was a tremendous demonstration of the total awesomeness of God, see the most important thing we learned, is that God, is Alive and on His Throne, while we spent Thanksgiving night both in the Hospital and later in a 7 passenger mini-van with six people and two dogs. We spent a total of 20 some hours in tight quarters, we learned, everyone can and probably will let you down or turn on you, but the Love God demonstrates in our lives is priceless and worth whatever sacrifice, that either comes or is required. We harbor no ill will or harsh feelings toward anyone, and just pray that the Lord will guide us all to the place of total surrender to His will.
Well, I guess with the title I have chosen it might be good, to get on with it.
This will be my last post for a long while, after all, no one really reads this anyway, and I have to get more focused on God and living His will for our lives. I have begun my calling as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, proclaiming the Good News to people whom God loves and are without hope. With a wonderful and full family, going to school full-time, working, and ministry, I simply do not have the time right now to keep up four blogs and a website. One might say I am stretched a bit thin. So, as I contemplate, this Thanksgiving past, and Christmas to come, I say GOODBYE!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
As I Contemplate…Goodbye.
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ReplyDeleteLets not be hasty here! I haven't finished following the Precursor!
You can't just stop blogging and leave us here to dig out those questions and find the meaning fpr them.
I am so sad we didn't get to see you. We were looking forward to the time we were gonna get with you.
We love and miss Ya'll
Love Diana and the crew
Steve,
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about the ordeal that you all went through. No one should have to endure that
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I am also sorry that we did not have a chance to get together when you all were down. We were looking forward to it.
Anyway, I will be sad to see you blog stop for a while. While I understand that you are busy with school, etc., I for one, look to reading your posts as they are a source of reason and truth in a wolrd that is severly lacking those values.
We will continue to pray for you all.
God bless,
George
Thanks for the sentiments, the wife and I truly appreciate them. All these things are a matter of priority, that which we put first, second and third. I never truly expect someone who does not carry our conviction about God and the nature of life to hold to our priority of life, to do so would be unwise. My stepping down from the blogisphere is my acknowledgment of my priorities and as such I must at least for the foreseeable future realize that I cannot continue at this pace and expect to be a blessing to anyone as my attentions are severely divided.
ReplyDeleteI pray for this situation to come to an end other than the one we currently see it coming to, for if this plays out as it appears, we will not be coming back, anytime in the immediate future. So, we may have very well missed our final opprotunity to get together, if this continues in its current direction. Please continue to pray for this situation and that no matter the outcome that we would be quickly and happily obedient to the Will of God!
Peace to my friends and Grace to my enemies! With Love I am out!