I recently attended a family funeral for my 90 year old aunt. She was my “closest” aunt and I hadn’t seen her in several years! I was re-acquainted with many distant family members that I only see at funerals and weddings. After the funeral, I thought about how we let time and the busyness of life keep us apart. It’s just shameful…
It’s always been amazing to me that God chose the way He did to reveal His Son. Luke tells us, the Savior was first announced to shepherds…Wow..shepherds. Smelly, stinky, outcasts, who were shepherds. Why didn’t He go to the rich, famous, or powerful first? But shepherds?
Hey, what happened to summer and even Indian summer? Can it be November already? Wow, did it seem to fly by or what? Isn’t that life, time racing on, kids seem to suddenly be adults, young adults seem all to soon to be older adults. Somebody slow it down, so we can catch our breath, please!
All my life I’ve tried to define the term “friend”...to understand what a friend really is. When I thought I had a grip on the word, I would find myself disillusioned again. When I was in my mid-teens, a man I worked for (30 yrs. my senior) told me that I wouldn’t have many true friends in life. I’d have many acquaintances, but not many friends.
When I was a boy growing up, my father was always telling me to “be careful”. Be careful with that baseball bat…be careful with that BB gun…be careful with those fish hooks…be careful with the cat’s tail; she will scratch you.