Another Year

Wow, 59. That's right, this is the last year of my fifties. I don't know if I'm suppose to cry or jump for joy. I look in the mirror and I see my Dad, which isn't so bad because he was a great man, but it reminds me I'm not as young as I feel. I see the years going by so fast and I wonder, am I making an impact on this world? I want to leave something behind besides beautiful girls, three by the way. I want to right a book, lecture across the country preaching the gospel, help save thousands of souls. Start a movement that changes the world. But right now, I'm just going to have another cup of coffee. Here's to you kid.

Good by old friend

We had to put to rest our faithful family protector. In only seven and a half years she found herself deep in our hearts and as much a part of this family as she would if she would have been with us twenty years. Our animals teach us so many lessons about life and love, but the most powerful lesson of the them all is the lesson about death. When we loose a pet it causes us to stop and think, how fast time has gone by. We think of the passage in James 4:14 "Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away."  We realize just how fragile we are and just how quickly death will come for us. It has caused me to stop and think of my friends and loved ones who have gone before me and how life has just continued on. So I pause and think of how much of an impact my pets had on my life in just a short while, then I have to think, that's the biggest lesson of them all. I must make an impact on the lives of others, God has given us precious time, if used properly, we CAN change the world, one person at a time. Paul said; 1 Corinthians 11:1  "Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ."