Our Family vacation in 1965.
Our kid's Brandon and Brittany in 1988.
Brandon and Amy's wedding 2007The Seasons of Life seem to be passing faster and faster but I have learned one thing. Life is a test. Life is preparation for eternity. This is not the big show. You're in the warm up act of your life right now. You're going to live on earth 60, 70, 80 years and then you're going to spend the rest of eternity in eternity -- far more of your life on that side of death than you will on this side of death. This is the warm up act. This is a test. You're in preschool. This is a preparatory academy. God wants you to learn a whole bunch of things before you get over there. One of them is that He died for you and rose for you and He wants a relationship with you. After you have that relationship, He wants you to learn certain character qualities which you will take with you into eternity. That's all you're going to take. You're not going to take anything else with you when you die but you will take your character -- the kind of person you've made yourself to be.
God wants us to grow and learn. In all of these seasons there is an important lesson to learn. To make the most of the seasons in life you've got to extract those lessons. You've got to look for the truths, look for the principles. What does God want to teach me? When you're going through a season, you don't say, "Why is this happening?" but "Lord, what do You want me to learn?" God never wastes a hurt and He never wastes a season. He always wants you to learn something out of everything that is going on in your life. If you waste an experience you're making a big mistake. Because it's not just an experience, it's an education. You ask "What can I learn from this?"
We are in a great season of life today.... We are seeing God do great things in our life and work..
I love to see things grow and our new church is growing.... Thanks so much for your prayers and your support.
