Forewarned this one’s personal, yet all blogs are. Here is a part of a comment I wrote sitting alone in my church about eight years ago. ” I focused on a thankful list as a start to private worship. Surprisingly each brought wet eyes. These surroundings mean so much to me. To a young single they were a welcoming place close to my apartment. David and I melded our marriage attending here. Three children were sheltered by these walls as they grew. I found ways to serve and was served in return. A next generation wedding was blessed and after fifty-four years a funeral was conducted. Others had built this to be His dwelling place on this spot in Houston, and I was reaping their commitment. In stillness my inner being received the word, ‘Welcome home.'”
Life moved on and last Sunday that church had a business meeting, something Baptist believe in because we are a congregational group. Several facets were in the discussion: location, condition of buildings, financing, use of property. For several years, people I trusted had met to offer a wise decision. Whatever we did would be CHANGE! All they were asking was permission. Nothing would happen tomorrow and certainly not in my lifetime. I looked at four young couples at a table next to me and voted yes, maybe for them and their children to have a haven I had had.
If you have read this far, you can match current news reports with the same type of hold your breath changes and do the best you can for future challenges. The values that give each of us strength and wisdom vary: a strong caring family, a broad education that challenged us to think individually and globally, a choice of a spiritual guide that makes us care for the good of all. A church at the corner of Main and Richmond provided the validity for my vote. In the larger sense, we all rely on our histories and the future we’ll never see and as we hold fast to hope for the best, we vote yes for life every day.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
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