Sunday, 25 September 2011
Countdown
Rose asked me if we could make a countdown calendar for when we return to the Philippines. I told her it was too long before we leave and that we should enjoy our time here this year without thinking about when we leave. It did make me wonder though if it plays on her or the other childrens' minds that there is an end point to being here and stops them from throwing themselves into life here. Does it for me?
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Do you really want me to answer that question or is it rhetorical?
You all need a "health break" but in so many ways it is purely a suspension of our normal lives and we all know and partially plan for "the end" of this period and for the future beyond.
Makes you realise how structured and planned our lives really are and how much we are trusting God with our lives? How easy it therefore is for unexpected things to throw us into a spin, even Dengue, Chicken Pox etc. Yet our lives are but a vapour.
The scripture I was trying to quote was James 4 v 13 - 15."Now listen, you who say, 'today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. ....what is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, 'if it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'" The sobering light of scripture!
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