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Memorial weekend’s about honoring heroes, and remembering their legacies. It’s a solemn time in the lives of many, many Americans–a time to remember and revision who we are, as a people and as a nation.
I’ve been spending this Memorial weekend with my friends, Curt & Vi, and their five grown children. Everyone flew in or drove back to Pennsylvania to celebrate Curt’s 70th birthday with a surprise family reunion weekend. Four of the children, Curtis, Cheri, Kimberly, and Ryan, have been adopted, and one of them, Wayne, is their biological son. All of them have given Curt & Vi years of joy and happiness, along with the usual doses of parental angst. It was an awesomely peaceful, sunny, loving tribute to the lifelong legacy my friends have built around everyone they know.
Have you ever noticed that life changes also change the folks who experience them
Have you experienced a life change that has opened you up to more compassionate, understanding insights? That’s a God thing. God always intervenes to bring good fruit from life’s meaner circumstances–if we let Him!
The chubby, furry bandit stared back, through the kitchen window at me as I sat enjoying my breakfast coffee. Then he scurried down onto the sunflower seed container, scooped out a paw full of sunflower seeds, and nibbled on them, defiantly. I reached over and opened the window. That sent his tiny thievin’ legs into overdrive. He dropped the seeds and bolted across the lawn! YESSS!
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
His love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of gods.
His love endures forever.Give thanks to the Lord of lords:
His love endures forever.to him who alone does great wonders,
His love endures forever. (Psalm 136:1-4)
I’m feeling really grateful this week. I’ve been freed to go back to work, and I almost have everything unpacked in my new apartment. But I’m also feeling a little overwhelmed with all the changes.
