30 years different

Greetings fellow made of the earth but do not belong to this earth-lings?  Tonight is the day before the 30th anniversary of the event which claimed my Father's life.  Such an event gets one thinking, I was walking the dog and doing some more thinking, reflecting on whom I am to my children, to my wife, to my Savior? I was watching a Netflix comedy special last week, and the guy made a joke about everyone having one thing in common...............and that is they wish to start again.......... (much laughter).  Is that the truth? What about everyone #LivingTheDream? I am reminded of a friend of my dad's who I have been told, after the loss of his friend he decided to make a dramatic life adjustment, sell up house and home and go to Bible college to become a Pastor.  I like that, I like that story allot I have a few other stories of the events of July 6th 1988 changes many lives for the better.

We often take long pauses of reflection when life's big moments happen, We have such dreams of this or that, I am a dreamer, oh let me tell you about the the things I have wanted to do, the many blue prints of aspirations that never became more than that.   

The book of James has this to say

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 
     
As I tucked my kids in tonight, I am reminded of when I was a little boy but 8 years old , waking and walking into the kitchen and then family life was never the same again. I am the same person but I am 30 years different.  Love your brother, love your enemy, love a stranger, love an addict, love your mother, love your boss, Open your heart to love someone new today, open your heart to the one who whilst you were still an enemy...He gave his Son to die for you. 

Romans 5:6-8: For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.