What is going on here?

What is going on here?

 

 

The Hartford Courant newspaper ran a photo showing two toll booths guarding a bridge. Both booths had green lights but one lane was empty while the other had a line of vehicles.

 

 The caption revealed that commuters were saying goodbye, some even tipping, a friendly caring toll taker who was serving his last day on the job. Those toll booths have since been removed but fond memories linger about a special toll taker who greeted frequent travelers by their name.

 

"Whatever you do, work at it with all  your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters. (Colossians 3:23)



 



“Sixes and Sevens”

 Weekend July 13-15

  My grandmother called it, "sixes and sevens." meaning, I’m confused, not focused. In the mail is a flyer, quoting Thomas Merton.

"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.  I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone." What timing. Thank you Lord.

 

"Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6) This has become my life verse. What is yours?

 

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Dead Tree Branch

 July 11

 Joy has left for the day and now is my chance to remove the dead branch hanging over the water. Joy wanted me to hire someone but I know I can do it myself. I reach up and twist the branch. SNAP. At that second I realize I am standing directly underneath this branch. How dumb.  

I brace for the impact. Splash. The main branch crashes harmlessly into the lake and I am left holding some twigs and feeling absolutely stupid. The Lord has taken pity on a fool.

 "Oh give thanks to the Lord for He is good! For His mercy endures forever." (Psalm 136:1)

From my journal

                                                 Three Boys and a Snake

 July 10

 At Boy Scout camp, two boys and I confront a dull brown and red snake with a vibrating tail.  One boy pins the snake with a stick. The other boy grabs it and put it inside a flimsy cupcake box. In a flash the snake springs out of the box, slithered over a bare knee to the ground and escapes. A bugle sounds and three tenderfoot scouts run off to a parade field.    .

 Angels were looking after three boys that Sunday when that poisonous Timber Rattlesnake chose to get away rather than get even.

 

" He will give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways."(Psalm 91:11)

 This is no joke

 

It is a restaurant in a cave. The room is well lit, yet a lone candle burns on a ledge. Our waiter says, "that's our test candle as long as it flickers we’re fine.”  Nervous laughter. Half way through dinner a woman yells, "The Candle is out!" Heads turn. "It is OK," her husband says relighting the candle, "the waiter was only joking." My life is like that test candle. I can light up with His truth or stay in darkness and that is no joke.

 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven, (Matthew 5:14,16)

 Would you give all to save a life?

July 5

 

One summer, President Eisenhower made an impromptu visit to the University of Rhode Island where I was a student. There was Ike standing tall in an open car. Someone yelled, "Hey Ike!" and tossed a golf ball toward the President, prompting a secret service agent to leap and grab that ball in midair.  It could have been a  bomb and that agent was ready to sacrifice himself for our President. Am I ready to give up this life for Christ? Are you?

 

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matthew 16:25)

                              A Brief Conversation with God

June 30 From my journal 

 

This is God's Day. I read, I pray, I meditate, I fast, and at 4:47 I have a

BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH GOD.

"How are you saved?"

"By your son dying on the cross.”

"Do you believe that? (I nod)You are saved."

"What about people who (don't or) stop believing?"

"It is your job to tell them. Do you love your neighbor as yourself?"

"I hardly know my neighbor."  

"I know!"

“A backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.” (Proverbs 14:14)