April 12, 2005

• MIN-UPDATE ~ I am reposting this article becasue we are still waiting. At the most it seems it will be about another week. Please pray for us as we learn the meaning of patience.

  
  

  Does anyone like to wait? I think that most Americans like myself feel a certain pride about being able to go anywhere and have a relatively short wait to see a movie, buy groceries, drive to work, or use the work out equipment. Some nations especially ones like the former USSR traditionally have had long lines that can take a better part of an afternoon to get through. Those lines are probably more like the lines amusement parks like Cedar Point or King's Island have. Well I digress. Patience is a virtue that at times I lack and now is one of those times.

  
  

  Do you know the feeling you get as Christmas approaches. You know it is the same feeling you have as summer break approaches and the school day begins to feel like an eternity. The days are just going by so slow that you feel like you are in slow motion. That is how I feel today. I am waiting on one of the biggest events in my life. My wedding day was like this. I was to get married at 1:30pm and the morning went by so slooowwww. But then it was over in a blink of an eye. Our honeymoon was like a whirlwind. That week went by like no other. Since then my wife and her husband (me) have been on a wonderful journey that seems to be progressing at a fairly fast pace. I mean this June marks year 7 of our bliss together. You do know that God likes the number 7. Maybe we ought to take a year of rest in memory of our Lord's 7th day of rest. Speaking of rest I feel like I have not had enough lately and I know I will be missing more.

  
  

  Only one other time have I felt time pass so slowly and just like that time I had very little to gauge our progress of time with. While April 5th and 8th are possibilities for this event to occur on there is no guarantee so I wait wonder if to day is the day. It is kind of like the immanent return of our Lord Jesus Christ to take his church home at the rapture. I have no idea when it will be but it could be NOW.......... or NOW...............or NOW...or NOW... or tomorrow. No one has any clue so if some says he knows when the Lord is going to return, DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.. His return is coming and sooner than it was a minute, a day, a month, or 1000 years ago. I know for sure my Lord is coming, but I do not know when so I prepare as if it was today.

  
  

  Likewise I am preparing for this new event in my life.  I hope it is soon. I cannot wait to see the face of my daughter in her mothers arms or to hold her for the very first time in mine. I wonder what the look on my son's face will be when he sees his baby sister for the very first time. How about when she beings to crawl and play with her bigger brother. My thoughts bring tears to my eyes and joy to my soul.

  
  

  Dear God care for my daughter as you prepare her for this world that you so skillfully crafted at with the breathing forth of your Words.

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