It’s January 16, 2025.
Just five years ago today
I lay in the room where Dad was,
Knowing he would leave us very soon.
I’d been traveling all day to get there
The stressors were building
It won’t be long
And before midnight, the last breath was gone.
Five years later
Yesterday was 31 years since a good friend passed
And four days ago, I started my 70th trip around the sun.
These were the numbers I woke up thinking about.
Monday I celebrated,
Yesterday I reminisced
Today, I seek balance
Whatever is happening
Keep your Focus,
Life keeps moving on.
Last night, I taught about the Beatitudes
Not so much on the Blessing,
Or why we do what we do
To receive what we are promised.
There was a critical English Word Thought…
Every beatitude contained this word.
“Are” as in the present tense of being.
Blessed “are” the…..subject….here’s the reward.
Present tense, as in right now.
Right now, we are blessed,
So live like it.
Find your balance, and focus your life.
Blessedness is with you now…and will be then.
There’s comfort for me in this thought.
Life here is fleetingly gone
But there comes a better time out of time
When we unite under that banner called Love,
But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning those who have fallen asleep,
lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord
will by no means precede those who are asleep.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God.
And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 NKJV)
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