Letting Go

by Nina Graff - Used by permission

The lilac photo is from our farm that we sold a few years back. I went to visit yesterday and they have a new baby (#5!)  I asked before I came if I could dig a shoot from a couple of lilacs? There are 5 different ones there. This beautiful double purple one in the photo was CHOPPED DOWN!  Just because he didn't want it there!

Oh my, the whole place was in shambles. Really. Broken windows, falling boards, the yard a MESS. But I did get to dig a few lilac shoots that were popping up.

I drove away realizing that the things we build up in this life are nothing more than sand castles. We can enjoy the building....BUT they can be dismantled in one big wave.  It's only the things we build for eternity that last.

The Poem that Could Really Change Your Eternity

Author unknown ~ Thanks to Karen Coughlin in Florida for sending this poem!

I knelt to pray but not for long, I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work, for bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer, and jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty was now done; my soul could rest at ease.....
All day long I had no time to spread a word of cheer;
No time to speak of Christ to friends, they'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do, that was my constant cry,
No time to give to souls in need, but at last the time, the time to die.
I went before the Lord, I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God held a book;  It was the Book of Life.
God looked into his book and said, "Your name I cannot find.
I once was going to write it down, but never found the time."

 

 

SCRIPTURE THAT WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE YOUR ETERNITY FOR THE BETTER

Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation. - II Corinthians 6:2

* Rom. 3:23
* Rom. 6:23
* Rom. 5:6-8
* I Jn. 1:9
* I Jn. 5: 11-13
* Rom.10:9,10, 13