Reflection

Just recently I recieved a note on Facebook from someone I had not heard from in more than 30 years and I have to say that it was a shock. Asw much as I could remember it was back in 1973 that I last talked with this person then for some reason we lost contact with each other. Because of this note it has been a time of reflection thinking about old friends and what they are doing now and where they are at. With this time of reflection I thought of a good friend who for some reason knew when I was home from college for the weekend and he would come over and that first night him and I would spend the evening running around together (I know that my parents would have liked for me to spend the time with them) I thought about when my brother called me to tell me he was killed in upstate New York. This time of reflection has also reminded me that when God forgives us he does not remember the sins we have commited and that we start a new with Him. Since I have been on Facebook I have had contact with several friends from my teenage years and there are many who I do not know where they are at are what they are doing, but each of us in some way have taken different roads to travel in this thing called life. One thing we have in common is a God who loves us and wants us to travel this road with Him some have accepted that invitation and others have not my prayer is that many more will begin to walk that road called life with God.
Though out this week I have thought back over my life and there are things I remember doing and I think to myself I wish I would have handled that difeerently or had not said tht or sometime I wish I would have said that, but one thing I know is that I can not change the past and there are thing I would not change like meeting a girl by the name of Roxanne who later became my wife and this year in July will mark our 33 year as husband and wife. I would not change having two beautiful daughter who have blessed us with two wonderful sons-in-law and also 3 grandchildren (who this grandpa thinks are pretty special). I have been blessed with a wonderful mother-in-law (and if she reads this she will say you remember that) a super father-in-law who is with Jesus now and I miss and sometime miss even more when I know he would want to experience what we are doing.
I must mentioned this of all the things that has happen in my life that has been the best, and I know I would not change is that my relationship with God I thank Him many times over for not giving up on me for a church family who prayed for a teenager named Darrell Cox and one lady named grandma Geiger who said I knew God would call you to be a preacher. Times have not always been easy but God has always been there His word tells us that he will never leave us or forsake us
Blessings