the journal

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One of the things I like best about the blog is it gives me an opportunity to keep sort of an on-line journal of the things that have happened in my life.  If I get to the point where I forget something, or need to be reminded of something else, a post has an unusual way of coming back to me.  Mostly that way is someone will go back in the archives and read something.  Equally important are the posts that re written and never published.  Right now, there are quite a few and I'm grateful for two things:  One that I wrote them because they are relevant to the things going on in my life and two; that I never published them.

I heard a very interesting program on the radio today called "Insight For Living".  In his comments today, Pastor Swindall used the quote from AW Tozer I shared with the congregation in October.  He added another one, unsure whether I have it right or who to attribute it to, but it went something like this:  "When God does something impossible, he first takes an impossible man and crushes him!"

That's a lot of the reason I share with you.  I fear God.  I know what He will do to me when I get out of line.  I have a dear friend I share some of the more private things in my life with and I shared a story that was shared with me last Sunday that literally left the person speechless for about a minute.  My friend does a very good job of helping me stay in line.  Good Christian friends are priceless!  My friend has a little bit of fear for the Lord as well.

I'm kind of reviewing that talk I was fortunate enough to share with the congregation at church and it's on my blog.  The words of that are fresh in my mind.  Oddly enough, I re-read the scripture verse today about fearing God and keeping His commandments.  I'm hoping some of you will take some time to re-read that this week as well.  The post is titled "A past I'm not proud of, a future I can be proud of" and it's in October's archive.

Thanks as always for reading the blog.

Coop

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