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God, I'm looking
down from this Frontier 737
airplane
from Lexington, Kentucky, flight
597 at 5:45 PM EST at
Your patchwork world, and it's
beautiful and awesome!
I'm flying into the sunset and
You are painting
the horizon with reds and
gold's. It is breathtakingly
beautiful!
I've been looking out my window
from this very good seat
(2A) You gave me, and I've been
seeing the miniscule houses,
barns, cars, trucks, etc.;
and I thought, "God, this is
what
You see when you look at this
earth--except
You see inside the "toy" trains,
cars and houses. You
see the people. You see their
activities. You even see inside
them. You see their hurts and
disappointments. You see
their happiness."
I am now looking at some very
large river. I'm not sure which
one it is; but it appears to be
going (or coming from) the
way I am going - west.
It has all kinds of twists and
turns as it meanders across the
landscape puzzle. Sometimes it
even loops back into itself.
It veers far to the south
and then far to the north and
the east (or west) again.
I thought, "How like my life. I
do have a goal, a destination;
but how many times I veer in
another direction and how hard
it is sometimes to get back 'within my banks' and flowing in
the right direction again."
I hope when I "meandered" that,
even though it might have
been out of your perfect will,
Lord, I will have at least
brought life (through the Water
of Life that flowed through me)
to what might otherwise have
been barren soil. Use me, Lord,
as I try to get back in my own
channel, flowing within my
own banks as You will, to cause
life to spring up out of
the
banks where I have meandered
just as this meandering
river has caused trees and
vegetation to grow along its
banks while the areas distant
from it are barren.
We're nearly to St Louis, and
the river is still in view
forming
large arcs. I can't tell which direction (east or west) it flows
from up here, but I sure can tell where it has been and left its presence.
Even from this great distance I
can't miss its
influence; and that is what I
pray for, Lord:
Let my influence for your cause
be profound!
The horizon is still so
beautiful even though it's
nearly dark.
The lights below look like tiny
- very tiny - specks of gold
dust
or crushed diamonds scattered
over the land, picking up
reflection from the glowing red and gold horizon.
We're about to land on Your
earth, Lord, at St. Louis.
Things
on the ground are coming into focus, becoming real again
instead of looking like doll
houses and children's toys.
Life is real, too, Lord. Help me
to keep everything in focus
and to know Your will. Help me to not meander but flow in
the direction and within the channel You've chosen for me.
And, Lord, take my mistakes; use them for Your glory;
water the banks of my meandering
with Your love!
Amen.
Delores Adams
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Alice's Legacy
Remembering Alice
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