Today is Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003; Karen's Korner #23

Allow me share something which I wrote last year:

 

Not Like It Appears

 

I take a couple-of-mile, late afternoon walk down our country road, south of our farm home. I am lost in thought as I walk. It has been a windy spring. Day after day it seems the winds are blowing. Several days’ winds have been reported at highest gusts on record for that particular day or month in our weather’s history.

 

As I walk back up the hill toward our house, I notice that some of the shingles on the south side of our home seem to have blown off. I hadn’t noticed that before. "That’s disappointing," I thought, as we had done an extensive re-roofing project last year. A phone call or two an insurance person and the roofers could get the problem corrected.

 

To my surprise, what appeared as a shingle problem from a distance was really lengthening shadows from our television antenna and a newly installed satellite dish on our roof.

 

How often do we do what I did and view things from a distance and make false assumptions? Do we jump to conclusions about what we see in our own lives and falsely believe it can never work out like we thought? Do we make idle comments about someone or something in others’ lives when we only know a portion of the story? Or do we ask God to view things from his viewpoint, which is never from a distance, but always close up?

 

I want to walk through my life with my head up, watching the things which are happening from a distance. But I also want to remember that the shingles of my life are intact, because God has nailed them down with his eternal hammer. Nothing that comes into our lives when God is the "Master Carpenter" will cause the shingles of our lives to fly apart, no matter how hard the wind blows.

 

And our house will be in good repair from now and through eternity.


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