GO FORWARD WITH AN OPEN MIND, II

[The following is a slightly reworked reprint of my post of November 26, 2017.]

Do not fear change. Run toward it. Run forward with open arms...or an open mind more like.

I have been feeling very melancholy of late. There are at least ten people who recently have left or are soon leaving my life...through moves to other states or illness or death...and the one, of course, in high dungeon quoting Jesus in the original Aramaic. (The God of my understanding and I still think that is funny, take it up with Him.)

Then, this morning I'm reading "God Calling," and there on November 26 are my notes I had written in 1975 and again in 1985, referencing major changes in and to my life. 

In 1985 it was my job was being moved to Connecticut, my apartment was being sold, my car was about to go wheels up and various friends were moving on. 

Same day in 1987 I noted, "All those 'outers' have been wiped clean."

There it is...life itself written in one sentence in the margin of a book. Whatever is going on in our life, stay with it, run toward it, learn from it...all those "outers" will be wiped clean. By grace and by God.

Thank you.