AN INVITATION
I want to invite each of you today to a party of sorts. I am throwing it because I want to wallow in my own self pity. That’s right, it’s a pity party! I am tired today. I am weary of the on-going side effects of the cancer surgery. I want a break from the pressure to “get caught up”. I am fed up with being behind in my schedule. I want to get back to where I was six months ago! There! That feels better. But now I see the absurdity of what I just wrote! There is never an option to “go back”. It is impossible! And I certainly don’t want to stay right where I am. My only real choice is to move forward. “Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13,14 Read the rest of this entry »