NO PURPOSE

Yes, this card was sent to me by my oldest daughter.

Isn't that just like a girl?  And as you can guess, I'm

still not sure why she sent it to me.  Probably she does

not know either.

But you know, that is the way a lot of us live our lives;

WITH NO PURPOSE.  We do not know why we are here

or where we are going.  We just go through the motions 

of living.  Then when it is over we wonder, "What happened?"

Now that I am down near the end of my life here on 

earth I became much more sensitive to such things.  

I have more than lived out my allotted life span and 

will soon be standing before God who made me.  Did I

 just spend my life in fun and games, or serving God 

who gives me life? 

WITHOUT PURPOSE

Sent to me by my oldest daughter.

Those of you who have daughters will understand.

May it be true only of the card and not our lives.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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"Therefore if anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creature; the old things

passed away; behold new things 

have come."

(2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB)  

Tired of your old life.

Don't only start a new year,

but get into a relationship with Jesus Christ and

start a new life. 

LIFE CAN BE TOUGH

LIFE CAN BE TOUGH

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"We are all born weak and helpless.
All lead the same short,
troubled life."
(Job 14:1 GNT)


"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives
to their tremendous difficulties."
- Charles H. Spurgeon

LIFE

"Your only business in this life

is to please God; anything else

if folly and vanity."

(Brother Lawrence)

ONLY ONE LIFE

"Whereas you do no know what

will happen tomorrow.  For what

is your life?  It is even a vapor that

appears for a little time and then

vanishes away."

(James 4:14 NKJV)

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                                                      "Only one life, 'twill soon be past,
                                         Only what's done for Christ will last.
                                      And when I am dying, how happy I'll be,
                               If the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee."
                                                                     C.T. Studd

MAN

"Man is a contrary critter. A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the existence we don't care to live" - Bradford Angier

THAT'S THE WAY THINGS ARE

I like that table. It is symmetrical with nice clean flowing

lines. It is attractive and simple.

It may not be the most substantial design in the world,

but it is only to eat on.

And more than anything. It would be easy to clean.

If I make a mess, just a wipe with a damp rag and

I'm done. Neat.

"LETS EAT".

"NO"

It has to have a table cloth on it to make it pretty

and protect the finish.

OK, there's your table cloth. Now lets eat.

"NO"

You can't. You might get the table cloth dirty.

You have to have place mats to protect the

table cloth.

OK. There's your place mate, dollies thingies.

Now let's eat.

"NO"

You can't eat like that. You have to have lots of

stuff on the table to share it with you.

That's better. Now you cannot hog all the room for

yourself.

You will have to be careful not to knock something over

and watch it when you get in and out of your chair so

you do not catch anything and pull it all off.

You can eat now.

There is something about this that sounds too much

like life.

Perhaps even church.

LIFE

WHAT PROPS YOU UP?

The owner of this place

gave me permission to

poke around on it.

It happens that I know

more about this old

shed than the owner

does. I have been

acquainted with the

last three owners, and the builder of the shed.

The old shed was built

in the mid nineteen

fifties. It is a draw well.

You know. Where you

drop a long skinny bucket

down the well attached

to a rope.

The old well was used

until the early nineteen seventies. That is when a

new modern deep well was put into service.

At that point being as it was no longer being used,

you know what happened. The owners wife begin

to store (Throw) stuff in the old well house.

What's the point? It appears that is all that is

holding the old building up. All the stuff "stored"

in it.

Here looking through

one wall you can see

about a rick of fire

wood stored. It is

old slab wood. It does

a pretty good job of

holding up it's side of

the building.

Through the door here is

a small portion of the "good

stuff" that has been saved

for who knows how long.

It may not be doing the

owner any good. But it

sure is helping the poor

old well house stay up.

This makes me wonder

about my life. Is that all

that is holding me up, stuff. Material stuff.

• House
• Land
• Bank account
• Investments
• Stocks
• Bonds
• Business
• Fun toys
• Entertainment?

If that is all my life consists of, I'm in real trouble.

God said,

"Beware, and be on your guard against every form
of greed, for not even when one has an abundance
does this life consist of his possessions."
(Luke 12:15 NASB)