The Third day of our Adventure is wrapping up in Hope: Hope, Arkansas. Today we did the Mid America Science Museum and TRex Jurassic Golf. By 2:30 this afternoon we realized we had done everything on our “What We Want to Do In Hot Springs” list. Wanting to cut short our on-the-road time tomorrow, we hit the highway and got as far as Hope.
That’s a good way to end any time together. It was a great period of relationship renewal, but the hope is that it will be just the beginning of a new, improved relationship. I have learned quite a bit, including much about my grandson and some stuff about me. For example, I am getting old. Not just older, but old. I was most comfortable this week when taking a nap and I had trouble keeping up with a 10 year old.
Growing old is just a part of life. It’s amazing that God has designed us so that as we age we should stare our mortality in the face as we function less perfectly. The train is leaving the station. Our time for accomplishing anything in His name is limited. We should learn the lesson that this is not all there is. Isn’t that where our Hope is? Our Hope is in his promises for eternity and not this short time on earth. I do hope I will have the time and energy to do all that Christ has for me to do here. I know I haven’t always put to best use the time and energy He has given me. I hope I will move from this time of renewal into a new determination to make the best of what is left.
Maybe it’s time for you to give that some consideration as well.
Tomorrow: home and that’s a blessed thing.
Nick
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