The consultant explained the possible risks of a hip
replacement operation. Quiet, we headed home from Elgin, having decided to
think and pray about it for a couple of days.
The route took us back through Huntly, where Don grew up and
where we started our life together. We cruised through the streets, noting the
changes that had been made to streets once familiar, now no longer home.
Life is the blink of an eye. One minute you are young and
raising a family, and the next minute you are considering a hip replacement.
Philippians 3 is the reading for today, and I was encouraged
by the words there. ‘Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what
lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God
in Christ Jesus.’
What lies ahead needs our prayerful and energetic
involvement. Today I shake off the sad shawl of nostalgia which draped my
shoulders yesterday, and look forward in hope, trusting Jesus to guide me in
the way I spend my days, filled again with hope and peace knowing that the Lord
who called me goes before, with and behind me.
May you, too, be confident in the future, which, when Jesus
is in it, will be light and love, peace and justice, mercy and grace and life
in all its fullness.
Maranatha.
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