Monthly Archives: September 2009

I had planned on talking about our trip to Montreal Lake in today’s post.  Just a short jotting to say that meeting with the people involved in the new church start at Montreal Lake/Timber Bay was exciting.  They have much going on.

But, having just arrived back in Kindersley, we are planning on heading down to LaFleche after morning church service tomorrow.  My father was in for medical tests this week and the doctor says he has cancer.  Dad is ninety, and does not plan on taking any treatments.  No real prognosis yet as to how long he will live.  We’ll visit with him, and I’ll work with my sister and my father on making sure all the legal issues are current and up-to-date.

So, quick in and quick out.  Life has a way of using the unexpected to increase our faith in God and to push us to rely on Him.

As I was speaking to a group this morning, I mentioned that my father homesteaded just “over by the bluff of trees.”  Afterwards one of the group said I was pointing the wrong way.  Instead, I needed to come up to his apartment and look out from their piazza (nice term for balcony).

Four floors up and a clear view of the surrounding fields.  We peered to the west, and there was the homestead.  Amazing how much one can enjoy a view for miles and miles and miles.  A field was ripening just below us.  Off to the north was Walmart peeking out of the ground.  To the south is our local park/dam. 

When you view the landscape from a height, you have to enjoy what you see!  This is truly a prairie scene, a land of the living sky!

In Psalm 90 (my next sermon) God is proclaimed as having been before the birth of the universe until eternity – that’s God’s lifespan.

We get a mere 70 years, or 80.  Those who reach 90 can attest to the decline in life as the years increase.

What would it be like to last forever?  What would it be like to exist like some plastics which we are told are non-biodegradable?  What would it be like to be everlearning, evereating, everlasting?

I guess I have a hard time understanding that.  I think I am built with the second law of thermodynamics in my bones.  But in my spirit .  .  .  I’m built to last forever.  Someday my body will catch up – or at least a body with a new format – one that is programmed to last forever.

For that I’m glad.

For tonight, I’ll take my acid inhibiting medications and walk to my room on metal knee replacements. . . looking forward to forever!!