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Many years ago the walk or horse back ride to town and back was an event.  Saturday night was the usual time.  A bath could precede the evening.  On the corners you stand and chat, maybe sing or watch people passing, head to a concert or dance.

Nowadays?

Today I headed to the next town over.  Instead of a few kilometers, it’s almost one hundred.  I started in the morning and came back by 3:00.  This was business and not pleasure.  Lunch followed a subcommittee meeting.  I also tucked in short visits to my sister and my brother-in-law.

Arriving home, I did some banking, and then headed back to work before finishing the day at home for supper.

Not as romantic as the old days, but functional!  And that’s good enough for today!

We live in a house with wooden floor.  Well, we upgrade the sound of those words and call them “hardwood.”  The look of the floor is great, cleaning is a breeze, but the temperature can be cold on bare feet.

A month or two back we mentioned this when we lunching at one of our local seniors complexes.  One lady just volunteered to create some “universal” slippers – one size fits all.  Margaret then headed out to some relatives a few provinces over and the conversation was forgotten.

Until about a month later.  A package arrived by post / courier.  In it were 10 knitted slippers.  Not the few we had considered sufficient – but twelve!  So we made them available to visitors.  Then about a month later another package arrived with another 10 slippers.

20 in all!

What a blessing!  Today we had some visitors over.  Two of them immediately accepted the slippers to use. 

So, if you’re coming by our place, feel free to ask for a pair of slippers to use.  We wash and sanitize each pair of slippers after use.  They come in various colors which will brighten your day as you walk our floors.  And they will be a great accessory for your visit!!

What sticks with us?

Tonight I was asked to spell a word – CHIRAC.  It was for a crossword my wife was doing.  The French president followed Mitterand. 

As I began to spell the word it was as though I could see the letters sitting on a canvas.  Perhaps I had the word in my memory banks from a previous time. 

I often wondered how people can have photographic memories.

Well, my guess is my brain can’t develop whole pictures.  But maybe a few letters at a time.  I’d be satisfied with that.

Now, if I could just remember how to spell – “GO TO BED.”

Aiden Wilson Tozer was a Christian prophet of the last century.  His books are read across denominational lines – his denomination was the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the denomination in which I serve.

Here is a quote taken from his book, Of God and Men, published in 1960.  The prediction relates to 2010!

“We must have a better kind of Christian soon or within another half century we may have no true Christianity at all.” (p. 36-37)

Perhaps God is sparing us because there is a remnant of people who truly desire to follow God.  Despite my imperfections, missteps and sin, I am one of those.  May God continue to give me, and others who desire to be a “better Christian”, wisdom to reach this world with the good news of Jesus, and not some version of Christianity that is a mere shadow of what God intended!!