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I’ve Made Something That I’ll Only Use Once

Have you ever made something for a single use? You wanted or needed something for a specific purpose and knew you would never use it again.

I've made something that I'll only use once

I guess I’ve done that several times in my life – mostly with games. 

When I was a youth pastor I made up games and contests for my students and then never used them again. 

You’ve heard of bobbing for apples? Well, that’s tame compared to my contest. 

I decided for an event that I would have some of my students – who volunteered to participate, I might add – bob for lifesavers. 

You might not think that is more extreme than bobbing for apples, but let me tell you the conditions: 

First, lifesaver candies do not float like apples do. So the students had to find the lifesavers at the bottom of the container. 

Second, they were not bobbing in water. I had them bobbing for lifesavers in vinegar.  So, yes, I had a few students who went the rest of the night with a red face … but I still had no shortage of volunteers. 

Still, we never played that game again.

There have been other things. 

This past Super Bowl, I made up a game to keep our interest in the football game. I first took a picture of the board game, “Sorry”. Then I found a site that organized the picture to be printed  on multiple sheets of paper, any size I wanted. I made player pieces with the football teams’ logos. We stood my board up and kept the pieces on the board using velcro. 

For each play on the field, we got to move our pieces around the board, just like in Sorry. … But I’m not sure that game will ever get played again. 

For these one use, disposable games and items I have created, I put considerable time and effort into making them.

My wife, Lily, shakes her head at the time I give to these things. She can’t believe I am motivated to make that game but not motivated to redo the flooring in our bathroom.

Well, today I’m going to make something that I will never use. It will be chucked aside as useless when I am done using it the one time I’m making it for. 

I am going to use it for an illustration in my sermon. I think having the real thing will help the illustration work better. 

But once I’m done my sermon, I won’t bother with this item again. 

I don’t think it will be too hard to make. I have to cut a round circle out of a piece of 1/2 inch plywood. Within the circle I have to cut out two round holes. I will sand it down, but I won’t paint it because I need to use it tomorrow morning. 

You might be wondering what it is. It’s called a twiddler.

You put you left thumb in one hole and your right thumb in the other hole. Then you fold your fingers together and rotate your thumbs around each other. 

It is the perfect device for all of us right now who are stuck at home under provincial order.

Here’s the thing: God has created us to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever. Sadly, however, some people won’t go on enjoying God forever because they have not given Him glory in this life. Don’t be a single use person to God. Glorify God by putting your faith in Christ. Then you will get to enjoy Him forever. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Anticipating Will Keep You Waiting

Anticipating something will motivate you to see something through – I know because I’m anticipating a bike ride later today.

anticipating something keeps you waiting

Anticipation gives us incentive to think about or keep waiting for something to happen. 

Like in Carly Simon’s song from 1971, in the chorus she wrote, “… Anticipation, is making me wait, is keeping me waiting.” In other words, she couldn’t get it off her mind; she couldn’t concentrate on anything else. She was just waiting for it.

When we anticipate we also think all about the thing we are anticipating. We daydream about it, what it will be like, what we will do when it arrives and many other thoughts. 

I found myself thinking about my ride through the trails. It’s been a whole winter since I’ve been on the trails. Though I know them well, I began picturing myself on my bike amongst the trees, skimming over the beaver pond on a narrow wooden bridge. 

We anticipate things all the time. And what we anticipate can be something as mundane as a trip to the corner store to something as spectacular as a vacation cruise in the Caribbean. 

No matter what we anticipate, it causes in us the same reaction. 

The sixteen year old with a brand new driver’s license has the same emotional reaction getting the nod to drive the family car to go buy milk as someone else anticipating picking up the brand new car they just purchased.

Their hearts pounds a little harder and everything else becomes a distraction to what they are anticipating. 

I remember when I was a youth pastor and we were preparing for a group retreat. Some of the teens would come up to me and remind me that we only had five sleeps or three sleeps before our trip. 

They might have had three or five days of school to live through and other things to deal with, but all they could focus on was when we would be leaving on our retreat. 

Anticipation also gets us motivated to do things – things that involve what we are anticipating. 

A couple who are anticipating the birth of their first child will be highly motivated to paint the baby’s room and fit it with all the necessary furnishings. 

Last night I found myself awake in the middle of the night, thinking about whether or not my ear buds were charged. I use them when I bike alone to listen to music while I ride. 

My buds haven’t been used for months and, though they were tucked away in a drawer of my night stand, I hauled them out in the wee hours of the night and plugged them in. 

Shortly after that I realized my bike computer would probably need charging too. 

By the time I woke up this morning, I was all charged up and ready for my ride. 

That’s what anticipation does. 

Here’s the thing: Many people anticipate the end of covid, though that end time is illusive. I would encourage you to anticipate the time you will meet Christ. We will all face Him one day. Let your anticipation get you prepared for the most important meeting of your life, and for eternity. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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The Last Half Phenomenon Is Driving Me Crazy

There is a last half phenomenon that I wish we could reverse. 

the last half phenomenon is driving me crazy

The phenomenon is that the second half of something goes faster or is repeated faster than the first half.

Have you ever watched the gas gauge on your car? You fill the tank up and are all set for five to six hundred kilometres of driving. No worries for a while – a good long while. 

But after the gauge drops to halfway, you need to keep your eye on that gauge because the needle starts to move faster. You look at it and think, “Wow, how did I get to a quarter of a tank? I was at halfway just a day or two ago.” 

That’s the last half phenomenon and nobody writes about it, studies it, or puts out scientific journals about it. 

It seems that we just accept it or maybe, more accurately, we don’t want to think about it because this phenomenon happens in every area of life. 

If you ask a ten year old about their birthday that is coming up in a month, they will say, “I can hardly wait. It’s taking so long to come. It feels like it’s never going to get here.” 

I remember being in grade three and feeling like I was spending three years of my life in that grade. I wondered if grade three would ever end. 

But if you ask someone who is over fifty about an event that is coming up in the next month, they’ll tell you that it’s coming so quickly, it will be here before you know it. Older people think time is moving really fast. They say the years just fly by. 

It’s that last half phenomenon – the last half goes quicker than the first half. 

There have been some people who have tried to manipulate things to produce this phenomenon in their products. A few years ago, Apple Inc. was accused of reducing their iPhone battery’s charging length once the device got to be a certain age. 

That was tricky, and I’m not sure Apple was ever made to reverse that in their products.

… Which brings me to why I was thinking about this last half phenomenon in the first place. 

I have had my latest iPad for a long time now – either five or six years. I’ve noticed lately that when the battery gets low, I almost have to run to plug it in. 

I have a little icon of a battery on my iPad that shows a depleting green fill as the battery gets used. I also have a percentage figure right beside that to tell me the percentage of battery I have left. 

When my battery gets to about 20%, that number starts to count down almost as fast as the second hand on a digital watch. 

I run to plug my iPad into the charger because I know I don’t have much time left. 

… How old are you? Do you feel like I do with my iPad?

Here’s the thing: No matter how old we are, time is ticking away. To be honest, we never know how much time we have left. Your life could be cut short today or tomorrow. But for anyone who feels that life is moving pretty fast, my advice is to make sure you have considered Christ’s saving solution. He died so that you could have life – eternal life. Now that changes the whole last half phenomenon completely. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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It’s Canadian Tire Day At My House Today

Today might be Canadian tire day. … I’m not sure, we’ll have to see how it goes.

It's Canadian Tire Day At My House Today

One of Canada’s staple stores for auto, hardware and sports has always been Canadian Tire … or affectionately referred to as “crappy tire”. 

I make it a point not to get my car serviced there, but I will often buy my gas at Canadian Tire. 

I do love the Canadian Tire money. Back before they went digital, you would always walk out of the store not only with your purchase, but also with a few bills of Canadian Tire money in various denominations. 

The bills were only worth pennies, but they added up. 

As much as I loved getting Canadian Tire money, I hated being in the checkout line behind someone who was paying with it. 

Every bill had to be counted … by hand! There would be a pile of 10 cent bills and then 25 cent bills … it was painful to watch. 

But why am I telling you about the Canadian Tire store? This blog isn’t about the store, it’s about what day it is. 

I’m making it up, of course, but I think, well, maybe I might change the tires on my car today. 

It’s time to take off the winter tires and put on my summer tires. 

I’m actually hoping that I don’t have to go to the Canadian Tire store today. I should have everything I need in my garage to change my tires. 

It used to be a major ordeal. I’d use the little rickety jack that came with the vehicle – that in itself was a pain. But a few years ago I bought a few things (from Canadian Tire) that have streamed-lined the process for me. 

There is one part, however, that I’m not looking forward to. It seems to happen every season: one or more of the tires gets frozen on to the vehicle. I’m not sure how to describe it better than that. 

I will take all the bolts off and that tire won’t budge. I can hit it, kick it, talk to it, even yell at it and it will not come off. 

I’m just hoping that if today is Canadian tire day at my house, my tires will all pop off easily.  

For years I was against Canadian tire day – I didn’t change my tires at all. I had all seasons. 

But I think the tire manufacturers decided we should be buying more tires so they changed the formula in the rubber they use. Now, apparently, you want soft rubber on those winter tires because the harder summer tire rubber is too slippery when the weather get colder. 

My summer tires are near the end of their life so I’m hoping that if today is Canadian tire day for me, we won’t get any cold snaps where my summer tires are rendered useless. 

The one nice thing about putting on my summer tires is they come with hubcaps. After going through the winter with ugly winter rims on my car, it will be nice to have better looking wheels. 

Here’s the thing: There is a day coming up at the end of this week – it’s called Easter. It’s the day we celebrate Christ rising from the grave. It’s a day we should treat as special, a day when we give time and focus to what Jesus did for us. He died on the cross to pay for our sins, that we could be forgiven and have a relationship with God. Now that’s a day!

That’s Life!

Paul

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The Perfect Message Can Be Very Illusive

Lately I’ve been trying to come up with the perfect message. 

the perfect message can be very illusive

No, I’m not referring to preaching a perfect sermon. That’s not what I’m talking about. 

I do remember when Dave Stieb, a long time pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, wrote a book. He titled it “Tomorrow I’ll Be Perfect”. The pour guy could have had several perfect games if his defence behind him could have helped out a bit. 

I’m also not referring to being perfect at what I do. 

We have a sign board in our home. It’s the kind that you put letters on and create a message for others to read. It’s not permanent; I can change it any time I want. 

Sometimes the message reflects the time of year, and sometimes it announces a special event or occasion. 

Last year we had a message up there for a long time. It was a countdown to my daughter’s wedding day. That one took work. I had to change the numbers on it every day. 

Every time I change the sign, I’m looking for the perfect message to put on it. I want it to be witty or funny or profound – something that will cause people to think.

It’s not easy, and maybe that’s why I don’t change it very often. When I get a good message, I like to milk it for a while. 

But I need to change it now. I have a son who’s turning 30 and a nephew who’s going overseas for 4 years. It really needs to be the right mix of letters.

I wish my dad was around to help me. He was the king of messages. 

When I was in college out west, he would write me often. For a while I received cards in the mail from him on a weekly basis. 

They weren’t greeting cards. They were just card stock paper he cut to size (about 5”x4”). He would address them on one side and write his message on the other. 

From his readings he would write out an inspirational message to me. It was usually some saying to motivate me.

I looked forward to those cards, and I always wondered how many other people benefitted from reading them, before they passed them on in the sorting line.

We see messages everywhere these days – probably more than ever before. 

Every store or building you enter has a message, usually COVID related. Some stores ask you to pause and read their messages … even though after a year of COVID I think we know them off by heart. 

This morning I’m looking for the perfect message. And I know there’s one for this time and this family. 

I just need to dig deep and come up with something that will speak to the moment and inspire those who read it. 

Here’s the thing: God has given us the greatest message of all time. That message culminates in our celebration of Easter in a couple of weeks. The message is inspirational and personal. It’s the message of the gospel that God loves you and made provision by sending His Son, Jesus, to die for you, so that you could experience God’s love. Be sure to consider this message this year as we turn our attention to Christ’s great sacrifice on the cross. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What would be the message you want your family to read right now? Leave your comments and questions below. 

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Your Internal Clock May Need To Be Reset

It’s really important to correctly time your sleep or your internal clock can get all messed up. 

Your internal clock may need to be reset

We just changed our clocks forward last Saturday. It was the big one because we lost an hour of sleep. I’ve heard that it can take up to three days to adjust to that time change. 

I believe our bodies know when to get rest, but I also believe we can mess up our internal clocks so that our bodies don’t act properly.

Sunday, the day after the clocks changed, I felt pretty tired in the afternoon. I had had a tiring day the day before and I also lost an hour of sleep that night. 

I use a lot of energy preaching on Sundays so I am often tired in the afternoon … this particular afternoon a little more so. 

By evening I had recovered and had my energy back. I watched a hockey game that disappointed me and left me feeling unsettled. So I put on a movie which would run until it was time to head to bed … to be fair, a little later than my regular bedtime.

Because I had taken a nap in the afternoon, by the end of the movie I was still wide awake. But it was late and time to turn in for the night, so I made my way to bed. 

The problem was that my mind was going a mile a minute. As sleepy as I had been in the afternoon, my brain was now firing on all cylinders as I lay in bed. 

I tossed one way, then another. I fixed my pillow and turned some more. 

My internal clock was so messed up that I just could not get to sleep.

It’s like Christmas Eve for children. The anticipation of the next day – Christmas morning with all the presents – keeps them from settling down and sleeping. They are wide awake. 

That’s why so many kids have melt downs on Christmas Day, even though it is one of their happiest days of the year. Their internal clocks are so messed up they are tired when they should be wide awake.

I’m not sure how long I tossed back and forth in bed, but at one point I decided that was enough. I needed something to settle me down. 

They say it’s not good to have a screen on just before you go to sleep, but I have a great ability to fall asleep with a TV on. 

So I got up, headed downstairs and put on another movie. 

It was an action movie. For most people that would work against them sleeping, but for me it doesn’t matter. 

It was not long before my eyes were shut and the flickering light from the television was bouncing off my closed eyelids.

Maybe the movie wasn’t good. All I know is that it got my internal clock to work again. When I woke up, I shut everything down and went back to bed … and straight to sleep. 

Here’s the thing: There are times in your life when your spiritual clock will be more apparent in your life. There will be interest; there will be opportunity. Don’t miss paying attention to your spiritual clock. You might have a hard time getting it on track if you mess it up.

That’s Life!

Paul

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Funeral Processional Etiquette Is Needed

From time to time I will repost an article from years past. This article was originally posted March 2013

funeral processional etiquette is needed

Last weekend I took part in a funeral. It all went very well until it came time for the interment. 

Getting to the cemetery meant a twenty minute drive through the city and in the country.   

Only family and close friends attended, while most others opted not to take the drive … probably a good thing because they never would have made it. 

You see, most people don’t follow other cars very well, driving too far behind the person they’re following. 

It’s like they’ve watched too many TV detective shows. They try to follow so the lead car doesn’t know they’re on their tail. 

I once had a person follow me to a destination they had never been to, yet they kept going slower and slower and falling farther and farther behind. 

At first, I slowed down to make sure they wouldn’t lose me, but then they slowed down even more! Finally, I just decided to drive and let them keep up to me. 

They never made it; they got lost and went home.

In a funeral procession, people really need to drive close to the car they’re following, especially through intersections. 

Personally, I like to get close to the car in front of me so the vehicles traveling in the other direction see that I’m part of a procession and don’t T-bone me when the light changes green for them.

Those other drivers on the road can be a real problem. Most of them act like they have no clue what’s going on. 

They see the hearse, the flashing lights, the long line of cars with little flags on their hoods like it’s a diplomatic motorcade, and they STILL try to jump into line like they want to be part of the parade! 

After all, their shopping trip to the mall has been timed down to the last minute. They didn’t calculate running into a funeral procession. 

There was a time when cars pulled over to the side of the road when they came upon a funeral procession – like we’re supposed to do with emergency vehicles. 

But then again, some people are not good at that either. I’m not sure whether people drive without looking around or whether they just don’t understand the unwritten rules of the road. 

When our procession of cars got out of the city, some cars pulled over to the side of the road, and two ladies who were walking stopped and just stood as the line of funeral cars went by. 

But most cars just kept going and even drove around the cars that had pulled over.  These people were both young and old – I know because I looked at them, trying to stare them down! 

We finally made it to the cemetery, with no accidents, and only missing one car. One with several of the family members in it. 

They arrived late because a car cut into the line and then didn’t go through and intersection with the rest of the procession. 

Going home from the cemetery only took about 10 minutes … there were no funeral processions to stop for.

Here’s the thing: In a funeral procession, you need to keep up and others need to pay attention. If you don’t keep up, other cars don’t know there is anything to pay attention to. In your Christian walk you need to keep in step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). So that others will pay attention and see a difference.

That’s Life!

Paul

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People Are Lousy Lip Readers For The Most Part

The ability to hear has got to be one of the most important senses people have.

people are lousy lip readers for the most part

… I guess we could have a discussion on which of the five senses is most important. I’m sure we would have some disagreement. 

Some would say that sight is the top sense. Others would say it is taste that’s number one. 

If, before you finished eating breakfast, you already started thinking of what you might enjoy for lunch, well, you may think taste is the top sense.

The truth is all our senses are very important and no one would want to give up any of them. It is our senses that enrich our lives.

Hearing is a sense that is vital in so many ways. 

In fact, hearing is so important you would think we would all have a back up for hearing, just in case something went wrong. 

Truthfully, we are lousy at trying to determine what someone is saying by watching their mouth move. 

When they can’t hear, many people will just nod and pretend that they’ve heard what the other person is saying. In a loud room, people will look interested and nod. They may say something like, “yes” and “that’s right”. 

We’ve all done it, hoping that our response is in line with what the other person said. 

 If we were just better at reading lips, life could be easier.

This week I gave a livestream talk on YouTube. 

One morning a week, I give a reflection on a passage in the Bible, along with some personal thoughts.

The thing about being live is that if something goes wrong with the equipment or the technology or even the sound, you have to deal with it right then. 

The other week my camera fell off the tripod just before I went live (you can read about it here). All people saw was a black screen and heard me saying, “Oh no, what am I going to do now?”

This week, for some reason which I still have not figured out, the sound wasn’t going through. 

Of course I didn’t know it and was talking away to the camera like there was nothing wrong. 

I was getting into my talk when I started to get some text messages to my phone. I ignored the first one, but then I got a second and a third. So I pulled my phone out of my pocket and it started ringing. 

It was my wife, Lily, telling me that no one could hear me. 

Right at that moment I wished people were better lip readers. 

If they were, they never would have skipped a beat. The people watching would have been able to decipher what I was saying and I could have carried on. 

But we are lousy lip readers, so dependent on sound to know what someone is saying.

I typed in the chat section that I would record the talk and upload it later to YouTube (you can watch it here). 

I knew my audience wouldn’t be able to read my lips.

Here’s the thing: We are so programmed in how we hear from God. If He doesn’t use those methods to communicate to us, we don’t hear Him. Be open to hear God speak to you in different ways. In a spiritual way, learn to lip read and don’t miss what God is communicating to you. 

That’s Life!

Paul

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Crisis Reaction Time Is Crucial

You can not prepare for every crisis; sometimes you just have to react. 

crisis reaction time is crucial

The question is, “How well, do you react to a crisis?” 

Certainly some people react swifter and better than others when faced with something that is sudden and unexpected. 

I’ve seen it in hockey where a goalie is prepared for a shot from the point and then just in front of him the puck gets tipped. You can’t prepare for that; you can only react. And how fast that goalie reacts is the difference between the puck ending up in his equipment or the back of the net. 

The other day I was faced with a crisis. 

When COVID first hit, I started live-streaming a devotional to my congregation once a week on Thursday mornings at 8:30 am.

I took a break over the summer, but didn’t get back to doing them until the new year.

I don’t have a studio, so I have to set up for it each week. There are lights, a camera, tripod, iPad and computer all to set up. The set up takes just over a half hour. 

This week I was set up and ready to go one hour and forty-five minutes before I was to go live. 

About forty-five minutes before the devotional I got the streaming software active and set, just waiting for me to hit one button to go live. 

With twenty-five minutes to go, I hit the go live button. With five minutes to go, I switched the scene to a count down and music. 

It was all going perfectly: the picture on the screen was counting down and everything was set to automatically switch to the video feed of me looking into the camera and saying hi.

With under one minute to air, I was standing in my place. And then, all of a sudden, my camera fell from the tripod. 

What? I had forty seconds to air. I went for the camera, got hold of it and promptly put it back on the tripod. 

Everything was good; nothing had unplugged. 

I took a deep breath and counted down, 6, 5, 4, 3 … and then the camera fell off the tripod again! 

I went to grab the camera; this time the power cord had unplugged. 

I was live … the screen was black. I made a few comments like, “Oh no.” I sounded like Mr. Bill from the 70’s Saturday Night Live show. 

I plugged the power cord back in and turned on the camera. Then I swung around to face the camera, but everything was still black. I fiddled with the software in hopes to get the camera to connect again, but it was not happening. 

So quickly I switch my camera source to my laptop’s built-in camera and presto, I was visible. 

I thought it only took about a minute to do all that but looking back at the recording, the screen was dark for about 2 1/2 minutes. 

I need to work on my reaction time in a crisis.

Here’s the thing: What is the first thing you do when you face an unexpected crisis? I will bet that, when your adrenaline is flowing, your reaction is to do something – do something yourself. To lessen my reaction time, I need to first call on God for help and then let Him guide my next moves. I’m sure that most of us need to work on adding God to the beginning of our reaction time. 

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: At what point in your crisis reaction do you seek God? Leave your comments and questions below.

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Don’t Lose What You Once Learned

They say once you learn something you never lose it, but you may lose some skill.

lose what you once learned

That expression “it’s like riding a bike” is a bit of a misnomer. The expression means that once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget how. What they don’t say is that you might lose your able to do it well.

Learning to ride a bike takes time. You have to learn how to find your balance on those two wheels. But once you have figured out how to balance yourself on a bike, you will always be able to balance yourself. 

Many people learn to ride a bike as kids, but as they get older they stop riding. Yet no matter how long it’s been since the last time they rode, once they get on a bike again, they still know how to balance themselves. 

This is true with a lot of things.

I learned to drive a standard gear shift in my 20’s, but I probably went twenty years without driving stick shift. 

I remember test driving a car that I was considering buying. It was a standard and I didn’t have any problem knowing what to do with the clutch and the shifting. 

But like that bicycle expression about not forgetting how to ride, but forgetting how to do it well, when I test drove the car, I ground the gears a bit and stalled it once. 

You might remember how to do something, but it doesn’t mean you can still do it with ease.

Last week they lifted the lockdown in our region of the province which meant I could play hockey again. 

Yes, I had to come to the arena dressed in my equipment like a 7 year old (read about that here), but at least I got to play.

It had been six or seven weeks since I had last tied up my skates and hit the ice. That’s not all that long considering some people go ten years in between bike rides … or like me, twenty years in between driving a manual transmission car. 

Six weeks is shorter than most kids’ summer break from school. 

It’s a short enough time to remember some details of the last time I skated.

But let me tell you, in that six weeks, though I didn’t forget how to put on my equip or do up my skates, I certainly lacked something out on the ice. 

My legs didn’t want to move as fast as I remembered them moving six weeks earlier. My shot didn’t seem to be as accurate as it once was. 

And I got out of breath way faster than I did less than two months ago. 

My first game back on the ice felt like I had been off for 4-6 months. 

It was not really “just like riding a bike” … unless you picture the rider weaving all over the road. 

Here’s the thing: In the past year, many or most of us have not been involved in any regular ministry or service to God. Consider getting back to serving in some capacity and, although you haven’t forgotten how to serve, it will take time and perseverance to get your serving back to the level it once was. Don’t neglect serving God.

That’s Life!

Paul

Question: What can you do right now to serve the Lord? Leave your comments and question below. 

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