How's Mom?

It's been a week since Nan entered hospital again after being overcome by dementia.  We cared for her as long as we could but her disease's progress had taken her beyond our ability to meet her daily needs. But we do love her!

Today's visit found her alert but not oriented. She asked, "How's Mom?" doing and where her mother was today.  I replied, "She's in her best home (heaven!) and doing very well." That sufficed, it seems.

Nan's lived a long, full life.  Her days are without care or concern because the meds work so well.  Pray for us as we help her find her new home.  And pray God's will be done in her life, too.

Irrelevance

"If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less."

General Eric Shinseki

Chief of Staff, U. S. Army

This Says It for Me

Knowing You All I once held dear built my life upon All this world reveres, and wars to own All I once thought gain I have counted loss Spent and worthless now, compared to this (Chorus:) Knowing you, Jesus knowing you There is no greater thing You're my all you're the best You're my joy, my righteousness And I love you ,lord Now my heart's desire is to know you more To be found in you, and known as yours To possess by faith what I could not earn All surpassing gift of righteousness (Chorus) Oh to know the power of your risen life And to know you in your suffering To become like you in your death my Lord So with You to live And never die (Chorus)

Sad

It's always a sad day when you spend an afternoon talking to your grandmother only to learn that she thinks you're someone else altogether. Old age!

Building Credibility

"Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you're going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions." ~ Maria Razumich-Zec

The irresistible Church

What makes a church "irresistible"? Wayne Cordeiro wrote "The Irresistible Church" to encourage church leaders to return to the church’s true identity, Jesus and the anointing of God and His power. It’s almost as if we say, 'Jesus is not enough; we’ve got to find a new way to attract people.' The irresistible church I’m talking about in this book is not a church that’s irresistible to men. It’s a church that’s irresistible to heaven—a church to which God says, 'I just can’t help but be involved in that church. I can’t help but help that church prosper and harvest the wheat.'"

Life is a Place of Service

"Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real if only people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." (Leo Tolstoy)