… smiled and stepped off.
This morning I stepped on the scales, winced, stepped off and stepped on again.
Some days, I’ve stepped on a third time. “This can’t be right! Maybe I’m reading them wrong. Maybe there’s something wrong with the scales. Maybe I should get some new scales.”
Funny, I never step on again when it’s good news. There is no maybe about that.
… I made,” sighed Ty yesterday to hundreds gathered to remember Jim Constable, a beloved member of my church, New City Church, whose burn ravaged body could not be viewed. Don’t make the same mistake I made,” Both stubborn, neither would say the first word to break their father/daughter deafening three year silence. “I never got to say goodbye.” You could hear an elephant drop as, “Don’t make the same mistake I made.” kept echoing around the sanctuary.
One young teenager in the church yesterday took up my challenge to pick up an Operation World and a world map and pray each day for a country of the world and mark on his world map each day.
In one year he will have prayed for the whole world and something will have happened to the world and something will happen to him.
describes the German autobahn and when our car had a heart attack in the middle lane, Rachel and I gasped as cars swerving violently to miss us. Helpless, we could not start the car, move it or know how to call the police and frantically tried to find the flashers of this borrowed car. A car pulled up behind and put on it’s flashers. Trucks and cars hurtled passed, as I stepped out, did the phone sign and hollared to call the police. Did they understand English? We sat there. Did he call the police? Ten forever minutes later blue flashing lights. Stopping the traffic, backing us to the side and calling a tow truck, the policeman’s look said enough. I still wonder if the elderly couple who stayed behind us until the police arrived were angels.
The Lord counts the number of our days so we want to make each day count.
“That all the sins of my past would be forgiven so that a way would be open for me,” responded the Muslim man to my, “If you could wish one thing from God today for you, what would that be?” as he waited for his daughter outside the bathroom at the sparkling Westfield Mall, ready for the London Olympics this July.
Told a group training in evangelism this afternoon at our GO conference in Germany, that I would love to be invited next year to take a day to take the all the 1 and 2 year recruits going out across the world across the street in Mosbach. Finished seminar and walk into dining room. “Richard, would you come sit down, said Dave and James, 2 of the program team. Would you come next year and take everyone out of a day of evangelism in Mosbach?