Moments

 Got a letter from Joan ..taking some heavy hitting pain meds for her pain....she seems so ....I don't know what to say...remember her in your prayers. I thought of this while reading my Bible commentary this morning.  Mark 1:40-42 In this scripture a man with leoprosy came and "If you will, you can makee me clean."   Leprosy in those days is a horrible disease and it disfigures one to a great extent...sore everywhere,  limbs rotting off.  If you had it you were quarantined from everyone...sound familiar. >?  You had to give warning of your "uncleaness" by saying "unclean" all the time you were in public.  No one touched you and most did not get near...you had to keep your upper lip covered walking about. The leper had to dwell alone outside of town.  The disease was one that slowly coroded a persons body until he died but the worst was the social isolation they had to endure until then.  Mentally and personally, they were as diseased as their bodie

  Those of us that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves.    And there are so many needy souls.   So many, in fact, that one cannot bear all infirmities for all of them without self-destruction and the destruction of the infirmity bearing vehicle.   It is as if we are little boats and we take people with their burdens aboard, but we can’t take everybody.   If we keep loading the boat with the needy, the boat will sink and everyone will drown; the burden-bearers and the needy.   Christian growth like a snake shedding its skin periodically and taking on a new one. The snake skin analogy:   How many times do we shed our skin on   our journey to grow as Christians.   Still Be still and know that I am God……Be still ourselves to receive His stillness.   He still cares, still consoles, still heals, still delivers, and He still saves.   In our empty vanities it really doesn’t matter what we think about our supposedly special events, our special se