The funny thing about blogging is that you get to see your life as it circles back around. This is the second time I have been to the Montague Balloon fair and this will be the second time I’ve posted pictures made while there with our RV group. As I tried to make images this year I found myself more drawn to the people and less to the scenery. I guess that is also the way I am feeling about life these days.
In this year I have had a good friend experience a healing in his son’s life, expected to go quickly he is now cancer free and returning to productivity, a blessing beyond what I can express in words. His family could not be more thankful for every extra day.
I have seen another friend struggle through a midlife change and emerge triumphant, he is a changed person, more confident and actually different than the man who decided enough was enough a couple of years ago. One buddy, almost beaten -- is just emerging from a hole dug so deep by the collapse of the economy I did not think he would be able to come out of it, he is not only on the way back but feeling good enough to start exploring next steps.
It is amazing what God can do, if we give him time to work and have the faith to keep going. I am not implying that all the storm clouds have passed, we have plenty of new challenges which we have just confronted, things undreamt of just last year, but if history is our guide we will get through them.
One way or another we will get to where we are supposed to be, I pray that in the end I am able to live up to God’s standard. That I may be able to quote Timothy with honesty and say:
Enjoy the pictures, keep fighting your own good fight and accept the grace which is freely given, in the end it is all that matters.
