Turning Pages

Reading to be refreshed of the day early this morning.  Came across this and what a huge 'refreshment'!

Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of [Goliath]; our servant will go and fight with this Philistine."  1 Samuel 17:32

"Keep turning the pages by faith and let the sort play out to the end." (*Dr. David Jeremiah)

I love to read but to get to the end of a book/story you have to keep turning pages.  So it is for me in my life…I want to 'keep turning the pages' of life!  What good is a half read book?  One that when you get to a part you don't like, you toss aside and never finish!  You never discover the richness of that book, story, challenge because instead you stopped, dogeared the page and have remained in your misery, your need ending struggle, your downcast negative uselessness.

That's not for me….Neither do i believe it to be a Biblical or Godly response.  We are to be Page Turners!  There is no pause for a dogeared spot in our stories….In faith keep turning the pages!

Yesterday was a 'speed read' kind of day filled with my recovery, issues with our home in another state (=retirement), and our grandson, Jack's seizure activity….the pages were turned speedily!  Last night Doug and I talked in hushed tones reflected over the 38 years we have known one another, 37 since our engagement and soon to be 36 years of marriage.  Those are many years….often having--no countless times--of giving opportunity to place a dogeared mark and toss life aside, sit in a pity party, struggle and bemoan the hand we were dealt.  Yet as we talked and reflected last night the realization that by continuing to 'turn pages' we have both grown stronger, our vision clearer and most importantly that when the storms rage we have a peace that only comes from the true author of our lives!!

Keep turning pages in faith my friend!  Don't allow a bookcase filled with dogeared books, full of unrevealed peace in your life!

TURN THE PAGE!