I just finished playing the mental games of Lumosity and am struck by how the simplest of tasks can become difficult when a clock is introduced to the process. Easy answers coming fast with a deadline looming and suddenly the simple becomes gut wrenching. A game of chess can be challenging enough, trying to foresee several moves ahead, but introduce the clock and the game takes on a whole new complexity.
It strikes me that life is much the same. We tend to think we have all the time needed; tomorrow will be like today only better. Like chess, introduce a clock and it’s a whole new adventure.
The doctors have given us a clock and things have certainly changed. Here’s my enigma: on the one hand time is flying by and I want to scream- STOP. I need more time.
On the other hand, there is an aspect of life that seems stuck in slow motion. Managing the pain, getting enough rest and keeping your blood pressure within certain bounds. It all seems to be happening in slow motion.
But this morning as I pray for you, at least one thing I notice remains the same: you give, you bless and you refresh everyone around you. In this stage of life, same is good.
This afternoon Jen and a friend will come to visit. They will want to pray for you and enquire of your state of being. They will be gracious and kind.
Always the perfect host, you will have thought ahead to have the right desert, coffees and teas available. But it is not the hospitality they are coming to receive, it will be your kindness, the words of encouragement to her young friend who keeps expanding her heart to take in and care for others. It will be the wisdom of experience, the savory taste of scripture applied to life in every season that they shall crave. As you visit they will drink of the Living Waters that gush from your heart and soul. They will taste the practical, the eternal and the gracious, because, as they say, that’s the way you roll.
Once you have given a mother’s advice, a friend’s counsel and a nurse’s loving care, they will leave and you will return to rest and sleep. God will have been glorified in your life once again as the enigma of time marches on. And I love you for this consistency, glorifying God both in life and in death.
You are such a blessing to me and I love you so very much.
Brad