Things to come...

As I reflect on our life this past year, I realize that things have not happened the way I thought or even dreamed they would. Life is not the idea I had in my head when I began college, or even when I graduated college. The idealistic world of people getting along and behaving as adults has long become a dream. I allowed this to get the best of me the other day until I realized, Christ dealt with the same thing. He was shunned by his own people and yet, He still died fror them. He still remained calm when they stoned Him, beat Him, and cursed Him.

"10 Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,
11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
12"But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for My name's sake.
13"It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.
14"So make up your minds not to prepare beforehand to defend yourselves;
15 for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.
16"But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death,
17 and you will be hated by all because of My name.
18"Yet not a hair of your head will perish.
19"By your endurance you will gain your lives.
20"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.
21"Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the city;
22because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled. "

Just as we have no idea the actual events that will come to pass, we can be sure that as long as we are standing firm in His word and His path, we will be triumphant over all evil through He who created all.

There is no big update on our life, as far as where we are going, what we will be doing, or anything like that as of yet. I do know that God has a plan and His plan will prevail over all.

~The Byrds~