5 April 2009
Dear Bethel Family and Friends: (E-Mail Version)
“A pox (plague) on both your houses.” If Shakespeare didn’t say this, he should have. Actually, it does come from Romeo and Juliet. Two families, competing for power, cause the death of one of the characters and, dying, he utters this oft-quoted phrase.
Unfortunately, the human condition is alive and well in both the Republican and Democrat parties. A pox on both their houses. So far, constitutional checks and balances have curtailed the more outrageous excesses and our country has managed to survive.
Many are now wondering if the rope hasn’t stretched to the breaking point. We are doing some mighty dumb things. It’s high time every Christian in the land pray God will give our leaders, both Republican and Democrat, new hearts and a desire to do right.
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Many years ago radio station KOIN started their broadcasting day at 0600 with the same words: “Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
That didn’t mean much to a little country boy of six but I liked the way it sounded. As I grew older these words, burned into my memory, would come back from time to time and I would ponder their meaning. I can’t say I ever came to any startling conclusions.
Life is a journey. Someday, we promise ourselves, we will be happy and content after we’ve done this or that. No, that’s not the way it’s supposed to work. It’s the traveling that’s important. If we allow God to guide us it will be a good journey and filled with inner joy.
May God’s grace be sufficient for each need.
Love…Larry Buhler