Acquaintances come and go, but friends stay close … when they can. I had a close friend in junior high school, that’s middle school today. My family moved away, but she came to stay with me during the summer. We graduated from high school and went to different colleges. I got married. After Keith graduated, we took off for adventures around the world by way of the Air Force.
Sadly, I lost track of Emily. Until she found me via Facebook.
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Apply for that job, Karen.
I don’t want to, Lord. It’s too big. I don’t know how to do all that’s required.
Week after week, notices appear. Delete. Delete. DELETE!
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I’ve broken promises.
One that haunts me is a promise that I made to our daughter when she was about 11 years old. I told her that I would pick her up when the library closed. Unfortunately, the library closed 30 minutes before I thought it closed. It was raining that night. I was horrified when I pulled up to the darkened library and there she was standing and waiting. That broken promise has haunted me for decades. She doesn’t remember the incident.
“If you eat all your dinner, you can have ice cream for desert.” A promise that’s easy to keep.
“For richer, for poorer. In sickness and in health. ‘Til death do us part.” A stronger promise. Really a covenant. It’s harder to keep.
In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus sweated as if it were drops of blood.
He asked the Father if there was any other way to save you and me from our sins ….
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