Daily Archive

Have you thought this way about yourself or your situation recently?

• I am too old to do (fill in the blank).
• That’s it. I am finished. There is nothing I can do about it.
• I had my chance, and now that chance is gone.
• This is as good as it gets; I will just have to live with life as it currently is.

I have felt all those things and then some.

I have even dramatically told the Lord that my life is over, that it is just too late for me to accomplish the things that I wanted to do or that He wanted me to do. And forget about His blessings; I couldn’t expect to receive them now after all this time. I had failed somehow. I had disobeyed perhaps. I certainly had missed the mark. Whatever the case, I would just have to deal with my unsatisfactory lot in life.

But then I am reminded of a dream I had in the middle of August 2007. Read the rest of this entry »