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| Thoughts Across the Garden Gate
Another Inspirational - from Parson Don Ca�on City, Colorado - U.S.A |
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| Updated: 11-May-2006
� 2006 -"Thoughts Across the Garden Gate from Parson Don" Donald R. "Don" Brown, Ca�on City, Colorado - U.S.A This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without permission Each devotional was written by Parson Don Website design by Marv |
| Keeping Up The Momentum When I was growing up on a Louisiana farm, if we traveled more than 50 miles from home we had gone on a long trip. As a rule, my family had only one special place we went once a year. And that was to Grandmother's house for Christmas. This made Christmas extra special for me and my one brother. Then Dad was drafted to go to war. As time passed Mother developed a routine. Certain days on the calendar were marked in red. On those days Mother could dial a phone number and after she and Dad had visited a few minutes, my brother and I had our turn. One day I said to Mother, "Why aren't all days red-letter-days? Thus we developed this anticipation: we looked forward to going to Grand-mother's house once a year; and we looked forward to talking to Dad on the phone on certain days. We all develop routines. Sunday morning we get ready for church. During the week we prepare to leave home at a certain time to be to work on time; three meals a day at a certain time; we take our medications and/or nutrients at a certain time - and so it goes. Through out history God's people have developed routines. The Hebrews had many feasts to always be prepared for. In time there was the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover, then the Feast of Pentecost. Now we have the routine of Christmas and Easter along with other special occasions such as birthdays and anniversaries. In the Bible we read of a man who waited for a once in his life time event. Like a meteor that flashed across the midnight sky � now seen, now gone � Simeon, the patriarch of Jerusalem, appears only once in all the pages of the Bible. But the words which he spoke on that one occasion have come down through the ages as a priceless legacy. "Mine eyes have seen." At last, after years of patient waiting, he had beheld the savior for whom his longing eyes had looked. For him the climatic hour had come. His eyes had seen, and now his heart could be at peace. His eyes had seen the Lord's salvation! |
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