The Power

In my journal yesterday, I quoted Max Lucado's Devotional for August 31st.  Thinking there were only 30 days in August, I was actually reading Sept. 1st entry.  What is simply amazing to me is that reading the missed entry this morning, the timing was perfect for me.  It seems my mistake has fit right into His message for me.  I need to share the entry that I read this morning:
                                              THE CHOICE IS OURS
"For all of it's peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story.  God made man.  Man rejected God.  God won't give up until he wins him back.
God will whisper.  He will shout.  He will touch and tug.  He will take away our burdens; He'll even take away our blessings.  If there are a thousand steps between us and Him, He will take all but one.  But he will leave the final one for us.  The choice is ours. 
Please understand.  His goal is not to make you happy.  His goal is to make you His.  His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need."
                                                                              A Gentle Thunder
It seems to me that the more I look to Him, the closer I get to my Barbara.  I'm kind of reminded of some lyrics from Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead:  "Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been....."  Only my trip is just beginning.....