This Was a Surprise
It has been said that God is a God of surprises. The way my mom tells it, each of her five kids were little surprises from God. We’ve had a little surprise come our way as well. (No, Diane’s not pregnant!) I don’t know if it is the pandemic or our advancing age on the backside of our sixties. It’s been over sixteen years since we moved away from our family and we are saddened as we watch our grandchildren and one great-grandchild grow up without us being there. Next month our great-grandson will be two years old and I’ve never held him or spoken directly to him. We began to wonder if we could make it in this role for the next three years or if that would even be the best way to spend those years of our life. A pastor needs to remember that his family is his first line of ministry and it sometimes seems like I’ve been negligent. So, Diane and I began to wonder and pray if God wasn’t leading me to retire from local church ministry and seek some sort of work closer to ou