Lynn and I have returned safely from our week floating around in the Caribbean. We appreciate so much the church sending us on this cruise for our 25th anniversary (last May) with the congregation here. (Although I did get a little suspicious when there was no return trip voucher to get us back to the airport and then our return flight was cancelled!) We had a wonderful time. Thank you so much, church.
Sunday afternoon there was to be an interdenominational worship service on the ship just as we were leaving Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas to return to Ft. Lauderdale. Whoever was in charge of conducting the service failed to show up, so about 20 of us sat around waiting. There were hymnals there, so we sang for awhile until it was certain that no one was coming. So we decided to just share some scriptures and thoughts, and so we had our own little small group. We then ended with a chain prayer.
One of the prayer phrases used stuck in my mind and heart. We had just spent the day on a tropical island where you could swim with tropical fish, ride horses on the beach, snorkel with giant stingrays, sail, kayak or just lounge in the 88 degree sun... or do all of the above. As we were thanking God for the blessing of the trip and asking His mercies on our return trip, someone added "and thank you, Father, for creating such a really cool world for us to enjoy." I'm not sure I'd ever heard "really cool" used in a prayer before, but that about said it. God did make a really cool world to bless us. He wants us to enjoy His goodness; He wants us to bless and serve others so that they can enjoy His goodness as well. We need to step back more often to take in the magesty and goodness of God to remind us who we are and who we are called to be. You don't need to be on a tropical island to do that. But if you just happen to on one...
Happy New Year!
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