Notes From Pastor Anthony’s Desk;
If
you all haven’t noticed by now I have somewhat of a receding hairline. It may
not be noticeable to all of you but it is true, I suffer from Male Pattern
Baldness. Now it would be very easy for me to look at my situation, as my glass
is half empty (or my head being half empty in my case) instead of it being half
full. But I always try to look on the bright side of things. It only took me
about 3 seconds to fix my hair this morning, we save quite a bit of money on
shampoo, I don’t have to worry about getting caught in the rain and messing up
my hair, and last but not least I don’t think turning gray will be a worry of
mine in the future. So you see even though I have a follicle problem on my head
I don’t have to always be down about it, there is always a bright side.
This past Thursday I was setting in the waiting room
at St. Joe East Hospital and became involved in a conversation with a group of
people around me that included an older man that was accompanied by his
daughter. This mans wife was the topic of the talk. He began to tell us all
about how they met and the dreams they had when they were young and how the
days were different then than they are now, you know all that good stuff. Then
he began to tell how they had dreamed of having a large family to grow old with
and his wife’s dream was to have a house full of children. Another lady in the
room asked the question “Whatever happened to that dream”? The man answered
proudly that it was fulfilled but his daughter beside him was all they had
left. In the span of their lives tragedy had struck that home 3 different times
taking from this seemingly wonderful couple 2 boys and a girl. One by cancer,
one by heart attack and one lost in a house fire. As a silence entered the room
after he shared with us the details of each event, it was finally broken by the
question, “How do you cope”? A smile crossed the daughters face and she said,
“Every time mom and dad feel down they go and pray and they say there is a
peace that God gives them that they can’t explain. If it wasn’t for God we
couldn’t make it”.
On
my drive back home that evening I realized not once did this kind man get down
about what he was going through, never did act as if he blamed God or anyone
else for that matter, with the problems that he had. He was taking the life
that God gave him and he was thankful for it.
As
I thought on that I realized that instead of worrying about what I don’t have
or what I have lost I need to be more thankful for what I have been given to
keep and do my best with what I have for the glory of God.
In my prayers,
Pastor Anthony
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