LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE

LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE




Looking back
Could you have PREDICTED
WHERE you are
In your life right now


I could NEVER
Have predicted
That as a young man
I would SURVIVE
Three life and death operations


And live a whole life
With an UNPREDICTABLE chronic illness


I could never
have predicted
That I would be LIVING
In South Florida


And spending
My time
SEARCHING for God
And searching for
A deeper MORE SPIRITUAL
And HOLY life


“This is the will
Of God-YOUR HOLINESS...” 1 Thessalonians 4:3


How about you
Could you have PREDICTED
The course of your life


And are you searching
FOR GOD-for truth
And for LOVE in your life


Are you searching
For a deeper
More HOLY life
With God


“Ascribe to the Lord
The GLORY
Due his name


Worship the Lord
In the splendor
Of his holiness” Psalm 29:2


And another thing
About our JOURNEY
Through life


What we think
Is “good” or “bad”
At the time


In RETROSPECT
Often turns out to be
Just the opposite
over time


I could
NEVER HAVE PREDICTED


That having this illness
That my life
BEING totally out of my control


Could brine me
THIS CLOSE to God
And this close
To my FAMILY AND FRIENDS
In this life


“The priest answered them
'Go in peace
Your journey
Has the LORD'S APPROVAL'” Judges 18:6


How about you
Could you have seen
SOME of the wonderful outcomes
Of some of the twists and turns
Of your life


Could you have predicted
How something
That seemed so great
Could end up bringing
An UNEXPECTED sad circumstance


LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE
And only the LORD KNOWS
Where we are going
And how we are going
To get there


ONE thing I know is
That wherever we are in life


LIFE is about the giving
And receiving OF LOVE
Along the way


SHARING our successes and failures
In life=WITH each other


And life is a CALLING
Toward a deeper holiness


“It is because
Of him(GOD)


That you are
In Jesus Christ


Who has
BECOME for us
WISDOM from God


That is our RIGHTEOUSNESS-
HOLINESS-and REDEMPTION” 1 Corinthians 1:30


TODAY=on this feast
Of Saint Augustine


Let us acknowledge
LIFE'S UNPREDICTABILITY


And let us REMEMBER
As Augustine himself showed us


It is NEVER TOO LATE
For conversion
It is never too late
To become a Christian
And DISCIPLE OF CHRIST


For that is-in life's unpredictability
What we are CALLED to BECOME:


A disciple OF GOD
And Jesus Christ
In this world


A calling
Toward a deeper HOLINESS


In our SEARCH
FOR GOD-for truth-
And For love


In this crazy mixed-up world
That we live in


Robert P. Wallman
8-27-15


Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Amy Welborn




1-28-2019