Isaiah 66:12 “For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.”

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The mightiest river begins in small places. Its ultimate end begins at its unassuming beginning. A drip from a mountainside to a brook whispering in its beginning. It joins other similar sources rushing down from high cliffs carving its path as it goes. There is an assumed purpose to it. Pulled ever downward to the ever-slowing lowlands. The river moves ever slower and slower to its ultimate end as it joins the ocean and is lost in its vastness.

My life has had its fast times, filled with purpose and decisions. Now, as my flow slowly descends from the high mountain, my days of rashness and physicality slow and moves to completion in the totality of God. Every mile I move closer to the ultimate source of all water.  In my course, I must transition from a physical purpose to a more spiritual one. Now is the time for slow recollections and attempts to understand the life I have lived.

I guess Isaac Newton said it well, and I paraphrase here, “My worldly usefulness is the last idol I am willing to part with—but the Lord will enable me to give even this up.”

What shall we call him? Jesus the Course of Life!

# Just Larry