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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Life is unpredictable...



I've always liked Henri Nouwen's writing and this quote seems well worth hearing again because life is unpredictable - as I have personally discovered once again this past week.
Nouwen on a skateboard seemed to fit the theme somehow! 

(I copied this quote from the Prodigal Kiwi Blog  which I follow - lots of good stuff!) 


Life is unpredictable.  We can be happy one day and sad the next, healthy one day and sick the next, rich one day and poor the next, alive one day and dead the next.  So who is there to hold on to?  Who is there to feel secure with?  Who is there to trust at all times?  Only Jesus, the Christ.  He is our Lord, our shepherd, our rock, our stronghold, our refuge, our brother, our guide, and our friend.  He came from God to be with us.  He died for us, he was raised from the dead to open for us the way to God, and he is seated at God's right hand to welcome us home.  With Paul, we must be certain that "neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nothing already in existence and nothing still to come, nor any power, nor the heights nor the depths, nor any created thing whatever, will be able to come between us and the love of God, known to us in Christ Jesus our Lord"  (Romans 8:38-39).
Henri Nouwen