What would I pay to tramp around the world and be safe because of Your Godhead over me? This is truly the question and foundationally the truth. Betty and I operate on the premise that you are responsible for keeping us safe and bringing us home again, even in far-off places and long trails alone. Now do we hold these truths so well as to eliminate all worry from our life? I can only speak for myself, no! Unequivocally NO! But there is a caveat to this as well. I know I don’t have to worry. Yes, I worry but deeper still is my abiding faith that worry is my problem, a problem with me but certainly not with You. You are 100% faithful. Nothing can separate me from your protective love, and its partner, your sovereignty over my life. Once I accept your command, Christ is my only way to this, then my fallenness does not in any way jeopardize Your faithfulness. Is this completely understandable to me? Another unequivocal NO. But I don’t understand my lover's body heat, but I sure enjoy it! And so, I am home again safe and sound sitting in my usual spot, drinking my usual coffee, reading the Ancient Text written for me, and talking to my God. It is the way, the only way, I could ever pick up, take my lover with me, and be off to the wilds of the earth, this blessed, beloved, beautiful earth. God is King.
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| Our welcome home party outside Knoxville's airport. |
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| Our last picture as we landed in Knoxville after a 221/2 hour trip home. |
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