tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90894391359191205532024-03-14T01:33:18.487-07:00It Happens Everydaypayunirbabaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882602594206165122noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9089439135919120553.post-8030625793860810422009-12-07T18:13:00.001-08:002009-12-07T18:13:24.808-08:00Endurance<blockquote> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">“Do not ask to walk smooth paths,</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">nor bear an easy load.</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">But pray for strength and fortitude,</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">to walk the rock strewn road.</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">May Jehovah give you courage,</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">remember you are not alone.</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">And transform every stumbling block,</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3">into a stepping-stone.”</font></p> </blockquote> <p><font color="#800000" size="3">I was thinking about this quote as I visited this week with 2 elderly sisters. Their lives have been very different. One had a life focused on full-time service as a pioneer, and traveling with her husband in the Circuit work. The other served faithfully as a congregation publisher while raising a family with her husband.</font></p> <p><font color="#800000" size="3">The life choices that they made may be very different, but their faithful endurance is the same. Each has built up a record of faithful, whole-hearted service to Jehovah, are deeply loved and appreciated by their brothers and sisters and continues to be a source of strength and encouragement to everyone privileged to know them.</font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3"><font color="#800000">The word <em>endurance</em> takes on concrete meaning for me as I look at their lives. Each one is now dealing with the vagaries of old age… gracefully and uncomplainingly. </font></font></p> <p><font color="#004000" size="3"><font color="#800000">The “rock strewn road” is a little easier for me to travel with them leading the way</font>.</font></p> payunirbabaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882602594206165122noreply@blogger.com0