My Hand

“For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.” Genesis 44:34 KJV
After all the ceremonies, his body guard took him to Union Station in Washington DC where he would board a train to head home. The ex-President was now, literally, just an average American. If I stayed there any longer, I knew I would feel the pain of their hand slipping out of mine. “Take me! Take me! I just can’t bear my father’s pain over the loss of another son. It will kill him and it will be my fault because I didn’t take extra good care of his youngest son,” he would beg.

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George Washington crossing the Delaware postcard

“Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.” Lamentations 3:54 KJV
They couldn’t wait to do battle and finish off those pesky revolutionaries. But all that could wait. It was Christmas Eve and it was time to party. And party they did. I threw the tools out of my plastic bucket and put that bucket under the pipe to catch what water I could. The people grew tired of his holier-than-thou attitude. So they threw him in a well that had dried up.

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Sunrise over the Outer Banks, North Carolina (2007)

“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.” John 21:17 KJV
Some may find this hard to believe, but I am a diehard goal’s person. So this skinny, quiet lad decided to enroll in a lifesaving course at the YMCA. His life was much like his Father’s. There was nothing special about it. Goals help make our life seem worthwhile.

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NASCAR's Martinville Race - October 2013 - Jeff Gordon (24) leading

“But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.” Job 2:10 KJV
Life can be real hard at times. We don’t always have to be the big winner to serve a purpose in God’s plan. One of the things about the Presidents you don’t hear a whole lot about is what their parents thought about their child becoming President. Who knows if he just wasn’t invited or if he just took a pass because he thought he was too old for that sort of thing.

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