Only a Sliver

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My Angels only left me with a speck of heaven compared to Heaven itself.  They made me wish I were there a number of times.  I know only how God will judge and a few other things.  But my Angels didn’t make one of them.  I carry a lifetime of experiences and people.  The Angels in no way made me perfect.  They made me better.  

My Angels removed a lot of guilt I heaped on myself.  And I had to learn people do not judge for God.  That may have been the hardest lesson for me to learn and I’m still learning it.   When I get stressed I can take my eyes off my Angels.  They gave me tools for living and at times I can forget those tools.  They didn’t erase my memory, but they taught how to live with my memories.  

Each and every day is a new learning adventure.  I never know what my Angels are doing, because only in hindsight can I see what they have done.  I have perfect hindsight vision now.  Not in all things, but many things.  This is why it is important to live in the now.  We have faith God knew what He was doing.  This is why we don’t regret the past.  We then get anxious about the future.

But we can relieve a lot of that anxiety by realizing God is working today and the future belongs only to Him and no one else.  I am convinced age makes for the best theologians and philosophers.  I had been challenged to write books, but my thinking has been that I don’t know enough to write books.  I share what I can but I leave books to the profit makers.  I’m not there yet.  

In fact, I may never feel comfortable writing books.  I’m comfortable sharing with a few every day or so.  If God wants others to know about me He’ll find other ways, but that isn’t one of them.  At least in my thinking I’m not there yet.  The best books are biographies of dead people.  They can’t dispute the facts.  Live your life today as if someone will write about you tomorrow.

So, this is my thinking this morning.  I can always find something to say about something, but unless the Spirit leads it’s best to be quiet.  I’m smoking my Dunhill pipe this morning with some Autumn Evening pipe tobacco.  English tobacco makes me into too much of a philosopher and I’ll let others do the thinking for me this morning.  My coffee this morning is Mt. Comfort coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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