Today's Beginning

Thursday... Moving has some good attached to it. I was born 76 years ago today in Huntington, West Virginia but we were there only for a couple of months then we were on the move. And it seems that we haven't stopped. Well, maybe we have. We bought a house in Las Vegas, Nevada. But moving has some good attached to it. Psalm 92:12-14 (NLT) says, "But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon. For they are transplanted to the Lord's own house. They flourish in the courts of our God. Even in old age they will still produce fruit; they will remain vital and green." There is a point that in each of our lives we need to be transplanted to the Lord's own house. We need to move from an old way of living to a new way that will last even to old age so we can produce fruit, that will remain vital and green. Do you need to be transplanted? I mean, are you stuck in a rut and you need to be transplanted out of it? What is it in your life...

Saturday... We have been searching for the right trees. We have gotten the keys and are in the process of moving into our retirement home. With all the situations involved with what our world is going through we decided that building a new house here in the desert of Las Vegas was best for us. Now here in Vegas, we are responsible for the landscape in our backyard and trees are an important choice here in the desert. So we have been doing all we can to figure out the best trees to survive and to thrive. We have loved it.  So as I was reading in Psalm 92 these verses caught my attention. Verse 12 (NLT) says, "But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow like the cedars of Lebanon."  Now Palm trees in the desert are signs of water, of an oasis. And the cedars were used in so many ways to build great buildings. Craftsmen used then in building the Temple in Jerusalem.  Maybe God wants to use us, to help us flourish in this desert of despair and fear and pandemic. And ...