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The nugget of gold hidden among many gifts/// Micah Powers

     I will not lie I  come out of this reading with an extreme gratefulness for grammar and punctuation (even though I struggle with it sometimes). My mother always told me how necessary grammar and punctuation were and I finally grasped that. I feel a lack of periods in this book. I cannot say I could process the majority of what we have read thus far so I will pinpoint on what really touched me. the golden nugget emoting gifts. 

    "Past and present, God's will prevails. Hence, understanding is always best and a prudent mind. Whoever remains for long here in the earthly life will enjoy and endure more than enough." - Beowulf 1057-1061. 

This small section calls to mind quite a few passages of scripture but honestly the scriptural context is not what stood out to me the most. My thought process while reading that is God's gift of limited lifetime. I very much believe that there is a reason God has limited life from 0-969 years (genesis 5:27). I mean for Pete sake there are some of us (humans) that can't make it past the teen years without giving up. The average lifespan of an American is just 50 percent of a year north of 78 years old. I have met so many elderly who are tired and ready for heaven. My grandmother died at 97 two years back on mothers day and I remember seeing her in the hospital and her saying, "I don't think I will be going to the hospital again after this, I am not strong enough to keep fighting my body to stay alive, things are breaking, and I have had so much replaced and removed by now anyway. There is so much more in life to do Micah, and I  want you to do as much as you can. Live, raise a family, love God, but whatever you do if I could ask you to do one thing, it would be to serve everyone...." there was more she told me than that and she passed away that evening. I guess the point I am trying to land on is this life only lasts as long as we can take it. Taking apart that last sentence there are three thoughts:

Whoever remains for long, some of us will give up and not make it very long and some will make it more than a lifetime.

Will enjoy and endure, there are many things we go through and the emotions we experienced in the moment may change. Sometimes you will enjoy the enduring and other times you will endure the enjoying.

More than enough, God allows us the life we have for the amount of time we have it so that we may experience abundantly more than we could ask or imagine. 


I commented on Isabelle and Abigale's blogs. 

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  1. Ian BlairFebruary 23, 2021 at 7:51 AM

    You hit that right on the money dude, I mean spot on. I find myself staying up late into the night sometimes just thinking about all the chances and opportunities I missed that previous day or week in the little things and interactions I have with people everyday. There's 150,000 people who pass away daily, and if we all woke up today it means that God is not done with us yet, and that is great in of itself.

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