We are in the Christmas season, and that makes some of us happy and expectant: family, food, and sometimes gifts, but the main thing is to be with family and special people.
My previous appointment was in my hometown, and, by the way, I didn’t know it would be my last ministry field in Mexico before returning to Fort Worth.
I think most of us have had days when it seems that everything starts to pile up and things don’t go as planned, and just like a domino effect, something goes wrong, and other things start going wrong, too.
I’m not sure where I first heard this story. In 1994, two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on biblical principles) in the public schools.
There’s a story about a grandfather who found his grandson, jumping up and down in his playpen, crying at the top of his lungs. When the grandson saw his grandfather, he reached up his chubby little hands and said, “Out, Gramps, out.”