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Walking the Path

January 30, 2019 By admin

When I grew up in New York City, we had a big painting hanging on the wall behind the couch. I was intrigued by the scenery because it had a beautiful path wandering through the snow. The path meandered past giant trees and a house, and disappeared into the distance. I would stare at the path and wonder where would it take me if I had strolled through the snow. I would imagine walking and disappearing into the distance right where the path met the horizon. What would I find over the horizon? Where would it take me? I guess that is one reason that I still find photos and artwork with paths intriguing.

Life is like a path that takes us places we never dreamed about or imagined. Sometimes we gaze into the future and try to plan and predict what will happen but we can never see the end of the road. Sometimes, we can’t even see into the next moment. There are too many potholes, cracks in the sidewalk, or pitfalls that might keep us from our final destination.

Once while I was visiting in Washington D.C., I arrived at my hotel after the restaurant closed. I was hungry so I thought I would stop by a nearby drug store for peanuts and a breakfast bar. As I walked quickly through the dark lit streets, I did not see an uneven portion of the sidewalk. Just as I got ready to dart across the street, I tripped and flew out onto the asphalt. Luckily no cars were coming. I was a bit embarrassed as a few people stopped to see if I was okay. I assured them that I was and continued to the drug store. I grabbed a few snacks and other purchases to clean and bandage my wounded knees. That’s right, I skinned both of them rather good.

When we spend time in God’s Word, the messages act as lights to show us the path of life so that we don’t stumble and fall. We learn about the pitfalls of our broken human nature and navigate around them. We discover places that would cause us to stumble in our walk with Christ. And we learn that God gives us strength to go life’s distance.

When we travel through the darkest moments in our lives, we know that we don’t have to fear evil because God tells us in Psalms 23:4 that He is with us. With God’s Word as light, we can navigate the sidewalks of life and avoid falling into situations that hurt or potentially destroy us. He promises us that His Word will guide us through life’s path that will lead us to our final destination: His kingdom.

Pamela A Williams writes from Southern California.

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Highway Thoughts

January 14, 2019 By admin

“Dad, why are you pulling over?” I asked, as our blue SUV came to a stop on the side of the highway.

“The radiator’s overheated,” he replied.

I felt a knot in my stomach. We had worked too hard for this to happen. My brother Michael, a couple friends and I had been traveling for almost 18 hours straight from our college in Washington to California. Now we were driving with my dad to Leoni Meadows Camp, where 400 high school students would be arriving in a few hours for a weekend Bible retreat. Michael, Dean, Gabby and I were the band. God had given us a job to do.

Honestly, I was frustrated about the car. These sorts of things always happen when God gave us a job to do. My brother and I had made the same trek a few years earlier, and it turned out to be one of the most stressful weekends of my life. We missed our flight, took a frantic drive to another airport, had two flat tires, and a near-death experience involving a foot-long wrench whizzing by me while I stood by the side of the road. I was not ready for another one of these weekends.

We piled out of the car, and Dad checked under the hood. “Our radiator did overheat,” he confirmed. “We need water to cool it down.”

We didn’t have any with us. We needed a miracle.

We got in a circle and prayed. I hoped that God would provide, but, secretly, I didn’t see a way out of this mess.

We glanced around and noticed a little stream down the bank by the side of the road, complete with a break in the fence to provide access to it. We found an empty water jug in the trunk of the car and used it to fill the radiator with fresh, cool water, and a few minutes later Dad decided to see if the car would start. I paid attention, hopeful that this would be the miracle we had asked for.

My dad turned the key… and nothing.

I felt dejected. And slightly unsurprised. After our escapade two years ago, I kind of expected we’d be stuck here forever.

With nothing left to do except wait, we decided to run through the songs for that night. But as we started singing the last song, something inside of me felt different.

We sang the words, “Our God is greater / our God is stronger / God you are higher than any other / our God is healer / awesome in power/ our God,” but it didn’t feel like practice. I felt connected to God in a way that I hadn’t felt before. I didn’t even think about our situation, I just let the worry go. For those five minutes, it was all about God.

When we finished Dad tried the key one more time. We heard an unexpected sound – the engine starting – and suddenly I knew that I had just witnessed something amazing. Our God really is greater than whatever is working against us. He’s bigger than our secrets, our fears, and our bad attitudes. And that day I learned that he wants nothing more than to take care of us.

Heather Bradley-Robbins writes from the Pacific Northwest.

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The Bear Tree

December 31, 2018 By admin

When I was a teenager, my parents, twin sister Laura and I lived in a 100-year-old, remodeled ranch house on 40 acres of rolling hills at the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. The drive home from town took an hour on a long, winding road through the mountains. The four of us saw lots of wildlife, especially on evening drives. Creatures always seemed to appear in those twilight hours.

Most people get anxious when they see animals dart onto the road, but we loved it. We spied everything from raccoons and bands of coyotes to red foxes and bobcats. Once, we even spotted a mountain lion. I remember one late summer night vividly. We had turned onto the last stretch of road, four miles of gravel that led up to our house, but we had yet to see any animals.

Knowing how disappointed we were not to have spied an animal, dad prayed out loud, “Father, we ask that you would bless us with a sight of Your creation, Amen.”

As he prayed, I silently added my own request to see another mountain lion.

From our less-than-ideal vantage point in the backseat, Laura and I huddled together with our eyes fixed on the illuminated portion of the road. As we wound our way through forest and field, however, we did not spy a single solitary creature.

Odd, I thought, we’ve always seen something by now.

Then, as our gray car rounded a bend, I spotted a dark figure to our right.

“What’s that?” I asked, leaning forward to point at the rounded shape outlined in the ominous darkness.
“It looks like a big bear!” Laura chimed in excitedly.

Our parents started to chuckle as the bear shape morphed into an old oak log, and Laura and I sat back in disappointment.

Now we were halfway up the gravel drive lined with the darkened silhouette of oak and pine trees, and I tried to concentrate on looking for animals. My eyes felt weary of staring and I wondered if God would answer our prayer that night.

We rounded another long bend in the road. Then another. Still nothing. Climbing up a short hill, we could see the roof of our two-story white home.

Then, less than a quarter mile from home, Mom gasped, “Look, girls! Black bears!”

In a tall, shaggy pine tree on the lefthand side of the road, three furry faces looked down at us. Laura and I sat speechless. She and I turned to each other, our jaws dropped in awe.

It was three bear cubs.

Dad stopped the car in the middle of the road, and we sat with our headlights on bright about 20 feet from the base of that lodgepole pine. The cubs were one-fourth of the way up the tree and looked a little bewildered as they peered out at us. We sat and stared at the three cubs for a couple of minutes. Bears usually have two cubs in a litter, so seeing three felt especially remarkable.

At one point, Dad peered over the steering wheel to look for the mother bear. As far as we could tell in the pitch black around us, mama bear wasn’t nearby. Just three cubs who now seemed anxious to move out of the limelight.

Finally, dad put our car into drive and we continued on. We talked about the bear cubs the rest of the drive home. A neighboring rancher had told my dad that bears occasionally roamed the area, but we had never seen any before. We definitely did not expect to see triplet cubs.

That night as we pulled in front of the house, my dad remarked on how God loves to bless us, and how that bear sighting was another reminder of God’s faithfulness. We never saw bears again, but every time we see that tall, shaggy pine tree, it reminds us that God answered our simple prayer.

Lindsey Faith Hoyt writes from Northern Nevada.

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A Simple Roadmap from San Antonio

September 29, 2017 By admin

by Glenn Sackett Seventh-Day Adventists have hit a bump in the road, a bump so big it threatens the whole journey. This bump in the road occurred in 2015, leading up to, and during the General Conference session in San Antonio. In 2015 a decades-long discussion escalated into an ugly fight that descended into name-calling […]

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An Alternative View of Church Unity

June 9, 2017 By admin

by Weiers Coetser Midway through 2017 we find ourselves, for better or worse, on the rutted and pothole-filled road of “church unity.” The landscape that this road tries to navigate has been defined by some as justice. But it’s all very complicated, and here I’m going to try to give you a better lay of […]

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