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We are being watched.

8/30/2018

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As believers in Christ, we are being watched and therefore we have an opportunity. When I was in my twenties, I worked my way through Bible school and Seminary. Most of my jobs were through the temporary agency called Manpower. Temporary jobs alternated between short one day jobs and jobs that lasted more than a year. One of those long term jobs was working for Chrysler Corporation in their complaint department.
On this job it was myself and another temp was took the phone calls of people angry about their cars. Often those calls came with yelling and cussing from the customers. That gets really old after a while. The other temp who took the calls with me was not a Christian and his response to people was sometimes to get angry right back, slam the phone down and walk out of the room. Though I may have wanted to do that, I decided that was not the way I should respond.
Soon a third temp came into the office. His job was different than ours but his desk faced us and so he watched us all day and our responses to customers. His name was Bart. One day Bart and I were in the Break room at the same time and he came up to me and asked a question. "I have been watching the two of you respond to angry customers on the phone. Why don't you act like the other guy does?" I told him it wasn't because I didn't want to, but that I was a believer in Jesus Christ and that affects how you live your life. You live differently. And then I explained why and how I had become a Christian. What an example this was of how we are being watched as Christians and what an opportunity this is to live out Christ in front of them. 
As Christians we are being watched by people who might need Christ and we have an opportunity to show them a different way. What will we show them by how we live?
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Reflections

8/24/2018

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My dad, who is 89  years old, had his second TIA almost three weeks ago. A TIA is a temporary mini-stroke where you have the effects of a stroke but you recover your abilities in a short period of time. The first stoke he had in May and he was in the hospital for just a few days with follow up therapy at home. This stroke was more severe and he was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital for a week. This recovery was harder than the first but he has recovered well enough to go home with continued therapy again at home. 
The evening his second stroke happened, his symptoms were quite severe and I went to bed wondering if that was the last day I would have my real dad. There were no warning signs that day that his would happen. It just did. This reminds me of the verse in the Book of James which says that we don't know what will happen tomorrow. How true that was for me and my family that day. Life can change in a moment.
We don't know what will happen tomorrow.  We don't know what will happen today. So appreciate every day as the gift that it is. Appreciate life as the gift from God that it is.  
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