He is in control!

We can make our plans, but once again we were reminded that the Lord can change them and we are thankful to be in His hands and under His control even when sometimes the result is not what we planned.

Our plans to head for the mountains after church yesterday did not materialize. Carol was extremely tired and had a nasty bout with nausea which caused us to cancel those plans to attend a special concert with another couple from Charlotte. Instead, Carol spent most of the day sleeping while hopefully the chemo pills did their work on the cancer.

This morning we are looking forward to having a dear couple, missionaries from Ethiopia, having breakfast with us. So I am filling in for Carol on the blog to conserve her strength and energy for the important matter at the moment...food preparation.

Recently I was reading about John and Betty Stamm, missionaries to China who were assassinated in China in 1934. In response to that tragic event, Will Houghton who was president of Mood Bible Institute at that time wrote:

"So this is life. This world with its pleasures, struggles and tears, a smile, a frown, a sigh, friendship so true and love of kin and neighbor? Sometimes it is hard to live--always to die!"

"The world moves on so rapidly for the living; the forms of those who disappear are replaced, and each one dreams that he will be enduring. How soon that one becomes the missing face!"

"Help me to know the value of these hours. Help me the folly of all waste to see. Help me to trust the Christ who bore my sorrows and thus to yield for life or death to Thee."

It is our prayer that we will truly value the time which the Lord allows us to have with family and friends while on this earth, fully trusting Him as we continue along this winding road together.

Our love to you all,

Chuck...and Carol too