Perspective
On Looking Back
When I was training to be a private pilot, here was an important lesson: When you are taking off, the runway behind you is useless.
When I was training to be a private pilot, here was an important lesson: When you are taking off, the runway behind you is useless.
Kenneth Grahame was on to something when he wrote these words in 1908: "There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
The Lady Friend and I were recently in New York to attend a memorial for an old friend and neighbor of mine.
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.