There is something about faith that takes us into the depth of life's experience and transforms us. What seems to be bad becomes tolerable. What seems tolerable can become good. What appears good can become formative and great.
It happens at every stage of life. It happens in your childhood years when we are struggling to know what we can and cannot do. It happens in our adolescent days when we battle issue of authority and identity. It happens in our adult days when we are trying to make a difference in life by using what talent and gifts we have and apply them to the world's needs. It happens in our elder hood when we are looking at end of life times.
Can we live our lives full of days?
We can do that at any stage of life and we must.
Faith requires that we come as far as we can see and then we look further. I means we read the bad news in the papers and we hear the bad news as shared and we keep listening.
There is more for us; more to do and more to see and more to experience and we live our lives full of days.
The sermon will focus on Job who lived his life until the end and was full of days. That is the greatest affirmation we can make and that is a life well lived.
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Charles Schuster
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