These are my thoughts about one Friday

 There is always a light. Are we brave enough to follow it?

 

One Friday not too long ago I got to spend the whole day with my grandson. It was 8:30 and we took off for a 75 mile ride just me and him. We talked about a lot of different things on the first 75 miles and if you go away 75 miles you will have to return 75 miles.  It was on the return trip I told him things about myself he didn’t know for I don’t talk about them ever. I wanted him to know about the darker side of my life before Jesus saved me. You see he never saw me but one way a Pastor, a person who loves people and wanted to help where I could. My wife and I worked 20 years helping those that had let alcohol and drugs wreck their lives. There was a dark side that he never knew and I wanted him to know what great things God had done. You might say that I should have just kept quiet. I might have except for a few things that he said over the past few months. One night he and I were sitting in our living room and he said “I want to be more like you.” Oh wow I realize that what I do and say does affect others. Then at Christmas time he wrote in a card these words “You mean the world to me.” Then he went on to write “I look up to you in so many ways.” Then he wrote “ I hope that my grandchildren and great grandchildren respect and love me the same way yours do.” Then he closed out by writing “there is nothing in this world I wouldn’t do for you I love you.” That meant the world to me and he will never know how much. Well I just felt like he should know I haven’t always been like he knows me. God has done a great work without doubt in my life. As we got closer to home I just didn't want the day to end. At the end of the day I’m sure he enjoyed being with me. What to him may have seemed like an enjoyable day he got to spend with his Papa. To me meant the world and a day that will be in my memory for the rest of my life. Am I sorry for telling him all I told him? No and I didn’t share half. What I am sorry for is that I really did those things in the first place. You say yes we have all done things we wish we had not done. True! Here is the best part: God who knows all, refuses to remember and will never bring it up. We got that in writing. Psalms 103:12 (KJV) As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.