Longing

Happy Anniversary my dear husband! I've written about our wedding before, 6/26/76. Wow! It's been 3 years since I wrote that. Where, oh where does time fly away to?

Mel is gone today, out with the other two pastors, visiting a young man who is unable to come to church this summer due to his job as a life guard. He works 7 days a week and only has a couple hours off a day. This is life here. IF you have a job, you work the hours they tell you to work - or you lose your job. There are no such things as unions here. Altho I am not a fan of unions in the States, they really need a union here at this time in history.

It is rumbling and grumbling outside. The temp is 85 degrees F and it is humid. The sky is dark gray and it rained earlier. I remember rain cooling down the temperature in Colorado. In fact, it can get down right cold after a rainstorm (usually accompanied by hail). Here - nope. It just gets muggy.

So Mel is out on our anniversary. Out in the kind of weather he hates most. He would rather be in sub-zero temperatures, snow and blizzards than out in this.

Such is life.

I was listening to another sermon by Arthur Azurdia last night on The Revelation. I think it was in the last chapter. As he preached I realized again how much I long for heaven, for the return of Jesus Christ, for this world to be over and done with. How wonderful it will be when there is no more sickness (I'm better, but not 100% yet), no more uncomfortable weather (hot or cold), no more death (two famous deaths yesterday, Jackson and Fawcett), no more falling away from the faith (our dear pastor friend in another city), no more sin (me, I am full of sin continually).

Oh Lord Jesus, come quickly!!