KEEP MOVING FORWARD

Tomorrow is my baby's birthday. Yes, my baby will be 28 years old. Man...I guess that makes me really old! It seems only yesterday that Clark and Graham were just two little boys, playing ball in the yard, swimming in our pool in Grand Prairie with their friends, on soccer and base ball teams and involved in a variety of church activities. Then there were the three years Clark attended a 5 week camp in Kerrville at Camp Stewart. There were couple of years Graham took piano lessons and the year they both took private art lessons. Looking back...the years flew by.

As they grew, their friends changed. They had girlfriends, jobs, cars, proms, graduations and college experiences. Then came marriages, carriers and even babies of their own. Life doesn't stand still - it just keeps moving forward.

There is this great animated movie called "The Robinsons". In the movie, the main character, a young orphan and budding inventor has a saying..."keep moving forward." When experiments fail or even when they progress to the next step...he would say "keep moving forward" until your dream becomes reality.

Sometimes life is like that. All through life, we experience great joys, sadness, mundane and even stressful times. Some times we aren't sure how we can carry on. Others, we just plod along from day to day without noticing how the time flies. Still others, we experience great joy or sadness that stops us in our tracks. Yet, for most of us, we keep moving forward. But what many of us don't realize is, it is but by the grace of God we are able to even take a step at a time, moving forward through each day. It is His grace that comforts us in our deepest sorrows. It is by His grace, we experience the greatest joys of family, friends, protection, job security, and provision for our needs - physical, emotional and spiritual. It is by His grace we move through those days when we don't even notice Him at all - those days of rest and peace when life just moves along. And it is by His grace, when we worry and stress over things we cannot control, we are able to make it through the day. It is by His grace we are able to keep moving forward.

So today, I am thankful for those days of joy, sadness, mundane and even stress. Because I know that during each and every situation, God's grace is allowing me to keep moving forward, trusting Him in every situation.

So, look up my friends and keep moving forward.