Anybody else find themselves living in what I call the "I wonder if this will be the last time...?" Syndrome. I would define the primary symptom as follows: When, in the process of fulfilling some repetitive event, task or milestone (often annual, but not limited to that time frame), you end up seriously contemplating the possibility that this will be the last time that particular thing will take place in your natural, earth-bound human life before we go home in the Harpazo? Example: As we observed Thanksgiving on Thursday, I could not help but wonder if this would be the last time we did so. In other words, by this time next year, we would be home at Abba's. Does this happen a lot to you? It does to me. "This could be the last time, This could be the last time, Maybe the last time, I don't know." Yup! I've been saying that about the last 5 Christmas's. Indeed, without looking back this is time the Lord gives us to release everything we are attached to, IMHO. There are many things and people that we have grown fond of, but in the end it's all about our relationship with God. About giving Daddy our whole heart. We can only anticipate seeing God and Heaven and all the things that await us there. But we need to remember that every aspect of our relationship with Him must be on His terms and not ours. He wants our whole heart! TR Watchman, too funny! You been reading my mind! I’m with TR, my family hears me say “this might be the last Thanksgiving, the last. Christmas, the last holiday season,.. I always prepare as if it is the last for everything, last time I was the car, the last time the alarm clock will go off, the last time I go to the store, it is a pretty cool way to live, looking for the last opportunities to leave a witness. I always think of what to have ready for those that raid my home as a witness for survivors, if my home makes it through the multiple catastrophic events that will occur. lots to still do as we wait... :prayer-hands: I wonder who will have the last post and the last word on RITAN?! Point is that we are aware of our dwindling days. And that is is more than a doctrinal construct, and even greater than just a hope. But rather it is an eternal truth born in the heart of God! So wonderful to be an expectant Bride! That would make anyone feel giddy! TR
