Job complained that his days were swifter than a post, a man delivering messages from one person to another. In our modern times, we might imagine the UPS man who runs from his truck to make a delivery and back to the driver's seat to speed to the next delivery and so forth.
Our days seem swifter than a post. One of the reasons was that we had barely two weeks at Christmas before we had to hit the road again. Our year started in California with meetings in the northern and southern parts of the state, interrupted by a trip to the Dominican Republic.
February find us entirely in the state of Arizona ministering in different churches there.
Our ministry is now different from what it has ever been before in that none of our children now travel with us. Josiah serves on staff at our home church in Mississippi. Abigail is finishing her final semester of college, after graduation from which she plans to be married. Esther lives in our home and works in Mississippi. Daniel, too, stays in Mississippi so that he can earn money for college in the fall. What it means for our family is that our helpers in ministry are gone. So many aspects of daily life were handled by our children that living life without them has been an adjustment. For example, our music ministry is much different now. Whereas we used to have the capability for six-part harmony, now everything is either a duet or a solo. There were also many jobs that our children did with respect to our table. Now, those jobs are all on us. Trailer setup and maintenance, too, have been affected. Some things our children did without being told, and now that they are gone, there is the ever-present danger of those jobs being neglected.
On the other hand, Sarah and I are enjoying our time together as husband and wife only. That is the way we started, and now that life has come full circle, we are greatly enjoying it. Most of all, we are enjoying the ministry to which God has called us, preaching and teaching all over the country and occasionally the world. Thank you for your prayers.
