Life in the Fast Lane ...

I don’t know about you but I have used that phrase a few times in my life to describe some “different” kind of happening. Well, this time, I am using it to describe my life in the last half of 2007. When I look back on the events of this year, my only response is “Yeah, God!” Reflecting back on New Years Eve 2006, it was uneventful, boring, and somewhat depressing, since I was alone, and there were no prospects for anything different in the coming months.

In April of 2007 I was returning from a 50th birthday party for a pastor friend of mine. On the ride home, I began talking out loud to God in my car. The long and short of the conversation was that I thought life “sucked” but if that was what God wanted for me, I was willing to yield all I was to His sovereign power and I would be “content” as He taught me the meaning of contentment. A little over a month later, God began a journey for me that I could never have imagined, nor would I have been able to dream of such a series of events.

On May 18th, I had breakfast with Carol Feistel, widow of deceased missionary Malcom Feistel. We met at the Cracker Barrel in Springfield, MO and that was the beginning of a relationship that God ordained from the beginning. On July 9th we were married in Frisco, CO. Carol finished her missionary responsibilities in Taiwan at the end of August and returned to Ohio and began serving the Lord with me here. Our lives together have been so much more than either of them could have been had we remained apart. We enter 2008 with a sense of God’s hand on our lives, our ministry, and our future. It seems that every day since our marriage has been one of adventure and blessing.

I have learned the simple truth of Psalm 18.30: “As for God, His way is perfect.” Not only do I believe it … Carol and I are living proof of that simple statement. Such is life “in the fast lane” with God.

Just my thoughts on this New Years Eve 2007.

Jerry