Lyle's Blog

I sometimes wonder if praying has become a lost art. In America we have lots of options for solving our problems. I’m retired and live in Sun City. I live in “doctor heaven”. Doctors of all kinds and hospitals are just a minute of two away. There are so many care facilities that the urgent care centers have people on the corner with signs trying to wave you in like furniture stores or pizza parlors do. It’s odd until you think how many thousands of old dilapidated people live here. Yep there is a concentration of people needing help with health challenges just like others need pizza. Still I weary from all this handy lifestyle that threatens to make me a self-centered old codger who doesn’t care much about what’s happening outside the box. I’ll have to admit it is comforting to live in an oasis that’s outside the world that’s spinning way to fast. After a life that seems sometimes like a blur we’ve arrived at the point where nothing matters too much. Our kids if we have any are doing their own thing and don’t really need our input or want it for that matter. Politics matter only in keeping our boats afloat and the dismantling of our societal norms is out of our hands. The fact that we could have had backbones and made a difference escapes our thoughts. Maybe we enjoyed the freedom that ignorance provides. We’ve done what we were programmed to do and on the way went to Disneyland as much as we could, living life like we thought we should, getting all the gusto we could. Now we must succumb to spending time communicating in worthless words, We’ve decided whether there is a God and are content if there is that we are ready to meet Him. We’re good enough. We’re not killers, thieves, or adulterers. We didn’t do anything too bad. The Word of God says we have all fallen short of the glory of God and at best we are naked, blind, and corrupt. Blissful unawareness engulf the old. What are we unaware of? That knowing God personally is eternal life and that if the Lord doesn’t build your life you labored or spent your efforts in vain. I’m trying to convince people that no matter how old you are it’s wise to find the reason you are here which is only one thing and that is to glorify God. If you are young start now. If you are middle-aged start now. If you are old make your next breath one that praises God. Get to work for as the Bible says the days are evil which is to say this could be your last day and it’s our duty to Him to shine the light of Christ in a dark world.