Whenever Karen and I travel, we are amazed at the abundance in our country. So many fields growing so many different crops, so many oil wells, wind farms, shopping centers, streets in small towns lined with business after business, restaurants by the thousands, car lots filled with new cars and highways full of semis transporting goods between cities. So many banks, gas stations, hotels and motels, new home and business construction and tons of people doing things and going places.
It's hard to fathom so much empty land, yet someone owns it. Thousands of miles of roads, railroad tracks and airports and millions of houses almost all of which have electricity, water and sewer access. Thousands of cattle on a thousand hills, feedlots, power plants, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, parks, ball fields, a post office in every town, court houses and city halls, police stations and fire houses, hospitals and countless road signs, mile markers, traffic lights, and churches of all shapes and sizes.
And with all this abundance, we marvel at the things from our past which are abandoned, falling down, in shambles, dilapidated but still occupied, trash on the roadside, junk yards, garbage dumps and even in this element there is abundance of a negative kind. We look at falling down barns and clapboard farmhouses and imagine what they might have been like in their prime. So much to observe and ponder as we travel the miles of our life and get a glimpse of what is, what was and what the future holds for us all.
I say it again; what a blessing to live the life we do, share our life with friends and family and total strangers and to have them share their life with us. And yet we are just passing thru. We are here only a short time, living with the promise of an eternal future even more abundant than the abundance we now enjoy. Thank You, Lord, for this life, for the ones we get to share it with: but thank You even more for what is yet to come. As the song says; I can only imagine.
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