SORROW INTO JOY

A little boy in summer camp went to the infirmary complaining of a cold …

The Nurse said to him, “I’ll give you an aspirin and you’ll feel much better. By the way, you have a fine record. You’ve never been sick before and this is your thirty fourth day here.”

Later, the boy wrote home. “Dear Mom and Dad: Today I got sick and guess what? The Nurse said my days are numbered.”

The fact of the matter is that everyone’s days are numbered. But in the face of that reality, we have Jesus’ awesome assurance that out of the death of the physical body, comes resurrection and rebirth in the spiritual body.

a man who was born and raised in humble backwoods surroundings, had a deep longing to revisit his boyhood home …

As he walked toward the now-deserted cabin which he had not seen in thirty-five years, he remembered that, as a child, he had planted some walnuts along the path. Whereupon,…