My thoughts this week will be based on the Greek word kairos, sometimes translated “time.” It’s not so much an hour and minute, but a season, occasion or opportunity. It’s used in 86 different places in the New Testament, nine of them in the book of Acts. We’ll look at three:
- Refreshing times
- Fruitful times
- Convenient times
Which one is driving you right now? Rest, productivity or convenience?
Regardless, your times are in God’s hands.
Two of the service dogs – the ones who saved me through canine CPR – died over the weekend.
This is not the best of time,
and there is no relief.
I’ve lost two service-canines,
and it is the time for grief.
I’ve diverged from the world of men,
and there’s little common ground.
With those who are my kin,
there’s not the slightest sound.
It is the dogs who understand
without a spoken thought;
we seem to occupy a land
that time and tide forgot.
Thus yesterday it really hurt
to lay my dear friends in the dirt.
If I may, here’s a vieo that illustrates that which they did to save my life, courtesy the Mardid (Spain) PD.
I am truly sorry for your loss. I believe your furry friends will be at heaven’s gate to meet you, Andrew, with their aged wisdom packed into stronger, enthusiastic, energetic, renewed bodies.
If they’re not there, it can’t be Heaven.
I’ll go where they go.