Imagine you’re at your place of work…at the office, construction site…wherever. One day this guy shows up…he stops by your cubicle or the coffee shop…he looks like he might just be passing by but he stops and says…

Come, follow me

I do…that hero is my wife.

This woman, with such a depth of character and beauty, has turned his heart into a beating frenzy of compassion. Warming the coldness that once resided there with absolute acceptance and belief he could be the hero she saw in him.

That's a question that has been working on me for over 50 years now.... C.S. Lewis says this…

Until you have given up yourself to Him you will not have a real self - C.S. Lewis

Does that question make you squirm a bit? It doesn't have to. We are redeemed from sin to become the person Father God wants us to be. His plan is personal, strategically designed to produce sons and daughters.

Freedom is not about doing whatever you want, whenever you want and however you want. Freedom is about becoming the person you were meant to be.

1st Chronicles 16:27 give us a destination…

Splendor and majesty are in his presence. Strength and joy are where he is.

This joyride is first and foremost about the friendship and shared experiences we can have with Father God.

A father’s expression of love delivers a message of value and relational closeness.

2nd Corinthians 4:1 reminds to do just that!

Therefore, since God in his mercy has given us this new way, we never give up.

I love baseball and believe or not the Apostle Paul has something to say about baseball. In 2nd Corinthians 4:17 he writes…

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Joshua Harris says this about connections…

“Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like

God has loved us.”