Grains of Sand

Reading: Isaiah 44-48 My last remaining aunt celebrates her 100 th birthday today. I don’t know that I want to live that long but since the timing is not up to me I will rest, as my aunt does, in some neat promises from today’s reading. God, through Isaiah, is addressing His children. He says: “ Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you ” (46:3, 4, NIV). From birth until death, God promises to carry us in safety. The verses surrounded these two remind me of why God can make such a sweeping promise. He’s the Creator. “ I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself ” (44:24, NIV). He’s the Redeemer, the One who has brought us int...

What follows is a deviation from the usual fare of this blog, but it fit so well with what I just read on my friend, Vi Nesdoly's blog (http://vnesdoly.blogspot.com/2009/06/aging-warning.html). Like the cats, some of us do "loosen up" with age. I'm sorry I don't know who the author of this is, but whoever it is knows cats. WHEN I AM AN OLD CAT When I am an old cat I shall wear a diamond collar, and leave my footprints on white couches; I shall drink cream with a touch of brandy and spit out my vitamins; I shall sit on the laps of dog people just to irritate them; I shall nap on top of the neighbor's petunias and perch on the top of birdbaths and grow charmingly chubby. But for now I must tolerate the dog and use my litter box and not sharpen my claws on the sofa, so no one can doubt the truth that cats are superior to dogs. But every once in a while I wonder if I should be naughty now and then and nip a few toes, so my humans won't be too shocked when sudd...