Sending Off

What a wonderful send off from my Asbury family.    Thank you for music and hugs and gifts filled with so much affection and confidence.   You have all been a part of the assurance that God is calling me to this new work and you confidence has been much greater than mine that God will work through me and with me in this task.   Thank you!  

There are not enough "thank you's" to offer for the kindness and gifts you have given.  I leave having been wonderfully blessed.  

All through Sunday in the process of saying good bye, I was sustained by the words of an old song: 

Twenty-four hours can go so fast,

You look around, the day has passed.

When you're in love,

Time is precious stuff;

Even a lifetime isn't enough.

Where has the time all gone to?

Haven't done half the things we want to.

Oh, well, we'll catch up

Some other time

This day was just a token,

Too many words are still unspoken.

Oh, well, we'll catch up

Some other time.

Just when the fun is starting,

Comes the time for parting,

But let's be glad for what we've had

And what's to come.

There's so much more embracing

Still to be done, but time is racing.

Oh, well, we'll catch up

Some other time.

I leave with this confidence, that those who follow Jesus - well, we'll catch up some other time.