“Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month.” Read more from the Sunday Times.

It’s been a monotonous week for Irene but she endures with a great attitude and smile on her face.  She’s upbeat but the daily grind is certainly a challenge.  Dialysis treatment, nausea and fatigue shadow her routine.

Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month.

So, what does a FLYING CAR have to do with Irene’s journey of faith?

Simply this: FLYING implies a sense of LIBERTY and Irene longs for freedom from the shackles of dialysis and this colossal, debilitating disease.  We are still awaiting “the call” from the UCSF Transplant Center so a consultation date can be scheduled.

With exponential breakthroughs in what God is allowing man to discover, invent, and employ in aviation technology perhaps a bio tech discovery for Primary Amyloidosis is right around the corner …. or, in aviation terms, just ahead and on the horizon.

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Dave

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Dr. Hendricks is a household name in Christianity, and in his 50-plus years of ministry, he has directly or indirectly touched millions of lives. A faculty member of Dallas Theological Seminary since 1951, Dr. Hendricks sees the adult children of former students now attending his classes.

Born in 1924, and, despite his current challenge with cancer, today he still maintains a rigorous travel schedule and has ministered in over 80 countries through speaking engagements, radio, books, tapes, and films. He is also the former Bible teacher and chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys football team.

We have been mentored from afar by Howard Hendricks for at least two decades.  We would long for his teaching when we would vacation at Mount Hermon Christian Conference each summer when our daughters were growing up.  I had the privilege of serving on the board of directors of a non profit organization with Dr. Hendricks.

This morning Irene caught just a few minutes of Howard and Jeanne Hendricks’ story (they’ve been married for 60 years) captured on the “Day of Discovery” television program.  Jeanne was asked why people suffer.  Her response was very astute.  She responded that “as we age our suffering is intended to better prepare us to meet Jesus in eternity”.

Wow ….

It was a profound statement that deeply moved Irene.

Think about Jeanne’s perspective.  My humble adaptation ….?  As we grow older, if we know Jesus, our spirit is alive but our body decays.  Therefore, the suffering we experience is actually a planned event by God and, as a result of aging we are better prepared to meet God.  It is as though the aging process is yet another means that God uses to draw us unto Himself.

How do YOU view suffering?

Jeanne Hendricks’ comment is certainly worth a meditation.

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Dave

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By David Gardner, World News, January 10, 2009

This is the dramatic moment a ransom of $3 million was paid to Somali pirates to end the world’s biggest ship hijacking.

The canister full of cash was parachuted onto the Sirius Star — observed by the U.S. Navy who provided these images — and the two-month ordeal of the 25 crew, including two Britons, was finally over.

However things went badly wrong for the pirates soon after the drop — they squabbled over how to split the money and then a wave washed off their getaway boat and drowned five of them.

Irene’s sisters are visiting this weekend.  Their presence always lifts her spirits.  They’re bouncing around town antiquing, shopping and enjoying each other’s company.

Irene’s chronic nausea has calmed down, but continues to linger.

What do greedy, Somali pirates, five of whom were drowned following the kidnapping/ransom episode, have to do with Irene’s Journey of Faith?

Here’s my quick synopsis: many in the world today believe there is a shortcut to living the victorious and abundant life.  Any person who persistently lusts for excessive money, sex or power, thinking each could produce a better and more fulfilling life, actually discovers that they produce aberrant and anomalous behavior.

We take Jesus at His word,

I have come that they may have life have it to the full.
John 10:10

Only an intimate, dynamic and growing relationship with Christ will ultimately satisfy the deepest longings of our heart.

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Dave

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