Comments on: Being Right, or Being Loved, pick one http://nolongerdriven.com/2008/01/28/being-right-or-being-loved-pick-one/ Finding Still Waters Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:05:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert Malone http://nolongerdriven.com/2008/01/28/being-right-or-being-loved-pick-one/#comment-17 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:51:43 +0000 http://www.nolongerdriven.com/2008/01/28/being-right-or-being-loved-pick-one/#comment-17 When I was 19 I found God, Jesus the Holy Spirit and my Savior. I was on fire. I placed Chic Trac’s on cars at the local shopping mall. I debated Jehova’s Witnesses when ever possible. I was Hell bent (funny term) to prove my self worthy to God by one action or demonstration of faith or another. I was one-million percent certain of my faith and was quick to argue points of theology. I was ready to loose everything in this life to get to the next.

Now that I’m 50 and have experience life. I look back and laugh at my foolishness and can feel Gods hand on my shoulder as he laughs with me. I am proof he is long suffering and always there.

I’ve learned to listen for that soft voice that guides me through each day. I have been living in the forge of faith, now being tempered into a useful alloy. I know that it’s not about “Me”. It’s about what I can do in word and deed to make furtile the ground I leave behind.

As a husband and father of six amazing children I also learned that being right wasn’t always as important as being steadfast and consistant. I was always a parent and not a “Pal” to the kids as they grew up. Now I find that they are my most wonderful adult friends that I just happen to have the pleasure of parenting.

I sit in quiet reflection waiting on the voice of guidance and thankful for his promise and the newness of tomorrow.

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