Inspiration

  

All paths lead to God

The path you choose will be

The path He has chosen for you

You exist because He knows you

If He forgot you for one instant

You would simply disappear

The spirit within you is His spirit

The breath within you is His breath

Inspiration . . .expiration . . .

Inspiration

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Fifty years ago today I graduated from Harding College. 

It was a Christian college, specifically Church of Christ, in which I was born and raised. I was in the main college choir, and traveled with them all over the country, performing at churches and staying in the homes of the church members while on tour. Those experiences alone, in my estimation, were worth the price of tuition. We even made a European tour the summer I graduated -- Germany, France, and Spain. 

Those were the best four years of my life, which I suppose a lot of people could say about their college years. And in the half-century since then my life has certainly not gone according to plan -- which I'm pretty sure most people would also say. But now, in my old age, I have come to believe that everything happens the way it's supposed to, whether we understand it or not. As the old song says, "We will understand it better by and by."