May 19, 2005

• Thoughts from a recent morning in April……..

  
  

  What a morning…what a beach. there I was, in many ways my life coming full circle. It was in Daytona Beach in 1982 that I turned my life around. It was here that I hit my lowest low and cried out to God to deliver me from a life of drugs and shallow relationships. I used to work at the Mayan In down by the boardwalk in the Aztek Lounge. I know Daytona, the parties the drugs, the alcohol, the broken spirits of those who live and work there and the temporary insanity of those who visit to party.
  
  I ran a mile or so down the beach in the slow drizzle, the dark layers of clouds were slowly drifting out to sea. As I looked up and down the wide expanse of beach before me I could see only an endless stretch of hotels in either direction. The hotel that we were staying at, the El Caribe, is known as a Christian hotel as it host many Christian groups and events. As I looked back I saw a break in the clouds and a patch of shining blue sky allowing sunlight to shine through right over the El Caribe. I instantly was moved, felt emotions welling inside my heart and recognized that God wanted me to see the great number of lost souls that He yearned to have come to Him. Here was a lone hotel hosting groups of people in love with the living God amidst a seemingly endless stretch of people lost to God.
  
  I realized that as God’s children, we were to gather together in love and fellowship, but ultimately we are called to disperse and to reach out in love to all those on that endless expanse of beach. We are called to go out into the world and share the love that we have so graciously received through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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