It is said “facts are stubborn things” and it is true. I remember receiving a phone call from an aunt, my dad’s sister. She had come into town, and called me from a local restaurant. She wanted me to meet with she and her husband. Years earlier she had been the one to encourage my dad’s drinking, gambling among many other vices and though I did not hold her fully responsible, for he made his own choices, she made wrong choices herself in encouraging the behavior without regard to his family.

At the end of the conversation she made a statement that stuck with me. “Your dad loved you and carried your picture in his wallet.” I replied, “No, he didn’t.” I have thought about that statement she made many times. How sad. I had become a Christian by that time and compared what God said about love and what man says about love.

In I Corinthians Chapter 13, God describes what love is. “Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth; …… Charity never faileth…..” I Corinthians Chapter 13:5-8

I once read a statement that sums up my feeling about those days, “When I see death coming, if I see it, I will not reach out to the people I hurt in life and ask them to care.” Rick Bragg

That is the consequences of sin. I never heard from her again. We have choices in life. Truth or error, good or bad, yes or no. The rich life, the full life is becoming a faithful child of God. A Christian.

“The way of the transgressor is hard.” Proverbs 13:15

“There is no reset button in life You can’t take anything back, and you can’t undo anything. All of your actions have consequences, and the things you say and do today will have a lasting impact on the rest of your life. You have to understand that, and you have to be aware of it while making your decisions.”

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–Eileen Light