March 2008 Newsletter

Ron Kervin   

Writer/Author, Motivational Speaker

Noteworthy news:

I am now the proud owner of a new, large Harley Davidson motorcycle!

I took my first tour with my new toy this past weekend and really enjoyed

it. I know there will be many of my friends who ask if I am just going

through my second childhood. To those I would respond that I don’t think

I ever made it completely through my first childhood. Besides, it fits well

with my knuckle dragging personality.      

Upcoming events:

The cover to my latest spiritual series book has been completed. Leslie Crowley did an excellent job on this cover. I believe this cover may very well be the best of all my books to date. I know it reflects more about me than any before it.

Quote for the month:

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.

Anonymous

Scriptures for the month:

“Now faith is substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”

Hebrews 11:1

For Your Consideration:

     I have two granddaughters. Their names are Joslyn and Lilly. Joslyn lives in another part of the country and I do not get to see her very often. Lilly lives nearby and thankfully I get to spend a good bit of time with her. She regularly spends the weekend with me and when we are together our activities typically revolve around what she likes to do. Our conversations are based upon her world, her activities and her mental capacities. We talk about things such as cartoons, her little friends and teachers at daycare, what her mommy or daddy did to get her upset during the past week since I saw her. We also talk about the latest toy or video that she wants. The conversation is carried on in broken sentences and improper English.

     I love my granddaughter more than I can convey to you here and I would enjoy talking to her about things more involved and in depth than the latest cartoon. I am unable to have those conversations with her at this point in her life because she has not developed enough understanding to comprehend what I would be conveying to her.

     I would enjoy having a conversation with her about the therum of quantum physics as it relates to the time space continuum. I know, I know, you are saying to yourselves right here and even looking back in this letter to see if this is the same person who said he rides a Harley motorcycle!

If so, I would say to you, don’t be too quick to judge because you never know who you will find riding around on one of those monsters, wearing old jeans, boots and a leather jacket. You just might find someone who understands quantum physics.

       As hard as I might try, I can not translate the multitude of advanced mathematical theories down into cartoon language so that my darling Lilly could ever understand them. If I am ever going to have such a conversation with her, I am going to have to wait until she develops more understanding and wisdom. At this point in her life, she has very little awareness that so much more knowledge and information exists in the world, the universe and eternity. As much as I love her and stand guard over her physical being, I know and understand that it would be futile to attempt to get her to understand the vastness of the knowledge and understanding that is available to her and she can not yet grasp.

     There are times when I catch her playing little games or singing little children’s songs and I can only marvel at the things that I know one day she will encounter and understand. It is times like that I truly understand when God told us that his ways and thoughts are higher than ours. In Isaiah 55: 8-9 we read, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

     As much as God loves us and stands guard over our very being, there are things that he can not tell us yet because we are not capable of understanding them. I am chief among those who have a thousand questions to ask God and request answers, but I have reached the point of wisdom and understanding that I finally realize I can not yet comprehend the vastness and greatness of the knowledge that God has and will one day share with me. God explains to us that for now we can only see through a fog but one day will see clearly and understand clearly.

     For now, even though my little Lilly can not understand as I understand and does not know the dangers about her as I know them, she trusts me and has faith in me. When we are crossing a road or parking lot and I tell her not to bolt out into traffic because she could get hurt, she believes me and follows my directions. When I tell her not to throw french fries at me or her world as she knows it will come to an end, especially if she dipped them in catsup, she has faith that I mean what I say and she obeys me. Faith is the key that helps her obey me and follow me. It is the one ingredient that allows us to have a loving and happy relationship.

     For now we can not know and understand as God does. We are just not capable at this point in our being. We just have to have faith that God is telling the true facts, even though he does not go into detail of explanations yet. We have to have the faith that is necessary to allow us to obey him, follow after him and have a loving relationship until the time when we are capable of comprehending all that he has to tell us and share with us.

     When you get discouraged and down about not having all the answers that you feel you should have and you can not see, feel or touch physical proof that God is involved in your life, try to remember the real meaning of the word FAITH. Try to remember that real faith is basically the hope that things you can not see or touch are real. I hope and trust that you will be able to keep this little truth in mind when you are faced with the test of faith that the world will demand of you at some point in your life.

On the lighter side:

If you can laugh at it, then you can live with it.

Anonymous

Parting Thoughts:

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Until next month, may God bless your pilgrimage! May you live long and prosper and may the force be with you!