minutes for HOG or AAA, they have stuff that will attack and eat you when you break down. Another interesting conversation And so with a European counterpart quickly it’s had to do with the spread of gone. Ride extreme Islam and Sharia season, like law. He stated he felt sorry all the other for us as a country because good things, we were headed down the is a flash in same road, only 5 to 7 years the pan on our miniscule behind them. It seemed hard time lines of to imagine at the time but not so much now. My favorite life. A brief time, though, had to be when moment ago a gal from one of the -ania we were all countries greeted us and up to our talked. Can’t remember if bandanas in it was Albania or Romania, the whirling but it sounded exactly like vortex of Transylvania. This woman events, road read a large portion, several trips, sleep minutes of scripture, in deprivation, burnt rubber, dust and campfire smoke. I a vampire accent. It was guess in some ways it might be good to give our lungs a majorly cool. She sounded bit of a respite and at this age my eyes are heavier. Who couldn’t use another catch-up nap? It kind of reminds me just like one of the Van Helsing girls. I would buy of raising kids. They are cute when they are little but the busyness, lack of energy and demands on a young family the Bible on tape in a second if she would read it. robs us of the time and fullness of what could be. Of course, then they turn, and like a werewolf at full moon, We were watching an old western called Broken Trail the dreaded teenager emerges to wreak havoc upon all they live with. I think Mark Twain had the right idea when the other night and Robert Duvall’s character made an interesting statement at a funeral for one of the bunch gone laying out his outline for the child-rearing scenario. He said “When a child turns 12 he should be kept in a barrel under. He said: “We’re all travelers in this world. It’s a short trip from the sweet grass to the packing house, birth and fed through the bung hole until he reaches 16… at to death. We travel between the eternities.” To ponder the which time you plug the bung hole.” Of course since he eternity of the past and the eternity of the future gives us a lived long ago and in a simpler time we need to adjust mind-numbing glimpse of the vastness of God our Creator those ages downward considerably. Anyway the thought and how short our time in this life is to be. Scripture being, it’s all wearing when you are in the middle but tells us in Psalms that as a father has compassion on his goes way too fast and the desire to have it back returns promptly. We look at our grandkids and how fast they are children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him: for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that growing. Even the smallest have had the new rubbed off we are dust. The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish them and are getting stale- I mean maturing. To be able like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it to live life through their eyes, to see their discoveries and new experiences brings us great joy. Do you suppose that is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those God looks on us with that kind of joy and satisfaction? who fear him and his righteousness with their children’s I would like to think so and also like to think we would remember to be thankful for the things he allows us to do children, with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts. and be.
CMA Notes
As I write, we are preparing for the final large event of the season for us, CMA’s annual national Changing of the Colors rally at our headquarters in Hatfield, Arkansas; it is actually an International rally with CMAers from 30 countries that attend. This will be our 5th year interval where we have the opportunity to hang out, fellowship and listen to leaders from all these other places. It is eye opening to hear of the European and South African rallies, the dominate clubs and cultures they experience. One account of African road trips I remember had to do with their road signs. Here we have the “watch out for deer” signs, while there they have the “watch out for hyena” signs. You carry gas and repair kits because unlike most of our break downs where you have to wait 15 to 30 6 - TRMI NOVEMBER 2017
Thank God for His mercies and blessings, Mark Mark and Karla Cornick are Area Reps with the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Find out more about CMA and God’s plan for you at www.cmausa.org
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