I’ve decided to write one last blog about something I experienced in February on Valentine’s Day while our team was in Ecuador. I’ve been meaning to blog about it since it happened. My team, “Grace Under Fire” went to the beach on one of our Mondays off. We had all our stuff set up and everyone split up to go do their own thing – either lounging, swimming in the ocean, or looking for food and drink. I was alone, walking on the sand just minding my own business. I looked up and I don’t know exactly what happened but I think I received a glimpse of heaven. The world as I had known it up until that point fell away, and I found myself a part of a story – a romance, and every person around me was in that story with me. Our Lord, the Great Romancer, absorbed me in that moment. It lasted maybe 15 seconds, but I’ll never forget it because it felt like I was in the greatest romantic film ever made. What a coincidence that it happened on Valentine’s Day! This blog is my real goodbye blog. I hope you can take with you a little of what I experienced that day – God’s deep, gentle, and everlasting peace. He is with you. He guards, protects, and loves.
“Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
