WHAT HAVE WE DONE TODAY?

November already! I’m happy about that too. And what about this weather change? Fall is definitely here. The leaves are really falling at my house. Only 17 days until Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays of the year. Cindi and I were out of town in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend until Sunday afternoon. Cindi represented UCA at the Arkansas Independent Insurance Agents Big I Conference and I traveled along to help out. Brother Geoffrey did an outstanding job preaching this past Sunday morning in my absence. Thank you to my fellow elders, to Geoffrey and Brother Bane, and to the congregation for allowing me to be away once in a while. I was able to “tune in” to the Harding Street service via Facebook LIVE and heard Geoffrey’s lesson on “The Christian’s World View.”  Thank you for your support for him. We continue to provide our services online for those who are homebound and for others who are still battling illness. We are happy to provide this service but encourage every member of the church of Christ at Harding Street and everywhere else to come out and meet with your fellow Christians for worship, study, and fellowship. We need to see you, hear your voice, and feel the strength of your presence.

What have we done today?
                                A poem by Nixon Waterman
We shall do much in the years to come, but what have we done today?
We shall give our gold in princely sum, but what did we give today?
We shall lift the heart and dry the tear, we shall plant hope in place of fear,
We shall speak the words of love and cheer, but what have we done today?

We shall be so kind in the afterwhile, but what have we been today?
We shall bring to each lonely life a smile, but what have we brought today?
We shall give to truth a grander birth, and to steadfast faith a deeper worth,
We shall feed the hungering souls of earth, but whom have we fed today?

We shall reap such joy in the by and by, but what have we sown today?
We shall build us mansions in the sky, but what have we built today?
Tis sweet in the idle dreams to bask; but here and now, do we our task?
Yet this is the thing our souls must ask, WHAT HAVE WE DONE TODAY?

November will be a good one for us, Lord willing.  Either way, we will follow Jesus one day at a time. We are blessed beyond measure by, in, and through Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. In Him we live and move and have our very being. MB