Life’s Walkway

Gary has been busy the last number of Saturday mornings creating a new walkway from our back porch to our barn where he has his workshop and office.  We discovered we had quite a few flagstones on our property so all we needed to purchase was several bags of limestone to build the foundation up and bags of pea gravel to go between the stones.  It took a bit of figuring out as to where to place the flagstones, both big and small.  Even though he doesn’t like working on jigsaw puzzles as I do, it was a similar activity.  End result? It’s lookin’ good, and rainwater no longer puddles up there which can get quite icy in the winter.  Plus, Gary has been able to rebuild his muscles somewhat after his heart surgery a couple of years ago.  Maybe next year he will get to build another walkway at the front of our house.

It seems we are always trying to figure out where to place the next flagstone in our life’s walkway for the best outcome. Do you do that? The Bible says a lot about how to walk, e.g. faithfully, obediently, blamelessly, lovingly, humbly, wisely, with integrity.  I was taken by an interesting verse in Proverbs 9:6 which records, “Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”  In our imaginations we could label each flagstone with one of these positive characteristics as we tread on them day by day.

We are still trying to find the best walkway to well establish our Hillside Church in Milton.  Last Sunday we had our official launch; but disappointingly only four newcomers from the neighbourhood showed up.  Actually, we were quite shocked since about 50 agreed they would attend.  Yesterday, one gentleman told Scott Lockhart, our Outreach Pastor who was doing follow-up, that he had completely forgotten about it.  Scott was our anchor man last week for connecting with our 600 contacts.  Many more replied that they would come this next Sunday so we will see what happens.  God only knows; He has to be the motivator.  In the meantime, we will just keep plugging along.  One item of praise is that Scott has obtained a new job in Milton which he started this week.  Also, we finally got our funding yesterday from the Canada Summer Jobs program for which we have waited for a long time.

As with so many other countries in despair, could you please continue to pray for Myanmar?  Thank you!  We have three contact families there.  One person reported that he knew of 158 pastors that had passed away due to COVID from June to August.  There are no hospitals or doctors due to the military coup.  If they give food to someone in need they could be arrested if they are reported to the military.

Enjoy the beautiful coloured leaves this fall! Still walking by faith,

Wendy         

Wendy.carter@kainos.org