It was Friday evening, June 23rd, 2000. I was on an estimate in Muscle Shoals when I got a call from Cindy Sullivan. She asked if I had heard about John Hester, my mentor. He had been working on an electrical project in the crawl space of his home. He thought he had disconnected the power from the wire he had cut. The power was still on the circuit. John was dead. He was only 62 years old.
That was one of the saddest days of many people's lives, the saddest for some. If you were to ask John about his life, this is what he might say, "We operate in a Time / Space continuum. No one or no thing can occupy the same Space at the same Time. I was created by God, who is not bound by Time and Space, to occupy a certain amount of Space for a certain amount of Time. We affect our Space in the Time we have been given. My Time on earth is over and there is no more Space for me to affect. However, the "ripples" that my Time / Space continuum started in motion, are still reverberating in the lives of the people I have affected. I trust that that "ripple effect" is positive." I can attest that those "ripples" are indeed positive!
We only have "Here & Now". I can spend all my Time and Space regretting the "There & Then" or worrying about the "Where & When", but what positive "ripples" will that generate? James noted in James 4:14 "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." May God help me to make a positive "ripple" right here, right now!
That was one of the saddest days of many people's lives, the saddest for some. If you were to ask John about his life, this is what he might say, "We operate in a Time / Space continuum. No one or no thing can occupy the same Space at the same Time. I was created by God, who is not bound by Time and Space, to occupy a certain amount of Space for a certain amount of Time. We affect our Space in the Time we have been given. My Time on earth is over and there is no more Space for me to affect. However, the "ripples" that my Time / Space continuum started in motion, are still reverberating in the lives of the people I have affected. I trust that that "ripple effect" is positive." I can attest that those "ripples" are indeed positive!
We only have "Here & Now". I can spend all my Time and Space regretting the "There & Then" or worrying about the "Where & When", but what positive "ripples" will that generate? James noted in James 4:14 "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." May God help me to make a positive "ripple" right here, right now!