“I will also plant them on their land
and they will not again be rooted out from their land, says the Lord” (Amos
9:15). “For I will take you from the
nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your
idols” (Ezek. 36:24-25).
Hey Gang, I
have been blessed in my life to do some really neat things. In my high school years I
was considered on the bottom rung of the “most least likely to succeed at
anything club” but coming from a musical family it was almost dictated that I
would choose an instrument and get with the program. After getting nothing but squeaks out of a clarinet,
I decided (much to the chagrin of my Mom and Dad) that drums was my
instrument.
I have
always felt that drums, which led to playing in dance bands and the high school
band and orchestra, kept me somewhat interested in staying in school. The music
classes also provided decent grades that provided the basis of my grade point
average and allowed me to graduate.
But getting
down to the more important things that God allowed me to be a part of, one
might think the development of the Village was the very apex of my life. Now don’t get me wrong, I often wondered why
God choose me to be His legs in this project and I sense His answer to that
question is “You were available and willing”. Perhaps He also knew that I had no
experiences that would allow me to pull this off without total dependence on
Him.
I have
learned, over my lifetime, that if a thought came into my head I should accept
it as a mandate from God and get with it.
In essence, I have always felt that God knew how to shut doors and, if I
believed a thought was a call from Him for action and it was not His will, He
would shut the door.
I have met a
barn full of folks throughout my lifetime that I felt were a heap more
talented, and smarter than I who were operating on the principle of waiting
until God confirmed that thought that God planted in their head. Throughout our years as Super Eagle we had
many come and ask how we did it because they wanted to do the same. I do not recall any who pulled it off.
I believe-
the reason for most of those who put thoughts planted by God in their head into
the back closet- was they saw the magnificent campus God provided for us --and
that is where they wanted to start. However,when they heard the stories of agony and pain in the early development
years and the more sophisticated problems of running a major business, the
luster of being a Super Eagle soon began to fade.
Well, that
is a side road that I did not intend to go down. Getting back to the neat things God allowed
me to experience in my lifetime, I would place our involvement with Israel as a
close second. After hanging up our spurs
in the child care industry we set out in a fifth wheel with the intention of
seeing the entire United States. But on
leg one we were diverted to see some old friends, and that changes our plans.
That old
friend was called to be the president of an organization called The Ebenezer
Fund or Operation Exodus. Its mission
was one track- seeking Jews throughout the world and helping them make Aliyah
(return to the land of their heritage). At
that time the main focus was on a recently opened door for the olim to make
Aliyah from Russia.
Well folks,
this is taking much longer than I anticipated so will cut it off here and
continue at a later date. The question
was do we stay and or do go on with our plans to see the states as
vagabond’s. I suspect you already know
the answer. BUT tune in next time anyway and learn the next chapter in the
experiences of our lives that clearly rang our bell.
Blessings
Gramps
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