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INNER STRENGTH AND INNER TUBES

Just came from a funeral that made me smile. That’s the best kind, you know. She was a believer and she’s with the Savior now. That’s worth smiling about, for sure.

But what I really liked was an anecdote the minister told about how, despite her many medical conditions and challenges, later in her life she had a hankering to go tubing. That’s right: float down the river in an inner tube and look like a total idiot . . . but a happy total idiot.

The reason that wish was so outrageous is that she had to be on an oxygen tank. Most people would have been hopeless and bitter about the limitations and difficulties that caused.

But she was undeterred. She and her friends simply rigged up one inner tube for her . . . and a child-sized one for the portable oxygen tank.

She showed us all a better way. Life’s like that . . . when you are strong enough to go with the flow.

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Prayer request: For Penny and Rich, who join their lives in Your holy matrimony today, Father, we thank You for their extra-special, sweet, humorous, inspiring “fogie love story,” and we pray that You will keep them close together in sacrificial commitment, and attached to You as they “tube” down the river of life. (1 John 4:19)