I cannot believe how fast a week goes by.  With that stated I am a little late posting this week.  But something as usually is weighing upon my mind.

In a couple of weeks the class of 1974 of Rossford High School will be celebrating in a reunion.  I am truly looking forward to it as there will undoubtedly be some there that I have not seen since my junior year.  Why my junior year?  Well I did not really get to graduate with the classmates with whom I had spent all of my school years.  My father worked for LOF Glass and was transferred to North Carolina at the end of my junior year.  So I graduated in a high school far far away with people I had and doubt will ever have a relationship with.  But those who were my closest friends and classmates have graciously allowed me to be a part of their class.  Rossford will always be my school.

This really came about with Facebook.  I had a classmate contact me inquiring if I was the John Bailey she had been a classmate with while attending Glenwood Elementary.  I was that person and from then I began connecting with a good many ex-classmates via social media.  It has really been a lot of fun.

This morning I was studying for this week's sermon and I was struck by something that Martha said to Jesus at the occasion of her brother's passing.  She said to Jesus, " Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."  Not only is Martha expressing a belief in something beyond the conceivable but is implying that Jesus knows exactly what God will do.  That can only happen if Jesus had an uninterrupted communion with God.  How is that possible?

Reconnecting with my friends is very enjoyable but to have to reconnect with God implies I disconnected and just as with my friends I must re-establish our connection; our communion if you will.  Just like at weddings and funerals there are always the polite statements of getting together realizing it will probably never happen.  But with God it is not something nice to do, it is a necessity.  40 minutes, much less 40 years without Him has significant impact on life.  Just like the old hymn I need Him every hour!

My point?  For the Christian Paul says that the life in us is Jesus and if Jesus lives within us and He has continuous communion with the Father then as much as I surrender my will to Jesus I too will have communion with God.  And therein resides the problem.  I must surrender.  That sure is hard to do. With my friends I must make an intentional effort to stay connected.  Is it really all that different with God?

Well enough rambling.  I have plans to reconnect with some dear friends and I have some communing with God to participate in.  Sounds like good plans.

See you down the path.  Peace.