Only One Word Can Describe

I walked into my uncle's log cabin house and I was blown away!!

My uncle (great-uncle actually) used to be the Fire Chief. Before that he was a fireman. He served with the fire department fro 39 years. Everyone knows that most firemen have second jobs--they work for 3 days round the clock, then they are home for 4 days during the week. That time at home, they need to do something and if they don't have small children at home, they have a second job. Many have their own businesses.

My uncle had his own business. He was a Volkswagon repair guy. He had a repair shop and he would restore and repair Volkswagons. He was so good that people would just give him cars and he would restore them, sell them really cheap then make all his money repairing and maintaining them for the people. He got rich with that repair shop and when he retired, he and his wife built their dream house-- a beautiful 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom log cabin house in the country. I say it's in the woods because his house sits on 20 acres of land. Part of the land is rented out to soybean farmers and the rest is forest. He has a pond stocked with catfish, bluegill, and bass. The two guest bedrooms are used by deer hunters during deer season as a sleeping post. He gets a portion of what they hunt as payment. His basement is a service restaurant with numbered tables, a bar, two pool tables and slot machines to keep company entertained. He has well water and his power bill is only $25 a month (not including all the taxes and fees which add another $25). He's a frugal man, always have been. The power company knocked on his door and wanted to know if he was stealing electricity. After explaining to them that he's not doing anything illegal--he simply unplugs everything except for the fridge he then told them that he was offended and would sue them if they accused him of stealing. He monitors his usage everyday. He showed me how.

I left his how so filled with inspiration!!

Oh My God!!!!!!

There is one thing though....there is no God in his life. At least none that I hear about and even though I left his house feeling like I wanted to move to the country, I wanted God even more. If I'm going to amass that type of house and that type of wealth, I want to use it to glorify God!! Because even though a person can work hard and live extravagantly, they can't breathe without God.

I CAN'T BREATHE WITHOUT GOD!!!

Right now...I'm sitting here on my sofa a little weepy because I just got the news that one of my former students was killed in a car accident.

How can we live life without God?  When we leave this place, our spirit goes somewhere and God is our creator and He wants us back, but if we don't live this life acknowledging him and glorifying him, then our soul will be lost. Eternity is longer than the life we live here on earth. My uncle is a spry 75 year old and I had a blast with him--he taught me how to fish and took me all around the house showing me the architecture and how he conserves energy and saves water by using rain barrels, but when he leaves this place, the beautiful home will still be here. As a matter of fact someone else will live in it because his wife said she will sell it--(his wife is considerably younger than him and she still works in a city about 45 miles from where they live and she has a problem living in the house because of her allergies and all the pollen. Also, when the road get bad in the winter time she has to have a way to get to work, so she rents an apartment in the town where she works.)

Anyway....

I left his home almost in tears because I was so filled with emotions. I'm emotional now (with the bad news) and when I'm emotional like this, it makes me want to be close to someone, but I had no one. I almost logged back into FB (I deactivated my account) to contact Mister for some comfort, but that would not be a wise thing to do. So my comfort has to come from God--the Holy Spirit. He has to comfort me.

So, even though my goal will be to be like my uncle, the difference is that I want to serve God and I want my life to exemplify Christ.