John Ruskin was a brilliant writer, patron of the arts and art critic of the Victorian era is said to have had a beautiful stone paperweight. On it was carved a single word – TODAY. Someone has said, “we may learn from the past, anticipate the future, but today is a special gift which will never come again. It is only in today that we have the ability to act. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” And the Psalmist wrote, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” Wise counsel for all. So many times we hear of people who suddenly are taken from us, dying some would say, “before their time.” It is so important to be ready for the next life, and the only one who can prepare us for that next life is Jesus, who said, “….I am the way…no one comes to the Father except through me.”

Pastor Alex Rockwell