Just a thought by coppi

The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you… .’ (Genesis 12:1-5).

When I married Standish and moved to Florida from Texas, I felt like Abraham.  I moved to a place I knew nothing about. As a child, I can remember my bestest friend in the little country school we attended, we would race outside at recess and  run to a quiet place.  I would pull out a map of Florida, which my brother, who was stationed there sent me.  We would center our attention on the beautiful sandy beaches covered by colorful umbrellas, and the amazing colorful ocean.  I would say to her “someday I will live there.    Years pasted, and I did move to Tampa Florida, (Seminole Heights)  far away from Texas and  my family.  I have always been someone who walked.  I tried daily to walk two miles and I located the Hillsborough river, which had a walking path around it and was close to where we lived. I met many people out there – they would stop me and tell me their woes in life.  Being a  person who prayed, I naturally would pray for them.  I did a lot of praying on my walks along the Hillsborough river.  I prayed for people who were going through a divorce, cancer, sick cats and dogs, estranged children, etc.  Sadness and some joy I encountered in my walks – no sandy beaches or the blue waters of an ocean, but people of all races and cultures who had needs.  I felt like Abraham in a land God sent him to dwell and where he called home.  I am still in Florida, I now live in Temple Terrace, Fl.  Lots has happened since my arrival in 2008.  I am still in Florida.  I have not spent any time on the Sandy beaches or the ocean;  however, it’s on my bucket list.  Florida is my home. I am right where I should be in a land that is no longer foreign to me. 

Just a thought by coppi