An interesting week

My wife and I returned just hours ago from a flight, a cruise to Puerto Rico and St. Martins back to Long Beach. I read 3 books on the curise, one by Mario Puzo, of Godfather fame. The 4th K. I also read Vince Flynn's brilliant Consent to Kill. A book I wish W would follow when dealing with Islamofascism. Even Puzo's book , written in the late '80-early 90's showed Islam to be an evil, hateful idea aimed at killing America and the Western world.
And I am on a book dealing with Trials and pain of the Christian life and how to deal with them by a writer, prof at Biola in Ca.Thnking Right When Things Go Wrong. On board ship were 500 Jewish Orthodox adventurers, singles, and religious Jews. We met a few and discussed Orthodoxy, politics, marriage. The upshot for me was that the last book put all these ventures into perspective. We are and always have been in a spiritual war whether our intellects, history, emotions, media, universities or even our friends and families have not understood that. Since I deal with a lot of pain and sleeplessness, I found myself wondering how, what, when my faith would kick in to give me some perspective. Though I have taught for 45 years, been a pastor for almost 19 and been in the church world for nearly 50 years , learning, teaching, preaching, serving, worrying, working on my own strength, getting a divorce, getting a second chance and now married for the last 25 years to a very believing mate, I am praying that each week , each day will be granted me by the King of the Universe to put away the trivial and focus on the important as the God of the OT and NT sees life. My bet is many readers, viewers,sleepwalkers through life, strugglers, faithers, all go through this and like Alfie ask, What's it all about? It's God, silly, it's God. It's 'mankind is my business' as Marley told Scrooge. That's what it is all about. I only pray Jesus gives me time to act upon this interesting week. Oh yes, even Sam Alito is going to the SCOTUS, dispite the evil of liberals trying to subvert justice in the Congress. Mundane things, politics, religion, getting our dog and cat back from the kennel, hearing about 2 yr. old baby Jack's school experiences, are all part of that time-line which God allows . How we use it, how I use it, how you use it is up to us. And for some of us, there isn't that much time left.