The future is another country

One of the blessed things about our experience of time is the sheer connectedness of it.

I am linked with who I was in the past - with the sum of the experiences that I remember as well as in many ways with things that I may not fully recall.

At the same time, we have the ability to think forward. To plan. To anticipate and expect. And then the hoped for time or day actually arrives.

For me the two 'big' years that never seemed possible were 1997 - for some reason I could not imagine the British giving up Hong Kong - and 1999 - the thought of a millenial change-over was just boggling to me.

Those years are now dusty history.

As we look into this year - we are amazed at what it holds - and what is in store. But do we ever stop to be thankful for the sheer miracle of actually 'being there' on the days as they tick along off the calendar?

At Jeevan Sahara Kendra we have the opportunity of shifting our operations into the current Lok Hospital. This may take place at the end of 2009. Perhaps early 2010.

It certainly is a mind-boggling thought. But here we are - with the opportunity to put plans into action. To set up different tasks to do - and then as the days slip by - to be amazed to see many of those 'thought-experiments' which were in our minds actually materialize.

In the mean-time, we need to get cracking. To be actively listening to what God is saying about our plans to see Jeevan Sahara Kendra become what He wants us to be. To allow him to shape our lives as His hands and feet. To be good stewards of the tremendous trust and opportunities we have in the lives that we are already involved with - and be sensitive to what He wants us to do next too.

The future is another country. But it starts today.