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Reading the news can can give one the impression that everything around us is changing, crumbling, ready to collapse. But when I pause to reflect, there are a lot of things in my day to day life that have not changed, and I take courage. Here are a few things that come to my mind:

• The Lord is my shepherd
• My wife, who has stuck with me for almost 50 years
• I am 78 and still in good health
• Our daughter, her husband and our four grandchildren
• Our spiritual family, brothers and sisters who are serving God, but who don’t do everything just right and who are OK with the fact that we don’t either
• The few cousins left whom I have known all my life
• Every opportunity to meet new people
• Young people who choose to follow the Lord
• Our two cats who keep home life interesting
• It’s almost spring and the daylight hours are increasing by four minutes each day