Perry Keyt

I have always heard people say that living the christian life is an adventure.  I always have this picture in my mind of hiking up a mountain on a beautiful sunny day, standing at the top of the mountain and thanking God for His splendor and majesty.  While standing there thanking God for His grace and mercy I would be overwhelmed by his goodness.  The truth is that most of the time this is the ideal and not the reality.  Yesterday I found myself standing not on the top of some majestic mountain but in a chemo room at Kennestone Hospital in Marietta Georgia.  I was supposed to have what would have been my 5th round of chemo therapy.  However I was told that my blood work would not allow them to administer the cancer fighting drugs to my body.  While sitting there in a vinyl lazyboy rocker I still felt the presence and majesty of God.  This was a day that we had asked our church, our family, and our friends to join us in fasting for my healing.  While sitting there wondering what God was up to and trying to make sense of it, ( I know that none of you ever try to figure God out), I had the thought that there could have been as many of 1,000 people at that moment praying for me.  I found myself totally bewildered and incredibly humbled at the same time.  The truth of the matter of life is this…we need each other.  You think that you can do it by yourself.  You think that you are all that and a bag of chips.  You think that you are a self made person.  The truth is you are not!  All of us whether we want to admit it or not are totally dependent on God and on the people that God brings into our life.  They are there for a purpose, God’s purpose.  So for all those of you who are on this humbling and bewildering journey with me, thanks for being in my life.  You all are the best!