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Home Sweet Home

I have been home for about five days now and my body is starting to adjust to being away from Tech.  I have been sleeping more, eating more, and reading more.  This adjustment has not come at a cost, today I slept for 10 hours in the night, woke ate some cereal and fell asleep while reading a magazine.  Then when I woke up it was 1pm and I had slept away most of my day.  This is no point to complain about because I really need this time of rest and recovery from a semester without returning home.  In these next few weeks I plan on doing a lot of reading, writing, running, and all of the time keeping my eyes glued to Christ.  Being at home always offers the opportunity to lower my gaze from Christ to this of this world.  Time, time, time, when time is abundant I tend to find myself running to the muddy water to drink when I have the option to spend time drinking deeply in the river of living water.  Please pray that in the next few weeks I will keep my gaze toward heaven knowing that I have been set free from this earthly life and that I shall now live as a man who is Heaven Bound.

All is Great in the Lord
Paul Shackelford

Photo Cred goes to my little sister.
This is the barns adjacent to our property,
spent many afternoons as a child playing in those barns.


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