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"and as your days, so shall your strength be"

I think we can all say the last year and a half has been a different kind of struggle.  On so many different levels.  As I was driving home from work today this song came back from years of playing it with my mom and brother. It struck me how many times as a young kid I didn't like this music or that music because it was "old fashioned", but now the stuff I used to call old fashioned has become my theme and or reminder of Who my Strength comes from. Todays Christian worship music is good and can brighten a day and some of it is even amazing and has the core of what our hearts need to hear, but it isn't quite the same as the "old fashioned" music we didn't like as kids. There are so many good friends and family members in my prayers for this or that. Yet somehow despite whatever the struggles any of us are facing right now when we face them with Jesus as our soul focus the trials and tribulations, grief and sorrow, pain and hurt, seem a little lessoned or...
 "China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time -  even life itself must be secondary." Hudson Taylor As I am preparing to teach a Missionary Story on Hudson Taylor I stumbled upon this quote and couldn't stop thinking about how one could take the country name and replace it with the country one lives in and .........That is how much the world needs Jesus.  Right here.  Right now.  More than ever. More on this subject later.....I'm back to studying in preparation.