The Brevity of It

This week I had heard Billy Graham's oldest daughter, Gigi, speak briefly at The Cove here in Asheville. She asked for pray for their family because George Beverly Shea died this week at the age of 104. Many, many years of serving Christ alongside Billy Graham around the world with incalculable fruit! Truly, his was a life well lived. Gigi went on to say that someone had asked her dad what he thought was life's biggest surprise. His answer? The brevity of it. Oh, the truth in that! It all goes by so quickly. Flies by, actually. In many ways, I think that one truth is what led us to start Orbie for Orphans. There is so much suffering. So much work that needs to be done. So little time. Jesus told us to work while it is still day, because night is coming when no one can work. For us, even though we had been in full-time ministry for 25 years, it was alarming to think that our ministry years were going to end one day. There was almost a panic that we wouldn't have the biggest impact with the years we had left. God led us to start Orbie to meet a great need in the world: the creation of a tool that churches, mission organizations and orphanages can use to connect God's Word to the specific pain of these children. We are simply thankful that God has this for us, and could never imagine a better way to spend the days we have left. Time's running out...