It’s Valentine’s Day. Jeane and I didn’t do anything huge. Thankfully, we finally got some accounts receivable in so we paid some bills. That’s a nice Valentine’s Day present.

It’s been busy lately. I guess it always is. I like to think I keep it all balanced fairly well, but then there comes an example I can never even hope to approach. I was reading in my Speaker’s Sourcebook II the other day, and read what it has to say about John Wesley:

John Wesley traveled 250,000 miles on horseback, averaging 20 miles a day for 40 years, preached 40,000 sermons, produced 400 books, and knew ten languages. At eighty-three, he was annoyed taht he could write no more than 15 hours a day without hurting his eyes, and at eighty-six, he was ashamed he could not preach more than twice a day. He complained in his diary that there was an increasing tendency to lie in bed until 5:30 in the morning.

What a testimony! What a statement of all I will never be or do.

We all have a life we are investing in something. I am purposing to invest it in worthwhile things, but it is often so hard when faced with such personal inability. We need to get a legal ministry established and functioning, but the workers are few. We are blessed with so many opportunities within the church, but the workers are few. I oftentimes wonder how it is that my few fellow church members are not totally exhausted. I have never seen a group of people with a heartier spirit. But we are few. Our business is busy, but there is so much work, and I always feel like an unfair amount of it falls to Jeane. I have project upon project that is behind schedule. I feel a burden to be involved with some folks attempting to restain evil in our world, actually community. Of course, it is evil’s way to resist extinction.

I guess what I am saying is that I am prayting the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers in all areas. Thanks be to God for His tremendous grace and eternal mercies, unwarranted and often ignored as they are. We acknowledge our dependence upon Thee and beg Thy blessings upon us. Thanks, and sustain us please. Put a burning passion to endure  within each of us.