If it wasn't too long I would have memorize this one instead.

This morning when I was in search for the perfect verse I totally got off track. It took me WAY too long to find only my second verse of the year! I chose a verse that I could apply to my daily life, but it's those times when it's dark (3AM) that I am wide awake and my mind starts to wander. It's then that I really need a good Word.

I will let you in on where my mind went wandering last week in the middle of the night. When you get my age, you really don't care if people think you are nuts anymore. I was thinking about Jesus and the last supper. I think He was about 30 years old at the time. (I'm not completely sure, but I should research it and get back with you.) Anyway, I wondered how he chose His closest friends to be on His "A" team? Did others wish He would have picked them? Did they feel like outsiders wanting to be in the "in" crowd? I also wondered if He had lived on earth for 50+ years, would He have gotten sick of them or them of Him? I know that sounds strange for me to consider (and the fact that God is perfect and Holy, so probably not). Were His friends there for the long haul? Would they have gotten bored by seeing Him do all of those miracles if He continued doing them for years and years? Would they have gotten desensitized by it all? Was there ever conflict or misunderstandings?

I've also been thinking that God only knows how long we will live here on earth. I don't like change, and I really don't want to lose any more loved-ones... or friends.

"Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony." (Colossians 3:12-14)