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New Day A Word of Encouragement...

Where Are

Approaching! We Going?

By Howard Coop

Where are we going? That question Does that describe our journey toward
is relevant any time anyone gets into an a desired destination? We are going, but we
automobile, for most of us desire to know have not arrived. Progress has been made in
the destination. Maybe it is more relevant many areas, and we dream of a better world,
at another level. Looking at human society but it has not become “a safe playing ground
we want to know, or at least we should for children.”
want to know, where we are going.

A young man, struggling to get
ahead, said, “I’m not there, but I’m making
progress.” So, the question is: Are we
making progress toward our destination?
Now, progress is defined as to “advance
toward...a higher or better state.” Is that
where we are going?

William L. Sullivan was active in the
first part of the twentieth century. Looking
at the human situation, he wrote, “Progress
was the great hope of the eighteenth
Many friends and family members gathered at the Bethel Baptist Church Family Center Fish century. It was regarded as the great
Fry on July 27th, to show support for Pastor Kenny Davis, who retired after 24 years of achievement of the nineteenth century. It is
leading the congregation. Among these were Madison and Clark Counties’ Circuit Judge, one of the heaviest delusions of the twen-
and believe we deserve, while others around David Ward, and his wife Elizabeth. tieth.” Based on those words, Sullivan did
us who also are faithful in much, may not not believe that we were making progress Howard Coop
have those opportunities.) “toward...a higher or better state.”

So, what happens when our path suddenly During the past few years, progress Williams
changes? We still seek God and ask Him has been made in technology and our world Memorial Baptist
to redirect our comings and our goings and has changed, and some of us have trouble
possibly change our thought patterns so adapting to that change. In the field of Church
that we believe He is working mysteriously science, a man has been sent to the moon
knowing He is with us minute by minute, and a bomb, many times more powerful Pastor, Chris Winkler, 402 Poplar St,
never forsaking us. We trust in Him and Him than “the little boy” dropped on Hiroshima Ravenna (606) 723-5429
alone even in circumstances that were or on August 6, 1945, has been developed. or (606) 643-5603
were not our fault. We seek to be grateful in But terrorists terrorize our world, and we
the little things and believe He is working have not reached the point where, to use a
in the big picture. One of my dear friends centuries old analogy, “The wolf will live
says we delight in each step we take when with the lamb,...and a little child will lead
we can’t see the whole staircase- yet. We them.”
take each day as it comes, rejoice in Him,
love Him for who He is, even in the midst It was reported that Leo Tolstoy,
of chaos and panic and pain. A new day is a religious philosopher of the nineteenth
approaching! There is hope in Him alone! century, struggled for a period in his life.
Lamentations 3:22-24 Hundreds gathered from Madison and surrounding counties to honor Pastor Kenny Davis, re- Mack Stokes, one of my professors at
tiring after 24 years. Above are Rockcastle County’s Pastor Jack and Dawn Stallsworth, Linda Emory University, described Tolstoy as
Charlenea Kay Wirth and Dennis Lester, Tommy Dick and other friends. Watch for the interview with Pastor Kenny “going and not arriving, seeking but not
singingheartky@gmail.com Davis in an upcoming edition of The Seeker. finding.”