Since I became a Christian I have had trouble understanding how to have a relationship with a man I've never seen or met.

Therefore, to remedy this, God has taught me what it is to miss people I have and have not known.  I lost my mother over ten years ago and began to learn what it really and deeply means to long for someone...to be reunited with them...to truly miss them.

I have been successful in transferring this onto my Christ.  I miss Him greatly.  It helped me to connect the reality of now with the incomprehensible reality of crossing the Jordan, so to speak.

It was hard for me to picture meeting Jesus in some abstract place called heaven.  BUt I could easily imagine Christ taking me fishing.

I used to want to keep my Jesus to myself, on that imagined fishing trip.  But over the years I have met people and shared this dream of mine.  I have learned that I can share my Jesus.  That others want to go on that fishing trip and that they desperately need that love and attention lavished upon them which Jesus so lavishes.

What I want in life?  To get as many people on that fishing boat as I can.  Sounds strange, I know.  BUt I cannot fail, because it is not me, but the Spirit of Christ which draws people to God.  If God draws them I will share with them the love of Jesus.

This is what I want to do in life. 

Kate.