The Pinecone
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November 2014
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f r om Don J oh n s on , K i r b y P i n e s Chap l a i n
Chaplain’s COrner
I Wish You Enough
November
Vesper Services
November 6th
Dr. Sam Brassell
Covenant Baptist
November 13th
Rev. Dr. Elvernice “Sonny” Davis
Retired USA Chaplain
November 20th
Dr. William White
Lord of Life Lutheran
November 27th
No Vespers
Bob Perks tells of seeing a father and his
daughter saying goodbye in an airport.
The daughter’s flight departure was
announced and they hugged each other as
she was about to pass through the security
gate. Bob heard the father say, “I love you.
I wish you enough.” The daughter replied,
“
Daddy, our life together has been more
than enough. Your love has been all I ever
needed. I wish you enough, too.”
The father approached Bob and asked,
“
Did you ever say goodbye to someone
knowing it would be forever?” “Yes,
I have,” Bob replied. “I remember
expressing to my Dad my love and
appreciation for all he had done for me.
It was my last opportunity to tell him”
Bob then asked, “Why is this a forever
goodbye?”
The father replied, “I am old and she lives
much too far away. I have challenges
ahead and the reality is, the next trip she
makes back will be for my funeral.”
Bob continued by asking the father,
“
When you were saying goodbye, I heard
you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ What does
that mean?’
The father answered, “That’s a wish
that has been handed down from other
generations. My parents used to say it
to everyone. When we said, ‘I wish you
enough’we were wanting the other person
to have a life filled with just enough good
things to sustain them.”
The father then added from memory:
“
I wish you enough sun to keep your
attitude right. I wish you enough rain
to appreciate the sun more. I wish you
enough happiness to keep your spirit
alive. I wish you enough pain so the
smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your
wanting. I wish you enough loss to
appreciate all that you possess. I wish you
enough ‘Hello’s’ to get you through your
final goodbye.”
The father both smiled and cried as he
walked away.
Too often we live with our cup almost
empty, even when spiritually we are
kings and queens since God has made us
His children. We scrimp by on the bare
necessities when His divine promises
give us for even more than enough.
Think of II Corinthians 9:8, “And God is
able to make all grace abound toward you,
that you, always having all sufficiency
in all things, may have an abundance
for every good work.” And Ephesians
3:20, “
Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all that we
ask or think, according to the power that
works in us…” Gaze upon these words:
“
all, abound, always, all sufficiency,
abundance, exceedingly, abundantly,
above all.”
More than ever we must discover that
God is not only necessary, He is enough!
Have we ever said to someone, “I wish
you enough.”? Such encouragement can
lift them beyond their troubles to embrace
the blessings that will carry them through
the difficult steps in their journey.
Let’s start today! I wish you enough!
Don Johnson, KP Chaplain
