"I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good..."  -Jeremiah 32:40

I remember many years ago I swore before family and friends that “Come what may, I would love her till my dying day”.  Come what may?  Aren’t covenants and promises made because there is a possibility that things could go terribly wrong…that the worst could come our way?   If there wasn’t that possibility then why do we bother making them?! 

 Well,  the worst has come my way.  Now the mountains are high and rugged and the rivers are wide but they are my place in this world.  These are the mountains I will die on.  This is not really about anyone else but me.  There are many questions that challenge me in life but none haunt me more than this one:  What kind of a man do I want to be? 

 The seasons have changed in my family—the storm clouds have gathered.  But let the world disintegrate all around me for this will always be true: Come what may, I will love her until the end of time—even to my dying day.

“Christ will never abandon those for whom He has died.  We may leave Him and be overwhelmed with temptation but Christ can never turn from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life.”       _{-Ellen White}