Between our home in Fayetteville and our church on Ga. Highway 85 South

in Senoia, there is a beautiful waterfall with an old water wheel at a junction

in the road called Starr's Mill. Throughout my walk as a Christian,

I have been told that God's timing is often like a slow-turning water

wheel. As you look at a slow water wheel, it may appear that it is moving

too slowly to really accomplish anything; however, we know differently. We

know that it is the correct speed to get the grain crushed to make life-sustaining

bread. And so it is with God, the wheels of time are slowly turning us toward

the meeting of God our maker. Often times the wheels of time seem to turn

slowly but they grind fine.

While typing this article I am sitting in Shreveport, Louisiana at my daughter

Nikki and Jeremy Campbell's new apartment. Jeremy is currently in flight

training to become a pilot in the Air force here at Barksdale Air Force Base.

We are very proud of them both.

Where I am the most proud is not of all their accomplishments of their schooling

and how they met. I am the most proud of their faith in God and their love

for his church.

They are only going to be here for nine more months until they go to their

next assignment in Oklahoma, near where Merle Haggard wrote "Okie from

Muskogee." I had to throw that in there because my mother's family

were all from Okmulgee, Oklahoma, right down the "bee line," as

they used to call it, from Muskogee. I just thought it worthy to mention

how life often goes full circle.

Now