Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Dear friends,
Today was a milestone for EveryDay Life and the ministry of Christian Communications. Many years ago, my dear friend and spiritual father, Campbell, said that “our journey of faith is to be marked by milestones of obedience and altars of consecration.” Today is one of those milestones and a fitting and sacred place to pause in thankfulness and praise to God.
Wednesday’s devotional was the 900th “edition” of EveryDay Life! Those mark the personal reflections of a spiritual journey for me that you have been willing to share – some of you from the earliest weeks, and many more of you who have joined the journey along the way. For each of you and your trust, I am grateful. A recent report of EveryDay Life recorded readers in 83 countries last year. Thank you to those who have shared and recommended EDL to your circle of friends. Your personal endorsements have been the reason for the growing circle of readers. Indeed, you have made possible the God-given blessing of allowing “His touch to exceed our reach.”
This journey began at Christmas 2005 when our daughter gave me a beautifully leather bound book, with blank pages, requesting that I write for our grandchildren practical truths I had learned across my lifetime. That Book remains a frequent reminder on my bookshelf – though its pages are still blank – but that book and her sincere request were the seed God used as the desire in my heart to write what became EveryDay Life in September, 2006, and is now a growing archive of 900 practical topics, life lessons, and Biblical applications available at the website, www.allenrandolph.com.
What began as a point of communication with our grandchildren about matters of spiritual life and faith, and continues to be just that, is now shared more widely than Gayle and I would ever have imagined. Thank you for your kind responses and timely encouragement when you write.
I love reading your emails when God has met with you in your devotional time and spoken into your lives through EveryDay Life. I am reminded as I write, “The Lord gave the word; great was the company of those who proclaimed it.” Psalm 68:11 NKJV. I am honored that together we are among the company who proclaim it. His calling to one and all is to invest our lives in “touching hearts and changing lives.” By the grace of God, may that remain true of this ministry.
Allen Randolph
Christian Communications, Inc