Monday Morning Moments


MONDAY MORNING MOMENTS
May 30, 1999 Vol. IV Number 21

On this Memorial day weekend I am reminded of an incident that happened several years ago. Jason Tuskes was a 17-year old high school honor student. He was close to his mother, his wheelchair-bound father, and his younger brother. Jason was an expert swimmer who loved to scuba dive.

He left home on a Tuesday morning to explore a spring and underwater cave near his home in west central Florida. His plan was to be home in time to celebrate his mother’s birthday by going out to dinner with his family that night .

Jason became lost in the cave. Then, in his panic, he apparently got wedged into a narrow passageway. When he realized he was trapped, he shed his yellow metal air tank and unsheathed his diver’s knife. With the tank as a tablet and the knife as a pen, he wrote one last message to his family: I LOVE YOU MOM, DAD, AND CHRISTIAN.” Then he ran out of air and drowned.

A dying message - something communicated in the last few seconds of life - is something we can’t ignore. God’s final words to us are etched on a Roman cross. They are blood red! They scream to be heard. They, too, say, “I love you.”

“Look at the Nations and watch - and be UTTERLY AMAZED. for I am going to do something in YOUR days that you would not believe even if you were told” Habakkuk 1:5

Pastor Lyle

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