There’s an overlooked courtyard, just off the dining room of the nursing home where my wife and I sing. It’s been there all along, these past nine years, but I found it for the first time today.
When we arrived, several residents were enjoying mobility exercises with the activity director. So, after setting up, I had time to look around. It was then that I noticed the sign on a door leading outside, “Not an Exit.” This read like a challenge, to a reformed ornery little boy like me. “Not an Exit, huh? I’ll see about that.”
It was a walled in courtyard all right, and I’m no longer young enough to shimmy up a downspout, cross over the roof, and jump down to the street. Thirty years ago, I would have. But I digress.
It’s just as well, as the scene inside the quad provided quite a paradox. The enclosure is punctuated by a tree stump, surrounded by half-living shrubs and bushes, with a copper sculpture, of two young children enjoying a seesaw, in the background.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:16 (NKJV)
Word to the wise: none of us are getting out of here alive. Sooner or later, our earthly bodies will be like that sad stump. On the other hand, the seesaw is a reminder that the soul never dies. (But I’m guessing there are no playgrounds in hell.)
For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5:11 (NKJV)
Kind reader, have you trusted in Jesus Christ to take your soul to heaven? He will do it, if you ask Him, and you won’t turn green—like the kids on the teetertotter.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! 🙏❤️ prayers and love.
Davids Daily Dose 
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