How Much Do You Pray?

I often wonder how much people pray. Are they praying daily?  Do others pray out of necessity? Am I praying enough? Do others pray more than I do?

I try to pray a lot, but do I pray enough? Does anybody think like that too? My favorite time to pray is as soon as I lay down to sleep. I think that is the only time of the day I'm not rushed.

Morning prayers are not as intense because I'm always rushing to get ready for work. I don't feel they're as intimate as my night time prayers. Therefore I feel like I'm cheating God out of his time for praise also I'm cheating myself.

I really don't think God is concerned about us wondering who is praying more. I think that's stupid for me to even think.  It's a concern to me for some reason.  The Bible says to pray continuously,always putting God first and the world's interest last. I really believe we've all put prayer time on the back burner. I hate it when I do that.

God is the reason I'm here, he is the reason for every day I live and the reason I've been blessed. There are some really strong prayer warriors in our world today. There are people people praying for you and me right now that we don't even know they are doing it.

I prayed about someone the other night that I didn't really know, but I felt it was my place to pray for them. I felt they needed it and it felt good to give them the blessing of that prayer. Prayers are powerful, you can say anything, ask for anything or just thank God for everything.

God is my therapist and prayer is my therapy. If I didn't pray I couldn't make it through the day or even life. Not everybody is going to listen to every problem or thanksgiving we need to say, but God through Jesus Christ will listen to everything we have to say. To me that in itself is a true blessing.

Give God a prayer every day no matter what time it is and he will listen!

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Inspire others!

I often believe that I give up on a lot of great opportunities in life. I think we all do. We live like robots in our society today. I long to be around those that seize every moment in life as it were their last.
I get down when I don't find inspiring people to be around and I really get jealous of those who find those certain kind of people. I think some times I get the shaft, but then recently I think maybe I'm the one who's supposed to be the moment grabber.
I look at people sometimes who are older and at one time were inspiring to others, now they've seem to have chosen to get old and think they have nothing  to offer.  Which is wrong!
We are God's children, ambassadors of his good will. No matter what age we are we still have something inspiring to say to others till we breath our last breath.
Don't complain about the world, but make the world complain about you. Make your life out to be inspiring. Challenge the world and others to make the choice of being the best you can be. Allow God to mold you into who you were supposed to be.
Don't let any moment go by, inspire people around you everyday.

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Plexus is getting me a healthy gut.

I've been taking this product since January of this year. I've been amazed at the results. I weighed in at 320 pounds in January. Last week I weighed at the Doctors office at 280. WOW!
I lost 40 pounds. Plexus fights your cravings and at the same heals your gut. An unhealthy gut is what leads to a lot of health problems.
What do I take?
I drink the slim drink which helps balance your sugar. This product has helped many diabetics balance their sugar levels. I also take the bio cleanse, pro biotic 5 which helps get rid of the yeast in your body. Yeast is what makes our bodies crave sugar and other junk.
Since being on these products I don't crave sugary treats anymore. Fast food is a thing of the past. I eat less at meal and I never once exercised to lose this weight.
I truly believe God has blessed me to these Plexus products. I amazed and feel so much better. I have no more afternoon crashes.
I get up at 6 am and don't stop until late at night.
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It's been awhile!

Since the last time I posted life has changed, but my faith in God hasn't. That's a good thing to be able to say. While things, people and situations in life try to change things around you it's nice to say I still believe in God.
I'm blessed! Sometimes I don't feel like it but I am. Satan is always trying to make us feel like there is something missing in our life. Like excitement, not making enough money or that God is a joke and doesn't care for us. He  is  always up to something to pull us away from God.

Over the past year I've learned people are strange.  They're so hard to predict, sometimes hard to deal with. But yet if God loves them so should we. Love is a great thing. It can't be defeated if you truly practice it with every person. 

I've had atheists battle with me on Facebook about there is no proof God exists. Which is foolish because all the proof anybody needs is right out our door. It's all how you see things I guess.

I want to see a world around me where there are no children harmed, nobody killed for stupid reasons. I want a leader of my country to say enough of all the crookedness in our government. I want human trafficking, starvation and hate to go away.
I want everybody who reads this to love one another no matter hard it is to do it.

God wants our attention, he wants to hear our prayers and talk to him all day long. Life will get better if we put him first. Let's make our world a better place.

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He Is Alive!

It seems some people in our world today are turning away from God.  They seem to think they can go their own way and do all things through themselves.  I don't know how to do that.
I couldn't even tell you how to live in this evil world and see no purpose in it.  To live and breathe without a spiritual goal, is unbecoming to me. To me to live this life and not see intelligent design around me is ludicrous.
Tonight I was feeding our fish and I looked and watched them scurry around for their food with their little fins amazed me.  How could that not have been thoroughly processed through a mind of a creator?  How could all we see have been just put together by a big bang?

The answer, it wasn't?  It had to be put together, an idea had to be put on paper. In order for a plant to become a plant a seed had to be designed.  In order for a bird to fly a wing had to be developed.  In order for a human to walk, talk and breath something had to have a plan.  Nothing we do in the world is ever done without a creative plan being developed first.

So how can a world/universe become an actual thing without a huge plan or design not being created first? It can't! People there is someone who created everything we see out there watching over us. It did not just happen, it's too complicated of a design to have just happened.  Don't listen to these Atheists who say it did just happen, because they too don't know either.

God is very real, very much alive today as he was in the beginning. Don't be fooled by peoples silly notions because they too have no clue.  Why do I believe?  I guess I just have common sense, an ability to see things can't just create themselves out of nothingness. They have to be carefully designed. That's what my creator did and continues to do today.

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It's been awhile since I posted.

I've not posted anything since Christmas. If you read this blog I apologize.  If you do read it give me a comment about what you like me to write about Christ wise. I'd love to hear ideas or questions you might have. Remember we all struggle in life so please let me know and ill try to give you my b e st writing ever! Thanks and God bless!

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To Us A Child of Hope is Born

A child being born in our world today and in the past has always had a parent or parents dream about their child's future.  There is a word involved called hope.  They hope their child is this or hope their child is healthy or hope their child becomes President one day.  A lot times the parents hope for their child doesn't come true. The child usually fills their own hopes with their desired dreams.

Yet only one child fulfilled their Father's hope.  He knew the path he must travel and lead his people back to the love of his father.  He was a king born in a stable.  A child of great hope that led a normal childhood and became a leader of the lost. 

He knew all that would happen in his short glorious life.  He knew who would betray him. He knew who touched the hem of his garment to be healed he also knew of his painful death at the end.  God became a man and would come to save the lost. 

Jesus came to turn the world upside down with his radical teachings.  He would stun the world with his miracles of healing and most of all with his love.  No child has ever come into this world with so much hope to fulfill than Jesus did.  He did it exactly the way his father planned it. He was born humble and he died humble. To Us a child of Hope is Born! Amazing!

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He never complained about the manger!

When we look around today at our surroundings we should have no reason to complain.  Our world is so much easier than it was for those who lived in the past.  We were driving to Branson, Missouri this weekend and I looked at the road and the the things surrounding it.  I thought about the man power it took years ago to clear the path for this highway.  All the dangerous blasting it took to get through the hills and mountains to lay a piece of road to make life more convenient for us.

There are jobs out there still that require a lot of labor but machines help also to take away that intensity.  Our lives are so much easier than in the past.  Years ago I would have had to write this blog with a typewriter and then give it to people to read but now it's one click and it can be all over the world in two seconds.

There are times I wished lived in the past for other reasons, yet I like living in a more simple world.  Jesus' world wasn't simple then. When you read the Bible stories and see they are in one city and then the next chapter they're somewhere else.  It took days for them to get to different cities, miles of walking and the heat is bad in that neck of the woods.  I like our world a lot better.

So I often think of how humble the birth of Jesus was.  God knew he could create a sanitary hospital in two seconds to allow his child to born in. Somehow that wasn't in his plans, he wanted his son to come with no pomp and circumstance.  God is not an invader in our lives, he comes only when we finally surrender our heart to him.  When I think of his birth I often feel sad because only to shepherd s came to see him. No one else came to see the savior of the world.  Jesus fulfilled the scripture in Mark 9:35 "Anyone who wants to be first must be last, and the servant of all." Jesus proved to live this verse throughout his short life here on Earth.

He came in a humble way and left in a humble way. Jesus is an amazing person, we never heard him once complain about anything. Not even being born in an uncomfortable wooden manger. His cross was more uncomfortable than his crib, yet he never voiced any negativity about it either.

Be proud you know Jesus and be his example every day, and don't complain  about anything. He never did so why should we.

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One Cold Christmas Morning.

When I was 12 years old I had a paper route, and I hated it.  I had to walk up steep hills and throw the paper as far as I could to hit the right spot by the door.  My Dad helped me deliver Saturday and Sundays papers every weekend. It became a nuisance after a year, so I held onto it for a total of two years and then passed it on to someone else.

The worst part  about the paper route was delivering the morning Christmas paper.  I just didn't what to get up at the crack of dawn to deliver a piece of paper that no one would read until after all the presents were unwrapped. It was just pointless!

My last year of my route I remember that freezing Christmas morning for some odd reason.  I was actually enjoying that peaceful Christmas morning.  A thought ran through my mind about the birth of Christ. Something I'll never forget.  I listened to the peace around me and thought is it possible that this date might actually be the day of his birth?  That's really the only thing I thought about, it's not a deep one but it actually brought peace to my heart to think about it.

We have no idea of the actual date of his birth but ever since that cold Christmas morning I think about Jesus and his birth every year.  I'm past the point in my life where presents are the only thing that matters, I think of Jesus and how blessed I am to always be surrounded by family that love him as much as I do on Christmas morning.

As you get up Christmas morning stop for a little bit and think of the most humble birth in the history of the human race. Don't let anyone stop you from remembering your saviors birth because of legalistic reasons.  Your heart in Christ is more important to God than anything else. Remember the reason for the season. Bring joy to your heart by giving to others and remembering your own personal relationship with Jesus.

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Wise Men Still Seek Him.

In our world you're considered wise if you get a degree of some kind. You're really cherished if you capture a Masters degree or a PhD.  Your pay will increase as you graduate with such things and you will be esteemed by your family and colleagues. 

Life seems to be somewhat satisfying and you feel you have accomplished something, yet if your spiritual life is not right then these things will make you feel empty.

I love this phrase in the photo above. "Wise men still seek him." God cares about things you accomplish in this life but nothing is more wiser to him than seeking his Son. 

In God's eyes you are wise when you give your heart to his loving son Jesus. I often wonder why our world puts more pride in worthless things than in eternal things. 

A lot of people have trouble with the story of Jesus. It's hard to believe in a Virgin that had a heavenly seed placed in her. It's something most people can't grasp. In the times before Jesus arrived it was foretold that a king or savior would be born in Bethlehem. They thought he would arrive in a majestic way, but he came in a humble way that no one ever expected. 

I'm humbled by the way Jesus came into this world. Arriving in an animal stable is probably not the most sanitary of situations, but that is how God planned it.  Our God is humble in every way, he accepts all who come to him by accepting his  son. Our God promises us eternal life if you accept Jesus and live by faith throughout your life. If you just do this you'll be considered wise in the eyes of our creator forever.  Only wise men seek him. Be wise!

Reaching For The Savior!

I like December for many reasons, but we've taken the reason of the season to more greedy level.  I was raised for some odd reason to not remember Jesus during Christmas, I was told it was not biblical to do so.  Somehow that got misconstrued by Satan.  If December 25th is not mentioned in the Bible then we don't celebrate it as Christ's birthday.  Well we don't know if it's his real birth date or not, but it's a day we make special mention of him.  It's the Christians day to stop and think about Christ's humble entry into our world physically.

It's a day to stop and see the beginning of the greatest story ever told in our world. We all know Jesus didn't come to get the lowest or best price on a flat screen television at Wal-Mart.  He came not to make sure Billy got the new Xbox one either.  He came because he loved us and he saw the world couldn't take away our own sin.  He came not decked out in the glorious robes of kings, but he was birthed in a humble way.

The next 25 days I want you and I to discover the true love of Jesus Christ through this blog.  I want Jesus to be praised through our learning about him. Follow me as I try to learn about Jesus intimately through seeing through his eyes. Let's reach out for the savior.

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No Pain In Heaven!

This week I approached the 40 mark. So far the last  few days have been good to me. Physically I'm 40, mentally I'm 20. 

As each day starts and ends I feel old physically.  My knees hurt, my feet hurt because of heel spurs and my mind is becoming a little forgetful. 

I see these hurts and weariness in my body as reminders of what the future holds for me and all of us who have accepted Christ as our Savior. 

These pains one day will he gone. I will one day in eternity jump higher than Michael Jordan. I will run faster than Walter Payton and feel the joys of complete love in an eternal bliss.

When you come to a point in your life where earthly things stink and heavenly things matter more, then we can all say we have matured in our Christianity.

When we see the signs God gives us and we use them to see his glory, we have the love of Christ in us. When my heels scream in agony for the first few minutes of hitting the floor I think of heaven. When my mind forgets something I think of an eternal mind that will remember everything.

Give God the praise for the good and the bad things and use it for his glory! Amen !

Give God the Glory!

To God be the glory! 

We have heard this said a thousand times and we know what it means. But are we doing it? Am I doing it? Probably not as much as I should. 

So what does it mean?  Is this just something we do only on Sundays? No it should be done with every word that comes from our mouths.  But it doesn't. Now there are some people I've met in my life that have mastered this statement. It just doesn't come from their mouths but its also revealed in their actions.  These are the people who are willing to drop everything and help somebody no matter what. They're giving God the glory! I love these examples. 

Am I a person that drops everything to help a person out?  I'm hoping one day I will be. But I do give God glory by being thankful to him for everything. By blaming all good things on him. I sing hymns under my breath and pray as much as I can during the day and try to not include all my requests in my prayers, but leave room for others who need prayer. 

There are many ways we can give God the glory, we just all do it our own special  way.  Our problem is we leave our praise and worship to God at the doors of the church building. We don't take it with us.

I know it's hard to be spiritually correct in the world. It's one of the hardest things in life.  Our flame burns like a blow torch during worship and then by mid week the flame is gone. We're puttered out because Satan and the world around us are good at what they do. 

If your church has a mid week service then go to it. It'll help in more ways than you know.  Read your bible everyday and your spirit will be refreshed. 

If life is throwing you curveballs give God the glory that you are standing tall through these trials. He is right there guiding you to the light at the end of the tunnel. 

If you have a job, a roof over your head, and food on your table give God the praise for it all. 

God is wanting praise from his children. He is not a being with an ego problem he's a God with a love problem. He wants to give you all things if you just have a relationship with him.  We're still going to face bad days and we're not going to get everything and every problem solved. But he is always for us, he has our lives planned out. We just need to give him the praise he deserves.  

I often listen to people gripe about their issues in life. They whine and cry about everything, if only they gave it all to God. If they would trust him and give him the praise things might  be a lot better. God is the only being that keeps this world together. 

He does so much for us every day and A lot of things he does we don't ever see. We need to praise him all day every day. 

When you wake up be thankful you did. Because he allowed to happen. He is love! Follow him and give him the glory.

I love God!

I love sports! I love almost every sport except golf and soccer. ESPN is really the only channel I watch. 

I love to be at games and watch them on TV. I grew up 59 miles from Pittsburgh, so I am a fan of all three of their teams. 

I get aggravated when my teams don't win and I am in a great mood the next day after they win. I have always been obsessed with sports. 

I always hoped one day I would marry a girl who would enjoy sports as much as I do and I found that girl.  I remember talking to this girl I worked with and she said she hated sports and was thankful her husband didn't either. I felt very glad I didn't get hooked up with her. We'd been divorced in no time. Lol!

I am not as much in love with sports as I am with the one who created me. I love the story of God!  I am humbled every day cause of the blessed life he has given me. I call upon him day and night. I study his word every day. I still stand in awe that he pierced my heart back on a cold January Sunday and asked me to be his son for  all eternity.

I think about the days of early childhood when in recess or gym class we had to be picked on a team. There were times I would get picked toward the middle and sometimes last. There were times I would be devastated that I didn't get picked first. That's not the way God chooses his sons and daughters. He chooses us at the beginning but we usually pick him last.

What a day it is when we choose Christ through baptism and he gets our hearts ready and prepares us for eternity throughout our entire life. 

Many days we choose the world first and then give God our attention for a few minutes each day. I'm guilty if this. I try to put God first in every day but Satan always has his own agenda for me with his usual distractions. 

Our life needs to be focused on God every day. No ifs, ands or buts about it. We need to be God focused.  We need to make every decision through him. He will lead us but we have to allow him.

I love our creator and his son more than anything else in the world. God first, everything else last. God has never just handed me everything I've asked for, he has given way more than I have asked for. God is love, no other religion teaches love as much as God's word does. What an amazing story he has written for us. It still leaves me more excited than a touchdown would ever make me do.

The Tree Chosen for Christ's Cross.

Many pieces of wood over the years have been chosen to make a variety of crosses. One tree was marked to become the cross of Jesus. Trees are meant to make the world beautiful and protect the Earth from the sun. 

We burn wood, we use pencils to write. Building houses of wood has been man's greatest use to make shelter from the storms and other dangerous weather. 

Boats, birdhouses, housing and many other things used with wood have been a source of protection for every creature on the planet.

The cross of Jesus is an object for our protection from our sin.  Man became so entangled in our sin that God finally sent his most perfect gift to die and save us from our wrong doings. He lived among us and gave many hours of his life not for himself but for every person who has ever lived.  Many thought he would come in a great and lavish way. He chose to come in the silence of night. Few came to see him yet he still came in a silent way. 

He left in a silent manner also. He never retaliated toward those who beat him and spat upon him. He remained silent all the way to his final breath. The tree chosen also remained silent. It had a job to do and so did its victim.  Christ became its job. To hold him up between heaven and hell. The cross didn't know how awful it's job was but it also didn't know how important its duty was either. 

As it held the nails that pierced the savior of the world it would also become the most important and symbolic tree ever created by God.  Many don't  remember the tree that became the cross, but many remember the man that hung from it and took on the worlds sin. The cross is our constant reminder of Jesus Christ and God's love for all mankind.

His Depth of Mercy

My thoughts today are geared toward our sin and God's amazing mercy. Our world shows mercy in many ways but it is hidden a lot of times. The news shows no mercy when they broadcast their stories. Bosses usually show no mercy to their employees. Thieves and murderers never show any mercy. Taking the possessions of others and taking the lives of innocent people.

Where do we see complete mercy in this world? Our churches try to show mercy to our sins but it cannot compare to God's mercy.

We know a little about mercy, many in this world have been given some type of mercy. Yet, God made his plan for this life and his people to show complete mercy. No matter what we have done his love for us runs deep. His mercy and grace also run deep.

When I consider my own sins I really need mercy. I deserve for him to completely turn his back on me. Turning his back on me or you is something he will never do. Through Christ his son he redeemed us from our sin. He loves us! He doesn't hate us, he really loves us. God is not mad at us. He wants us to be near him and he is always reaching out to us.

Every good thing we do, every time we pray and repent of our sins we knock Satan down another notch of his ladder of evil.

We need to lay our burdens and our sins at the foot of Christ's cross and walk away from them. We need to leave them there and walk into the open arms of Jesus Christ. His mercy runs through us all, just as his love flows in our hearts. God's love has an eternal reserve that will never run out.

The depth of God's mercy cannot be measured. Won't we gather ourselves and those we know who need to experience the cleansing love of God and his son's love and mercy. Why pass up an opportunity that's free and reserved for all believers and all those who are lost. God is good and will be there for us to show mercy forever.

I Love Christmas!

I have three favorite holidays.
3) is Halloween
2) is St Patrick's Day
1) is Christmas

I love everything there is about Christmas. The lights, Christmas trees and the music. I still wish Santa was real, cause it's a neat story. To think that there would be a man that loved children so much that he would come to every child's house (whether poor or rich) and bring presents. I remember those christmas nights when my aunt and grandfather would come over to our house and spend the night and I would be so excited for them to come. I just couldn't wait till morning to see what Santa had brought me. But as we know life makes us grow up and Santa doesn't exist and those I mentioned have both gone on to be with The Lord. It saddens me that I can never have that time in life ever again. But there is another story that we tell this time of year that gives me hope that I will have a better life ahead and that I will see my aunt and grandfather again

Of all the stories man has written and told there is no more beautiful story than that of the birth of Jesus Christ! A story not written by man but by the hand of our creator himself. It's not the way many thought it would be told, but God had a better version of this story to write than what we thought. When you think of the stories told today most have heroes in them that are praised at the end for some great accomplishment. The story of Jesus should get a prize every time it is read, but for some reason the greatest hero our Earth has ever received never gets the praise it deserves. Why is that?

We all have our favorite books we have read and then we tell others about how great the book was. Yet, when we read the Bible we usually don't recommend it to a friend. That's sad! I'm guilty of this also. I'm here to tell you the Bible and the amazing story of Jesus is the greatest book I've ever read. We all should read it! We should read it over and over. The hundreds of times I've read the Bible there is always something new I see in it. Most books I have read I can remember everything about them. When I read the Bible I see new things that I don't really remember reading before.

It's amazing to me that Jesus came to Earth the way he did. He didn't arrive in a fiery chariot that came bolting from the sky. But he arrived in silence and only two shepherds made the journey to see his birth. No family came and took pictures. His arrival came in a humble way, nobody knew he was even here. This seems to be the way his whole life was. Humbleness was his greatest trait. Even today he doesn't force us to accept him, it's our choice to believe or not to believe.

Christmas over the past few years for me has become a realization about the importance of his birth. Because of Christ we have a free pass to heaven. He became the sacrifice that opened the door to the forgiveness of our sins. A door that was shut until he came and pursued every human being. God has a perfect plan for all of us. He knew the story he was writing needed a superhero in it. He knew we needed a superman to give us some kind of hope to get our attention back on track. Unlike Superman or Spider-Man this man/God was for real and not made up. He had real powers to heal and raise the dead to life. Jesus is the most powerful human to ever live on Earth. He didn't ask for any attention, he just wanted us to love him and believe in him. What superhero has ever asked to love him and then get his love back in return. None of the fake heroes we know of in the comic books have ever asked that. Jesus did and still does today.

We need to be faithful and live a life worthy of his calling then we will have nothing to fear after we leave this planet. Today I challenge you and myself included to give another person this story of a great divine hero. Tell them how great it is to know there is hope in this world. That a real hero once upon a time lived on this Earth and continues to live among us spiritually in our hearts. Start with his humble birth and tell of his great life, ministry and his power to heal especially his ability to heal all mankind while hanging on a cross. This is the reason I love Christmas! To God be the glory forever and ever!

We're All Lost Sometimes!

It doesn't matter who you are, we all get lost in this world. Ive been feeling this way for awhile. I finally understand how it feels to be lost and lose touch with God. Our world can really pull us away into our own bubble sometimes. Busyness and other activities can weigh us down to the point that God is put on the back of the shelf.

I've allowed too much to get between God and I. I feel right now that life and I are in a 12 round boxing match and the ring feels lopsided. Life is winning and I'm allowing it to keep throwing punches and every punch draws me away from him.

I'm glad it's getting close to Christmas and I can see the importance of this season. When I think of his birth it humbles me. When I think of his death upon a rugged cross it makes me feel honored that he would lay down his life for someone unimportant like you and I. He endured the pain of death and the entire world's sin because we are important to him.

When I hear of some of the cruel things other Christians say about others it hurts me. Most of us haven't grasped the true meaning of Christ. Many hate Christians because they say we are judgemental and many are. There were times in my life when I was one of those judgmental followers of Christ, but it took the loving hand of God to allow me to see the real and compassionate Christ. I finally saw Jesus for who he really is by reading and studying a lot.

I'm thankful now when I become ignorant and lose sight of God and his son, that they give me the help and clarity I need. The ability to see them through the crowds of life. Satan has a lot of ability to allow us to push away God and put other things first. Our priorities can easily get construed and put us on a path we were not meant to be on. Christ will always wait till we finally realize we have traveled down the wrong road and we don't recognize this part of life. When we finally ask for directions we see him with a lamp in his hand guiding us to safety.

If you're lost right now don't worry we all are. We're in a world not meant for us, our home is in heaven with Jesus. He's just a prayer away. He might be just a song away or a video away. That's how it happened to me. I heard a song and then saw a video that made me realize I was lost. You can find Jesus in everything good. He's there calling to us all to come home because we've drifted off on our own path. Stay firm and just do whatever you can to get your focus back on Christ. He doesn't need to find you, you need to find him because he's always right beside us. It's us who have moved way from him, he never left.

Thanking God!

Our world is an a state of stupidity right now. It seems it's always been this way since the bite into the forbidden apple in the garden of Eden. We humans continue to get ourselves into one mess after another. We see the messes and shake our heads and throw up our hands. We try to find some kind of reasoning for the mistakes happening. We blame others or we blame God.

Every tragedy seems to be blamed on the man up stairs. We take none of the blame on ourselves. We always wonder why bad things happen. Why, why, why??????

I have never blamed God for anything. I won't go there, I usually blame myself or often like any normal human I blame somebody else. The mess our country faces right now I don't blame God. I believe he has everything in control. It's us who have nothing under control. I believe we have failed in going to God with our problems.

In our government there is no mention about going to God for the answers. We legislate to make new solutions but these solutions often fail or become a problem to an old problem. We don't pray! We don't put God first in line for the answers. We don't thank him like we should. This is our failure to our failures.

It takes a big man to say there is no God. It's a path I would never tread, a path no man has a right to walk on.

God is everything here on Earth. He's the creator of trees, bugs, lions, atoms, humans and most of all love. If you don't see these things with your own eyes then I say you are living for nothing. What a waste of a life.

Thanking God is what our world needs to do right now. Give him the praise for everything big or small. Praising him that he has given us grace. That he gave us his son to die for our sins. We should thank him for every blessed new chance we get to redeem ourselves.

If I believe in a great and loving God all my life I will go to be with him in an eternal place that my mind can't even conceive. A place where I don't have to worry about anything. A place I thank him for every day. I always stand amazed every day about him.

I will thank him more and more as life goes on. I often think about the struggles I have had to bare in the past and how I've learned from them. We will struggle but we need to be thankful for those tough times. He's allowing us to grow as we fight our battles with him by our side.

Tomorrow look around and see God and his goodness. Pray to him and say thanks more an ask less requests. Be thankful in everything and he will always look upon us with gratitude and pure love.

Give Because You can!

Many this year are without and many never expected to be out. But life tosses many different things at us. We don't always know what to expect from day to day. We may be blessed with a lot and then in a snap our world is turned upside down.

I learned tonight that a friend I went to junior high and high school with was killed by a drunk driver this morning. I know she didn't expect to not be on this Earth today but life can some times catch us by surprise. My heart goes out to her family and children.

I'm sure those who have been hit with a loss of a job or a sudden hit by a hurricane didn't expect it either. These are times when God says to us, "make a miracle happen" by giving to people in these circumstances.

I'm not the best giver, but I will try my best to help in some way. We all need to find the blessings behind giving. Satan tries to tell us not to give but to keep all we have. He is wrong!

If your gift is small because you don't have much to give, don't hesitate to give it. I think God loves a giver of any amount. Our gift helps no matter how big or small.

There is a story in the Bible about a poor lady giving her last ounce of money to the Lord. It wasn't the biggest gift that caught the eyes of Jesus, but the big heart behind the smallest gift. He saw the heart first before her gift. She gave from her desire to serve God, not to be seen by man.

Don't give your gift with a desire to gain human attention, but give to catch the eye of Jesus. Allow him to see your heart for goodness and love. Don't tell no one just give it and thank God that you could. Great things happen to us when we give, our reward in heaven becomes better and our hearts go away from self and expands to others. May we all give this season to those in need and continue throughout the year. May God bless our hearts to give and help others in many dynamic ways.