Ever notice each day starts the same? After that anyone’s guess how it will end!

The day began like any other day, nothing really notable happened just an average day if their is such a thing anymore. In a moment that would all change with a phone call. The phone call nobody wants to get ever, much less at the beginning of the dark hours of night. But is there really a good hour to suffer a deep and painful loss of a child?

As human beings we get these idea in our heads that the old die first and the young will live to be old. That has not been my experience, I have suffered the loss of what many would consider pre-mature death a couple of times in my life, this is how I have learned to accept the unacceptable.

God is Sovereign ( The Authority ) He is in complete control of all things, He does what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants, for his pleasure. The very God mentioned in Genesis chapter 1 does not make mistakes. It is His plan not mine and there in lays the battle.

Like it or not our society programs us to believe in the power of self through media and peer pressure. God says we can never understand God’s Wisdom, but we can ask for an understanding of His plan for our lives. We only have to do one simple thing, perhaps the hardest simple thing that a human being can do…. surrender self-reliance, our will power and the idea that we have the intelligence to run our lives successfully much less the world! Only in the quietness of your thoughts will you know if that’s true for you or not.

At the end of every night is a morning

Out of what seems to be a horrible mistake, a life gone to soon, According to God’s plan and Will it was right on time. He is never early, never late He is always on time. In the loss we find the real value of any person, place or in thing in our lives. So it is in loss I look forward to the people, places, and things that still are, I take up those qualities in that persons life that I admired and apply them to my life that way I never have to be without them. Oddly enough that’s what I’m learning to do in my relationship with Christ is to be more like Him and less like me.

Rest in peace Stacy Ann, also my mother Gwen Irene.

Happy Fathers Day

On this day where we remember our fathers may all the glory be to our Heavenly Father for your unfailing love, loving kindness, and your grace.

EROSION

In nature erosion is a powerful artist! Through expansion and contraction, wind and rain, the artist creates a beautiful masterpiece. Just as a potter knows how much pressure to apply to the clay, and where to apply it to make a beautiful masterpiece, so does our Creator know how to create his masterpiece out of our mess. In the first part of Romans 11:2 Paul tells his readers that God has not rejected his chosen people, but in fact God had chosen them from the very beginning.

“No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the beginning. Romans 11:2a (NLT)

I find great comfort in knowing I was not an afterthought to God, but a forethought!

Do we suffer erosion in our life as human beings? Do we submit to the potter so he can have his way with us to create his masterpiece?

Chill’n, Darla and I feel we have been given an opportunity to do something very special to us; live our life in faith, travel with Jesus and the see things he wants us to see, doing the work he wants us to do, where he wants us to be. We are excited to start the adventure on the road with Jesus, but a life of faith is lived on God’s time-table, according to his plan and will, for his glory.

So we have a recipe above, but how do we combine the ingredients to make the masterpiece God saw before the foundations of the heavens and earth? While the answer to that question is likely different for everyone there seem to be some staple ingredients in God’s pantry;

First ingredient, Personal Relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, son of God and Man.

Second ingredient, Prayer which is a spiritual word for communication with God.

Third ingredient, Obedience to his instruction and corrections.

Now when combining the above ingredients, do this with loving kindness, gently making sure not to over work the ingredients. combine ingredients until you see it form; wisdom, understanding, knowledge, loyalty, kindness, and most important Love.

After mixture cools you should have a life of faith worth getting out of bed for everyday that God blesses you with a day. sprinkle with grace as necessary.

Father I thank you for your son Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Thank you for the grace I have in your Son. Thank you Father that your human creation was a forethought not an afterthought.

In Jesus name I prayer . Amen.